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The Atlantic: The Tragedy of Sarah Palin
The Atlantic ^ | 05/16/2011 | Joshua Green

Posted on 05/16/2011 6:40:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

From the moment Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska—the only record she has—shows a very different politician: one who worked with Democrats to tame Big Oil and solve the great problem at the heart of the state’s politics. That Sarah Palin might have set the nation on a different course. What went wrong?

It’s hard to escape Sarah Palin. On Facebook and Twitter, cable news and reality television, she is a constant object of dispute, the target or instigator of some distressingly large proportion of the political discourse. If she runs for president—well, brace yourself! But there is one place where a kind of collective resolve has been able to push her aside, make her a less suffocating presence than almost everywhere else: Alaska.

During a week spent traveling there recently, I learned that Palin occupies a place in the minds of most Alaskans roughly like that of an ex-spouse from a stormy marriage: she’s a distant bad memory, and questions about her seem vaguely unwelcome. Visitors to Juneau, the capital and a haven for cruise-ship tourism, are hard-pressed to find signs of the state’s most famous citizen—no “Mama Grizzly” memorabilia or T-shirts bearing her spunky slogans. Although the town was buzzing with politics because the legislature was in session, talk of Palin mainly revolved around a rumored Democratic poll showing her to be less popular in Alaska right now than Barack Obama. The only tangible evidence I saw was her official portrait in the capitol and a small sign in the window of a seedy-looking gift shop advertising “Sarah Palin toilet paper.” Alaska has moved on.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: enemedia; joshuagreen; palin; sarahpalin; theatlantic; tragedy; waronsarah
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1 posted on 05/16/2011 6:40:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Atlantic? “Nuff said.


2 posted on 05/16/2011 6:43:17 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: SeekAndFind
They know she's inevitable.

They knew it the first time they saw her.

It's why they go insane ever time they think of her.

ineluctable

3 posted on 05/16/2011 6:44:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islamophobia: The fear of offending Muslims because they are prone to violence.)
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To: SeekAndFind
A bit sexist of you, eh joshua? What is your evidence for saying that, or are you just parroting tingly-legged Chris Mathews?
4 posted on 05/16/2011 6:45:43 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Sarah Louise Palin

Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)

Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI

Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)

Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Comrade Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama.

5 posted on 05/16/2011 6:46:19 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: SeekAndFind

> she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat
> ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned”
> and “vindictive.”

This description applies better to the Communist ideologue, narcissist, Metrosexual-in-Chief 0bamao than it does to Sarah Palin.

For him, however, I would replace “red-meat” with “red-soviet”.


7 posted on 05/16/2011 6:47:36 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d like to hear from people in Alaska if Sarah really is a distant bad memory. If so, I don’t get it. She had astronomically high ratings there. Maybe Alaskans aren’t as independent minded as they like to think if the steady stream of MSM anti-Sarah poison has changed their POV.


8 posted on 05/16/2011 6:48:55 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Jonah is my patron saint.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is it just me, or is The Atlantic more obsessed with Palin than any other lame stream media outlet?


9 posted on 05/16/2011 6:50:33 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (American Thinker Columnist / Rush ghost contributor)
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To: subterfuge
no “Mama Grizzly” memorabilia or T-shirts bearing her spunky slogans.

You see, this is how the left judges...you have to be a pop-star for them to like you. Name one other politician that has T-shirts with their likeness or message being sold now--other than that media/Soros/ creation, Husseim obama.

If Sarah did have a T-shirt, it should read "It's the Communism Stupid."

10 posted on 05/16/2011 6:51:06 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Atlantic?


11 posted on 05/16/2011 6:51:06 AM PDT by frogjerk (I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
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To: SeekAndFind

At the order of the DemocRAT party the media destroyed Sarah Palin through vicious unwarranted attacks on her and her family, virtually from the first moment she was announced as McCain’s running mate. Now they have the nerve to ask what happened to her.


12 posted on 05/16/2011 6:52:02 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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“...unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.”

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Only by the propagandizing, bitchy Commie queers who lie for The Atlantic.


13 posted on 05/16/2011 6:53:31 AM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: Anamnesis

“Palin also committed more-serious ethical breaches. The most notorious of these involved her attempts to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, “

-The trooper who had threatened to kill the governors father.

“and included Palin’s removal of the trooper’s boss when he didn’t comply with her wish.”

The trooper who had broken his own wife’s arm in a domestic dispute.


14 posted on 05/16/2011 6:53:40 AM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: SeekAndFind
What went wrong?


15 posted on 05/16/2011 7:00:37 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Every day we now throw away things people will kill for after TEOTWAWKI)
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To: SeekAndFind

All of a sudden, there’s more media trashing Sarah. They are are trying to destroy her chances of running. And she’s been very quiet lately. There’s a chance she won’t run, but I think she will. When she declares, the whole thing is going to erupt. There are a bunch of folks waiting patiently. At least some of us are.

Whether your a Palin fan or not - it’s gonna get ugly and be a whole lot of fun.


16 posted on 05/16/2011 7:05:03 AM PDT by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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RE: All of a sudden, there’s more media trashing Sarah

Yep, and she has not even announced her intention of running, much less formed an exploratory committee like Michele Bachmann.

Let’s face it, the left IS afraid that she will run. She is the candidate they fear most.

That’s why there is so much effort promoting the likes of Mitt Romney...


17 posted on 05/16/2011 7:08:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: SeekAndFind

If I’m not mistaken Gov. Palin has already stated she doesn’t need a exploratory committee. When Sarah goes it full throttle campaign mode.


18 posted on 05/16/2011 7:13:51 AM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: "You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: Hacklehead
"The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers"

-- William Shakespeare

"Don't forget the Obama-Rumpswabbing Media"

-- Fed up, disgusted Americans


19 posted on 05/16/2011 7:14:19 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Every day we now throw away things people will kill for after TEOTWAWKI)
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To: Republic of Texas

This is the time for Sarah to step up to the plate! America needs her more than ever. Yes, the leftwing press will attempt to asassinate her daily. If she loses, then this nation (formerly under God) will get the just results of 4 more years of the pretender Obama. At this point it’s not about Sarah, It’s about the republic and we the people need to stand up and give this greatest gift of God one more chance to survive. May God be with you Sarah, America, and the State of Israel!


20 posted on 05/16/2011 7:15:03 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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