"In this present crisis, Harvard is not the solution to our problems. Harvard *is* the problem."
How many Ivy Leaguers are there at Faggy Foggy Bottom?
Cheers!
“...with low latte availability...”
Actually, the Palins frequent a coffee shop in Wasilla called the “Mocha Moose.” :-)
BINGO! She's girlfriend....
Sarah’s not a member of the elite class, and worse is a member of the middle class, and that, along with her pro-life viewpoint, is their primary objection to her, obviously and undeniably without a doubt.
“Dismiss all of us who remember how, on the first day of deer season, our high school classrooms were half empty ....”
Buck fever took quite a toll.
Once at my Dad's house we had some venison. When my niece heard it was deer meat from a recent hunt she was aghast! My Dad asked her if she thought the hamburger we had the previous week came to her from a volunteer.
Apparently, the writer never saw this or discovered the fact that Alaska has more coffee kiosks than Seattle. The best name yet? "Latte Dah."
I sincerely hop Governor Palin will survive the Establishment so bent against her. She may end up being Americana’s Joan of Arc!
Sarah Palin is for real.
Ya know, if she would just be willing to kill a couple of her babies, they would like her a lot more.
Sarah has a great accent and communicates better than any of the others, Dem or Repub.
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
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!
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.