Posted on 05/17/2013 6:11:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is hard to admit that one of the most cartoonish and self-aggrandizing figures in recent political memory actually could have been a contender at one time, but I am now willing to cede that point.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin actually could have been, at the very least, a respected political figure over the course of the last decade, but she has squandered any capital or potential she may have had by being a rudderless buffoon.
The only reason this comes to light again is because Palin is polling ahead of two other candidates for a potential open Senate seat in 2014.
Mind you this was a sample of 379 Alaska Republicans taken during the first week of this month, but the prospect of Palin being a member of the Senate for six years is enough to make one consider a move to Nova Scotia.
At one time Palin was a somewhat savvy, fairly competent Governor of Alaska. What made her stand out and got her on the political map was facing down oil and natural gas conglomerates in her home state and beating them.
In Alaska, beating that corporate duo is one step short of taking control of a city back from the mob. Oil taxes supply almost 90 percent of the general revenue in the state, so you know oil companies have what can conservatively be called a passing interest in how government is run.
The governor, who would soon become more famous for being geographically challenged and for her looks, somehow passed a tax increase on oil revenue and while other states floundered, Alaska built up a $12 billion surplus.
But 18 months before the end of her first term and only nine months after she helped torpedo John McCain’s Presidential aspirations....
(Excerpt) Read more at voicenews.com ...
“...at the high school graduation ceremony in Republic, Washington, and has accepted.”
The graduating class is 27 kids IIRC! The entire town is about 1000.” !!!!!!
Right you are, and for them it will be memorable. One of the grads suggested inviting her (he’s a devoted fan), and his suggestion was endorsed. Republic is not far from Sarah’s birthplace, Sandpoint, Idaho, the locale of her early childhood. The Spokane press will cover the occasion, and not miss this opportunity for snarky commentary, at least in editorials.
Reports of her political death are most likely greatly exaggerated.
It was, and he WAS winning and Sarah brought here liberal supporting azz down from AK to prop up the RINO.
Trying to get the Tea Party vote AWAY from JD.
For this I will not forgive.
That’s what happens when you upset the “Right” and the left. Whether or not that bunk is true is irrelevant to the fact that the McCain machine does not want to run against him again. So thank Sarah for McCain who literally through the election to Obama when he could have walked into the white house. You could actually blame Obama on McCain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QePEOU5Uqhc
Yes, but Hayworth could still have overcome all of that to win. Palin certainly made a mistake in backing that bum McPain, but ‘not forgiving’ may be a bit much.
You mean, J.D. “Free government money! Get your free government money here!” Hayworth?
That J.D.?
Yeah.
Uh huh.
And if Palin had backed J.D., just as many impossible-to-please purists would have cried bloody murder about just how much of an ungrateful status-seeking, political-climbing, sell-out Palin was to throw McCain under the bus after he brought her into the national spotlight.
Yep.
Uh huh.
Bone smugglers alert
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” - Mark Twain
However, she is still an energized and powerful unelected leader.
Wow. Too bad you couldn’t find a big, close up pic! LOL
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