Every Sunday I usually spout off about whatever is on my mind in a weekly column over at Carolina Politics Online. When I was added to the author list here at SavetheGOP, I decided to publish my inane little rants here as well. Often they deal with news stories, but I also write conservative movie reviews (Batman = GWB in The Dark Knight, btw) and book reviews.

This week I wrote an article about Sarah Palin. Now I wanna set this up before y’all go on reading it…

I know that some of you don’t like the pick, or the guy who made it. That’s fine, and I understand. But I am actively rooting for, campaigning for, and shilling for McCain/Palin ‘08. I also understand, from what some of the other authors have told me, that SavetheGOP’s readership has skyrocketed over the past few months. We may even have some influential people reading us- if so, this is especially for them. If you seek to elect McCain/Palin ‘o8, then hearken onto my words, memorize them, repeat them, imbibe them into your soul and impart them to anyone who will listen to you: Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama.

Here’s why…

It started not even twenty minutes after John McCain’s “WOW!”-inducing VP selection.

They were no doubt hung over from the night before. Imbibing too much of the Obamasiah’s deluge of verbal opioid -delivered from the Temple of Dionysus itself- can do that to you. I know from extensive experience that hangovers make people do and say strange things. But even I haven’t done anything near as strange as the clueless Obamaphiles who rushed to the airwaves and the keyboards and immediately began excoriating Sen. McCain for picking “the untested mayor of a town of 9,000″ to be his Vice Presidential nominee.

Um… who are you supporting again?

The monumental significance of Barack Obama’s nomination on Thursday should not push from our minds the simple and irrefutable fact that he the most inexperienced and untested major party nominee since Jimmy Carter, and perhaps beyond. At least Carter had the benefit of a full-time job behind an executive desk for four years. Obama can’t even claim to have been a full-time senator. Yet only 12 hours after telling the entire world that a man who has slightly more senate experience than I do is qualified to be the next president, Democrats are telling us that Sarah Palin isn’t qualified to be McCain’s backup.

It’s not just absurd; it’s insulting.

Politicians and their supporters must know how to pivot. Circumstances change, policies adapt, and candidates, along with their supporters, have to evolve. I get it. But right now the Obamaniacs are performing acrobatics of logic that Cirque du Soleil can’t pull off and twisting in the breeze more than the windsocks about get caught in Hurricane Gustav. You cannot say that Barack Obama is ready to be President while simultaneously claiming that Sarah Palin can’t be McCain’s back-up.

It’s not that Palin is only slightly less qualified than Obama. Nor do they have equal qualifications. Right now, at this moment, Sarah Palin, with all of two years as governor of Alaska, is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama. Sarah Palin has more accomplishments in two years as governor than Barack Obama has in four years as a do-nothing absentee senator. Name one -ONE- significant legislative accomplishment that Barack Obama can claim. Name ONE significant bill that passed because of his efforts. Name ONE significant committee or sub-committee he has chaired in the last four years.

Meanwhile, in the last two years, Sarah Palin has cleaned up a corrupt Alaska Republican Party- starting by defeating an incumbent Republican in the primary. She’s taken on the oil companies, vetoed spending bills, cut taxes, passed an ethics reform law, shrunk the size of state government, and balanced budgets. All with approval ratings hovering between 80-90%.

As governor of Alaska, she automatically brings with her a knowledge of energy policy that probably rivals most U.S. Senators and nearly every other state governor. She’s chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and was chair of the Alaska Conservation Commission, which regulates oil and gas. She supports drilling in ANWR, and unlike most enviro-phonies has actually been there. And can beat Joe Biden over the head with very oil pipeline that he opposed back the 1970’s.

Still think Palin isn’t qualified to be the #2? Fair enough. But can you honestly tell me that Obama is qualified to be the #1?

Early in this campaign, Obama knew he couldn’t win any contest fought on the “experience” playing field. So he moved to the “judgment” playing field instead. “Elect me”, he said, “because I have the judgment that Hillary Clinton and John McCain lack”. Really? Alright…

Obama’s judgment led him to start his political career at the house of a man who bombed the Pentagon. Sarah Palin started her political career as a concerned mom in the PTA before challenging and defeating a corrupt incumbent mayor.

Obama’s judgment led him to for twenty years sit in the pew of black liberation theology church and listen to the sermons of a raving, racist, hateful lunatic. Then Jeremiah Wright became a political liability and Obama decided to throw him under the bus. But not before titling his book The Audacity of Hope, after one of his “spiritual advisor’s” sermons.

Obama’s judgment led him to embrace the corrupt Chicago political machine. He bought a house with help from his friend Tony Rezko, who is now enjoying the hospitality of one of the U.S. Government’s fine concrete-and-bar hotels. Sarah Palin’s judgment led her to take on her corrupt town mayor and beat him. To become a whistle-blower when she saw corruption in the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and to continue fighting corruption when the main perpetrator, the head the Alaska Republican Party, told her to shut up and go away. So she ran for governor, beat the incumbent, and forced the Alaska GOP chief and the GOP Attorney General to resign.

Obama’s judgment led him to support wasteful earmarks, including the Bridge to Nowhere. Sarah Palin’s judgment led her to kill the damn thing.

Obama’s judgment led him to fight the Born Alive Infant’s Protection Act in the Illinois Senate. This bill required medical attention for babies born alive after botched abortions. I thought that was “above his pay grade”? If Obama actually believes that viable babies who have left the womb should be killed if the mother doesn’t want them -and it appears that he does- then by any reasonable moral and ethical standard he is not fit to hold any public office. Sarah Palin’s judgment led her to carry her latest child to term and give him life and love despite knowing that he would have Downs Syndrome. Ninety percent of all fetuses diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted; not Sarah Palin’s.

If votes, legislative and executive actions, and life choices aren’t enough for us to ascertain someone’s experience, they certainly can tell us something about their judgment and character. I trust her judgment over his any day, and her finger won’t even be on the proverbial “button”.

Democrats- I know it’s hard. Being hypocritical and two-faced is in your nature. But now you’re just sounding dumb. Dumber than usual, which is quite a feat. In this turbulent and uncertain time, you’ve nominated for president a man who by every reasonable criterion is woefully unqualified to make executive presidential decisions. You have presented him to the nation and to the world and said, “Here he is!” If Sarah Palin is likewise unqualified, you’ve lost the ability to say so with a straight face. You tremble that Sarah Palin may be just one heartbeat away from the Oval Office but see no problem with Barack Obama actually being in the Oval Office.

Does Sarah Palin have the experience to take over should something happen to John McCain? We shall see. Personally, I’m more concerned about what Obama will do if something happens to Joe Biden.