Posted on 07/25/2009 3:00:18 PM PDT by CedarDave
When Sarah Palin abruptly announced that she was planning to leave office, it was clear whom she blamed for her early exit. ... Blasting her adversaries for paralyzing the Alaska governor's office with charges of "frivolous ethics violations," Palin and her representatives accused these unnamed "Outside interests" of harming her ability to govern after returning from the presidential campaign. ...
There's no doubt that Alaska's state government has been paralyzed since Palin's return, with anger and frustration emanating from both the governor's office and the state legislature. All of Palin's major bills failed to pass this year's first 90-day session. But conversations with both Republican and Democratic legislators reveal that Palin's inability to get anything done has little to do with the media attacks the Alaska governor claims drove her from office. The lawmakers say it has more to do with how national exposure changed her, moving her much further to the right than she had been and making her nearly impossible to work with. And state Republicans seem just as incensed about it as the Democrats.
When it came to legislative matters of any substance, "we got very little information from the state," says Republican House Speaker Mike Chenault. "We couldn't get any decisions out of the governor," says Persily, who spent two years working in the Alaska governor's Washington office. "It had nothing to do with critics harping at her—it was a lack of attention to governing."
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Of course, the barrage of ethics complaints filed against the governor exacerbated in-house tensions and probably served as a distraction. But Anchorage's state of utter dysfunction wasn't due to nefarious Democratic operatives who had crept up from the lower 48 to sabotage Palin; it was Palin's national ambitions that were primarily responsible for her undoing.
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Well, those are the main figures quoted in the article and I can see why. But my question remains: Are there Republicans up there who have spoken out in her favor or are they all hunkering down??
Well, she has Sean Parnell, but that is her Lieutenant Governor so I guess he does not count, but he seems like a great guy. Not sure about other Republicans there, remember, she had to fight the corruption in both parties over there, so she has many enemies
Larry Persily is a case in his own right. He's a Democrat who was hired to be on Palin's team after she was elected. He didn't last long and has been trashing her ever since. He's a regular on the cable channels' "Palin bashing" team of Alaskans. He was on the air trashing her from the moment she was nominated for VP.
Mike Hawker and Mike Chenault are charter members (along with Murkowski and others) of the Corrupt Bastards Club, the group of RINOs who got in extreme hot water over the VECO influence-peddling scheme. Some went to jail, although Chenault and Hawker survived even though they took money from VECO.
Jay Ramras is a corrupt, sexist a_hole from Fairbanks. He not only has made sexist remarks about Palin, but after originally supporting Palin's AGIA gas pipeline concept bought $173,000 in BP stock. BP is a partner in the competing Denali pipeline project. After buying the stock, he set about to torpedo the Palin pipeline.
All of this has been documented by Rebecca Mansour (a former FReeper) over at Conservatives4Palin where she's doing the Lord's work. She has written a series of articles that has caused quite a stir in Alaska. Her latest article (which I had honestly not seen til just now when I was researching this post) was a piece written yesterday in response to this very article that is the subject of this thread. It has links to other articles she has written which I WAS aware of. It's everything you need to know.
The Good Ole Boys Slam the Reformer
AFAIK, there are only 4 rock-ribbed "Palin conservatives" in the Alaska Senate. The rest are RINOs and Dems.
She had built a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to get her agenda passed early-on. This coalition evaporated after she came back from the campaign. The Democrats were angry because she had gone after Obama hard, and the RINOs saw a chance to get even. End of story.
Let me know if there is anything else you need.
Thanks, Al.
Rebecca’s doing a fantastic job. The other side needs to be heard.
Still, it has always been my sense of things that Romney was reluctantly in accord with the new paradigm.
He could not stop it here in Massachusetts. Clearly he could have worked harder at stopping it, or at least disassociating himself from the convoluted reasoning that made this new Law at all possible.
He is not a very good politician.
Is that a blemish? The more that he justifies himself for his ineptitude concerning the matter, the more that it clearly is.
Still, he would make a better POTUS than what we have now.
Seriously, what does that mean? Does that make any sense to post at FR?
Do you ever pay attention when we post about who Mitt Romney was politically during the 55 years before he became governor? He was a lefty, he had even dropped his republican registration because of Ronald Reagan's conservatism, he supported only liberal democrat candidates in elections, Mitt and his family are traditionally anti-conservative.
If you want to support socialist democrat Romney go do it at DU!
Suzy Khimm is a journalist based in Washington, D.C., where she is currently a reporter-researcher for The New Republic. She has contributed to The Economist, Slate, The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Christian Science Monitor, and Los Angeles Times, among others. From 2006-2007, Suzy was an Associate Editor for the English-language Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
I think that Obama is preferable to Hillary.
Romney when compared to the 3 “Republican” governors of Massachusetts before him was practically a “John Bircher.”
Romney has many faults, but the notion that he is anti-conservative is ludicrous.
Romney is anti conservative and you admit that you are not very conservative so you might not see it.
Romney comes from a family tradition of anticonservatism, he watched his father storm out in protest of the Goldwater 1964 convention speech and become the liberal, antiwar presidential candidate himself while Mitt was missing out on the Vietnam draft while living in France.
Mitt himself cancelled his republican registration and switched to independent because of the 'right winger' President Reagan, for years up until he re registered republican in 1993 to run for the senate, Mitt was only supporting liberal democrat candidates.
Even after becoming a republican again, Romney publicly came out against the 1994 republicans and the Contract with America. Romney was one of the most passionate and engaging speakers for the pro abortion argument and assisted fund raising for Planned Parenthood.
All of these actions are who he was years before he became an elected official, and as you well know, it was his term as governor that most people start at when trying to show his anticonservatism.
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