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Posted on 08/30/2009 9:46:31 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it…It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar. But while you’re thinking, I’ll continue.
2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES”. Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork”. She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning—I imagine—that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona . Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
Great piece!
Beautiful.
Thicker skin, hell! She was handling the politics, until reforms she promulgated (that were subsequently adopted) were turned frivolously against her. Her ONLY mistake as governor was helping push a law without properly researching its enormous potential for rabid abuse.
Because of these frivolous lawsuits, the people of Alaska were being deprived of her time and her family was deprived of their money. I don’t know about you, but 500K of my money spent for defense against merit-less lawsuits is a little more than my family could afford. Unlike Kennedyesque liberals and country club “moderate” Republicans from blue states, the Palins aren’t financially wealthy.
She can beat the chosen one head to head. He knows it too. The filthy democrats fear her like no other.
A positive article for a change.
That was my point. She doesn’t ask for apologies, but one was in order there on behalf of her child and the other young girls in the country.
Excellent
I know in my heart that he couldn't have done as well as he did without her and I know that SHE IS A TRUE AMERICAN!
If they feared her then they should really fear her now....
Obama is basically building her a platform to stand on RIGHT NOW.
If election was tommorrow....she’d win hands down....no doubt about it.It’d be a runaway....all that other crap is water that already went under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Obama has busted his ass and ripped his britches....he’s got a short time to go and he won’t pull no rabbit outa the hat trick.
The average American is sick of lawyers and lawsuits. They do not want a litigious leader, just a strong one.She has to do more than that. She has to SUE them.That’s the only thing these creeps understand: lawsuits and loss of money having to defend themselves.
When you're talking about responsible people, such as doctors, having their livelihoods destroyed by lawsuits you are correct.But when you are talking, as in this case, about professional complainers getting a dose of their own medicine, I think that is a different matter entirely. I think that the problem has been that we have NOT sued when the professional complainers have had it both ways. They not only want unlimited freedom, they want to be treated as nobility. They want to control the public discourse and drive any opposition out of the public forum.
I say it's spinach, and I say the heck with it.
The way it looks now the RATS will not permit an election in 2010, they know they’ll face a disaster.
Like the enemy loving filth gets the final say in such things?
Shame on us all for sitting on our hands this long. But, that don’t mean we’re not pushing right up against the line where enough is way too much and it just aint gonna get a pass any more.
A rage break is coming. It wont be pretty.
GO!
Nice Sarah article ping.
Thanks E!
GO SARAH!!
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This is why the District of Corruption hates her on both sides.
Pray for America and Lady Palin
Well there is one other thing Obama has done that Sarah has not.......... turning America into a Marxist/Socialist state, destroying the America we got to grow up in.
Good article. We need more people to look beyond party affiliation and select our representatives that produce results instead of BS.
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