SARAH TO THE RESCUE – AT 9:17 A.M. ET:  We reported yesterday how some nutbag "educators" in Highland Park, Illinois (outside Chicago) have cancelled the trip of the high-school girls' basketball team to Arizona because of that state's adoption of an anti-illegal-immigration law. Seems the "educators" don't like Arizona values.

But the scholars didn't count on Sister Sarah, who happens to be in Illinois right now.  From the Chicago Sun-Times:

With 4,000 Chicago area fans cheering her on, former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin trained her sights Wednesday night on Highland Park High School, which conservative talk radio has targeted for canceling the girls basketball team’s trip to a tournament in Arizona.

“Them are fightin’ words when you say a girl can’t play in the basketball tournament … for political reasons … so we’re going to see about that,” Palin said.

Sarah was a basketball champion in Alaska.  It was on the basketball court that she got the nickname, "Sarah Barracuda." 

Arizona’s strict crackdown on illegal immigration is projected to cost that state millions in tourism from such cancellations.

“I said, ‘Wait, I thought it was already a crime for an illegal alien [to be here],” Palin said to raucous cheers at the Rosemont Theatre.

Noting that the Highland Park girls held bake sales to pay their way to the national finals for the first time in 26 years, Palin suggested conservatives could get the girls to Arizona despite High School District 113’s decision to keep the girls home this winter.

Quoting her book “Going Rogue,” Palin said: “Everything I ever needed to know, I learned on the Basketball Court: self-discipline, setting goals, teamwork, responsibility.  She later added: “faith.”

And...

Palin said the school is still sponsoring a trip to China.

“You know how they treat girls in China?” Palin said. “It makes no sense. Even if they have to do this on our own. ... If the kids have to ‘Go Rogue’ girls."

COMMENT:  Now this is political theater.  I'd love it if Sarah broke through the school bureaucracy and escorted those girls to Arizona.  The country would eat it up.

Go Sarah.  Let's see that barracuda instinct.

May 13, 2010