Dear Sarah Palin

Gotcha politics is alive and well. The media interviewers will be trying hard to trip you up on foreign and domestic policy matters large and small.

Just know that most people don't want or expect you to be the expert in these matters. We want to know the principles and philosophies that guide your judgement.

We don't want a moral relativist who "understands all the options." Nobody can understand these issues completely because the more you know the more complicated they become. It is for this reason that Madeline Albright and Henry Kissenger disagree on policy.

Instead of worrying about getting tripped up, I would like to suggest an alternative approach.

At the very beginning of an interview, explain you don't know the names of the leaders of many countries in the world. That you have never been to many of them before. That you haven't yet declared with certainty your own position on global relations. That you don't know all of the options of what to do if the North Korean dictator is found dead next week. That you don't know the proper course in the Middle East. That you don't know how Israel should react to missle attacks or if America should be involved in joint strikes against Iran, Hamas or Hezbollah, or just arm Isreal with money and weapons to carry out the job. And tell them, NEITHER DO YOU!

That you don't know if hedge funds should be regulated. That you don't know how to structure a deal for the Treasury to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That you don't know how the domestic auto industry is going to make it out of bankruptcy caused by their own bad judgements and labor agreements. The list goes on and on that which you don't know. And tell them, NEITHER DO YOU!

Tell them what you do know. Tell them, in your experience, in order to reform government, you have to be willing to take on entrenched interests. It doesn't matter what party they are from or what amount of money they have given your friends. Corruption is easy to see, but difficult to fix. Talk to them about what it was like giving a speech to a group of people, half of whom hated your guts because you were targeting them in their pocketbook. Tell them what it is like to have eyes of hatred look at you when you entered a room. Tell them about your backbone and the steel resolve you have. Tell them about what is wrong with government. Tell them about the people that secretly told you to keep going, to keep fighting, to keep your eye on the reforms. Tell them about back room deals, tell them about the corruption of power.

Tell them about your guiding philosophy, that power is best kept closest to the people, that decisions should be made in Wasilla not Washington. That people can take care of themselves. Tell them about your beliefs that wherever money is spent, corruption will follow. Tell them that a Federal Government that spends $2.5 trillion per year is a government filled with corruption.

Tell them about the role you see America playing in the world. Tell them about the hope America brings to small towns just like Wasilla in little towns around the world, in the small towns and villages in Georgia, Ukraine and Iraq. Tell them that we stand for freedom. That we will always stand for freedom, and that you will talk about America as a beacon for hope, not the cause for despair. That we only need to understand the motives of tyrannical dictators, the control they exert by the use of fear and the loss of money. Tell them America's role in the world is to speak for those living under tyranny, not to speak to tyranical dictators in hoping to get along so they will like us. Tell them that America can live in a world against us, but the free world, and those yearning to be free can not live without a strong America. Tell them you will not apologize for America but rather make her stronger.

Tell them over and again. It is time to change Washington. People want to hear you fight.

The American people will take care of the rest.