Posted by
albear on Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:31:51 AM
I'm starting to see here and elsewhere whispers and grumbles from Republican "insiders" that Sarah Palin was a mistake, and, yes, even should go.
I'd like to tell them, and all those who think Palin is a mistake, a little story. It's called "Fight On, Fight On."
A long, long time ago there was a cranky, but wizened old white haired guy regarded throughout the land as a maverick who not only marched to his own drum, he had his own marching band. There was a great mess in his nation's capital, and the Old Man was determined to fix it. Much to the shock and surprise of the Town Criers and Brokers, he didn't spend his gold on a man of note or fame to lead the way to recovery. Instead, he hired a modest man of faith with a thin resume toiling in obscurity in a far corner of the land. Some of the Criers and Brokers wondered, "Why him? Certainly there are better men than he." Some openly mocked: "That goody-goody? He'll get eaten alive!" The Old Man remained silent. Then the Modest Man got to work. Things did not go well. In fact, early on things went very wrong. The Criers and Brokers pounced: "Loser! Hick! Send this rube back to fishing hole he came from!" And so it went for week after week.
The calls for the Modest Man's ouster grew louder and louder. "Axe him! Axe him before it's too late!"
Finally the Old Man rose. The Criers and Brokers rustled and murmured. "Certainly the Old Man will admit his mistake. Certainly the Modest Man is gone." The Old Man cleared his throat. The town went silent.
Then the Old Man spoke: "Joe Gibbs stays."
And Redskin fans lived happily ever -- well, at least for a bunch of years -- after.
The Moral: "Fight On, Fight On, 'Til You Have Won, Daughter of Wasila..."
The End