QUIT? GOVERNORS DON'T QUIT
Alaska politics play rough. But it's also big on lawsuits and she was named in legal battles concerning abuse of power. They started piling up. You see her job as Governor was a lot like her vetting, sooner or later the truth started coming out and she felt she had established her brand and it would solve her problems so she quit as Governor claiming she was doing it for Alaska. She qualified for all three levels of the Sanctimonious Crock Awards.
Truthfully no one with brains believed her. She's doing it for money from the book, legal bills and innumerable charges coming from the state legislature. The Alaska legislature went after her for violations of abuse, too many to mention but it is estimated her legal fees exceed a half million dollars so far.
Maybe leaving office is part of a deal or leaving office gives her time to regroup, practice her babble and maybe school herself in Constitutional law, Civil law, and not just sit there and tell us what's wrong with the press, the reporters, the newspapers, the media, the blogs, the late night TV "commentariats", her opponents, government, her brother in law, Levi and did I mention the unfair liberal PRESS.
We know what's wrong. Her brain and mouth connection. We elect based on popularity, even if they are imbeciles, to office if they say the right words, look the right look, and promise more BS than the other guy.
She may wear religion on her sleeve, but a good book deal in the bra is closer to her heart. And there are enough gullible people out there that believe her especially when she drags in the right Sarah for the occasion.
She is a true Alaskan, she loves her Alaska and that is so, so big in her heart. So she quit. Wow, what self sacrifice. It just had to be the book deal written in an incredible three months for millions. What talent! It proves fiction, a good co-writer, lots of cut and paste, bashing and no substance can make you a writer.
Dump Alaska, maybe before they dumped her? Now that's unique set of events and so are the people in Alaska who deserved better than the 1000 dollar checks she handed out from the rebates of the oil tax fund. Then, only then, they surveyed her popularity. Give everyone a 1000 dollars and even the meth-heads will fill out the forms. They did, meth prices soared.
Alaskans are incredibly unique people. Survivalists who live by the land, off the land and with the land. I have many friends there and they think it's the closest place to heaven on earth. Yes, weather is a factor, but the purity of life for some is more rewarding. They are tough people because they have to be. The climate lends itself to that statement. They are multi-tasking survivalists. And the state has problems with drugs and booze.
It seems everyone in Alaska loves fishing and hunting which in some ways supports "eating values”. I have no problem with that. Killing for fun, or for overkill wall decorations, different story. Think about it, when two hundred miles of tundra separates you from the nearest Publix Supermarket, that moose in the front yard looks like the meat department's free home delivery both fresh and nicely packaged. I have nothing wrong with that as long as you explain that to those who live in cities and ghettos.
TRUTH vs. FOLKLORE: (LIES)
Chicago Tribune: “That luxury jet was over the top,” Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said to loud cheers. “I put it on eBay”. Yes she did. BUT it did not sell. Did not sell three times. I hope they got paid for the listings that did not sell.
MORE SPIN BS
Sara Palin’s statement implied the plane was sold through the online auction site revered for empowering millions of small entrepreneurs, and Palin’s spokeswoman insisted that the transaction occurred.
The 23-year-old 10-seat WestWind II was sold in August 2007 for $2.1 million to a Valdez, Alaska, entrepreneur; that’s about $500,000 less than a broker’s asking price, plus commission. Had she kept it, we imagined what the logo and theme of the 25 year old Westwind II would look like.
The plane, bought by her Republican predecessor whom she beat in 2006, was listed for sale three times on the San Jose Internet auction giant. But no one ever met the minimum bid. The plane was listed with an asking price of $2.5 million in 2007. The state had paid just under $2.7 million for it in 2005. Finally, the state turned to an aircraft broker, who sold the jet to an Alaskan businessman for $2.1 million". Only the book keepers know how much the state spent refurbing and upgrading the aircraft so we will never know how much they really lost.
GAS ON THE FIRE
John McCain, however, took the claim a step further just days after Palin's speech, suggesting that Palin had not only sold the plane on eBay, but made money on the deal as well. At a campaign stop in Wisconsin on Sept. 5, McCain said, "You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay — and made a profit!"
