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Name: Mike's America
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States

Currently living in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Mike has taken a keen interest in politics and government since his days as a young whippersnapper in Ohio. There, he organized College Republicans clubs, worked as a professional staffer on two statewide campaigns and was elected to the Delaware County Republican Central Committee among other achievements. In 1986 he began graduate studies in government at Columbia University where he specialized in National Security matters under the tutelage of former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Leaving New York in 1988 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become a White House Intern in the Political Office of President Ronald Reagan. With backing from the first Bush Administration he spent four years at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has lived on Hilton Head since 1996 where he writes, photographs and gardens.

Monday, December 01, 2008

Sarah in Savannah for Saxby

The GOP's hottest star shines in the Lowcountry!


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Mike's America felt a little left out of the lovefest much of America enjoyed with the candidacy of Sarah Palin for Vice President in this fall's election. I shouldn't feel too bad since I got to meet Rudy Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and John McCain during the primary campaign in South Carolina. But when I heard Sarah Palin would be campaigning with Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) in Savannah Georgia for the runoff election which may decide whether Republicans maintain the margin of seats necessary to filibuster and stop the train wreck of Obama/Reid/Pelosi socialism I knew I had to go and share the love.

At an event in the downtown Savannah Convention Center, where they actually said a prayer then the Pledge of Allegiance (everyone knew the words), Sarah came on stage to the wild applause from the thousands on scene similar to that which greeted her across the country just a few short weeks ago.

Governor Palin used her star power to encourage the voters of Georgia to turn out on Tuesday and re-elect Senator Saxby Chambliss who is in a tight runoff with Democrat Jim Martin. But she also drew attention to the need for the GOP to reform itself in the years ahead so we will be stronger and better able to provide the clear conservative alternative America will crave after a few years of Obama/Reid/Pelosi liberalism.

Thank you Sarah! But next time you are down this way make sure to visit the home of southern conservatism, and the first southern presidential primary, by including South Carolina on your travel schedule!
2012!