It Didn't Work - Family Values Book Review

By Allison Green


It is wise to go directly to the source and learn what a potential leader's thoughts, beliefs and experience are in their own words. This book offers insight into a remarkable woman with an amazing ability to recognize, assess and use common sense to solve problems.

Instead it read to me like a pamphlet distributed at a college campus political rally, not anything substantive that would electrify conservatives or give birth to a movement, much less have any meaning on a world stage. While it is worth a read to get an updated view of Palin, I think it is a missed opportunity for her to be substantive and reach a bigger, more thoughtful mass of the electorate. Humility surfaces again when Palin reveals that amid waiting for Trig to come into the world, worrying about Track's decision to enlist in the Army, and other preoccupations, "I assumed that Bristol was making only wise decisions while staying with my sister in Anchorage." We've all been there, for sure.

Oh wait - that's that evil liberal socialism and entitlements. It seems to mean much more to Sarah if someone slaps a $2.00 made in China empty symbol magnet on their car than if someone actually does try to support the troops, bring them home alive, and not send them to Iraq or Afghanistan at all.

The book is educational, informative, inspirational and thrilling in places. You'll want to march in the 4th of July parade after reading this!

The tears in her eyes during speeches and prayers are very real. She doesn't just dwell on "theory" she actually LIVES life and her life experiences reinforce her views...and by life, I don't mean the same lives of materialism, superficiality, boredom, and conformity most modern Americans tend to lead. Ever since Sarah Palin appeared on the national scene in 2008, the left has been prattling that she has too little experience to run for high office. Yet, she has far, far more executive experience than Barack Obama. No way are these books signed personally by Palin. I ordered two and the signatures are identical-stroke for stroke. That's not fair, and that's not going to get me outta debt. Just a good, hard, honest job will, like the one I used to have before they shipped it overseas. So I've been following her closely since, believing that with a little reading and thinking she could be a serious contender. This book should have been the proof that she is the full package. Palin's nonsense about free markets is equally silly and misguided. The Founders were at least intelligent enough to understand that free markets (free trade) would confine the nascent U.S. I received my shipment of books today only to find they are not signed by Sarah Palin. Every signature is identical! While I'm not at all sure she would be the best leader for our country, she definitely understands what made AND makes America great. I would also like to say, it is totally obvious that of the 50 one star reviews that maybe ten of those reviewers actually read the book.

It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, as least as it has been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted it the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you.




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