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AN ALASKAN FISHERMAN TELLS IT LIKE SARAH PALIN REALLY IS.
You will not see this anywhere in the LameStream Media. By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.
As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.
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.
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 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. Should known better.
You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives.
So "You go, Girl.." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.
I rest my case.
Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman
NOHING strikes fear into the left wingers like Sarah Palin! I would love to see a Palin, Ron Paul ticket.
NOHING strikes fear into the left wingers like Sarah Palin! I would love to see a Palin, Ron Paul ticket.
You are confusing "fear" with "nausea". Palin is fine candidate for a spoof book or movie based on her character, but it really does provoke nausea to think that some fringe whacko Americans would support her in a serious election. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence and common sense is aware of the fact that Palin could never win a POTUS election. The idea is ludicrous.
You are confusing "fear" with "nausea". Palin is fine candidate for a spoof book or movie based on her character, but it really does provoke nausea to think that some fringe whacko Americans would support her in a serious election. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence and common sense is aware of the fact that Palin could never win a POTUS election. The idea is ludicrous.
Sadly there are some that hate Obama enough that they would vote for Palin, regardless of the consequences for the country.
And quits the job she took an oath to do.....................................
She did not like what was going on in her town...she became the mayor
She did not like what was going on in her state...she became Governor
She does not like whats going on in her country........
She found out that she was going to have a baby with Downs syndrome.
She did not "Quit" that pregnancy.
No,Sarah Palin is not a "Quitter"
She just has bigger goals to reach.....
Palin would easily be a better president than Obama
I agree. I don't know that she would have been up to the task. I don't know that she would have done well in the position. Maybe. But one thing I'm damn sure of--she wouldn't have led us into the tyranny that we now face and have to try to figure a way to get out of.
Anyone would make a better leader than Obama, even Joe the clown Biden. Obama in not only incompetent, but down right dangerous. He is destroying our country.
[quote=milliebfit;12157929]She did not like what was going on in her town...she became the mayor
She did not like what was going on in her state...she became Governor
She does not like whats going on in her country........
She found out that she was going to have a baby with Downs syndrome.
She did not "Quit" that pregnancy.
No,Sarah Palin is not a "Quitter" She just has bigger goals to reach.....[/QUOTE]
They cannot see that. One eye is open and the other is closed.
She worries them to bad they are trying anything they can.
Be scared, very scared that she is a total rock star.
Your so right, when people ridicule, and belittle and go after someone's family the way so many did to Palin, it is usually because of the fear you are talking about, they won't admit to it, but they are scared of something or someone, the someone was Palin. There were things about Biden that did not come out WHY!
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