Posted on 09/02/2008 12:10:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
John McCain was clear about why he picked half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. "I found someone with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies," he said in introducing her in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday. Palin was someone, he noted, "who reached across the aisle and asked Republicans, Democrats and independents to serve in government."
It is a powerful reinforcement of McCain's own political brand: tough, reform-minded, willing to break with his own party for the right cause. And it's true that her high-profile crusade against corruption and complacency in her own state party over the past few years has made Palin the Frank Serpico of Alaska politics: she publicly ratted out her state party chairman; whupped the good old boys' network, as she likes to put it, in a gubernatorial primary; and fought a general election in which the scandal-stained state GOP didn't lift a finger on her behalf. She won only because she had the enthusiastic backing of independents and grass-roots activists.
But in the first major race of her career — the 1996 campaign for mayor of her hometown, Wasilla — Palin was a far more conventional politician. In fact, according to some who were involved in that fight, Palin was a highly polarizing political figure who brought partisan politics and hot-button social issues like abortion and gun control into a mayoral race that had traditionally been contested like a friendly intramural contest among neighbors.
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My children have coloring books that display more intelligence than Time.
Time is a liberal democrat rag. Why post it here? The MSM is out in full force to try to tarnish her image with lies. We all know that. No need to post it on here.
You can’t expect to pull the pigs away from the trough without getting muddy...
“half-term Alaska governor”
Half-term Illinoid senator
Half-assed magazine
Another objective fair article, thanks Nathan.
I don’t see anything “rough” about her record — TIME’s bias reeks.....
After reading, I like her more :~ )
She continues to be polarizing. 80% of Alaskans REALLY like her. 20% don’t
Do they really want us to get into the nitty gritty on the rough-and-tumble city politics Obama was involved in here in Chicago?
Interesting how the author/editor(s) chose to use “Mayor” instead of the more current “Governor”. (No, I don’t think it was a coincidence or strictly related to the article’s content.)
Whoever can find an article with truth about Barack Obama and post some of that should get a FR cookie.
Palin hasn’t just been vetted, she has been stabbed.
It might be nice if we could help the media expose some info on Barack Obama.
Half term my A$h.
His Senatorial diaper wasn't even off when he started running for President!
Ya think they’ll start referring to The One as recent State Rep Barry, any time soon?
Time and Time again, they remind me why I don’t read Time.
This whole article is a bunch of losers whining about the person they lost to. Typical.
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