Bill Walker ran in the 2010 GOP Primary against Parnell. He ran to Parnell's right.
Parnell has spent his tenure reestablishing the Old Guard that Palin ousted. He has been a GOP-E lapdog since being elected, deconstructing the popular funding operations established under Palin. He has basically become a Frank Murkowski redux - he's a Chamber-Of-Commerce Republican.
He inherited a State with a surpluss and booming economy; it is now in deficit and fiscal crisis. Spending goes way up in his state under his watch and he blames his Senate, all while touting his plans for expensive new public projects. The state is now dipping into SAVINGS to pay bills with oil production down, and that goes goodbye soon as Parnell has a plan to hand over ownership of the taxpayers’ interest in the pipeline and gas-treatment to International Oil companies. So the taxpayers pay to build it, and Parell then hands it over to the Oil Companies.
Palin endorsed Walker because she's personally watched Parnell put the state in fiscal crisis and dismantle the most effective public/private sector partnership in America.
Thanks for the insight into Alaska politics. I knew Sarah wouldn’t let us down.