What will Sarah Palin do?

by Jim Harrison
(Elkton, MD, USA)

Sarah Palin Calls Obama Cap-and-Trade Plan a Threat

This headline appeared on the “Inside Cover” of newsmax.com for Tuesday, July 14. The article continues:


"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who says she'll leave office at the end of the month, is already taking on one national issue, calling the Obama administration's plan to reduce greenhouse gases a threat to the U.S. economy.

"In an op-ed piece in Tuesday's Washington Post, Palin attacks the administration's so-called cap-and-trade plan that would allow industrial sources to buy and sell pollution permits."

Sounds like the sale of indulgences. Pollution is a mortal sin, but it’s OK if you pay for it. The plan is simple. You manufacture sins, which are not sins to begin with, and then you charge money for committing them. A “holy” alliance between church and government cleans it all up.

A “holy” alliance between industry and a messianic government does the same thing. As long as you pay, you will be protected. All industries are invited to join Obama’s splendid little rat race. O Martin Luther (the Sixteenth Century reformer), where are you now that we need you?

To begin with, global warming is as phony as a one dollar bill. There is nothing to back up either. It is about as scientific as alchemy (the superstition of changing one substance into another). It is the biggest hoax since evolution (the superstition of changing one species into another). The thinking of this fallen world is so crooked; some of its most insane inmates would call you a child abuser for trying to protect your child from it by home schooling.

Some liberals are relieved, thinking Sarah Palin is gone. The realistic are uneasy, and some are downright scared. Now she has become a moving target, impervious to their attacks. From where will she strike next? Like a Las Vegas roulette wheel, round and round she goes; where she stops, nobody knows—least of all, her enemies!

Whatever she does, let us hope she does not run for some other political office. She is far more valuable as a wife and mother, becoming a role model for women all across America.

Working the internet would not require her to leave home. She is already well known in Christian and conservative circles. She could run a national newsletter, encouraging local political activity in every village, town, and hamlet.

Let regular hometown men educate themselves in the virtues of manhood and the principles of limited government and run for lower offices. They can use these offices as springboards to run for higher offices later as they are replaced behind them by other like minded men. It’s called “the dog catcher strategy”: Start at the bottom.

This task is simple, but it is not quick and easy. It is long range and it requires patience—a patience that reaches beyond a single lifetime to see its full fruition. This kind of patience is not passive; it perseveres with a hope of victory beyond mere political aspirations. The change it brings will not be cosmetic, but dynamic—powerful

This strategy calls for Christians to repent of their love affair with conformity to this world. Transformation does not stop with conversion; it is ongoing, and it continually renews the mindset of its recipients (Rom. 12:2) “Until Christ be formed in you” (Gal. 4:19).

Discipleship is not an abstract dogma; it bears fruit in the individual. And it does not stop with the individual; its practical application transforms every institution to which these repenting individuals belong.

We cannot expect a quick-fix. It took decades, yes even centuries, for America to reach these dire conditions. Neither will we rise above it overnight. This country saw a major milestone in the slippery slope between 1861 and the middle 1870s when the “obstructionist” South was obliterated by war and “reconstruction” (applauded by Karl Marx).

This era was neither the beginning nor the ending of the ongoing Northeastern Unitarian rebellion against God, but it was a giant step toward the messianic role of a strong central government. Its likeness to the French Revolution is undeniable. Today we see that legacy coming to its full fruition: “Audacity! Audacity! And more audacity!” The juggernaut seems unstoppable. But it only seems so.

We recall the words of Robert E. Lee: “The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”

Sarah Palin has name recognition. Let's hope she uses it wisely and keeps her place in the scheme of God's mosaic overview.