Dear Heather MacDonald

While on my walk this morning I listened to your complete interview on Laura Ingraham [your article here]. As I understand it, when you go to the polls in 3 weeks you are choosing between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, not Obama and McCain. You think Obama has a better grasp of economic issues than Palin because he is articulate, thinks things through and has degrees from prestigious institutions (you didn't actually say that, but it was implied with typical east coast arrogance). Also, although Obama isn't staying home with his children and believes Down Syndrome babies should be aborted, you finally conceded when pushed by Ingraham that Palin should stay home with her baby, because that is the traditional conservative view.

Here are five points you overlooked.

1) Of the four people running for office (and you're right either Joe or Sarah could become president the day after the inauguration), Sarah Palin is
a) the only one with conservative credentials, and
b) the only one with balls.

2) Of the four people running for office, Sarah Palin is the only one who didn't have the opportunity in 2006 to turn this Fannie/Freddie subprime mess around and save the economy. John McCain tried for more regulation, Joe Biden and Barack Obama sided with all the other Democrats and fought it. These three Senators failed to save us.

3) Of the four people running for office, most of the Congress, the President, most of the cabinet, and most especially the Ben and Hank club, Sarah Palin is the only one who did NOT go to one of those prestigious schools like Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard or Columbia.

4) Of the four people running for office, Palin is the only one who doesn't stammer and stutter off teleprompter, who hasn't been coached to lie to us through nonsensical press interviews. Although I'm plenty sick of the phrases "Joe Six-Pack" and "Hockey-Moms" and might have preferred a ticket of say Mitt Romney and Condi Rice, conservatives didn't want a Mormon, and Democrats don't allow black women, even Republicans, to leave the plantation.

5) And read the research, Heather. It is the marriage of women to the father that reduces poverty among children, not whether she stays home or works. The idea behind welfare was a government plan to keep women at home with the children. See how well that worked out?