The uber-conservative Human Events Magazine has named Sarah Palin its “Conservative of the Year,” and I couldn’t agree more. Palin exemplifies the vacuous philosophy of Republican politics. Her strident anti-intellectualism, blind faith, and personal corruption are the hallmarks of her Party and stand as testimony to her worthiness for this honor.

Human Events got Ann “The Man” Coulter to write this paean to Palin, and she starts out thusly:

Palin was chosen because McCain…needed a conservative on the ticket, but he had no idea that picking her would send the left into a tailspin of wanton despair.

Not really sure what Coulter is getting at here. Like most of “the left,” my immediate reaction to the Palin pick for VP was “…who?”

Despair? Hardly.

Sure, we were a little aghast at her abhorrent politics, strident ignorance, and arrogant behavior vis-a-vis the ethics investigations against her. But as we learned more and more about Miss Moose-olini, Half-baked Alaska, Governor Avon Lady, many of us nearly stood up and cheered McCain for his selection.

Now let me say for the record that I never really thought McCain had a chance against Obama. But choosing Palin as his running mate was, in my opinion, the final nail in the coffin for his campaign (one of many, if you wanna be a stickler.) There was NO WAY a majority of American voters were gonna let that idiot into the Vice Presidency.

If I wasn’t an atheist, I would be praying for Palin to run in 2012. Could you imagine You Betcha McWinker against an incumbent Obama? The debates alone would be comedy gold!

So please Republicans, by all means, shower her with honors. Hoist her up as your champion. Make her your candidate in 2012. And when she loses, run her again in 2016. I’ll get down on my knees and beg if it’ll help. Such a Palin-centric strategy is guaranteed to secure a Democratic White House for the next decade or more. Maybe even the coveted “filibuster-proof majority” in the Senate.

So, yes.

More Palin, please.

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