Sarah Palin: HUMAN EVENTS Conservative of the Year

Sarah Palin, who brought life to the McCain campaign and gave conservatives hope when there otherwise was none this past election cycle, was rightly named Conservative of the Year by Human Events Magazine. Good on them!

The lovely and witty Ann Coulter checks in on this one in the above link and you'll be sorry if you don't go there for the entire read; but here's some conservative sugar from the best of them to wet your whistle:

Sarah Palin wins HUMAN EVENTS’ prestigious “Conservative of the Year” Award for 2008 for her genius at annoying all the right people. The last woman to get liberals this hot under the collar would have been … let's see now … oh, yeah: Me!

The entire presidential election year was kind of a downer for conservatives. Once the “maverick” John McCain won the nomination, the rest of the year was like watching a slow motion car crash. Except at least a slow-motion car crash is occasionally entertaining. So it was going to be a long year.

Until Palin.

When McCain chose our beauteous Sarah as his running mate, the maverick was finally acting like a real maverick -- as opposed to the media’s definition of a “maverick” which is: “agreeing with the editorial positions of the New York Times.”

Pre-Palin it had been one race -- boring old “You kids get off my lawn!” John McCain versus the exciting, new politician Barack Obama, who threw caution to the wind and bravely ran as the Pro-Hope candidate. And then our heroic Sarah bounded out of the Alaska tundra and it became a completely different race. This left the press completely discombobulated and upset. They didn't know whether to attack Sarah for not having an abortion or go after her husband for not being a sissy.

You just gotta love that last line!

How could you even think about not reading the rest of Ms. Coulter's column?

Kudos to Human Events for their fine choice; kudos to Ms. Coulter for her wit, charm and writing ability and a very special congratulations and thanks to Sarah Palin for what she has done to energize the conservative movement.