Posted on 02/09/2010 6:47:51 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.
1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suitsThe Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la" (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.
2. Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich.. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning - I imagine - that she's packing heat herself).. I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4. Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5. For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool.. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years.. I won't be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.
So "You go, Girl." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals. I rest my case. Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.
Truth is our best weapon.
"There is this search engine called 'Google'......"
This is included in Sarah’s book. Going Rogue.
The McCain campaign squandered Sarah Palin and regulated her to show prop status. After reading her book there isn’t doubt it was the campaign staff of the so called “A” team led by the gay activist loving Steve Schmidt that blew it. Any campaign that he shows up on or that horrid Nicolle Wallace (who arranged that Katie Couric interview) character should be shunned. They are exactly what is wrong with today’s politics. McCain should have replaced them but he didn’t which demonstrates his lack of judgement.
Did it never occur to you to do a Google search on Dewie Whetsell?
- JP
It is true. The problem with people even conservatives often just listen to the media whether it be fox news or whatever outlet. A little bit of fact checking goes a long way. Sarah isn’t right on everything but she is a citizen conscious politician. She understands the meaning of liberty and the sovereign citizen and she seeks to preserve those rights whether it be at the expense of political or corporate interests. Those small bitter individuals who hate or her have no idea how intelligent she is. They assume the crap that was the McCain campaign was Sarah. It wasn’t and we are seeing increasingly now the kind of women and leader she is. I’m glad or wealth and popularity is growing. She has weathered attacks that no other politicians would survive.
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The information appears to be what I have learned, albeit put in a more favorable light than a detractor would. She literally caused and won a revolution in Alaska politics. And, it was for the people.
Absolute BS
Have you read “Going Rogue”? It’s in her book.
You are correct,democrats,liberals,republicans,conservatives,libertarians, independents whoever they pretty much deny that they are being influence by the MSM concerning Palin, but they truly are with all of the negativity and so-called controversy prop up by the LSM on a daily basis........But she continues on despite that
WHY have they NOT been utterly shunned???
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Uhh... Yeah.
Highlighting Sarah's accomplishments would paint most of the rest of the Repubs as do-nothing, big-government politicians. And they certainly don't want THAT, now do they?
I have no idea why they are relevant. I don’t know on what criteria they made it to the positions of managing a campaign because not only do the Palin descriptions of them fit perfectly but their behavior post campaign was atrocious. I have no doubt that they were a part of the smear Palin rumor mill. They clearly wanted to use her as a show prop which was horrible. If they had let her have more say and realized what they had in her none of the events that hurt the McCain campaign related to Palin would’ve happened. I’m telling you if I see a campaign employing them I’ll not support it just for that act of stupidity.
How do they support themselves? I mean, seriously, who’d want to hire them for anything nowadays — unless one were a Palin-hating RINO?
"Real deals" do not quit before their first term expires.
Sarah Palin has an extremely adoring Fan Club, just like Obama did.
"OMG! He's liberal, he can give a good speech and he's African American!! Let's make him President of the United States of America!!!"
"OMG!! She's conservative, she can give a good speech and she's cute!! Let's make her President of the United States of America!!!"
Be that as it may, with their level of inexperience, nobody would have considered EITHER Barack Obama or Sarah Palin as a serious Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate in 2008 if they had been white males.
America is currently having a major league bout of buyer's remorse in regards to an Affirmative Action candidate. They surest way to keep the current Affirmative Action candidate in the White House after 2012 is to give America the choice of another Affirmative Action candidate.
Just read the book “Sarah Tales On Big Oil”. You will find a detailed chronicle of this and more.
I can’t source it but remember reading it when she was tapped to be the VP candidate. I have seen a number of references to it since then but without any detail included.
Isn’t it interesting how the media never mentions any of this.
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