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Palin's Strengths Rooted in Alaska (It's actually POSITIVE!!)
The Washington Post ^ | October 2, 2008 | Sally Jenkins

Posted on 10/01/2008 11:35:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

WASILLA, Alaska -- The valley where Sarah Palin was raised is vast and tree-packed, and so quiet that once, when Palin's parents left a door open in their antler-festooned house, a moose poked its nose into their den.

You can't blame the moose for being curious. The wood-plank loft home of Chuck and Sally Heath is known for its odd, bristling lawn art. A towering sculpture of bleached antlers sits by the driveway. Bright buoys and fishing lures dangle from silver birch trees. But this riot of objects is merely a warm-up for the interior: Fox pelts. Orca teeth. Bear fangs. Owl wings. A brown, bony thing with a huge span occupies the living room wall. "That's a walrus scapula," Chuck Heath says brightly.

The unusual collection has been amassed over a lifetime by the inspiring Heath, a hard-chested, cinch-waisted 70-year-old retired public school science teacher and an inveterate naturalist. Children skitter in and out of doors: Palin's daughter Piper is newly arrived from New York. Piper's cousin, a small boy named Heath, hums to himself beneath the snarling pelt of a grizzly bear.

"Can I have a soda?" the child asks. "I want a soda."

"Did you earn it?" Chuck asks sternly.

That's how it goes in the Heath home, and how it has always gone. It's a household that explains much about Palin, 44, and how she acquired her set-jawed, swaggering demeanor, one that her mother first noticed "about the time she started to walk." Above all, the house suggests how she came by her dissident, out-of-category feminism, a code by which she tackles old-boy networks relentlessly, while remaining blank if not unsympathetic on traditional women's issues with a capital W, such as sexism in the workplace.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008debates; 2008veep; biden; debate; election; electionpresident; elections; palin; palinping; palinpraise; sallyjenkins; sarahpalin; wasilla
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To: GWMcClintock
Democrats have no moral compass. They are liars and cheats, and if they can cheat their way to power they will do it in a heartbeat. As evidence of their perfidy, I offer the decades of promoting abortion as a means to empower their democrat party capital.

Cheating in elections is treason in my book. It disenfranchises your lawfully cast vote by drowning it in illegal votes cast by dead people, people not in actual existence, and votes not lawfully cast in the district they are sent to (as in the 50,000 plus illegal ballots cast in Pittsburgh and Philly in 2004!).

Stuffing the ballot box with illegal ballots is a democrat methodology changing election outcomes as far back as Kennedy's presidency in my memory. Liars and cheats serve their father, the fathe rof lies a murderer from the start. It is no coincidence that college students are the willing accomplices in this devilish behavior.

To stop this evil will require two vital steps: 1) every real American must vote this election

and when Obama is kept out of office,

2) the incoming administration must make it a priority to enact laws which will come down very hard on vote cheating, especially organized false registrations and casting of false ballots, and repeat offense should have svere penalties, even life in prison without parole.

By not stopping this, Republicans are allow liars and cheats (read Democrat Party) to overthrow the Republic!

21 posted on 10/02/2008 8:04:32 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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