Moka Tales

Woo hoo!  I got a Golden Ticket!  Ok, so it’s mostly blue but it feels golden to me.  Actually, I feel like Charlie Bucket from Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory with my precious ticket!

As you know, I love Sarah Palin.  So imagine my surprise when I read in the Fort Wayne local paper, the Journal Gazette, that Sarah was coming to town.  I was floored.  I’ve been in this town for two months working on a project and now little ‘ole me could have the chance to meet this great person.  But, my hopes were almost killed when I found out you had to get tickets.  Tickets?  How can I get tickets you ask?  Well, fortunate for me, there’s a local “Republican Party” headquarters two short blocks from where I’m working.  Score.

At lunch I head over there only to find that “we’re almost out, in fact we might be out.”  To get tickets, you have to fill out a request form and then RUN to the ticket stand.  I don’t think I’ve ever filled in a form as fast as that one.  Then, came the mad dash to the ticket table — there’s no way in hell that I’ve gotten this close to meeting her just to be the poor schmuck that was one second too late.  I heard bells and magical music when the lady said, “we have a few left.  How many would you like?”  How many? I can get more than one?  That would rock but I tell her that “I just need one thank you” and she gladly hands me a ticket.  I walk out the door happy as a lark and clutch onto my “golden ticket” for the rest of the day.  Thank you kind lady for giving me my ticket.  Later I read in the paper… “Lines form for Palin tickets.”  Lines? Ha, not for me.

So, this Saturday I will be happily skipping four miles, there and back, to the Fort Wayne Memorial Coliseum to see Sarah Palin.  How many people in their lifetime can say that they had the opportunity to see a VP candidate a few days before the election?  My guess - not too many.

So, is my ticket golden?  You betcha!

Imagine my surprise when I looked out my hotel window and saw the tour buses and the van of rapper Ice Cube.   Seriously!?! Ice Cube was “in da house.”

Alright.  Ya’ll know I don’t follow politics.  In fact, I pretty much hate politics.  It is the vein of misery for me wherever I go — deer camp, home, work, etc.  Talking politics is a guaranteed argument no matter what.

You have people like my brother that eats, sleeps and breathes republican and if you don’t, you’re nothing or just one of those “liberal Madisonians living on 40 acres surrounded by reality.”

Whatever.

But, this is a new year.  This year has me STOKED for the presidential race.  I am actually interested, engaged and thrilled about politics.  To those of you in politics, take note.  This race is what political figures like you needed.  A stirring of the pot as you might say.

By now you’ve figured out that I totally dig Sarah Palin.  This chic is for me.  She likes to hunt, fish, take no shit from her council, believes in family values, married her high school sweetheart, understands and lives with a child with special needs and pretty much is normal person just like me. Her and her family experience every day issues just like the rest of us.  In fact, she said it herself in her speech:

Our family has the same ups and downs as any other … the same challenges and the same joys.

And, she believes in her country, those fighting for it, and those willing to die for it:

My family is proud of both of them and of all the fine men and women serving the country in uniform.

She gave credit where credit was due: her parents.  Her parents gave her opportunities to make something more of her life.  A huge thanks to them for teaching her that women can have the same opportunities as our male counterparts:

And among the many things I owe them is one simple lesson: that this is America, and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.

Finally, let’s not forget the great speech Rudy Giuliani gave.  One word: Wow!  Way to knock it out of the park Giuliani.  My favorite line in your speech?

One final point. And how — how dare they question whether Sarah Palin has enough time to spend with her children and be vice president. How dare they do that.

When do they ever ask a man that question? When?

That’s right.  How can America criticize a woman wanting to work, support her country, pay taxes, be on the PTO and not do the same to a man?

Sarah, you have my support!