Opinion: Sarah Palin should run for president

Sarah Palin is running for U.S. president. Make no mistake about it. Everything she says, everything she does, is a clear indicator.

She is not only the key figure in the resurgence of the conservative movement in the United States, she expects to carry the torch all the way to Washington and light the flame of freedom from a tyrannical government out of control. Palin was a hit at the Tea Party convention in Nashville. Her speech electrified everyone in attendance. She made it exceedingly clear that the Democrat agenda was 'running out of time' and that the Tea Party movement is part of a brewing "revolution" that constitutes the "future of politics." Palin has firmly implanted herself with the Tea Partiers. She is one of them. "This is the future of our country. The tea party movement is the future of politics. America is ready for another revolution." she said. And Palin will be the one leading that revolution. Despite those detractors who consider her a lightweight, her message resonates with an increasingly growing group of disaffected Americans who are fed up with big government. She gets it. She understands that this very powerful grass-roots movement must be led from the ground up, not the top down. She said that both political parties need to change the way they do business in Washington. And she warned that the Tea Party movement must not be defined by one leader. But clearly, by pounding home this lesson, Palin is emerging as the front-runner to school the politicians on what the American people want. And what they want is fiscal responsibility, limited government, and a strong national security. Palin voices the concerns that many Americans have that Barack Obama has dropped the ball in the war on terror. She questioned why Obama has reached out to hostile regimes, and apologized for America to dangerous dictators. "What do we have to show for that?" Palin asked. "Here's what we have to show: North Korea tested nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles. Israel, a friend and a critical ally, now questions strength of our support. Plans for a missile-defense system in Europe, they've been scrapped. Relations with China and Russia are no better. And relations with Japan – that key Asian ally – are in the worst shape in years." Palin advocates for a strong national defense and an aggressive foreign policy toward our enemies. She also is very concerned, as are most Americans, about the way those who would seek to destroy the United States are being treated. With regard to the upcoming terror trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 9/11 plotters, Palin said "that's scares me, for my children, for your children. Treating this like a federal law enforcement matter places our country at grave risk because that's not how radical Islamic extremists are looking at this. They know we're at war, and to win that war, we need a commander in chief." Palin has called for Eric Holder to resign. In terms of fiscal restraint, Palin has made it clear that U.S. government spending is out of control. "It's easy to understand why Americans are shaking their heads when Washington has broken trust with the people that these politicians are to be serving," Palin said. "They keep printing these dollars, and they keep making us more and more beholden to foreign countries. What they're doing in proposing these big new programs with giant price tags is they're sticking our kids with the bill. That's immoral. That's generational theft." She may be folksy, but Sarah Palin is anything but naive when it comes to understanding the serious problems the United States is facing right now. To put at bay her critics who claim she lacks the gravitas to make a run for high political office, she now receives daily briefings on every issue both foreign and domestic. She will not allow herself to be caught off-guard by the lame-stream media, who would seek to destroy her; and let not anyone fool themselves into thinking that they do not have that as their intention. The media are still in the tank for Obama and the Democrats, and any sign that a true leader is emerging from what they consider to be an Astroturf rather than a grass-roots movement, will be met with smears, character assassination and the politics of personal destruction. Palin is a lot more savvy than she was during the 2008 presidential elections. She will not allow herself to be co-opted and used by any group for their own devices. Nor will she be relegated to the level of a waterboy for the Republican Party. She fully intends to control her own political destiny. And that destiny includes running for president. Listen to America Talks Saturdays at 10 am eastern time at www.blogtalkradio.com/americatalks. Visit our website at www.americatalks.com.