Posted on 10/25/2014 5:16:51 PM PDT by Resettozero
Our family is proud to support Bill Walker to lead Alaska! Bill Walker, Byron Mallott, and their families joined with ours and other Alaskans in Todd’s airplane hangar this week in a show of true Alaskan support, complete with a potlatch brimming with salmon, moose, and caribou hors d’oeuvres.
Life-long Alaskans Bill and Byron have proven that they truly have our state’s heart and believe in putting Alaska first and ignoring status quo politics that get in the way of Alaska’s destiny. This is refreshing and productive, and Alaska wins when Team Walker wins!
This unity ticket came about when winners of their respective primary races selflessly stepped aside for the sake of Alaska! This is rarely done in politics and proves that this strong independent ticket represents an Alaskan-sized heart, putting people over party machine politics and Alaskans over egos.
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You are supporting a liberal. Please I implore you to read before making support statements. It’s best to become informed on who you declare your support.
I’m not going to engage in bashing of her as others might (the haters’ “quitter” schtick is old, stupid and easily refutable when the facts are laid out). I just don’t agree with her endorsement (and I think I’ve only disagreed with her on two, the other being McCain).
Walker-Mallott is the opposition Democrat ticket, and whatever problems are going on with Parnell, I don’t expect the state will improve under a Dem ticket. Stick with Parnell for now and get a new Republican Conservative in 2018.
I’m not endorsing a Democrat ticket. You do know Walker-Mallott is a Democrat ticket, don’t you ? It’s like that phony Orman in the KS Senate race. Mallott, the former Gubernatorial nominee for the Democrats, would never have agreed to join with Walker if this was not going to be an anti-Republican ticket.
I support the Governor for one last term and a Conservative Republican to succeed him in 2018.
But why would Sarah support them? I got that you wouldn’t and heavens know I wouldn’t :-)
I think that you’ve said it very well. It’s possible to disagree with someone without being hateful.
Ooo I just saw you said Parnell not Walker...gotcha!!
She has a personal disagreement or beef with Gov. Parnell. I can understand, since none of us agree 100% of the time, but this is a nuclear option in dealing with a disagreement. For folks that don’t understand the relationship between Palin and Parnell, this would’ve been the equivalent of President Reagan endorsing Bill Clinton in 1992 over President GHW Bush.
Yeah. Where Gov. Palin is concerned, it can be like walking a minefield. You have the PDS people on one side screaming “Quitter !” with rabies spittle flying fast and furious, and the die-hard supporters on the other side who are so shell-shocked from the unfair and biased coverage she (and her family) has received over the years that if someone voices a disagreement with her, the reaction tends to be to attack.
I probably agree with Gov. Palin probably better than 95% of the time, it’s why this endorsement came as a shock, because I disagreed so much with it and thought it was ill-advised. She may sincerely believe Walker is better for Alaska, but I question Walker’s decision to agree to merge his ticket with the far-left Democrats and take on Mallott as a running mate. The Democrats, and especially the unions, are going to expect a big payoff from Walker for their support, and I don’t see how this is going to benefit the Conservative agenda at all in AK.
I know Palin has had to battle the RINO Establishment in AK (essentially, the Murkowski wing), so she may feel that Parnell has “gone native” and betrayed her, why she would go to the extreme length of endorsing Walker-Mallott. It may just be too personal for her, and sometimes that can result in a blind spot.
But, I wish her no ill will, and she’s certainly had to put up with far more (and her family) than virtually anyone else, and that would destroy others with a fraction of that treatment. Just imagine if Zero or his family got the Palin media treatment, they’d have crumpled in weeks.
You may be right and this has become personal for her. I can understand how she’d feel after supporting a bill that Parnell fought to stop (SB 21 or something). Once emotion gets in the mix it makes judgement iffy.
As I speculated to another FReeper, this must be causing some level of chaos in the race. Parnell has to count on GOP voters (presumably Palin supporters). Walker-Mallott has to count on the Dem opposition (and Palin haters). With Palin’s endorsement, the haters might switch to Parnell so as not to vote for HER candidate, but it ends up leaving Parnell & Palin supporters scratching their heads and wondering what to do.
I expect Parnell should win again, but you never know. I was hoping his race would be in the bag so we could focus more on taking out Begich, who should never have won in the first place. And next, in 2016, we need to finally take out Leftist Lisa the Horrible.
Well heck. Politics are always a mess.....human beings are involved.
Thanks KC_Lion.
Ya and it would be our luck it was Drey, WTC911 or someone still here that we get into wars with regularly.
Oh well. ;)
Good for Sarah....The GOPe machine in Alaska is in bed with special interests of the business elites and does not have the best interests of small business and individual business in mind.
There’s no difference between these GOPe supporting elites and the Dem leftists on immigration, abortion or for those opposed to it, gay marriage.
The National Right To Life Committee and various state groups like the one in Alaska and the one here in Pennsylvania are tools of the GOPe.
These groups that claim to hold the “Pro-Life” mantle will lie to get us to vote for the GOPe candidates, even if they aren’t Pro-Life.
In my state of PA, two Republican state senate leaders who voted themselves a 34 percent pay increase were endorsed as “Pro-Life” by the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation in 2006.
The two senators had a track record of being Pro-Abortion.
But what counted in the end to the “Pro-Life Federation” was their political power as Republican leaders. The NRL and company are tied at the hip to the GOPe.
Yeah, there’s a lot of internal AK GOP politics going on we’re not privy to. She’s always been on the anti-establishment side of the party. I remember when she first ran for Lt Governor back in 2002 and placed 2nd in the primary, narrowly losing to Loren Leman. I got the impression Frank Murkowski definitely would not have wanted her as his #2.
It turned out a blessing, because his disastrous single-term governorship would’ve gotten her tarred if she had been #2 (and as it was, Leman refused to run again), so losing freed her to be able to run against Murkowski (who placed an embarrassing 3rd behind Palin and State Sen. John Binkley).
As I mentioned in a prior post, this was a pretty big deal her parting ways with Gov. Parnell, who had been regarded as her heir apparent. Of course, in Parnell striking out on his own, he was bound to come into conflict with her, but I’d never have imagined she’d go the route with this endorsement (it’s odd why she didn’t recruit someone to run against Parnell in the primary, where he faced only desultory opposition — Walker had ample opportunity to run again, as he did in 2010, losing to Parnell 50-33%).
I think it’s a bit too personal on her part, and allowing the likes of ultraleft Dem Mallott a heartbeat away from the Governorship is a really bad idea. It would be a different story if Walker picked a non-leftist running mate, but choosing to make common cause with the corrupt union-straitjacketed AK Dems is a giveaway to the rest of us that this is not a Conservative guy.
I wish she had acted boldly in stepping up in 2010 to denounce and defeat McCain in the primary, for whom she had more than ample evidence he and his people had stabbed her in the back from virtually the moment after she was picked and almost caused that RINO ringer to accidentally win the election over the anointed Obola.
In the end, you hate seeing your heroes make mistakes or endorse things or people you strongly take issue with (we had Fred Thompson here in TN, and I hated to see a good man like him endorse really odious people, as he did once with the ultraleft Sen. Lincoln Chafee). Even President Reagan made some goofs (Sandra Day O’Connor, for one; or going with GHW Bush over Sen. Paul Laxalt for VP).
Only Murkowski’s are allowed to do that and get away with it....
You think the Murkowski GOPe Pro-Abortion, Pro-Elitist machine has the best interests of Alaskans in mind.
I don’t believe it.....
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