But that wasn't the case. In addition, that aircraft had the size and range and not only used for the governor but it served to transfer Alaskan prisoners to jail in other parts of the country. This was one of its primary functions. Now the state pays for that trip. They transfer their prisoners to Colorado, as Alaska doesn't have the resources for prisoners. So now they go commercial flights mixed in with you and me and Palin rented a really nicer bigger more expensive bird. Bottom line, more untruths.
NOT STRONG OFF SCRIPT
Here is a gal that doesn't know what she reads BUT just wrote a book. Unbelievable that people actually follow her. In Charles Gibson’s interview, she still failed World Politics 101. In Katie Couric's interview she failed the entire semester. Her coach Senator "Switchsides" Lieberman did the coaching, she had no clue as to what the Bush Doctrine was or is. Basically his failed doctrines in ten years of war still won’t take up much space in the Bush Legacy library. OK, the doctrines simply put “attack the bad guys before they attack you”.
Not knowing the Busch Doctrines is one thing, not knowing the job of the V.P. is an insult to the party, the people and the whole way we elect folks to the highest offices in the land. Her answer to "what is the role of the VP" was astoundingly ignorant. The VP has one role, to take over if anything happens to the President.
She replied, “as VP she would go to Congress, and tell them what laws to pass, and direct how things are done”. It got worse, almost embarrassing, for McCain knew at that point his boys blew it. Big time. Get out the recipe books boys, and look up “cooked goose”.
False statements, cut’s and snips and not even knowing what you read or say really sends up the flares. Like watching repeats, Katie Couric had a classic field day with her. It was not intentional, as Sara would have it, you know the liberal press excuse, all the dumb answers came from one mouth to simple no-trick questions. Except on FOX TV, the station of the Legion of Doom. She simply knew nothing about almost anything.
One question in particular was extremely difficult. What do you read? She had no clue what papers she does read. Couric said "It's usually printed at the top of the first page or on the cover".
FIRST DUDE - MYSTERY MAN
She is married to "The First Dude", who for some reason doesn’t speak. What we do know is he is a commercial fisherman, four or is it five time winner of the ski-machine races across Alaska, a steel worker and works for BP. BUT, he is silent, he doesn’t speak about anything. It was like a gag order backstage. We can just assume who wears the mouth in that house and rightfully so since keeping him quiet prevented the public from learning... wrong.
And then in January 2010 it, the truth leaked out. He was more involved in the running of ALASKA then was let on based on over 3000 emails that leaked out after being requested under the information act regulations. Maybe that explains the “Silence of the Gams” during the election run where the only mouth going non-stop was Sarah Palin.
Oh my GOD... he is (or was) a Democrat. A Registered Democrat, and also supported the Alaska Independence Party, for seven years, holding office, which would like for Alaska to leave the United States and declare it's own sovereignty.
Then he could be King and...then Sarah Palin would be the Queen, not just a pageant contender. Nice Dude! Instead she chose the Drama queen for bigger stakes. What a combo and boy that wasn't even played by the Obama team, missed opportunities or just a class act on Obamas side but this just adds to the idiocy of this candidate for anything.
DRESSING THE PART
Somehow her “Soccer, Hockey, Moose Hunter Mom image carefully selected by the couture authorities at the local Wal-Mart look didn’t quite “fit the picture “ of a Vice President. So McCains handlers made sure she had a few accessories to go with her budget thrift shop wardrobe. So they re-created her and the RNC got screwed.
The expenses for clothing etc. included $75,062 spent at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis Minnesota, and $41,850 in St. Louis in early September. Tip of the iceberg, we were clothing a family. So $40,000 for the guy who doesn't talk, the first Dude and it didn’t stop there. The daughters got treated pretty well with $175.00 shoes. I can get at BASS shoe stores six pair for that. I just did, I'm bad on shoes.
That wasn't all! So we looked further. We found $22,000 for makeup, $10,000 hair and her handlers got another $20,000. The total after the election kept going up as the bills came in and the real figures are probably never going to pop out.
The Republican party should get the $10,000 back from her Constitution handlers because in another interview with Nancy Pfotenhauer, Senator McCain’s hard hitting blonde attack talking head, Nancy couldn’t define the job of the Vice-President either to Chris Mathews.
But I got to hand it to McCain, he sure had some pretty ladies on the job.
They should have held classes with the cast of "So you think you are smarter than a fifth grader". They proved you could make a silk purse from a Moose’s ear if you try hard enough but Silk is not in fashion now. And most moose’s are hoarding their ears.