Here's why I'm excited about the Sarah Palin pick. McCain's track record and history indicate that he doesn't much care what his party thinks about things, and that he's very content to blaze his own trail politically. As such, his VP pick was a big signal of how important he thought the conservative movement was to the future of the Republican party. As I've mentioned before, there's been kind of a war in the Republican party over the past few years between big-government, moderate Reps and conservative Reps. Obviously, he picked a conservative in Palin, which immediately elevates the conservative element of the party back to prominence again, and that was music to my ears.
Now, just for fun, I want to paint a picture of my own rose-colored version of the future of American politics. I'm not necessarily predicting this, but I'd love to see some version of this scenario happen.
John McCain and Sarah Palin win easily in November on the strength of a sound platform of pro-growth policies that include lower taxes and less regulation, all-of-the-above energy production policies, and a provable track record of fighting the status quo of Washington political corruption. While the Democrats still hold a slim minority in Congress, they actually lose some ground, removing all chances of bullying McCain into their own agenda through veto-proof majorities.
McCain assigns Palin as his energy czar, and is responsible for developing the first real American energy policy in decades. She uses her expertise and experience from her time governing Alaska -- a state that provides 20% of the nation's oil resources -- to increase oil and natural gas production, begin development of clean and efficient nuclear power, and providing incentives for the private market to develop better forms of alternative energy like wind and solar power. Under her hand, America floods the world with new technology and resources that drop energy costs by 50% in three years, and, combined with McCain's across-the-board tax cuts, spark unprecedented growth for American business. McCain's stubborn America-first patriotism and refusal to flinch allows him to navigate several more attempts at major terrorist attacks and defuse a new Cold War with Russia before it really gets going.
In the spring of 2011, John McCain announces that he is not seeking a second term due to health reasons. Palin instantly becomes the front-runner for the 2012 Presidency, a history-shattering prospect that sets the world abuzz. The liberal Left goes into a hyper-panic as the thought of the first woman President not being from their ranks drives them to make wild accusations and crazy assertions that erode all but their most hardcore radical support. Palin selects Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal -- a man with Indian heritage -- as her running mate, driving the 'tolerant' Left even more hysterical. Based on her stellar performance during McCain's first term in office, and Jindal's equally impressive record of putting conservative principles into practice -- which had by then turned Louisiana from a bloated, dependent-ridden, corrupt state into a streamlined model of productivity and transparency -- they capture the biggest landslide in Presidential history, in part by attracting 70% of all women voters to their cause.
On the coattails of the conservative 'dream team', fresh young conservative faces bubble up through the ranks of state governments to capture sound Republican majorities in both houses of Congress and triggering a conservative revolution even bigger than the one in 1994.
Palin passes the baton to Jindal in 2020, who crushes his Democrat opponent on his unassailable record of accomplishment, bringing along the next generation of true American leadership (led by Mike Pence, Marsha Blackburn, Jim DeMint, and others), cementing American values and ensuring economic security for another generation.
Okay, vision over. I realize this is a fantasy, but...can't you see it (maybe) starting to happen? Just maybe?
Only time will tell, of course, but you heard it here first. ;)
There's my two cents.
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