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Actual doodles as Palin brainstormed
for her mayoral campaign...

On p. 69 of GR, Sarah is in her second term as a member of the Wasilla City Council. She has now decided to challenge the long-time incumbent, John Stein, for the office of Mayor of Wasilla.

She writes, "A key question arose that convinced me that the town needed new leadership, and it went right back to my concerns about heavy-handed government. The issue was forced annexation. Stein and some council members were fine with forcing other areas of the Mat-Su Borough to become part of the City of Wasilla. With a bigger footprint, the city would increase the size of its tax base, plus gain political power in Juneau.

"But they tried to sell it with rhetoric like 'Government's here to help; trust us, you need better public services.' For me, it went back to people being able to think for themselves. If they wanted Wasilla's services--and Wasilla's property taxes--then they'd choose [italics in original] to be part of Wasilla. I supported annexation by invitation instead."

This whole passage demonstrates Sarah's deep and profound understanding of what we may term "civic architecture." She understands the intimate and true nature of the "building blocks" that coalesce and come together to raise on high a marvel that is more wonderful and lovely than even the most grand and glorious physical edifice: A community of free men and women, living together in the peace and harmony of Ordered Liberty.

Let us consider the case of a physical structure, such as a building. If the architect and the builders do not take into careful account the nature and the properties of all of the elements of steel, brick, concrete, glass, etc. that are combined to raise up the work, then that work will soon collapse; its parts will not cleave and hold to each other.

He or she who would construct something must understand, above all, two things, what we may call the "Alpha and Omega," "The Beginning and the End" of any project. These are, first, the fundamental elements that will serve as the material parts of the structure and, second, the final goal and plan for the finished product. There must be a compatibility and "sympathy" between the parts and the whole!

Let us next consider for a moment what the Lord does when he brings two people together for the holy estate of matrimony. He takes two hearts, the depths of whose nature only He knows, and binds them together in eternal bonds. He is the Master Builder. He knows how to cement his bricks together, two by two, throughout time. From the families that are thus created, arise cities, nations, civilizations…all from the union and unity of hearts, two-by-two!!

Let us then consider a Free People. What is the "mortar" that will bind and hold its "bricks" together? It is the mortar of mutual trust; it is the mortar of mutual fidelity; it is the mortar of mutual esteem; it is the mortar of the shared ideals of Liberty.

Sarah knows well, and has understood from her earliest days, that there can be no lasting State where coercion and force and tyranny replace freedom. Where INTERIOR unity is lacking, it is only through gulags and guns, through torture and terror that a "State" can be temporarily held together in a "union" that is as deceptive as it is transitory, as fickle as it is fleeting.

God created men and women to be FREE. He has given us a Lady Warrior who well understands that it is only FREE men and women who can hold together and preserve the Res Publica Americana.

Sarah is reaching out her hands and opening her heart right now, appealing to Americans to follow her lead in RESTORING America. She cannot and she would not FORCE anyone. However, if enough of us choose FREELY to follow her lead, we shall witness in our days a true and new rebirth of Liberty in America.

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