Posted on 06/24/2011 4:28:00 PM PDT by American Dream 246
Just talked with a good friend of mine, but sadly very liberal -- seems irreversible -- told her about the great reviews for The Undefeated, Sarah Palin documentary - her record in Alaska - and I tried to explain to her that she should at least get informed about Sarah before calling her the wilderness barbie.
She then said: OK so she did a great job in Alaska, but is she able to run all US states (in all fairness, she did not say 57..). These people have an answer for everything..darn! What would you say to that - besides telling her that she voted for the one who had so much experience..? I need help here with my liberal friends.
>>and barry the zero did — NOTHING! In his whole professional life.
Well, to be fair, he has managed to run our economy into the ground. That takes talent.
Just talked with a good friend of mine,
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She then said: OK so she did a great job in Alaska, but is she able to run all US states
American Dream 246,
1. Why would you want a person like that to be a friend?
2. Don’t you know the answers to those questions after 3 years here?
State trumps community and district.
Then I'd point my nose towards the sky and walk away.
I discovered some years back that ridding my life of liberals resulted in a more peaceful, sane and productive existence.
I have heard all the excuses about “you cant do that when they’re family” and so on, but yes, you most certainly can. Libs are one of 2 things. 1. Evil to the core or 2. to stupid to realize they support that which is evil. There is no logical argument that can disprove that simple fact.
In neither case is there a place for liberals around good, sane, thinking people. If the stupid type lost friends and family more often, they might just have a moment of clarity as to why and improve their condition as a result. The pure evil type could care less about you anyway.
As for those you have to work with, don’t communicate with them unless it is 100% work related. Ignore them at all other times. Don’t say hello, don’t make small talk, nothing. If it’s your boss, get a different job as soon as you possibly can and let them know why you quit on the way out the door. You will thank yourself for it once you experience the sudden lack of stress in your life.
There are tons of these morons. I've seen comments on our local Topix boards that Obama should fire John Kasich as governor of Ohio for his "disrespect toward the president" and "ignoring the will of the people."
Hey, he fired the head of a private company with no legal authority. It wouldn’t shock me if he tried it with a Governor. Nor would it shock me to see Msmlibs support the move.
You have a point.
Sadly, and the POS got away with it!
Palin was the most powerful Governor in America.
The Alaskan chair is rated as more like a giant CEO position.
” I need help here with my liberal friends.”
Reevaluate what you consider a friend.
I refuse to befriend ANY lib. Any democrate that supports and/or voted for Obama. Most democrats are a waste of human tissue. LOL... Yes, I know, I sound nasty and I’m “far right”. ;>)
Granted, some of our lives, businesses and professions require that we remain civil to them, for now, but I will never be a friend to a person that has their beliefs, period.
I gave up on trying to get them to come to my way of thinking a long time ago. They are incapable of rational thought.
Heck, talking to these loons in hopes of persuading them, would be like heading out to a pond and trying to convince a frog to quit jumping.
Forget about it... cut off their legs, dip them in batter and toss them onto the frying pan. Actually, I only tried that when I was a kid and they tasted kinda like chicken, however, to this day, chicken tastes like frog legs to me. ;>)
Just tell them to bug off or you’ll bury their body under your house with the last lib that argued with you.
Okay, you can continue to be nice, but it won’t work.
And Piper has a firm eye on someone, and they are not going to get away with anything.
Here you go.
USLaw.com: “Given its source, today’s article in the NYT entitled The Unusual Challenges Palin Faced in Alaska is remarkably balanced and informative. As PrestoPundit Greg Ransom notes, though, in his post linking the article”
Remember when the Democrat press wouldn’t stop telling us about how Texas has a “weak Governor” system, when Bush was running for President? Well, don’t expect them to talk much about the fact that Alaska has the most powerful governor in the country.
New York Times:
That said, by other measures, Alaska is harder to govern than a smaller, more settled realm in the Lower 48. With vast distances, large numbers of indigenous peoples and a narrowly based extraction economy — with a handful of giant multinational oil corporations dominating the game — some economists say a country like Nigeria might be an apter comparison.
“Alaska really is a colonial place,” said Stephen Haycox, a professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage. “One third of the economic base is oil; another third is federal spending. The economy is extremely narrow and highly dependent. It’s not to say that Alaska is a beggar state, but it certainly is true that Alaska is dependent on decisions made outside it, and over which Alaskans don’t have great control.”
Overlaid across all of that is a distinctly informal Alaskan style. At the annual governor’s picnic, usually held in July, the governor is expected to turn the brats and burgers on the grill — something Ms. Palin has done with gusto — with cabinet members in aprons rounding out the kitchen staff. Alaska also came of political age recently, which has meant two crucial things to Ms. Palin’s rise and experience as governor.
First, the State Constitution concentrates power in the governor’s office more thoroughly than in almost any other state — a legacy of the late 1950s, historians say, when statehood and a simultaneous trend all over the country toward elevating executive authority coincided.
Alaskan governors can edit legislation and their vetoes are tougher for lawmakers to overcome. In the numerical scale of power devised by Thad Beyle, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina, only Massachusetts’ governor has a mightier tool kit.
Second, inch-deep history has meant that the leading lights of statehood are not mere names in history books but are in many cases still around and even still in power, like Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Don Young, both Republicans with decades under their belts in Washington. That old guard is still revered by some Alaskans, but it is disdained by others who have been on the lookout for fresh Republican faces.
It is in that densely layered Alaskan mix that Ms. Palin rose, governed and must be understood, academics and people in both parties say — not as merely a governor, or a woman, but as an Alaskan.
“The frontier mentality, whether myth or not, is still alive,” said Donald Linky, director of the Program on the Governor, at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
Political organizations and the careful grooming of rising stars have long been part of the political culture in creating governors-to-be in many other states, Mr. Linky said. Not so in Alaska, and elsewhere in the West.
I blame our government schools.
And parents. I occasionally have to do some deprogramming on my kids.
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