For those who are not familiar with the show, it was a short series in 2005 that only lasted 18 episodes. Commander in Chief is a show about how the first female vice president, Mackenzie Allen, ascended to the presidency after President Teddy Bridges, died in office from a sudden cerebral aneurysm.

Mackenzie Allen (played by Geena Davis), the 45-year-old Independent Vice President of the United States, is about to venture into territory no woman has entered before. While at an official ceremony with husband and Chief of Staff, Rod Calloway (Kyle Secor), she is informed by the President’s Chief of Staff, Jim Gardner (Harry Lennix), and the Attorney General that Republican President Teddy Bridges (Will Lyman) is about to undergo emergency brain surgery for a tumor. Mackenzie is stunned when Gardner tells her that in the event the President does not recover, the party (Republicans) doesn’t want her to succeed him. After all, Mackenzie was only picked to increase Bridges’s support with women voters. Bridges administration personnel did not actually expect her to assume the presidency. Instead, she’s asked to step down in order to allow the Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton (Donald Sutherland), a Republican, to assume the post, as he shares the party’s ideals.

Mackenzie’s doubts are confirmed when she visits President Bridges at the hospital and hears from him directly that he wants her to resign. Bridges dies before transition plans are finalized, however, and after sitting through an insulting and sexist conversation with Speaker of the House Templeton, Mackenzie decides to forge ahead and assume the presidency despite the obstacles that lie ahead.

Her arch-nemesis Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton with his own powerful, destructive agenda does whatever he can to disrupt her administration. At one point in the show Mackenzie mutters “What a town, you can’t even trust the back-stabbers.”

During her conversation with the Speaker prior to taking the oath of office, Templeton asks Mackenzie why she wants to be president.

Templeton: Why do you want to be president?

Mackenzie: For the same reason Teddy Bridges did because I believe the people of America deserve to have a president..

Templeton: (Interrupting) No, no. In this room where it’s just you and me, just the two of us, the answer that you should be giving me is that you want to be president because you want the power you want the power to control the universe.

Mackenzie: That’s not me.

Templeton: (Losing his temper) Well, that’s the problem. That’s what I’m telling you, people who don’t want power have no idea what to do with it they have no idea how to use it when they have it.

Rod Lurie, the writer of this show must be psychic, within those 5 minutes of the show he identified the struggle between establishment Republicans and Governor Palin. It’s a struggle between the will to control the universe versus the will to serve the American people.

The Establishment don’t care about the American people, they are just interested in power, so for them Governor Palin is a threat. Because Governor Palin wants to serve for the right reasons and those right reasons will ultimately strip them off their power.

But there is more what the establishment, the left and the media don’t get about Governor Palin.

Whenever politicians open their mouth you know that there’s going to be some spinning, twisting or a flat out lie coming out. Politicians never mean what they say or say what they mean, so anything they say will instantly be scrutinized by the media who will try to speculate and guess what the politician actually meant.

In campaigns politicians will first appeal to their base to win the primary – once successful they’ll move to the center to court independents and peal off some votes off the opposition party. In the first half of their term, they’ll move back to the base and as re-election approaches they’ll move back to the center. Every word they say is tested and focus-grouped to see what voters will fall for and they run with the best line some expert told them will help them get votes. In other words, it’s a game of manipulation to gain power.

Not according to Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin says it as she sees it, she doesn’t spin or twist. And that explains the media’s hatred towards her. The things the media hate the most is truth and facts, because that leaves them with nothing to speculate.  With Sarah Palin you get both.

Take for example “death panels”. When Governor Palin wrote those two words, little did she know what a phenomena this would become.  When she wrote it, she didn’t think much of it she just called it as she saw it. Same thing with “blood libel.” Governor Palin didn’t focus group it or set out with an agenda. She felt that a blood libel was building up against her so she just said it.  Nevertheless, 1000’s of columns have been written by columnists, journalists, and reporters on those four words alone. Trying to guess, speculate, and figure out what it is exactly Governor Palin meant, when in fact there was nothing there to speculate. There was no hidden agenda, it was face value, plain and simple.

Pundits and experts often say that Governor Palin only appeals to the base and that she doesn’t reach out further. What those pundits and experts don’t get is that Governor Palin doesn’t see it that way, for her the base is the American people not a selective group of people. Governor Palin has often stated her position on contested primaries, she believes candidates should make an honest case and voters will decide whose positions they like most. Governor Palin’s attitude is simple; this is where I stand, this is what I believe, and this is what I’ll do. If you agree with me vote for me if you don’t vote for the other guy. Governor Palin doesn’t have a base, for Governor Palin her base is the American people.

Some analysts have suggested that Governor Palin’s video response to the Tucson shooting was a clear sign she was running for president. The thinking goes that she wouldn’t have done a grand production had she not been interested in running.

That is what the media doesn’t get about Governor Palin. She didn’t cook up a grand scheme here. She saw how she was being accused of murder, she heard how she was asked to respond. So she sat down, wrote her remarks walked over to the video camera, recorded it and uploaded it. Again, no hidden agenda. There was no three day planing, no focus groups, no testing. She had something on her mind and she just said it.

With Governor Palin there is no in-between the lines when she has something to say, she just says it. If she gets up in the morning and decides to go fishing, she goes fishing. If she decides to send out a tweet, she just tweets. If she wants to do a TV show, she does a TV show. She doesn’t focus group how she’ll come across or how the media will perceive her for what she’s doing, she just does it.

Political elites will argue that that’s her problem. In politics you have to play the game. Basically, Governor Palin needs to change to appease the media. But Governor Palin already addressed that when she came on to the national stage when she said the following during her convention speech:

Well, I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly these last few days that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

But now here’s a little news flash for those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this great country.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people. Politics isn’t just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

Governor Palin doesn’t care whether pundits and experts approve of the way she runs her life. Governor Palin doesn’t care about  “power”. Sarah Palin is just Sarah Palin who wants to serve the American people and if the people will just stop and listen to what she has to say, without trying to guess what she meant, they’ll realize that with Sarah Palin what you see is what you get, nothing fake to color the mind.