No governor at any time...Wow....not LaGuardia, Roosevelt or even Reagan......accomplished anywhere near what this champion achieved in her first 18 months in office. - Pamela Geller
This message must have been hammered hard in the movie, since Matt Lewis makes the same point.
From dailycaller.com:
...This film captures the emotional response — the hope and excitement — many Americans felt when she was selected. Don’t be surprised if some folks even tear up during the convention speech scene.Putting emotion aside, the second thing this film does well is make the logical case for Palin to be taken seriously.
Viewers who have never read "Sarah from Alaska" or "Going Rogue" may learn for the first time just how good she was as governor.
Her short tenure as Governor of Alaska was remarkably strong (as the film points out, her approval rating was well over 80 percent when she was placed on the national ticket).
Bannon spends a lot of time telling the story of Palin’s accomplishments as governor, and the truth is that few governors — even two-term governors — have ever had a better or more productive eighteen months than Palin had before her selection as McCain’s running mate.
A good portion of "The Undefeated" focuses on setting the record straight on Palin’s record...-- snip --
...Most importantly, Bannon links it all together through shared themes — a distaste for closed-door negotiations, a belief in the power of free-market competition to yield the best results, and a desire to uphold the Alaska Constitution and to protect the rights and interests of hard-working Alaskans...
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... so that Palin’s 2008 RNC speech and 2011 Wisconsin Tea Party rally speech impact viewers with renewed meaning.
They’re not words from a politician who is simply saying what people want to hear.
They’re words that are directly in line with everything Sarah Palin has done in politics from the beginning...