By John F. McCarthy

2016 Republican Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin professes to have at least a passing interest in slavery.

But more than that, the founder of Palinism (pronounced like “Stalinism”) claims to be upset that America is borrowing money to ward off a ballooning budget deficit.

Obviously Ms. Palin hasn’t read Warren Mosler’s Modern Monetary Theory.

Because Sarah Says:

1) she doesn’t want U.S. to borrow money from China;
2) doesn’t want U.S. to run a budget deficit
3) doesn’t want U.S. to … [you fill in the blank]

But what then does Sarah want us to do?

That is about as easy to predict as the next winner on “Dancing With The Stars.”

When Alaska had a budget deficit, what did the Mother of a DWTS contestant do?

Mayor Palin instituted a wildly successful two percent sales tax that not only balanced the budget – but produced a surplus – like the one President Clinton presided over nationally in the 1990’s.

Now that the shoes are off of each of her other feet – not to say that she is advocate of a “barefoot and pregnant” Occasionalist philosophy – but one of her daughters surely was – where are the “better ideas” to lead us forward in this 21st Century?

If the lights are on in Sarah Palin’s house: does that mean that somebody is home?

If Sarah doesn’t have any good new ideas, what about recycling a good old one?

It might be old hat for Lady Nome if she were to pick up the national sales tax ball and run with it. But it’s still better than nothing.

Ms. Palin is familiar with the concept, after all it helped her as an Alaska mayor to cut property taxes in Wassily 75% while totally eliminating personal property and business inventory taxes.

The result: the Alaskan city was able to pay all of its bills and still build new bike paths and a storm water treatment center.
Those are the kind of aggressive, thinking-out-of-the-hot-box ideas that made Missus Sarah such an attractive Vice Presidental Candidate for Sen. John McCain.

This graduate of a Moscow (Idaho) University is some kind of smart cookie; so why all the progressive name calling as the G.O.P.’s most kinetic lightning rod?

There’s no denying that the “rogue” candidate has been a busy bee – by the way Sarah does support sex education (birds and bees) in the public schools – as long as it is paired with talk of abstinence: She has:

1) written a best-selling book
2) toured India on a Mumbai newspaper’s dime

See Sarah go.

Ah, the places she’ll go (if someone else’s paying)!

But what is it that Sarah does again?

We all know we won’t see her on the new and improved Martin Bashir Show on Al-Jazeera America.

Is picking political sticks and stones fights really what you’re best at, Sarah?

Be mindful of your power, woman.
Listen to the Force within you, Luke-ess.

After all, Palin has the national stage and is using her bully pulpit for knee-jerk conservative reactions – the svelte Svengali is in perfect lock step with Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly – or as we know them – the Four Horsemen of the Ghosts of Christmas Past Apocalypse.

But as one of Time magazine’s one hundred “Most Influential People in the World” winners, I am hoping Sarah will break the Fox News yoke and use her considerable talents try to make the world a better place, rather than just better inform us of future prime-time television events.

Remember your past Palin!

Otherwise we are doomed to repeat it on YouTube re-runs..

You can be the proud mother in the “Dancing With The Stars” audience – or a stirring firebrand of intellectual discussion of the national issues that affect U.S. all.

The choice is yours.

You are not a slave.

Remember what Brother Bob Marley said.

Free yourself from mental slavery, Sarah.

That is – if you want to.

As master of your own mind, you’re the only one who can.

Or you can just stay where you are – in Nowhere, Alaska.

Or help women purchase “Rape Insurance” in Michigan.

Or run for (or from) the Senate in Scottsdale, Arizona
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It’s snowing in Alaska right now, Sarah, so dress warm.

I’ll check with TV Guide to see what’s on next.

John McCarthy is a freelance journalist, fine artist and Realtor who lives in the Virgin Islands.