Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes

Photo credit: Heath Family, via Associated Press
Sarah Palin, the future governor and vice-presidential nominee, at the center, in a 1998 photograph. Throughout her career, Ms. Palin has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and blurred the line between government and personal grievance.
September 13, 2008
New York Times
By JO BECKER, PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL [...]

Republican campaign downplays Palin book-banning inquiry

Of course they are playing it down. They don’t want us to know that she, who doesn’t appear to read much of anything, wants to decide what the rest of us read. For a forty-something year old woman who has been out of the country one time — and that was an “official” visit she [...]