Posted on 05/27/2011 11:25:19 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
“The Straight Talk Express”
That’s it, thank you for the correction.
I think the big bundling funding and meaningless endorsements usually come with the strings of advisors.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/851orcjq.asp?pg=1
EXCERPT:
The Most Popular Governor
Alaska’s Sarah Palin is the GOP’s newest star.
Fred Barnes
July 16, 2007, Vol. 12, No. 41
Juneau
The wipeout in the 2006 election left Republicans in such a state of dejection that they’ve overlooked the one shining victory in which a Republican star was born. The triumph came in Alaska where Sarah Palin, a politician of eye-popping integrity, was elected governor. She is now the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state.
Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle—especially to transparency and accountability in government—can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state’s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, “may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.”
As recently as last year, Palin (pronounced pale-in) was a political outcast. She resigned in January 2004 as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after complaining to the office of Governor Frank Murkowski and to state Attorney General Gregg Renkes about ethical violations by another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, who was also Republican state chairman.
State law barred Palin from speaking out publicly about ethical violations and corruption. But she was vindicated later in 2004 when Ruedrich, who’d been reconfirmed as state chairman, agreed to pay a $12,000 fine for breaking state ethics laws. She became a hero in the eyes of the public and the press, and the bane of Republican leaders.
In 2005, she continued to take on the Republican establishment by joining Eric Croft, a Democrat, in lodging an ethics complaint against Renkes, who was not only attorney general but also a long-time adviser and campaign manager for Murkowski. The governor reprimanded Renkes and said the case was closed. It wasn’t. Renkes resigned a few weeks later, and Palin was again hailed as a hero.
Palin, 43, the mother of four, passed up a chance to challenge Republican senator Lisa Murkowski, the then-governor’s daughter, in 2004. She endorsed another candidate in the primary, but Murkowski won and was reelected. Palin said then that her 14-year-old son talked her out of running, though it’s doubtful that was the sole reason.
In 2006, she didn’t hesitate. She ran against Gov. Murkowski, who was seeking a second term despite sagging poll ratings, in the Republican primary. In a three-way race, Palin captured 51 percent and won in a landslide. She defeated former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election, 49 percent to 41 percent. She was one of the few Republicans anywhere in the country to perform above expectations in 2006, an overwhelmingly Democratic year. Palin is unabashedly pro life.
With her emphasis on ethics and openness in government, “it turned out Palin caught the temper of the times perfectly,” wrote Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News. She was also lucky. News broke of an FBI investigation of corruption by legislators between the primary and general elections. So far, three legislators have been indicted.
In the roughly three years since she quit as the state’s chief regulator of the oil industry, Palin has crushed the Republican hierarchy (virtually all male) and nearly every other foe or critic. Political analysts in Alaska refer to the “body count” of Palin’s rivals. “The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed Sarah,” says pollster Dave Dittman, who worked for her gubernatorial campaign. It includes Ruedrich, Renkes, Murkowski, gubernatorial contenders John Binkley and Andrew Halcro, the three big oil companies in Alaska, and a section of the Daily News called “Voice of the Times,” which was highly critical of Palin and is now defunct.
That quote sounds really good. Who wrote it? Jesse Jackson?
Tocqueville didn’t write it, but it is true.
Ridiculous.
Jim,
Thank You for embedding the “One Nation” video from SarahPac.
Thank you for the ping, Clyde.
WOOOOHOOOO....or as my tagline says........
NOW I’m getting excited about this race!
Fantastic clip!
America Can Be A Winner Again!
AWESOME!!
It’s a little short for my taste, but I love Palin and can’t get enough of her these days. It certainly left me wanting more....which was probably the point!
RUN SARAH RUN!!
I thought she was going to say “and now to me”, lol!! I have to look at it again, I thought I heard a pause....
My heart pitter pattered for a brief moment!
If she runs, she has my vote and my time as a volunteer!
Nope, no pause, it was all me. I thought it might be a hint =(.
Go Sarah BTTT
Sarah Is Dedicated
I believe it was Alexis Touqueville(not sure on the spelling) who said that. If I’m wrong, I’m sure I’ll hear about it. ;-)
O.K. I’ll play.
“what is ngat’s grasp of modern day politics?”
Thank you Alex.
Potent Potables for 400.
Try Alexis de Tocqueville with your quote in a search engine.
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