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• Monday, December 1, 2008 02:30 PM

  @Buckeyegirl

  I don't know if Sarah Palin is the future of the party, or if oil drilling, expense cutting, pipe line building, center-right economic policies will find favor nationally, along with pro-life views. I hope so, but can only speak for my one vote. If not, then I would rather be a pro-life zealot in Masada than a pro-choice Josephus in Rome. That appears to be the battleline within the party's wings.

  I would love to banter with you further, but the last time I went down this road, it ended with some ad hominum derision (see letter batch above) backed by an editor of this site saluting it. I enjoy back and forth banter, but I can't fight the editors, too. It's their publication, after all.

  I have tried as best I can to explain my regard for Gov. Palin. If you can imagine how Margaret Mitchell felt about the old time gals who inspired her to create her heroine; or how the south Bavarians feel about their local girl turned Austrian empress; or why Sarah Palin loves the rustic charm and beauty of the movie Hoosiers, you might have some idea of how I feel. For the rest, it's something tacky. I recently received a momento for my daughter to help her capture some of the feeling referenced above, and I hope someday it means something as valuable to her as the picture of Elisabeth of Bavaria an old time innkeeper once showed me near her birthplace at Lake Starnberg.

  I am sure someone will deride for me for writing this message, but I thought it was worth a try. Knock yourselves out. I can't fight you all.

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