They were right. Sarah Palin spoke to the Republican convention and millions viewing by television for more than twenty minutes and she never used the words “middle class.” In fact, she did not mention any class whatsoever. You would think that she believes we are all equal. If you listen to Sarah Palin speak, you will conclude quickly that she does not know what the “classes” of our society are. If Rick Warren asks her who is rich, she might not know the definition of that class.

The media and the Obama campaign are baffled by the absence of these words. Obama promises a “middle class” tax cut. He promises to help the “middle class” and the “poorest in our society” because he has definitions. I don’t know where they are written down, but I know that somewhere in a Democrat repository of secret documents there is a set of definitions of class that is as rigid as a Hindu caste system. In Obama’s world, class is critical to success. Without a variety of classes to battle for government largesse, Obama’s political agenda falls apart.

I have been baffled by the constant Democrat references to class. When I was growing up I vividly remember our teachers telling us that America was the country where there were no classes. Everybody was born equal. Everybody could accomplish anything he had the courage to work for. My friends and I were told day after day that we could do anything. We were poor, but I only figured this out after I grew up and looked back. When I was growing up, my parents, my teachers and my local government somehow failed to tell us that we were part of the “poor class.”

In the schools I attended as a child, there were 45-50 children in each classroom. We had no air conditioning and no fans, yet I do not remember shutting down the school even one day for heat. After all, if we left school, we were all going home to houses that did not have air conditioning, either. Among my friends, many families did not own a car. Many lived in rental houses just as we did. Many of my friends wore clothes sewed by their mothers, just as I did. I even remember that my mother made my clothes with extra large seam allowances so they would accommodate more growth before they had to be replaced. It was one of many strategies she had for making do with the income my father earned. Style? We didn’t know the definition of the word. My friends and I also did not know that we were poor. I don’t remember our parents saying that we were poor. We just thought we were people, and we believed that when we grew up, we could shoot for the stars.

We lived in a classless society.

Democrats live in a society where class distinctions are critical to their political agenda, and they cannot rally people without putting them into classes. Democrats allege to believe that the reason some people have more than others is that those with more have robbed those with less. Defining the people who belong to the class of robbers and the class of the robbed is a battle that occupies a great deal of time. Proclaiming how the government will rob the robbers and reimburse the robbed is their whole platform.

John McCain, Sarah Palin and the Republicans don’t know the definitions of the classes. This is a concept that American citizens understand. We all believe in our abilities, and we all wish government would get out of the way. The Republicans have spent their whole convention introducing us to people who accomplish big things. The Republican speakers show us what people can accomplish in this country if they dream big and work hard. They could not care less what class they belong to.

Thank you, Sarah Palin, for not mentioning the middle class. It would just confuse us. We are all proud to be American. When you expressed that same view, you demonstrated the only kind of class that matters to us.

McCain has changed everything by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Sarah is young, energetic, and most important, Sarah is a woman. Women all over this country perked up and paid attention when Sarah invited them to “Join us.” Predictably, the abortion advocates were appalled to discover that Sarah believes in the dignity of human life, but it is truly amazing to discover the lengths they will go to in order to make Sarah Palin look bad. I thought it was disturbing when they accused Sarah of making a bad choice to give birth to a child with down syndrome. I was shocked when they accused Sarah of not getting adequate pre-natal care, thereby causing the disability. I could not even believe that they would allege that the baby was actually her daughter’s, thereby accusing Sarah of staging an elaborate cover-up. These are the people who allege to believe that people with disabilities should be mainstreamed and respected. Where is that respect now? These are the people who hand out condoms in high schools. Where is the openness to adolescent sexuality now? These are the people who screamed on national TV that Bill Clinton’s sexual adventures in the Oval Office were nobody’s business. Where is all that concern for personal life now?

It’s all about winning and losing. Liberal Democrats see Sarah for exactly what she is: a threat to the anointed one. Sarah Palin stands for everything ordinary Americans value, and she doesn’t whine.

Sarah Palin hit the public stage on the day after the end of the most over-rated spectacle in the history of American politics. The Democrat convention was a constant parade of people in tears. They sat around multiple kitchen tables wringing their hands over the sad state of affairs in the USA. They whined that life is unfair. They cried that everybody is poor. They whimpered that some get better health care than others. They mourned that unions have a hard time bludgeoning people into membership when employees are allowed to vote by secret ballot. The convention culminated in a stereotypical speech with all the usual clichés that say that the only hope for fixing the mess that is America is socialism. It was enough to drive the whole country into a deep psychological depression. People felt hopeless and worthless.

The McCain/Palin team, in rich contrast, makes people feel strong and powerful This team reminds us that we are a strong, free people, who have traditionally faced and defeated many challenges to our freedom and prosperity. The history of the USA demonstrates that a minimally-invasive government encourages free people to engage in free enterprise and produces opportunity for motivated, hard-working people to accomplish things undreamed of in other countries. The team of McCain/Palin represents this tradition.

The Democrat candidates cannot let this happen. The claws have come out in a vain attempt to destroy Sarah Palin’s credibility. For liberal politicians to invade a family’s privacy and try to make political hay out of someone’s personal life would be comical if it weren’t so despicable. It displays the complete inadequacy of their platform to inspire and motivate people.

Democrats make their case by demeaning people and making them feel needy. John McCain and Sarah Palin will win in November by honoring people and making them feel powerful.