"It’s time to give Sarah Palin a chance" says David Solway at Pajamas Media

Fascinating article on Governor Palin over at Pajamas Media by David Solway, one of Canada’s leading poets – it’s a must read as an antidote to the vindictive outpourings of the usual suspects.

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Lord knows, a battery of media anti-Palinists have been shooting from the hip and the lip since day one of her vice-presidential selection on the Republican ticket, the only agile move that John McCain made during his otherwise pedestrian campaign. We know about Katie Couric, David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, Keith Olbermann, Tina Fey, and many others among the media Ferengi, that famous species of sly and deceitful opportunists, who have feathered their careers by depicting Palin as a meeping leper. Even some of a Republican stamp have not held their fire. Former Bush speechwriter (author of the phrase “axis of evil”) David Frum also has it in for Palin. In article after interview, dating from August 2008 to this month, Frum has thrown the book at poor Sarah, including her own. She’s irresponsible, she’s vindictive, she’s a quitter, she prefers to play Madonna rather than Evita, and so on ad biliosum.

He notes that during the election and it’s aftermath she was clearly unprepared for the waves of vitriolic hatred that assailed her from both the left and the right and, at times, was like a deer caught in the headlights.

Such bewilderment, I believe, was a function of her essential good nature, her moral dignity, and her natural optimism. These are attributes that would by no means handicap her in her dealings with actual and potential enemies of the country she obviously loves and is sworn to defend — no Michelle-like resentment of America in her bones — but did have a paralyzing effect on her ability to respond to fellow citizens she may have considered merely as Americans who might not agree with her beliefs and prescriptions. Despite her street smarts, she was plainly unprepared for the viciousness with which she was assaulted by her nominal compatriots, as we too are often unprepared when family members, no matter how estranged, become our worst enemies.

Palin is surely wiser now that she has been put through the domestic wringer.

Wiser, indeed – and stronger – and, says, Solway, absolutely fit for high office.

But pace Moran, Frum, Couric, Olbermann, Friedman, and company, with their mean-spirited and catarrhal denunciations of one of the best America has on offer today, things may turn out differently next time around. We may now be looking at the making of the future American president. To quote Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, who had the Ferengis’ number: “Make it so.”

This is a lyrical encomium that will strike a chord with all at C4P and those everyday folk in the lines at the book signings– read the rest of it here – read it slowly and enjoy.....