Are you empathy-challenged?

The left really knows how to play the election game in the United States. They have seemingly endless amounts of money to spend on races at all levels. Perhaps even more importantly, they really know how to destroy conservative candidates. No one was a bigger threat to them coming out of the 2008 elections than Sarah Palin. In Sarah's book Going Rogue she documents how the left flooded the system with frivolous and expensive complaints. In Alaska the governor and the executive staff have to hire attorneys at their own expense to "defend themselves against ethics complaints, no matter how frivolous, malicious, or ill-conceived an ethics complaint might be." The left doesn't care; they figure personal bankruptcy has to be the result if the candidate is not rich or corrupt. They also know how to tie up state bureaucracies, so that the real business of the state does not get done.

But the final straw that helped Sarah decide to "pass the ball" was a phone call "from the other side of the world" from her son Track who was serving in Iraq. "No dishonorable discharge, Mom. You only leave if it's to move up to something more worthy."

Sarah asked Track if he thought protecting Trig and his sisters was "more worthy."
She asked if revealing the truth (her book) was more "worthy." "I'm not a quitter, Track," I finished. "I'm going to fight. And that's the point." When Track told her he was praying for her, she asked Track to fast for a day. He said, "Holy crap! Eat nothing for a whole day?" So then she asked him to fast from cussing for a day. "Hell no, Impossible over here. Next?" He agreed to give up chew for a day. As Sarah says, "That was a big darn deal."

Sarah asked herself, "how would millions more in Freedom of Information requests, ethics compaints, and lawsuits benefit Alaskans?

In her father's words, "Sarah's not retreating; she's reloading!" Of course, the left wanted nothing more than to throw Sarah out of office. Now they were criticizing her for leaving! But so were and are many empathy-challenged conservatives.

Now it was announced today that Sarah will be a regular commentator on Fox News. A caller to Dennis Miller's radio program suggested that her segment on O'Reilly should be called "Beauty and the Beast." Miller passed on the suggestion to O'Reilly's producer.