Rick Moran might hate Palin. He's way over the top at times.
I don't hate Palin. I just find many of her supporters to be quite irrational.
Hi,
I am a true blue Palin supporter. Try this on for irrational:
1. I do not believe that anyone who has been a member of congress for 30 years is the least bit qualified to be president, as a matter of fact they are more than likely disqualified. Tell me about your job experience please... Well I spent my life on a committee. We pissed away trillions of dollars of the taxpayers money, a lot of it on ourselves by voting ourselves perks and things that we did not deserve. In addition we have never been accountable because when one is on a committee you can always blame it on "they". Basically we have a history of no courage or fortitude, almost always taking the easy way out and spending more than we make. Some of us were quite proud during the Reagan years of making sure we wasted billions of the taxpayer's money because we wanted to make sure the public never, ever realized that his tax cuts really worked so we had to make sure he had big deficits.
I happen to believe that three of the four people running in the last race had zero qualifications for the job. Had they ever run a business successfully? Had they ever run a city, county, bus lines, hamburger stand? A lifetime of sitting on a committee does not qualify one to be an executive any more than a baseball writer is qualified to be a ball player. I will give McCain some credit for leadership as a young man 40 years ago but what the hell qualified Biden or BO?
2. There is a hell of a big difference between activity and accomplishment. I will let an Alaskan make my point for me about Palin. This appears on page 405 of her excellent book:
"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's not about persona, style, rhetoric, its 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 Governors office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republicans 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 governors 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, well pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governors 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 wont 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.
As we have been saying for a long time, Sarah Palin was an incredibly effective Governor, and a true servant of the people. The kind of woman who isn't afraid of whatever challenge that faces her. As she has shown in the past few weeks, she is more than ready to take on big government, like she has big oil. And if Sarah Palin could tame Exxon-Mobil, I'm sure she will make quick work of D.C.!
BTW, even though she has given Exxon-Mobil absolute fits, they were more than happy to sign on as a partner in the Trans-Canada natural gas pipeline, her crowning achievement as Governor, that Dewey mentions in his letter.
People, like myself, who have followed Sarah for some time, understand the greatness of this woman. Sarah Palin is an American leader who has what is sorely needed today: The ability to get things done, good things for the people.
5412 talking now.... To me this is why the libs are terrified of her, both the establishment democrats and republicans have great cause for concern. She took the state budges and realized telling the department heads to cut expenses was impossible, they did not know how to do it. Just like you do at home when times are tough, she and her staff went through the budgets line by line and crossed out and questioned thousands of items and got them tossed out. Honestly I do not think government employees understood, much less even knew how to do that. They are so used to pissing away our tax dollars and not being held accountable they did not know know how to react.
In business we used to call that base line or zero based budgeting. You do not automatically get what you got last year, you start from zero and justify every dollar you need or you don't get it. We don't need Sarah, we need 1,000 Sarah's in government who think like that and have the skills to get it done. Unless, of course we are comfortable with trillion dollar deficits while congress votes themselves five new jets in the current budget.
If that is irrational, then so be it, I hope you found my post entertaining.
regards,
5412
