Stalking the Dark Lady: An Investigative Journalist’s Tale
“What about all those houses across the street?”
“The one on the end? Mother Jones,” she said. “Next door to that? Harper’s. And then Le Monde. And then some fella from Hollywood who says he’s writing a miniseries about her. And at the other end of the block, this nice German boy who writes for a newspaper which I think is called Der Spiegel. I’m afraid they all got here ahead of you, darlin’! In fact, the boy from Der Spiegel came over to our place for dinner last night. He was especially interested to hear about Sarah’s collection of Nazi memorabilia, which is the most extensive this side of the Mississippi. You know, of course, that she and Todd used to hold parties where they dressed up as Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, sang the ‘Horst Wessel Song’ in German — she’s really much better in foreign languages than she lets on — and encouraged their children to laugh it up over films of the death camps? And that’s just scratching the surface, I’m sorry to say.”
“Oh God,” I said. “This is amazing stuff! Everything you’re telling me just confirms that I absolutely have to write about this! It’s urgent! I’ve got to get to the bottom of this story! My career — I mean, the future of the republic — depends on it!”
“Sweetie, believe me, I hear you. Nobody understands what you’re after better than I do. We’re talking about a woman who used to go down to the hospital and pull out the plugs of folks on life support — and on the way out, she’d stop at the maternity ward and stick razors in the newborns’ diapers and spray mosquito repellent in their eyes. Poor little innocents!”
“That reminds me,” I interrupted. “Is it true that she’s not really Trig’s mother?”
Silence. The real-estate lady cleared her throat. Then she said, her tone decidedly cooler: “Come on now, son. Let’s not be ridiculous.”
Excellent.
Good stuff! Now let’s see if the left wing bloggers take the bait.
Thanks for the links to the Los Angeles Times column on Sarah Palin. Her words will save lives and restore a smidgen of sanity to rest of ones day if you follow the last link. “Let’s not be ridiculous”. I wish people could just “get” Sarah Palin, instead they’ll just not, and that’s kind of sad.
Hilarious! I had the opportunity to be in Alaska this Summer and met a few “greenies” that make quips and jokes about Palin. Greenies were defined by one of the bartenders as transplants from the lower 48 that believe Alaska needs to be saved from development, what development?, and if a bear or moose attack don’t harm the animal and defend yourself, even bear spray is a stretch for them. Just wish there were more angry bears and moose. Your tale is too funny.
It isn’t just “greenies” that make quips about the Half Governor. Greenies and lefties generally are a miniscule but very loud minority here. You’ll find a few newcomer Greenies who espouse the bear bells and won’t carry a gun or bear spray, but amongst those who’ve been here awhile, even liberal Democrats are NRA Life Members.
Sarah couldn’t win a Statewide election in Alaska if her life depended on it against any reasonably credible opponent, R or D. Now that Governor Parnell has been re-elected on his own, he’s not so fearful of the dread Tweet from She Who Was Once Governor, we’re beginning to undo some of her stupidity and pandering. Anyway, most here in Alaska, no matter their politics, are more that happy that She Now Belongs to the Nation.
Funny stuff. Alas, The lefty “journalists” have succeeded in marginalizing Palin at least for the 2012 elections. This upper West Side New Yorker would have voted for her. Hers is a strong American voice we must continue to hear.
The first order of business for a new administration is to shut down all the “journalism” schools. Second, close down half the law schools. Return the universities to core curriculum. No government funding of seditious and useless courses on the taxpayer’s nickel. Black studies? Get your funding from the NAACP. Women’s studies? Get a grant from NOW. Transgender studies? Take the subway to Christopher Street.
Way to go! Love the idea of grants from NOW etc to study “women’s” studies, and their academic ilk.
Just one question: will you marry me? You sound witty and intellectually resourceful and a hell of a lot of fun. And you make very good sense.
In point of fact, I’m happily married to a man who agrees with you and me. But you should certainly get a lot of proposals from sensible women reading this great comment.
Two conservative families on the Upper West Side! There goes the neighborhood.
ThoughI am not from NYC I do know a 3rd family from your area that is conservative believe it or not.I think there are more of you than any of you realize you are all just too afraid to say anything about it.
Great column! ROFLOL
Let’s let our hair down and be honest even if our neighbors can’t. The UWS which is the most liberal voting district in the nation is lily white. You see dark skinned people on the street but they’re either store clerks or domestic servants. Our neighbors live like WASPS and vote like the Puerto Ricans and Dominicans who serve as their doormen. Upper West Siders are a study in hypocrisy.
Truth be told, it’s Palin’s father, about whom I know next to nothing, who I truly respect. Raised his daughter the way I raised my three. Wilderness camping at every opportunity. Tents three seasons, cabins in winter.
My three are all stellar academic performers, physically fit, philanthropically engaged at all times in one volunteer project or another and even the one teaching at Harvard and breathing the polluted air in Cambridge can’t be sold the Brooklyn Bridge.
Laughed so hard I choked on my breakfast cereal and can’t hardly breathe but oh I love a good laugh in the morning before work. This article will make me smile all day long!
