Bailey’s Book Teaches An Important Lesson

When your child is sitting in his car seat after an automobile accident, having a hard time breathing, you might immediately pray to God that he survives the trauma, but you would call 911 for an ambulance. If your dentist tells you that you will require gum surgery if you don’t floss you might pray to God that you will be able to avoid the surgery, but it is no surprise when you find yourself on the gurney being wheeled into surgery if you have failed to floss as the dentist told you to do. If you are behind on your credit card payments, you might pray that the credit card company doesn’t cancel your card but you know that if you attempt to charge that new 54 inch flat screen television your credit card, the charge will be denied. Whatever your view of God and religion, people would be irresponsible to simply rely upon God to fix their problems. Likewise the use of God to govern our country would be a mistake of epic proportions. Frank Bailey’s book, Blind Allegiance, illustrates the importance of separating a belief in God and responsibility to govern using all available knowledge, resources, and judgment.

Mr. Bailey explained in Blind Allegiance that he had been an Evangelical Christian before working for Palin.

After becoming devoted to working for Palin he abandoned his wife and two kids to focus on Palin. He admits he engaged in behavior that was contrary to what he knew to be right. While he admits to a “ton of mistakes” he declares that writing this book was part of his “return to God.”  He also explained that although he originally thought that “God had chosen her”  he realized that she was “erratic” “vindictive” and “unethical.”

Mr. Bailey has now been credited with writing a best-selling book, making potentially thousands of dollars because he found Jesus and returned to his religious roots. Thus the notion of God has now been used by Bailey to justify working for Palin, telling lies, playing dirty tricks, disparaging innocent people, breaking campaign rules, and supporting a candidate that he knew was incompetent and would be disastrous if promoted to higher office. He allowed her to run and potentially become the Vice President of the United States, without speaking up. We can praise Bailey for “finding Jesus” and writing this book, but the fact that he is no longer working for Palin, and making a lot of money off of this book, would suggest that he is vindictive and unethical too. He is not donating the proceeds of this book to his church. As Palin prepares to run for the highest office in the land, it’s great that he came forward. However Steve Schmidt came forward AFTER the campaign and Bailey is coming forward AFTER he no longer has a job with Palin. Frank Bailey, like Steve Schmidt and John McCain helped put Sarah Palin in a position to do damage to our country of “epic” proportion.

As we read about the travesty of Sarah Palin as Governor, and all the scheming and unethical behavior in which she engaged, we should pause to consider the fact that Sarah Palin didn’t go to church and pray that Walt Monegan would resign. Instead Sarah Palin “knowingly, as that term is defined in … statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor’s office and the resources of the Governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired. She abused her power and permitted a situation to continue where “impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda.”

Sarah Palin didn’t go to church and pray that the neighbor who complained about excessive tourist traffic near the governor’s mansion would drop her complaint. Palin sent Piper out to sell lemonade, and then used her position to accuse the neighbor of protesting children playing. Palin’s actions caused bloggers, not religious leaders, to describe the neighbor as being “sick” “unhinged” and “drug-addicted”. 

When she didn’t want a mosque built in N.Y. she didn’t simply pray about it, she took to her facebook and voiced her concern on Fox News. When she opposed Nationalized Health Care she told lies about “Death Panels” instead of simply praying to God that he would ensure that Congress would vote against it. When she was Mayor and wanted to obtain earmarks for Wasilla she hired a lobbyist for that very purpose instead of praying to God that he would build the infrastructure Wasilla desired. When Wasilla received Millions of Dollars in earmarks it was not because of the prayers of Sarah Palin, it was the direct result of the money she spent paying a lobbyist. When a scandal broke regarding Todd Palin and a prostitute, Palin didn’t go to church and pray for divine intervention, she called her lawyer, and got him to get the Anchorage Police Department to issue a false press release that was likely to create the impression that Todd was not involved with Shailey Tripp.

Conversely, when Barack Obama promised to find and kill Osama bin Laden, he may have prayed for God’s help, but he took action. For months he directed US military to devote substantial effort to finding bin Laden, and then planned and directed a well though out and rehearsed mission. When bin Laden was killed it was not an act of God, it was the result of an expert team of Navy Seals who were highly skilled and trained using that skill and training. They may have said a prayer on the helicopter as they approached bin Laden’s compound, but the attack could never have been accomplished and would surely have not been successful if we had relied upon religious leaders to kill bin Laden.

If prayer was the solution to the country’s many problems we would have no problems. Millions of people across the United States have said billions of prayers hoping for the end of military, economic, and social problems. If prayer was the solution we would not need Sarah Palin to occupy any political position, we would simply ask her to go to church and devote herself to prayer. If prayer were the solution she would not need to ask her fans to donate millions of dollars to the SaraPAC so that she could fly on private planes and ride in chauffer driven limos. Instead she would simply ask them to pray.

Frank Bailey seems to have returned to God and religion, written a book, and is positioned to make a lot of money. God and religion have been used by Mr. Bailey and the Half-Term Ex-Governor to justify many corrupt and immoral things in the past. The outrageous thing is that both are still using God and religion to justify their behavior. God may forgive them for past transgressions, but our country can not afford to be so forgiving. We must stand up and say “NO MORE”. Leave God and religion as a private matter to be between the individual and their God. We can no longer afford to elect leaders that we perceive to be the “holiest” but we must seek out those who are the smartest, most experienced, the most ethical, and the most inspiring patriots.  If we fail to do so, the downfall of the United States of America will not be the result of God’s wrath, but our own foolishness.