Primer for Presidential Candidates

“Run Sarah, Run,” reads the last sentence of my book, Flirting with Misadventures, which was published by FriesenPress last month (9/2011), and available in hardbound, paperback, and electronic editions at the publisher’s shopping cart, among several outlet portals.  With her announcement last Wednesday that she was vowing out of the presidential contest, Gov. Palin might just have doomed the marketing prospects of the book.  However, the principles undergirding my arguably premature prognostications on her presidential prospects were by no means undermined by the political calculus of her deliberations leading to a none-candidacy.  In fact, the essay, written in July 2010, made ample allowance for precisely the decision she officially made public last week.

On page 313 of the book my disclaimer was unmistakable:

I have not met her in person but less than fifty pages into “Going Rogue” made me feel like I shared most of her adventures of growing up. I succumb to that exhilarating feeling of having gallivanted away the anxious exuberance of my formative years in the edge of the wilds with her, notwithstanding that I was born in the evacuation camps of WWII Philippines, roughly half a globe away, more than two generations ago, and a civilization removed from her narratives.

She is a breath of fresh air in a political atmosphere traditionally choked with the putrescence of political posturing on just about any issue imaginable.

Of all the politicians in the national landscape, Gov. Palin just happens to be the least conventional (cf, p 312):

Living out her philosophy rather than philosophizing on life is what Gov. Palin is all about. The main reason she gets the vitriol of the traditional career feminists is her putting their hypocrisy in sharp contrasting relief to her reality.  She has proved to the world and to the feminists’ shame that there need not be any conflict between motherhood and a professional career, politics included.  Furthermore, it definitely did not take a village to nurture her brood of five, more than twice above the national average fertility rate for this country.

I have painstakingly demonstrated elsewhere in the same book {chapters 11, 18, 19 & 20} that to as much as pay a lip service to the narrative of Man-Made Global Warming as the gospel minted in Copenhagen purports,  you have to be either intellectually incompetent, or politically dishonest, or both. 

This is the first of two crucial smells test I have for presidential candidates, namely:

1)         How would your administration propose to redeploy the enormous human and infrastructural resources at the Federal government’s disposal already invested to promote and implement the popularly accepted Global Warming agenda?

2)         How would your administration propose to deal with the intricacies and ramifications of baseline budgeting?