Posted on 09/20/2008 1:48:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I KNOW Sarah Palin, and so does my wife.
Neither of us ever actually met the governor of Alaska, but we grew up with her - in the small-town America despised by the leftwing elite.
One gal-pal classmate of my wife's has even traveled from New York's Finger Lakes to Alaska to hunt moose with her husband. (Got one, too.) And no, Ms. Streisand, she isn't a redneck missing half her teeth - she's a lawyer.
The sneering elites and their mediacrat fellow travelers just don't get it: How on earth could anyone vote for someone who didn't attend an Ivy League school? And having more than 1.7 children marks any woman as a rube. (If Palin had any taste, her teenage daughter would've had a quiet abortion in a discreet facility.)
And what kind of retro-Barbie would stay happily married to her high-school sweetheart? Ugh. She even kills animals and eats them. (The meat and fish served in the upscale bistros patronized by Obama supporters appears by magic - it didn't really come from living things. . .)
Palin has that hick accent, too. And that busy-mom beehive 'do. Double ugh! Bet she hasn't even read Ian McEwan's latest novel and can't explain Frank Gehry's vision for a new architecture. She and her blue-collar (triple ugh!) husband don't even own a McMansion, let alone an inherited family compound on the Cape.
And she wants to be vice president?
The opinion-maker elites see Sarah Palin clearly every time they look up from another sneering article in The New Yorker: She's a country-bumpkin chumpette from a hick state with low latte availability. She's not one of them and never will be. That's the real disqualifier in this race.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
She has a great voice. The accent is catchy. It is like JFK. different of course. but its is equally effective.
BTT!!
Here is a website created by someone who has worked with Sarah Palin on corruption in Alaska. It’s worth a look for some reference material.
http://www.palinfightscorruption.com/palin/
[snip]Sarah’s entry onto the scene was out-of-the box, to put it mildly. She displaced former U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski from the Governor’s mansion and immediately set out to reverse years of preferential oil company policies. She rejected the oil companies’ gas pipeline plan in favor of an open, competitive process that resulted in the first concrete steps to significant gas production in Alaska. When one of the oil companies failed to develop a gas and oil lease that it had held for decades, she began forfeiture proceedings against it.
But more importantly, she wanted to clean up politics in Alaska. With total disregard for her own political future, she boldly took on her own party, holding it accountable for its ties to an oil contracting company that has since been connected with the bribery of several Alaskan legislators. This angered the state GOP leadership and long-time party activists who benefited from significant campaign contributions from oil.
As recently as this past spring, during the Alaska GOP state convention, she asked GOP delegates to turn their back on corruption and choose new party leadership independent of oil lobbyists. But using blatantly illegal parliamentary tactics, and creating an exodus of disgruntled delegates in the process, the party avoided that change by the thinnest of margins.
Frankly, that explains the current intrastate campaign against the governor. When the Alaska state senate president attacks Sarah for lack of experience, one need only investigate that GOP senator’s deep and unseemly connections to the oil industry. Even on the other side of the aisle, internal attacks are explained by connections to oil or, in the case of the legislator purporting to investigate her for ethical lapses, gubernatorial aspirations.
So what about the people who know her, her constituents? Unlike the disgruntled political adversaries and oil company lobbyists, real Alaskans from all political stripes endorse her with a resounding 80% approval rating, the highest of any governor nationwide. Why? Because they know she’ll never sell out. Pundits concerned about her advancement to the Oval Office should take some comfort in that.
The writer is an attorney in Fairbanks. He is a former U.S. Magistrate Judge, state judicial officer, and decorated Gulf War Veteran (B.S., United States Military Academy; J.D., Yale Law School; M.S., Resource Economics, University of Alaska).
©Joseph W. Miller
;) (the bitter, clingy) PaMom
She also shops at Wal-Mart which horrifies the NY elites, Many of whom just lost their jobs and most of their net worth!!! No more designer duds, $1000 bottles of champagne, private jets, vacation homes for them.
LOL!
I agree. I like her voice and her accent. : )
I don’t fault people for what they have (jobs, stuff). I do fault them for the idea that others aren’t allowed to have the same. Too many elites think the pursuit of happiness applies only to them.
In South Louisiana it was the first day of Duck Hunting season. Back in the 60s it was not uncommon for us to have our shotguns in our vehicles at school and go hunting after school let out. We respected the weapons and did not use them inappropriately.
How times have changed and not for the better, it makes you sad.
Given that half their endowment was earned by their own portfolio managers doing the same stuff that has caused our mess, and given that the other half was donated by graduates making a mess of our economy, taught their lack of vision, morals and reality by their Masters at Harvard, maybe someone should start by confiscating their endowment. Give them a fresh start with nothing in life like all the other poor guys who are going to get a fresh start.
PS, turnabout is fair play. These are the guys who preach wealth confiscation for the greater social good. It is only appropriate they contribute their fair share.
ahhh
Just a month ago their Marxist candidate was pulling off the Big Con and convincing Americans he was really not what he seemed to be; a committed leftist with a chip on his shoulder against the white middle class, capitalism and those of religious faith ("clinging to their guns and religion"). This was "the Democrat's election to lose". Then, the uninspiring McCain campaign with a conservative base that was lukewarm, at best, to the 'maverick' McCain, picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. She was a basically unknown quantity but we knew she was a conservative and that gave us hope. Then, her great speech at the Republican convention made Sarah Palin a 'star' and changed the race from a possible win by Obama to a very probable win by McCain/Palin. You gotta love it! "God works in mysterious ways". I agree.
For years, the leftists have been the arbiters of what is 'politically correct' (I hate that term). Now, average Americans - by the millions - have a national political figure they can truly identify with - and she is unabashedly not politically correct. Unlike President Bush, who, while a sincere man, nominally conservative and a Christian who didn't try to hide his faith, but who came from a wealthy, politically-connected family, Sarah Palin is truly the American Story.
Not from a wealthy family, didn't go to Harvard, Yale or Princeton, doesn't travel in the 'right' social circles. Sarah Palin is real and we identify with her. Meanwhile the left, considering themselves so elite that the rest of us should simply do as they say and think what they tell us to think; be ashamed of our country, abandon our religious faith while trying to appease those of foreign religions (Islam) and kill our unborn children, just to name a few big leftist shibboleths, are gnashing their teeth over this upstart woman from Alaska, of all places, upsetting their plans for gaining power in this country so they could diminish it as quickly as possible while pretending to be trying to 'help' us.
Governor Palin has blown that leftist Potemkin Village sky high - just be being herself. She is the engine that will drive John McCain to victory, a big victory, in November. The Clinton era is dead. The Palin era is in it's infancy. I can't wait for tomorrow!
Excellent post.
As they say ‘round here in our parts: She ain’t been ruin’t yet.
When she gets to Washington, I pray that it still remains true. Don’t let the demons suck the life out of your soul there, Sarah girl.
I think it says “ Do you now feel lucky Nobama “
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