Her decision to resign was a win/win for the people of Alaska and for herself. I've said it before, real leaders improvise, adapt and overcome. That is what she is doing now and that looks like real leadership to me.
Calgary crowd receptive to Palin
By Richard Cuthbertson, Calgary HeraldMarch 6, 2010 10:15 PM
CALGARY— In her first public appearance outside the United States since stepping down as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin went to the heart of Canada’s oil and gas industry Saturday bringing her message of lower taxes, free markets and energy development to a receptive crowd.
While the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate’s speech in Calgary dealt in part with her push for more domestic energy development, her doubts over climate change science and her view that environmental issues needed to be balanced by economic progress, Palin’s talk was also interspersed with jokes that drew laughs from a packed house.
She noted that soon into her run on John McCain’s presidential ticket that her patience wore thin with the “mainstream media.” She noted a reporter said Palin had a bit of a Canadian accent. Palin said she responded, “So.”
“That interview didn’t go very well,” Palin told Saturday’s crowd of more than 1,000. “Not many of them did.”
She talked of Canadian connections to her family, lauded Vancouver’s hosting of the Winter Olympics and noted the men’s Canadian hockey win over the Americans.
But some of her best-received comments to the Calgary crowd came with her thoughts on energy and environment. She said traditional forms of energy must continue to be developed along with renewable resources as part of an “all-of-the-above approach.”
Her concern, she said, is waiting for unfriendly regimes to develop their resources. Relying on those puts the United States in a less safe and less prosperous position, she said.
“We’ve got the become more energy independent,” she said.
She also brought up the East Anglia climate change e-mail scandal, saying it made “settled science feel a little unsettled.” Cap-and-trade proposals to reduce emissions would lead to job losses and a heavier tax burden, she said.
She also participated in a question-and-answer session with Senator Pamela Wallin.
“Her decision to resign was a win/win for the people of Alaska and for herself.”
She knew that there was a certain segment that was going to call her a quitter and was going to disbelieve her reasoning and was going to continue to call her a quitter even after she proved that her decision to resign had enabled her to have a positive impact on the national debate, specifically on health care. Those peole were never for her in the first place. Most of them are carrying water for Mitt or for BO.