"Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal — loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop (see below)." Sounds like actual "change" to me. "She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them." They hate her because, it sounds like she's a political maverick after all. Or what is the complaint here? "As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state." That alone is worth voting for her. They did the same thing here in Nevada when they ran a surplus (used the DMV to refund money). Sounds a lot like what Biden said this morning on Meet the Press when asked "when does life begin?" </pre>
Regarding point #1, I get what the complaint is. She defeated an incumbent Democrat and fired the staff who worked for him. Shame! at that.
I didn't say that the numbers were true or not true. I just pointed out an attempt of deceit on behalf of the reader who is not simply a concerned resident of Wasilla, AK.
No, she's a democrat, therefore you realize it's written by a democrat (with an agenda). The same is true of what you see on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, or some conservative source.
Way to put words in my mouth. I never said she was or wasn't right. But she forget one tiny important detail, that this was written by a Democrat. Anyone else who didn't know this and read this article would think this came from an impartial source.
What would you like it to say? "I'm a Democrat"? Don't you think it weakens her point. Don't you think Republican journalists/bloggers/people will point out facts about a Democrat, without admitting they are Republicans? I think most people would understand that something written against a certain person during a political race will, unfortunately, be biased. It doesn't matter if it's attacking a democrat or a republican. Both have agendas, and both will try to weaken each other's case for office.
Palin's popularity rating in the state is 80%. Given that, I'd take this as one of the remaining 20%. The 80% says a lot more than this person's one opinion.
Those are actually lower approval ratings than she used to have. She used to have approval ratings in the 90's. She was for a point of time the nation's most popular Governor.
They are similar in this way G.W. Bush is on the far right. Sarah Palin is too. The democrats are just to scared to say that since well they stink at going after the other party.
80% approval rating in Alaska for SP means even less than the roughly 2/3 of people in Utah who voted for W.
just so there is no misunderstanding, the policy of giving Alaska residents a dividend based on the state's profit from oil sales is long-standing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Fund_Dividend
Well, if everyone that is unqualified to be President is similar, than yes, she is similar to W. But then she is similar to Gore and Mondale
The earmark thing is kind of funny. People seem to think it's extra money that congress is spending, like pork. It's quite different. Once they've agreed on the amount to be spent, in a bill, they use earmarks to direct some portion of the money to a specific pet project. They could obviously spend less and eliminate the earmarks in some cases, but it's a little absurd to make it into some sort of campaign issue. Thus, Palin refused to build the bridge to nowhere as earmarked, but the money was given to Alaska anyway, since it was authorized in the spending bill. I'm not sure how the legality of refusing an earmark works.
