Sarah Palin and the Saints

I am a New Orleans native who does not follow football...but I have usually had an open ear to how the Saints were doing...not that I watch the games, but in general I paid attention to how they were doing.  But the last few years I have lost track of them.  One of my brothers, who calls me every couple of weeks kept bragging and bragging about the Saints this season....to the point that I finally shut him up by promising to travel to his residence for a Super Bowl Party if the Saints made it there.  He lives in North Carolina and I live in Nebraska, so this was no small promise.  Not that I expected to have to live up to this promise...but I did.  We drove there and spent three days partying and celebrating the Saints.  We even celebrated the Saints before they won...well you'd have to be from Louisiana to appreciate that.

Sarah Palin rose up from political nowhere land as the Saints rose from being the Ain'ts to a real contender for the title.  It took the Saints a little longer to rise up than Sarah, but they both came from out of nowhere and broke all sorts of records.

The Saints were not the favorite in the Super Bowl; the powers that be in the NFL were predicting that Peyton Manning would out perform the Saints.  And the powers that be in the political world are predicting that Sarah Palin is a flash in the pan and could not even win the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

Hmmm.....Sarah has made some shrewd political decisions, not traditional decisions, but good decisions.  So have the Saints!  Drew Breas...surgery and a come back.  Sarah, resignation and a come back.

Most of the country underestimated the Saints; most of the country has underestimated Sarah Palin.  Football is not politics, but how America thinks about football and politics is about the same.

Bottom line.....the left should continue to attack Sarah for everything because she is a very real threat to them in 2010 and, I hope, in 2012.