John F. Kennedy has a book credited to him entitled Profiles in Courage. In the book the future President tells the stories of great Americans who risked their reputation in order to defend their beliefs in America. Kennedy outlines the careers of eight notable Americans, including Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams.

If President Kennedy were alive today I am sure that he would be honored to include the Alaskan Governor in the pages of the book.

Governor Palin is a great example of what a real American is.

She is the daughter of school teachers who rose to be a candidate for Vice President of the United States.

She saw problems with her city ... so she ran for the city council, eventually serving two terms as mayor.

She saw problems with the state government ... so she ran for Lt. Governor and lost.

She saw problems with the state Republican party and she reformed it.

She was appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and resigned in protest when her calls to end the corruption there went unanswered.

Then she ran for governor ... she faced off against a former popular democratic governor and the INCUMBENT Republican governor. She won


Two years after becoming governor she was asked by Senator John McCain to be his running mate for the upcoming Presidential election ... she answered the call to serve her country.


She certainly showed courage in Alaska but the courage she would show in this election was something for the ages.

From the first moment she was savaged by the media and the elites ... some in her own party.

They made fun of her looks, they made fun of her family and the state she calls home. They spread unbelievably brutal lies about her record and her family. They made fun of her voice, made fun of her clothes. She refused to stop, she believed in America and took her case directly to the American people.

When she won a debate ... they said she lost
When she drew thousands to rallies ... they called her a racist stirring up hate

and the worst part of all

When her ticket was defeated on election day ... the rats and assorted scum from within her own campaign threw her directly under the bus.

The network that claims to be "fair and balanced" ran a story attacking her based on "unnamed sources"


Now, it doesn't matter to me if Sarah Palin ever runs for national office again, with the way she has been treated she shouldn't put herself out there again to be dragged down. She is better than those people spreading the smears and the lies in order to cover up for the horrible campaign they headed.

However, the thing about Palin is that she doesn't care about the opinions of rats and she has the courage to indeed run for national office.

I believe that President Kennedy would have been honored to include the Alaskan Governor as one of the people who deserve the respect of having a profile in courage.