I have yet to observe anything at all in Sarah Palin that I would consider personally offensive, or deserving of reproach on any level. I do not know the woman, of course, but I've read and heard those ubiquitous, seemingly endless criticisms and accusations. And I have to say that they continue to strike me as being pitifully shrill and strained. I don't get it. I simply see nothing there that does not look and smell like plain calumny and malice.

That sort of thing starts out as beneath contempt, then dashes off and takes an elevator to the sub-basement.

I mean, this stuff is LAME. As governor of Alaska, Palin worked to get some state trooper fired. Here is a guy who, by every account, belongs rather in an asylum or in prison than in any law enforcement agency. Palin's enemies hunted with desperate tenacity for grounds to accuse her of abusing power in that instance. They turned up nothing, because she had done nothing wrong.

All that ceaseless hiss and siss about Palin's lack of experience and her unfitness to be president — Who can keep from laughing? I never forgot that she was actually running for vice president, even if the news media never seemed to find much zest for admitting that. Like it or not, though, to this very hour Palin remains eminently better prepared to assume the Oval Office than Obama is to be even a state senator. Look, the man is not so much an empty suit as an empty wardrobe. Sorry, hoss, but that's just the way things is, and danged if the facts ain't just as stubborn as everybody says they is.

I hear disparaging comments about Palin from many in my very own circles who seem otherwise to be reasonable and decent people. Yet I perceive something bizarre about their attitudes toward Palin. Frankly, I think many women hate her because she is beautiful and sexy while being strong and virtuous. I believe men hate her because she's got more spirit and fire — more proverbials, actually — than many of them do. Of course, we're talking here about Lefties, mostly.

This lady has shown the pampered cowards of these present generations what it is to believe in and stand for life-affirming and worthwhile things and fight for them with honor. No one on the Left fights that way. They fight like animals — with venom and shrieking and lust. Sarah Palin fights like a warrior — with discipline and purpose and calling.

All the hostility aimed at her seems insanely disproportionate, unjustifiable, even illegitimate. What has she really done that justly earns this degree of disapprobation? Nothing, really. She seems to this observer to be a good governor, a good politician, a good wife, a good mother. Who has proved her to be otherwise?

But this world is lousy with souls who hate anything that is good. Once, there was a good man who walked about the earth.

They nailed Him to a tree.