Godspeed Sarah Palin . . .

I was on the floor of the Excel Center as a Texas delegate when Governor Sarah Palin electrified the entire arena at the RNC last year.

She was a rock star that night and for a little over 60 days wowed crowds across the country, many who had never heard her name before that night.

She breathed new life into the McCain campaign and ignited the GOP in a way that McCain had not been able to do until he made that inspired choice.  She made us believe we had a future.

Her story, her ideology, her gender, her very being represented a clear and present danger to liberal foes in the media and the Democratic party.  For the Dems, she was not a GOP face that could be tolerated.  She had to be defeated, and not just at the ballot box.

Indeed, the attacks have continued well beyond the GOP's electoral drubbing in 2008 and Governor Palin's return to Alaska.  

She had to be marginalized, demonized, and isolated to the point of radioactivity.  She had to be made untouchable.  No weapon would be off limits.  No ammo would be spared.  You see that's what you do to opponents who can hurt you.  Just ask George W. Bush, Karl Rove, and Rush Limbaugh.  

Andrew Breitbart provides an excellent summation of this attack in his Washington Times article. 

If she has had enough, and she is quitting, God bless her!  I doubt very many of us would put up with the attacks she has endured.  It is one thing to be impugned personally.  She has borne it.  But, it is another thing entirely to see your family become the target of these attacks.

Neither George W., Karl Rove, or Rush Limbaugh have had to take that. Would any of us?  

But, what if she isn't done.  She's young.  She can bide her time.  What if she has something else in store?  I do not know what that would be, nor do any of the other elite commentators, which explains why they think it is a stupid decision.  

I, for one, hope she does.  I would hate to think that we have heard the last of Sarah Palin.