Pitch-Perfect Palin

C. Edmund Wright in The American Thinker distills the three important points about Palin's announcement that she was not going to seek the Republican nomination.

1. Making sure that Obama is not re-elected is Job 1.

Saving the country is all that matters, and the first step required for that task is to totally reverse our current course. Of course, that includes removal of the current occupant in the White House.

2. Energy as the key to America's economic recovery.

[Palin]: "I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for President where our candidates must embrace immediate action toward energy independence through domestic resource developments of conventional energy sources, along with renewables."

3. Reduce the role of government.

[Palin]: "We must reduce tax burdens and onerous regulations that kill American industry, and our candidates must always push to minimize government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs. Those will be our priorities so Americans can be confident that a smaller, smarter government that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people can better serve this most exceptional nation."

At this point, the people vying for the Republican nomination have all staked out ideas that are congruent with Palin’s objectives. I would hope that the front-runners, Romney and Perry, realize that running a Bush-like administration is not going to be acceptable to the people who will vote for them in the general election, but at the very least they would accomplish objective #1. I have no doubt that Herman Cain shares Palin’s views of government entirely and he is currently my favorite choice among the field.

Sarah Palin seeks to play a role that may be as important but at the same time is more amorphous than being president; she may be setting out to change the culture. There are a few people who have the talent to do that, Rush Limbaugh is an example. For the American experiment to get back on track we have to reclaim the culture.   That may be better done out of office than in.

Go Sarah, go!