Posted on 11/06/2008 1:51:27 PM PST by jerry557
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – After two months sharpening her conservative rhetoric on the U.S. presidential campaign trail, Gov. Sarah Palin returned to Alaska a star in the Republican party, but weakened at home where people had known her as more centrist.
Palin's "pit bull" campaign persona and her strident pitches to the conservative base of the Republican Party were a stark contrast to her nonpartisan, populist style as governor, leaving raw feelings among some Alaskans, experts said.
As speculation of a presidential run in 2012 builds, an editorial in Thursday's Anchorage Daily News asked which Palin will return to Alaska: the pragmatic centrist who was wildly popular at home or the highly partisan politician who drew huge crowds to campaign rallies across the United States?
"Her obligations as governor point her in one direction. Her national ambitions point her in another," the Anchorage Daily News said in an editorial.
Prior to joining Republican presidential candidate John McCain on the ticket, Palin boasted the highest approval rating of any U.S. governor, winning favor with her tough stance toward oil companies and championing a handsome payout to all Alaskans as a windfall from high oil prices.
Palin returns to an Alaska where oil prices are less than half the record highs that padded the state treasury with surpluses and where critics have launched various ethics probes alleging misuse of public funds and abuse of power.
This week, a state panel cleared Palin of wrongdoing in the abuse-of-power investigation.
She first ruffled some feathers in her introductory speech on August 29, when she claimed credit for killing the notorious "Bridge to Nowhere" - a contradiction of her past support for the project and her claim, during the 2006 gubernatorial race, that the nickname for the proposed bridge was insulting.
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Bullshiite. I just wrote a post for my blog on this topic.
Governor Palin is going to be fine. The Democrats and liberals come to Alaska, and not having any real skills because they have never held real jobs, they slither into the political offices wherever they can, because the real Alaskans, the Conservatives, have real jobs and real lives. Eventually, there are so many liberals pulling the political strings up here that they think they own the state.
The majority of men in the Republican Party have Zero balls. Sarah, you have all the power you need, granted to you by your God.
Please do not leave your country, and she will not leave you.
Exactly, the MSM is already working on the next election.
Of course they do, they don’t want any viable contenders for his holiness.
His failure to actively stand up for her is appalling.
1. Establish and patronize alternative media sources
2. Fight any restrictions on free speech
Note to MSM:
You first. Elitist jerks. Apologize for the hateful, vile, ugly things you’ve said about the Palin family. Then your ‘experts’ can talk about ‘mending fences’.
I know times are tight right now, but anyone making vacation plans that can afford to, I would suggest a cruise or vacation to Alaska. Sent my parents there last year for their 50th and they loved it. Helping the Alaska economy (rather than a blue state) might help our Sarah!
I can't imagine that many of us are currently doing so willingly.
One thought that occurred to me is that we may want to refrain from hitting their websites, since the more hits they get -- the more they can charge advertisers. Is there a method of setting up our browsers to warn before surfing to a known list of web addresses?
The same one’s that started “Troopergate”. They’ll keep recycling them.
Memo from the office of the Governor of Alaska to Reuters:
“Nuts!”
Blessings,
Gov. Sarah Palin
“raw feelings among some Alaskans, experts say.” Journalism 101, fully feathered.
“palin returns to alaska...media continue to bash her...”
leftist, red-neck punks will always be leftist red-neck punks.
IMHO
I encourage any others on this board to do the same.
Mend fences?
Baloney. Find someone else to fire, and fire them.
We’ll stand behind you.
What hogwash! LOL
::::Shaking head at ridiculous MSM::::
She is the first on the list because she connects well with people. They will also go after the others... Jindal, McConnell, Sanford e.t.c.
“How can we strike back at the MSM, hit them where it hurts?”
That’s what I want to know. I stopped watching and visiting their sites a month ago but there must be more we can do. They...have...to...pay.
She got a higher % of the vote as VP than she did as Gov.
I would say Alaska is ready to make her queen.
She has no fences to mend.
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