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I'd like to thank Eugene Robinson for highlighting Alaska's achievements on climate change ["Palin's own 'Climate- gate,' " op-ed, Dec. 15] and for noting that I've "treated the issue as serious, complex, and worthy of urgent attention," while making "any number of pragmatic, reasonable, smart decisions as governor." But he's wrong to suggest that my views have somehow changed or that now I'll have to "renounce" my past efforts. Continues....

Sarah addresses amnesty, Huckabee and other issues! Enjoy "No I am not for amnesty. Called Illegal for a reason. If they are not going to follow the rules they need to get out."

As I have repeatedly said in this column, I have never had the slightest problem in understanding Sarah Palin's meaning at any time. On the contrary, I have positively enjoyed her fresh, natural, rapid delivery with its syncopated stops and slides -- a fabulous example of which was the way (in her recent interview with John Ziegler) that she used a soft, swooping satiric undertone to zing Katie Couric's dippy narcissism and to assert her own outrage as a "mama grizzly" at libels against her family. Ideology-driven attacks on Palin became clotted liberal clichés within 24 hours of her introduction...

Raw and unedited version of Governor Sarah Palin's stump speech at Wilmington yesterday evening.