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This post is dedicated to Robert Bluey and all conservatives who share his concerns about how high the stakes are, and how we're depending on Sarah Palin not to let us down.

For those of you who were at the RNC, who felt the actual electric excitement in the air and saw it up close and personal, I can see why you might be a little nervous today - why the stakes feel particularly high and why the bottom looks such a long way down. I grew up in Hawaii and learned to surf when I was 6 years old. I don't hit the waves every day any longer, but I know there's a big difference between what that precipice looks like to the average person compared to how exciting and inviting it looks to a world class athlete and adventuress.

Every year, spectators arrive on the shores of several fiercely beautiful-yet-terrifying extreme big wave surf breaks such as Waimea Bay, Pipeline, Jaws, and the aptly named Mavericks while a handful of hearty professionals venture out into riptides, undertows and monster waves that would violently drown the unprepared. Generally the realm of male athletes, there are a handful of women such as San Luis Obispo's aptly named Sarah (Gerhardt) and the equally amazing Jamila Haje of Santa Cruz, who are capable of carving, slicing, ballet dancing, and literally flying across waves from 50-100 feet high. I've seen some of these women up close and personal, just like you've seen Sarah Palin. We know they actually exist even though they've become larger than life once we've seen them execute what we can only imagine.

Legendary people are natural. Legendary people are real. Legendary people are humble. Legendary people have that intangible something usually known as "it". Regardless of whether they're athletes, artists, composers, authors, performers, diplomats, heads of nations or heads of households, legendary people cannot possibly let us down. They transcend our expectations because they do not solely exist on our plane. We can see them, hear them, perceive them, but they exist in a great universal canvas and have a direct connection not to us, but to Something Much Greater.

Today Laura Ingraham had the courage to come right out and say it. At the end of a long, dark night of several Republican victories but many disturbing failures, in the middle of a great culture war and unrelenting partisanship, Something Much Greater has placed not just a legendary woman, but her entire family into the spotlight - and not just into the spotlight of our nation, but the spotlight of the world. Laura wondered how many childrens' lives will be saved by someone who's discovered that they, too have an unwanted pregnancy and have now seen the absolute unconditional love and approval showered upon Bristol Palin by her family, John McCain, and the entire Republican National Convention this week? How many women and young girls might just choose life and how many families will embrace them and acknowledge that choice is as valid and vital a choice as any choice in our so-called pro-choice culture?

All it takes for the people who are simply wrong on the Left to hoist themselves on their own petards of intolerance, totalitarianism, narrow-mindedness, hypocrisy and incivility is for a vibrant, robust Conservative movement to be willing to stand up with this legendary woman and her family and take it to the Left on a daily basis with as much gusto as they've taken it to the Right now for decades. Sarah cannot let us down, only we can let ourselves down. We've been given another opportunity to get it right. Let's do that, shall we?