A Big Hand For The Little Lady

A Big Hand For The Little Lady was one of the best of the old westerns. Henry Fonda and Joanne Woodward starred in this great little caper flick, which centers around a high-stakes poker game. Woodward is the shy frontier wife who must sit in on the game for her ailing husband, played by Fonda. Paul Ford, Jason Robards, and Kevin McCarthy co-star. The ending was such a surprise I laughed right out loud.

Sarah Palin deserves a big hand for her wonderful, sacrificial decision of July 3. We owe her a lot. For some unknown reason, the above movie came to mind as I was thinking about Sarah Palin’s announcement, and the utter frenzy it has created in the punditry. Last year, John McCain tapped her to sit in on the highest-stake poker game in the world. When the time came for her to bow out, she proved she had at least one more ace in her hand, and, although the game isn’t over yet, the pile of voter “chips” in front of Sarah grows by the day, much to the dismay of the other mossback players and the partisan kibitzers.

It’s interesting to observe the behavior of people who swear up and down that Sarah is a “cipher,” a “backwoods nobody,” a “hick,” “quitter,” “dumb,” “ignorant,” “inexperienced,” and “showoff.” So, if she is such an insignificant and unimportant little blip, why is there such a frantic hissy-fit going on around her resignation??

First they assassinate her character. Then they take after her kids, one after another. The only one they haven’t attacked is Piper, and I suspect she is next. Then they accuse her of being a quitter because she chose to leave office before she cost Alaskan taxpayers any more money paying for her legal bills; bills run up from trying to deal with trivial and false “ethics” charges, deliberately brought against her to force her out of office. I hope the leftist bloggers who thought they were doing such a fine stroke of business realize that as soon as she is a private citizen again, she’s likely to sue their ugly underpants off. Eww.

So. Put yourself in her place. Imagine that you are a good mom, a working mom, in a high-pressure career. You have a large, happy family with its own particular problems, but because you have a public-service job, you are a high-profile person. How would you feel if your oldest daughter was made a laughingstock and a byword for getting pregnant out of wedlock, and held up to international ridicule for the very same behavior that the gossipmongers encourage everywhere else?

How would you like it if your newborn son had Down Syndrome and quickly became the butt of elitists’ ridicule and mockery?

I wonder how you would feel if your fourteen-year-old daughter was the butt of rape “jokes” by a national figure who not only wouldn’t apologize, but added more jokes, then insinuated that he MEANT to “joke” aout your older daughter?

If any of these things make you feel uncomfortable, try to imagine the effect they have on Sarah Palin, who is just trying to do her job as well as possible, raise her family, and make a difference. Let’s see YOU run for office and remain true to your principles, stay honest, make a major difference in the world around you, and keep your family safe.

A big hand for the little lady, then. No, I think a standing ovation would be much more appropriate for THIS “Little Lady.”