This Is Why Sarah Palin Is So Popular

Is she a perfect candidate?  No way.  But she's got a lot of what the Right wants, as well as one crucial thing: a connection with We The People.  Observe:

Sarah Palin responded today to the Obama Administration's disgraceful apology last week to communist China.
From her Facebook Page:

On Fox News this morning, State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley became the third Obama administration official in short succession to admit that he hadn't actually bothered to read Arizona's 10-page long "secure the border" bill before condemning it and criticizing Americans who support Arizona's necessary efforts to do the job the Obama Administration should be doing. Crowley's statement follows similar admissions from Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.

At first blush this revelation seemed unbelievable, but maybe I shouldn't be surprised. This now seems "the Washington way" of doing things. If the party in power tells us they have to pass bills in order to find out what's actually in them, they can also criticize bills (and divide the country with ensuing rhetoric) without actually reading them.

Still I can't help but feel outraged on behalf of Arizona's citizens for the incompetence shown by these Administration officials. Arizonans have the courage to do what the Obama administration has failed to do in its first year and a half in office – namely secure our border and enforce our federal laws. And as a result, Arizonans have been subjected to a campaign of baseless accusations by the same people who freely admit they haven't a clue about what they're actually campaigning against.

The absolute low point of this campaign came last Friday, when a U.S. State Department delegation met with Chinese negotiators to discuss human rights. Apparently, our State Department felt it necessary to make their Chinese guests feel less bad about their own record of human rights abuses by repeatedly atoning for American "sins" – including, it seems, the Arizona immigration/pro-border security law. Asked if Arizona came up at all during the meeting, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner answered:

"We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in our own society."

Note that he said "We brought it up" – not the Chinese, but the U.S. State Department's own delegation. Instead of grilling the Chinese about their appalling record on human rights, the State Department continued the unbelievable apology tour by raising "early and often" Arizona's decision to secure our border.

Arizona's law, which just mirrors the federal law, simply allows the police to ask those whom they have already stopped for some form of identification like a driver's license. By what absurd stretch of the imagination is that the moral equivalent of China's lack of freedoms, population controls (including forced abortions), censorship, and arbitrary detentions?

Surely our U.S. Ambassador to China, John Huntsman, must disagree with the Obama Administration's continued apology tour? We have nothing to apologize for. If Administration officials want to apologize to anyone, apologize to the American people for the fact that after a year and a half in office, they still haven't done anything to secure our borders, and they join our President in making false suggestions about Arizona's effort.

Who else do you see right now who is willing to say these things so plainly?  Chris Christie, and then crickets.  And yet, this is what the American people want, but they're not getting it.  We know people are rejecting the Democrats' radical Leftist agenda, but the Republican party isn't polling much better in terms of general favorability.  Why not?  Could it be because they're simply twisting in the wind and trying to play nice with those radical Leftist Dems rather than rocketing back to the core principles that made America great?  Hmmm...

You know, politically speaking, resigning from the Governorship of Alaska was a very odd thing, and will have to be explained if Palin is to make a run for office again in the future.  Still, I can't help but notice that she seems to relish her new status: unattached.  She can say what she wants, go where she wants, and blast who she wants, all without fear of reaping political consequences.  At least, not the kind of consequences that come from holding public office, anyway.  She knows she's going to get slandered by the media and the Left no matter what, so she appears to be making her barbs count, and this latest is no exception.  Each new Facebook post seems to send the Left into a frothing rage, making them look ridiculous and petty -- not to mention impotent to stop her -- while simultaneously reinforcing the anti-establishment connection that's already so strong with the American people.  Her words resonate with so many people, and that's what has the Left apoplectic.

Maybe that resignation wasn't such a bad idea after all.

There's my two cents.