SIXTY-TWO

"Looking back, I can see that the tragedy
planted a seed in me..."

On p. 62 of GR, Sarah is wrapping up her discussion of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil-spill disaster in Alaska. She writes, "It took twenty years for Alaska to achieve victory. As governor I directed our attorney general to file an amicus brief on behalf of plaintiffs in the case, and, thanks to Alaska's able attorneys arguing in front of the highest court in the land, in 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the people. Finally, Alaskans could recover some of their losses.

"When the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef, I was a young mother-to-be with a blue-collar husband headed up to the Slope. I hadn't yet envisioned running for elected office. But looking back, I can see that the tragedy planted a seed in me: If I ever had a chance to serve my fellow citizens, I would do so, and I'd work for the ordinary, hardworking people--like everyone who was a part of my ordinary, hardworking world."

My friends, I would like to call your attention to another event that occurred in 1989.

On 20 January of that year, President Ronald Reagan left office.

The voters who gave Vice-President George H. W. Bush a forty-state victory over Michael Dukakis in November of 1988 thought that they were voting for President Reagan's third term.

They were sadly mistaken.

IMHO, we have been spiraling down ever since Ronaldus Magnus departed from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for retirement in California.

The somewhat slower decline under Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II has now accelerated at an alarming and agonizing rate under the vicious, usurping regime of the totalitarian-minded Chicago tyrant and thug, barack hussein obama.

We have come to the crisis point and to the critical hour: The very life blood and soul of the Res Publica Americana are now at peril and at stake.

However, let us now examine and consider the remedy that a merciful Lord was evidently preparing in secret even from those days in the late 80s.

In 1989, in the far-off Great Land of Alaska, in the distant North, in the wake and waste of a hideous environmental, economic, and social disaster, a young wife and soon-to-be mom formed and shaped and conceived an unshakeable resolve in her "deep heart's core."

This may seem like a tiny and trivial matter. It is not.

The majestic movement and motion of one or two gallant hearts can sometimes sway and turn the course and stream of human history, and can tip the balance of the fair fame and fate of entire nations!!!

JRR Tolkien fans will appreciate the comparison to the Hobbits. An invisible and providential Hand was preparing the Little People through many generations for the greatest of works in the crisis of the Third Age of Middle Earth.

Two fearless little Hobbits, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, accomplished and wrought the triumph that no one else could: Not the Elves with all their ancient beauty of song and of lore and of language; not the Dwarves with their doughty strength of axe and hammer and heart; not Men/Women with their swift horses and bright swords and dauntless spirits. (Of course, Sarah may also be compared to Lady Eowyn!!)

So, even as the Exxon Valdez oil horror spread its dire and baneful tentacles and effects throughout the Forty-Ninth State, and even as the great President Reagan handed off the golden reins of power and authority to lesser and feebler and weaker hands, the young Sarah Palin was conceiving and nurturing an adamantine and noble resolve and purpose to "serve my fellow citizens," if she ever got the chance.

The marvelous work of the Hands of the Lord that is the life of Sarah was kept hidden from the eyes of most of America up until that day of days, Sarah Palin Day, 29 August, 2008, in Dayton, Ohio.

Sarah had been sowing, sowing, sowing good and beautiful seeds for many long years: Acts of quiet courage; acts of cheerful selflessness; acts of simple nobility.

Then, suddenly, to the horror and terror of the Left and to the delight and joy of true patriots everywhere, there she stood revealed and unveiled on that bright and immortal twenty-ninth day of August in '08: The anti-obama; the incarnation of all that is best and most lovely in all this wide land of ours; the hope that the "messiah's" reign would be but a brief one, if it commenced at all--the Lady Warrior with a servant's true heart!!

Sarah writes that it "took twenty years for Alaska to achieve victory" in the matter of the oil spill.

Well, it has been more than twenty years since the departure of Reagan. Still, thanks to the resolve that Sarah Louise Heath Palin formed in those far-off days in that far-off land, we are standing on the doorstep and threshold of one of the greatest victories in the history of our fair nation. Not just Alaska alone, but all of America is on the edge and verge of "achieving victory"!!

If the Lord wills it, if it is the work of the Lord, then nothing can stop it:

SARAH INVICTA 2012!!!!!

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