Palin's position

Some of you may be wondering why I am even interested in this national election, after all, I'm a Canadian and can't even cast a vote. That is a good question and admittedly, before the announcement of Sarah Palin as vice presidential candidate, the American election process was an interesting curiosity for me.
Then, as I mentioned, Sarah Palin stepped onto the stage and took a spot beside John McCain. Let me state that I agree with John McCain's ideas and platform, but it was Mrs. Palin who brought it home, so to speak. It's one thing to have a candidate that shares similar views on taxation, government reform etc, but it's quite another to find someone who is made from the same cloth as yourself.
After becoming a mother to a child with special needs, many women find themselves a little tougher, a little stronger after going through what is probably the hardest thing they will ever have to come to terms with. We all know that Sarah Palin is a tough lady, taking on an entrenched old boys network, facing up to big, business as usual, oil companies. I think if we were ask Sarah Palin about that she might say that those were tough fights and very hard battles, but I have a feeling that she might say accepting the shocking news about her son Trig was even harder.
How many moms have stood in the same shoes, who took one of the the hardest blows you can ever imagine and with great resolve, with strength they never imagined they had, went forward on "the harder" road.
With my understanding of the grit and tenacity it takes to overcome fears and to find strength when you don't know if you can breath anymore, I think I have a little insight into what makes Sarah Palin tick.
I have no idea what it took to decide to tangle with the governmental status quo in Alaska, but I do know that a lady who welcomes a child with Down syndrome into her family is a ready for action person who isn't interested in how things can be easier for her, but in how she can serve another. I know and understand the spirit of giving that Mrs. Palin has shown in her private family life, and she has also shown the same spirit in her public life as a member of the PTA, as a mayor and as a governor.
I think we would all be so lucky to give her a chance to bring this spirit of selflessness to Washington.

Time and again, Mrs. Palin has invoked the names of all children with special needs. In speeches, in interviews, at townhalls she reminds us that she wants to do right for all of our children. That is so exciting for parents to hear. When have we ever heard that before? We are used to scanning the fine print of platforms to discover just where our kids stand in a candidate's view of a future administration. Here, with Sarah Palin, it's headline news, it's an issue she is embracing.

As she has reminded us, "having a child with special needs inspires a special kind of love." If she is bringing the issue of children with special needs from a place that starts with love, then I am signed on, I'm signed up, and my American born son stands to gain not only in reaching his full potential, but he stands to gain in society's view of him. He stands to become recognized as a full equal here and he gets a chance to embrace a process that counts him as an important part of this political process. One day he too, will have the chance to cast a vote and I will make sure he knows the name of the person who raised those who society viewed as less, above themselves. The person who put those with differences front and center because she knew, from a place in her own heart, just what different people can contribute to all of us.

I'll make sure he knows just who Sarah Palin is.