"The Margaret Thatcher of the American West"

A tremendous speech when the pressure was on.  She's a true political talent, and she's right on the issues.

Here are the final paragraphs of my upcoming Friday column in Fort Collins Now.

As the father of a two-year old daughter, I am tremendously proud of the fact that our first woman elected to national office might just be a conservative who can govern a state, run a company, be a mom, gut a caribou and challenge the establishment. My daughter has the chance to grow up with a feminist political role model who doesn’t fit the cookie-cutter definition of what the left decides is “feminism.” Instead of Hillary Clinton, we’re getting the Margaret Thatcher of the American West.

A whole generation of Americans will look up to Sarah Palin as the standard of what a woman can do. Maybe that’s what scares the Democrats the most. Maybe that explains the fevered intensity of the attacks from the smear merchants on the left and their all-too-willing enablers in the national media.  

Sarah Palin changes everything. She always has.