Normally, she gives the back of her hand to her opponents

Normally, she gives the back of her hand to her opponents

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If Sarah Palin were a guy, I imagine this week she’d be standing over the prostrate body politic that comprises the Left (and by extension, the Democratic Party) these days with a big smile on her face, arms upraised and shouting a constant refrain of “WHO’S YOUR DADDY?!?!”  Talk about owning the mat.

Another way to look at it is like this:  If she were a Reconnaissance Marine (I have a soft spot for those guys, having started my long Navy career as an enlisted Hospital Corpsman in a Recon company), she’d be the salty company Gunny, spitting out a little squirt of dip and telling his young Marines that THIS is how you shoot, move and communicate, dammit!  

One thing’s for sure:  Palin has certainly done a LOT of shooting (at fat Democratic targets of opportunity), moving (lithely, out of the way of return fire) and communicating.  Be honest; has ANYBODY taken Facebook and Twitter entries and ran with them better than she has?

Now, like all good combat-hardened trained killers or UFC fighters (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu master Royce Gracie – possibly foreshadowing Palin’s political Jiu-Jitsu abilities — won the first 4 Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments with a string of 12 straight submission victories, all of them over larger opponents) Palin has learned how to take what might at first glance seem like a disadvantage (her relative political inexperience, at least on the national stage) and has “outcycled” a much better-armed or larger fighting force time and time again.

When I say “outcycle” I’m referring to the famous Colonel John Boyd (d. 1997) who, as a fighter pilot instructor that hadn’t fought a single second in actual combat, came to be called “Forty Second Boyd” for his ability to use air combat maneuvering to defeat any opponent (and he always did, with many of them being highly-experienced wartime fighter jocks) within those 40 seconds.

Boyd and his compatriots — a frankly crazy bunch of aviators (but what bunch of fighter pilots aren’t?) — developed what we in the military called the “OODA Loop.”  Short for “Observe, Orient, Decide, Act” one can see how Palin, since she’s stepped down from office, has taken the measure of the landscape, oriented herself to objective conditions, decided on a line of attack — and ObamaCare and other liberal pet projects are like fat, unguarded enemy rear areas – and then turned the enemy’s basic weaknesses against himself.

Don’t believe me?  Well, it’s pretty much accepted by all sides that Palin’s Facebook and Twitter entries on the (in)famous so-called “death panels” within H.R. 3200 and in the earlier economic stimulus package (the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research) scared more than a few legislators enough that the end-of-life provisions within that House bill were declared DOA by members of the Senate Finance Committee, which is struggling to come up with a bill similar in concept to that of 3200.

He's worried about getting in the ring with her

He's worried about getting in the ring with her

Recently, Palin’s been at it again, finding the weak spot in the enemy’s perimeter defense (or exploiting a rival’s bullish physique and strength to her advantage) sliding through that gap and then guiding her fire team into position to rain down an ungodly hailstorm of fire on their heads.  This time, she chose to go on the attack over Barack Obama’s multi-billion dollar financing deal for Brazilian oil exploration company Petrobras.

Palin has managed to point out the seeming insanity in the White House’s decision to fund the search for and drilling of oil by another nation which doesn’t look to benefit us all that much.  And even if it does manage to do so (in some Obama-like convoluted fashion that only Harvard Ph.Ds can fathom) way down the road, the “Killah from Wasilla” focused attention on the fact that we’re practically doing no exploration of our own in vast tracts of the country that hold the promise of an ocean of oil.

Seems like little Ms. Ex-Governor has once again showed up a White House and a Democratic Party that appears to want to force us all into little proletariat-mobiles that nobody wants to buy or drive, for no good reason, considering how truly energy-independent we really can be within a vastly shorter amount of time than Barack Obama’s and Nancy Pelosi’s and Harry Reid’s “green” jobs and industries will ever be able to pull off. 

Combine that with her pulling the mask off the grinning, capering vampire that IS ObamaCare, and you’ve got a woman who’s fully in command and out to show the folks who live in ivy-covered towers and buy their foods only from certified organic grocers (and can’t bear the thought of popping down to the Wal-Mart for little Jimmy’s back to school clothes) just who has the upper hand lately.

So, I (and Sarah Palin) say again:  “WHO’S YOUR DADDY?!?!