Sarah Palin spends time with families whose loved ones were sent to their death by the Bush administration, while also celebrating the fact that another state has signed on to the Convention of the States.

Courtesy of the wannabe Constitutional Cougar's Facebook page: 

It was an honor to visit with Gold Star wives yesterday at our home. These beautiful, strong and courageous women traveled with TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors) to grace Alaska during our Iditarod events. TAPS is an amazing group focusing on military wives who lost their husbands in war. 

Talk about inspiring graciousness – it exudes from every single one of these 43 beautiful wives from all over the U.S. Hearing their stories and seeing their heroes’ pictures worn on lapel buttons shamed me for sweating the small stuff. I was apologizing for muddy paw prints throughout the house when a wiser woman with right priorities whispered that they’d all been through much worse than gritty wood floors. It was impossible to articulate for them America's appreciation for their sacrifices and now their inspiring strength. Their husbands – their life partners, best friends, fathers of their children – gave all for America. So did they. 

Our grateful nation made a commitment to our military families. Thank God wonderful private sector groups like TAPS help make good on it. 

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Meeting these military wives and supporting them will change your life. They remind us not to sweat the small stuff and to cherish every moment we have with loved ones. The face they put on those virtues is glorious. 

Thank you, heroines! God bless you every day. 

 - Sarah Palin('s ghostwriter.)


Though I think that it is kind to play hostess to these women who have lost so much, I wonder if it ever occurred to Palin to feel at all guilty to have supported an administration who started the illegal and unnecessary wars that led to their loss? Never mind, I already know the answer. 

Of course yesterday was a big day for Palin because Arkansas, who she and her daughter's ghostwriter kept pushing to sign on to the Convention of the States, did just that.

Not only that but the Teabagger who runs the Convention of States website gave the Palin gals a shout out: 

Many thought our resolution in the state House had been defeated, but with the help of patriots like Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, Mark Levin, and Sen. Tom Coburn, the citizens and legislators of Arkansas took a stand for liberty.

So now that Arkansas joins the doomed plot to propose an amendment to the Constitution, there are four states in total tilting at legislative windmills. Still so far from the two thirds needed to actually propose the amendment, and even farther from the three fourths required to pass the amendment.  

Does anybody else find it odd that on the one hand Palin is espousing the courage of the women whose loved ones went off, without question, to die in a war that we now know the Bush administration was able to start by lying to the American people, while also pushing for state governments to defy the Obama administration's desire to help more people get healthcare and live longer?

I mean where was the push for a Convention of the States when Bush implemented Homeland Security, or had the NSA start collecting all of our data, or kept sending our people to die in the sand of a foreign country?

No, none of that was deemed worthy of such a drastic move.

But pass a law to provide affordable health care, create over 4.5 million jobs, and attempt to end two wars that are draining our country dry and creating new terrorists around the world, THAT is considered over the line.