“I appreciate you explaining your position. If you can take the time, I recommend to you the documentary about Gov. Palin called Undefeated. You might be able to rent it on Netflix or buy it at Amazon. It goes through her record in government, starting with her time as Mayor of Wasilla. People are interviewed and they talk about the reforms she made every step of the way in various offices she held. She has, literally, been there, done that, when it comes to fixing government and there’s no doubt she can lay out a blue print for fixing what’s wrong with our Federal government.”
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Thank you for the reply to me. I did see “The Undefeated”. I was with a group of people in Southern California the night it premiered, and Andrew Breitbart spoke after the screening to those of us in the room. My view on it was it was a historical record on Palin written by her hired hagiographer, Stephen Bannon. I got the gist of it - she was fighting political cronyism and managed to succeed against it in her run for governor. But do you honestly think she’s the only one who ever did such a thing in her career? You think that makes her unique? The way her idolaters tell it, you’d think Sarah Palin was the only politician in history to have stood up against a state political machine, and won. It’s more over glorification. All smoke, little heat. The main thrust of her achievement as a governor would be to unleash Alaska’s energy reserves. And that is noteworthy. But I don’t find that some sort of an amazing achievement. One thing I will say on her behalf is about her integrity of resigning her administrative position based on her ethos. That alone is truly rare. But confining it to her achievements as a governor, the entire 90 minutes was about 30 minutes too long and again - her resigning is a stain that will stay with her if she ever decides to run for office again. She’s not going to be able to live it down.
When you compare her to a governor of the caliber of Scott Walker, you realize just how timid Sarah Palin looks. He won his governorship on the promise of the same type of reformation as she did. And his reward was a recall to try to get him thrown out of office. He was faced with hostile unions who were striking whenever they could, and his entire Democrat State Senate literally left the state to try to grind the state government to a halt and tag him with the blame for it. You want tell me who has “been there done that”?? You can believe it’s Palin if you want to. But Walker is a FAR more accomplished executive as governor than she ever was. And if you think she’s going to “lay out a blueprint for fixing what’s wrong with our federal government”, then why hasn’t she done so? And the answer is she has no intention of doing it - because answers are hard to mete out when you have conflicting interests. If she was POTUS now, her “plan” wouldn’t be going anywhere. She cannot fire Harry Reid, so she has to live with a hostile Senate which will never bow to her. That’s why she’s not going to run again. She’s decided it’s a whole lot easier to carp and criticize from the sidelines (which is what her entire post-political career has amounted to) than it is to actually get into the game and work to fix it. Telling others what they do wrong is not a solution to a problem. Failing to get yourself into an elected office again to practice what she preaches is equally not a solution. And this is what Sarah Palin has been about since she quit her governorship five years ago.
As we all do, here.
Even though Gov. Walker has withstood the unions in Wisconsin, he does have a dreadful habit of caving and running from controversy, instead of standing up for the little things, that would show he has real backbone. He also hides behind his spokesman when he doesn't want to talk about something.
A few months back, he was at a factory to tout their hiring of new workers. Several of the workers were on stage with him, one of whom was a convicted sex offender who had turned his life around and found work at the factory. When it was brought up to Gov. Walker after the event, he threw the guy under the bus and said if he had known the guy was a convict, he never would have had him on stage. Then he said the company picked the people to be on stage with him. Gov. Walker could have easily made this a positive outcome by saying that "This man paid his debt to society and is trying to turn his life around. Wisconsin's policies of putting people to work are working around the state and anyone who wants to work can find a job in Wisconsin." Instead, Walker ran away from the guy.
Last year, the board of regents for UW system was choosing its student representative. The college kid chosen had signed the recall petition against Walker because his mother is a teacher and he wanted to support her. When Walker found out, he turned down the kid for the board slot. This is just a college student and Walker was afraid to have him on the board because of that. The kid is clean-cut and an engineering major, so he's fairly intelligent, yet Walker couldn't bring himself to say that he "welcomes this kid's opinion on the board." And there was no indication that the kid voted against Walker.
So Walker's skittishness and his sudden need to finish his college degree and to get a hair transplant don't speak to someone who has a strong character and who can withstand a lot of criticism without apologizing when the heat's too much. Sorry for the lengthy explanation.