...Palin said she resigned the governor’s office for the good of the state, “with no scandal running me out office, despite what the media so wanted to find.”
“I knew that it might very well end any future political career that I would ever have,” Palin said.
Palin talked about how she got started in politics, working her way up from the Wasilla, Alaska city council to mayor and then eventually to chair of the Alaska Gas and Oil Conservation Commission and governor of the state.
As a city councilwoman, Palin said she didn’t conform to the town elders’ standards for the status quo of governance.
“I kind of went rogue, even back then,” Palin said jokingly, making a reference to her book title and history of going off-script while running for vice president last year.
Palin spoke to a friendly crowd that routinely applauded what she had to say about the current state of affairs in Washington, D.C., and her call for the country to return to its “pioneering values” of hard work, independence and taking care of your neighbors.
“History and common sense tells us that when government tries to take care of us, it ends up robbing us of our ability to help ourselves,” Palin said. “If we empower people to be free, providing a hand up but not a hand out ... then we will become a more prosperous and generous nation.”
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20091203/NEWS01/912030379/1007
Will Rogers said a lot of good stuff too. If Obambi’s presidency has taught us anything, it is that campaigning and governing are two different things. I want EXPERIENCE.