Why I Dig Sarah Palin

I like Sarah Palin.

I want her to be president. Desperately.

You know why?

Because this chick is nuts. Sometimes good nuts, sometimes bad nuts, but always, nuts.

Let's be honest: Those four years of her presidency (and, really, I don't think there would be a second term; she'd get bored and want to do something else, like trying to personally invade Canada with her own group of Rough Riders on snowmobiles so the US can seize the Yukon Territory because she heard they heard great moose hunts there, you betcha) would be the most fun ever.

No other president would be able to match Sarah Palin on the wacky meter.

President Palin would be flying around on that Marine helicopter, hunting God's creatures with one of those mounted machine guns you see on those military choppers in war movies. (If there isn't one of those on Marine One now, she'd have one installed.) Meanwhile, the hubby would be having "snow machine" races down the Potomac in the dead of winter, provided it freezes over. Or maybe even if it doesn't. A lot more adventurous if there's some liquidity involved.

And the kids. These would not be the cutesy Obama children (I like them way better than I like their father). The Palin children would be raucous. The White House would get tore up, you just know it. That would be so cool. And don't get me started on the soap opera the Palin's and their extended family and friends are going to be. It will be like four years of an insane reality show in the White House.

As for diplomacy, watch out for a woman who likes to shoot things. Palin is tough. She runs and hunts and skins dead animals and God knows what else she does. If the Russians give us any trouble, she would simply arm wrestle Putin. And win. And then she'd tell him the way things are gonna be from now on, at which Putin would ask her to marry him, because that's the way he is. She would consider it for a second, then tell him to get lost.

But seriously, I do like Sarah Palin. You know why? Really why? Because I believe her to be genuine. If she says it, you can bet she believes what she is saying. When she talks about the America of small towns with small town values, she is being genuine. Unfortunately, she's also being genuine when she talks about Obama's health care "death panels," but that's part of the thoroughly unpolitical politics of Sarah Palin. When people are genuine, and say what they actually believe, you will sometimes hear some weird and wacky things. We'll just have to learn how to deal with it.

So, apart from the insanity that Sarah Palin will bring to the presidency, she will usher in a new era of The Genuine Person. And it will be refreshing.