Palin Is Not Ready For Prime Time – Send Her Back To Wasilla

 
Sarah Palin’s sordid affairs as Governor keep erupting like salmon jumping out of the Alaska waters.  Each day she tells another lie about why she fired the Public Safety Commissioner.  Her latest explanation is  because  he went on an authorized  trip to Washington, DC to try get a grant to reduce rapes in Alaska.  You [...]

Kopp hiring proved Palin’s fundamentalist street cred

Could it be that Sarah Palin’s appointment by John McCain is part of a larger Christian right deal made between John McCain and Franklin Graham, son of Rev. Billy Graham?  The intrigue goes deeper because the writer suggests that when Palin fired Walter Monegan as her Public Safety Commissioner, she replaced him with a local [...]

Abdication by Palin…Alaskans Blame McCain Campaign For Taking Over Governor’s Office

When did the McCain campaign take over the governor’s office?
Alaska Daily News Online
 September 20, 2008
 
 

Gov. Sarah Palin has surrendered important gubernatorial duties to the Republican presidential campaign. McCain staff are handling public and press questions about actions she has taken as governor. The governor who said, “Hold me accountable,” is hiding behind the hired [...]

National Debt Chart Shows Republicans Are The Big Spenders

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How many times have you heard Republicans attack Democrats for being big spenders? Well, the data shows something entirely different. Just think about it. When Bill Clinton left office, not only was the nation not in debt, but he left a surplus in the nation’s coffers. Fast forward eight years later and what [...]

How Did Sarah Palin Govern? Hired Friends and Punished Enemies

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-palinstyle8-2008sep08,0,6185940.story
From the Los Angeles Times
CAMPAIGN ‘08
Sarah Palin’s leadership style has admirers and critics
Some who have worked with the Alaska governor say her bold approach is lacking in follow-through, and that she punishes those who dare say ‘no.’
By Tom Hamburger and Kim Murphy
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 8, 2008
ANCHORAGE — Three years ago, when a Democratic [...]

AlaskaTroopers dub Mat-Su area the meth capital of Alaska

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030805/sta_20050308002.shtml
 
WASILLA – The Matanuska-Susitna area is the methamphetamine capital of Alaska, according to Alaska State Troopers.In 2003, authorities uncovered nine meth labs in the area. Last year, the number increased to 42, said Kyle Young, an investigator with the troopers who works with the Mat-Su narcotics team.
Officials with the Office of Children’s Services in Wasilla [...]

Sarah’s First Interview

Friday, September 12, 2008
It’s Friday Ya Bastids!
SARAH’S FIRST INTERVIEW
So here’s the thing…..any comment we, or anyone in the media, make and a good chunk of America is going to make will be met with “You’re being unfair! You’re ganging up on her! Leave the poor hockey mom alone! You’re over the line. YOU [...]

Palin’s Environmental Record, or Lack Thereof

 from Salon.com
Sarah Palin’s dead lake
By promoting runaway development in her hometown, say locals, Palin has “fouled her own nest” — and that goes for the lake where she lives.
By David Talbot
Sep. 19, 2008 | Every morning she’s at home here, Sarah Palin wakes up to a postcard view from her lakeside home. Out the [...]

Palin On Diversity And Civil Rights: Nada, Nothing, No

Palin Has No Record on Diversity or Civil Rights
Posted September 4, 2008
New America Media
Commentary by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
There’s no record that Alaska Governor and Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin uttered anything more than the obligatory complimentary congratulations to the woman that beat her out for the Miss Alaska title in 1984. The winner was Maryline [...]

‘Barbies for War!’

September 17, 2008
New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
Carly Fiorina, the woman John McCain sent out to defend Sarah Palin and rip anyone who calls her a tabula rasa on foreign policy and the economy, admitted Tuesday that Palin was not capable of running Hewlett-Packard.
That’s pretty damning coming from Fiorina, who also was not capable of [...]