Palin is future for Republicans

  Sarah Palin was the object of bomb throwers' scorn by the liberals and left-wingers, both in the Democratic Party and the drive-by media. Now the liberals in the McCain camp have managed to spew their disdain for her as these half-hearted, pseudo-Republicans look around for a scapegoat to hang their defeat on.

  Sarah Palin electrified the conservatives, and she offered hope where none existed before. She came out of nowhere and drew crowds and fired up McCain's bland and less than forthright campaign.

   McCain was not the candidate of the Republican conservatives - he was being promoted by the liberal media as the hope of the future and then when they had him in place, they suddenly abandoned him in favor of the liberal-backed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton crowds.

  Until Palin was announced, conservatives like myself were willing to sit out this election because McCain is no friend of the conservatives. The liberal wing of the Republican Party hates the conservative wing and the religious right with a passion. We are an embarrassment and considered intellectually deprived. This same bunch hated Ronald Reagan.

  McCain finally threw the conservative wing a conservative (Palin) and this drew rage from the liberals in the party. McCain was even being urged by these same liberals to make Joe Lieberman his VP but had to back off for fear of a conservative no-show.

  With a slogan that promised change and rooting out corruption and the way that Washington does business, McCain and Palin put new life in the campaign. People for the first time saw hope on the horizon. Not only was this a shot in the arm for the Republicans, it was a shot over the bows of every crooked politician, special interest lobbyist and corrupt and bloated government operation in Washington, D.C.

  Palin was a marked woman at that point and had to be destroyed and discredited. Hordes of investigators descended on Alaska. The drive-by media was relentless in their efforts to cast her as lacking leadership qualities even though she was superior in those areas to her counterparts.

  She was a threat not only to the establishment in Washington, but she was a threat to her own party's liberal wing.

  Sarah Palin is no liability to the Republican Party, she is our future. Without a doubt, Palin has to be reckoned with in 2012 election. She is here to stay.

PHILIP TAYLOR, Yuma