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With regard to civil unions, etc., Palin believes in traditional heterosexual marriage, and does not support extending marriage or marriage-like benefits to any but traditional heterosexual marriage partners.

However,it is a pattern with her that she will not use executive power to overrule the judiciary. Some good, conservative evangelicals think she should, but our current administration demonstrates why certain other good, conservative evangelicals might think that is a bad idea. I once entertained the idea of dueling branches as a way to rein in a wayward judiciary, but if you get an executive like the Obama administration, where neither the judiciary nor his own view of the Constitution provide any check on his dictatorial inclinations, you are inviting despotism.

Bottom line, the Alaska Supreme Court said Alaska’s constitution required same-sex partner benefits, so she held her nose and vetoed a bill that would have banned such benefits in defiance of the Court’s ruling and thus, in her view, in defiance of Alaska’s constitution. The remedy, she said, was to amend the constitution, which would be the only way to solve the problem without creating a constitutional crisis. Clearly, it is one of her highest recommendations that she understands and honors with integrity our constitutional form of government, even when it sometimes leads to less than perfect outcomes.

Bottom line, the Alaska Supreme Court said Alaska’s constitution required same-sex partner benefits, so she held her nose and vetoed a bill that would have banned such benefits in defiance of the Court’s ruling and thus, in her view, in defiance of Alaska’s constitution.

The remedy, she said, was to amend the constitution, which would be the only way to solve the problem without creating a constitutional crisis. Clearly, it is one of her highest recommendations that she understands and honors with integrity our constitutional form of government, even when it sometimes leads to less than perfect outcomes.

Thanks for that, SR. Yours is exactly the kind of fact-based analysis and reasoning that we Palin supporters are going to have to master, in order to counter the coming attacks in the primary.

Thankfully, the Governor herself will lead the way on that, after she steps in.

“The remedy, she said, was to amend the constitution, which would be the only way to solve the problem without creating a constitutional crisis.”

Did she at any time or way after this action, attempt to help those that would push for a referendum vote to ammend AKs constitution? Or did the matter simply gain zero traction and was dropped by her and others?