Very funny Bruce. A side of you I have never seen before (and please Dark Lady I mean that metaphorically- I have never even met Bruce).
Wonderful!!!
Hysterical! I love it. Thank you for brightening my morning. Please, more, more skewering of the left like this!
What a hoot! I especially liked the touch with the mosquito repellent in the eyes, attention to those little details is what made McGinnis’ self-inflicted unhinged-undoing so thorougly devastating.
Just have one question, if I may,
Reading the comment from ladies on this thread, I assumed so judging by names, who the “NOW” represents??? I mean, they said nothing while Sarah Palin was vilified. So, who they represent?
I think I can safely say that NOW does not represent conservative women.
Now does not represent Liberal women, either.
Mr. Bawer, Funniest piece I have read in ages. Did you see Joe McGinnis on Hardball? He and Chris Matthews had a love fest. Move in next to the Palins, read all her e-mails, talk about her every day, BUT don’t mention the Solyndra scandal, or the Fast and Furious scandal, or Journolist, or Climate-Gate, etc.
Geez! And she looks so sweet, innocent and in love with her poor, abused, dunce of a husband………..what’s his name? Oh yeah; Mr. Palin.
This is a fun read if also a tragicomedy.
Question: Does the media have no shame or dedication to the lofty principles of professional journalism?
Answer: Are you kidding me!
Question: Does the media have any fear of being discovered, criticized or condemned for the blatant liars and liberal propagandists they’ve become?
Answer: You’ve got to be kidding me!
Question: So what’s the answer?
Answer: Good question.
Governor Palin will have the last laugh.
I can see her acting as “kingmaker” for many dozens of new TEA Party movement senators and congressmen in the 2012 elections, and if that happens, the incoming Administration might well reward her with a Cabinet level appointment (Secretary of the Interior?) or other high profile position.
She serves as a loyal and hardworking cabinet officer, continues to build her organization and resume and confound the dumbass Legacy Media for eight years (while they continue to keep her name front and center for the American people), just in time for the 2020 elections. Governor Palin is still an energetic young woman, by the time 2020 rolls around she will be the leading candidate for the office of President.
They think about the next headline, she has probably plotted out the next decade…..
If it weren’t for the accompanying photo, I would think this article was about a New York Times journalist that went “Whistle Blower” after working there for a while.
Still good; But, damn. Sometime soon.
Those of us who actually know her and saw her “governance” first hand are more than happy to have her continue to be a celebrity and make all kinds of money if that is what it takes to keep her out of government at ANY level.
If you saw Sarah’s governance “up-close”, maybe have some photos of Sarah wearing a Wonder-bra & tight mini-skirt to work, like the stalker wrote about? Or, maybe janitors weren’t allowed cameras in the State Capitol?
I had the misfortune of being with her lots of Monday mornings as we both attended Commissioner of Administration staff meetings. I was a division director with an actual job, she was in a patronage payoff position in the AOGCC that Governor Murkowski hoped would keep her quiet after she didn’t get her wished for appointment to the Senate. She was so remarkably unqualified for that position that the Legislature passed legislation fondly referred to as the “No More Sarah Palins Bill” imposing some actual qualifications and knowlege of the oil industry for appointees to the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. She had a job that gave lots of travel, lots of opportunity to rub elbows, and she got to sign work that other people produced. Then she pulled her little stunt with ratting off a fellow commissioner and became every Democrat’s favorite Republican. I retired in July ’06, but maintained my contacts inside the government. She provided lots of entertainment and we’ll never get our half-billion bucks back from the Canadians, never see her vaporware gas line, and her confiscatory tax scheme has practically halted oil exploration in Alaska at a time when our production is dramatically declining. Yeah, you folks in the Lower 48 are more than welcome to our celibrity half-governor.
Lets see how this all stacks up for this member of the corruptocrats in Alaska hating how she suckerpunced your “thing” up there:
>> I had the misfortune
Personal bias, not impressive, no substance.
>> I was a division director with an actual job, she was in a patronage payoff position in the AOGCC that Governor Murkowski hoped would keep her quiet after she didn’t get her wished for appointment to the Senate.
Again hearsay, everybody said she did an outstanding job, she was elected leader of the mayor association uninamously.
>> She was so remarkably unqualified for that position that the Legislature passed legislation fondly referred to as the “No More Sarah Palins Bill” imposing some actual qualifications and knowlege of the oil industry for appointees to the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
Link or background? Thats right., youre just disliking her. Ofcourse Todd having been in that filed for manny years doesn’t matter to you..
>> She had a job that gave lots of travel, lots of opportunity to rub elbows, and she got to sign work that other people produced.
Seems like a normal jobdescription, everybody working as a team, even professors use students for much of their work. Why the hate?
>> Then she pulled her little stunt with ratting off a fellow commissioner and became every Democrat’s favorite Republican.
I think we came to the essential point here. Corrupt Republicans that wanted to keep their money-circle going. After all why would you object to someone reported for unethical behaviour if you are a honest person? Are you perhaps part of the CBC? I think we know the answer to that question..
>> I retired in July ’06, but maintained my contacts inside the government.
Thats the spirit, “contacts”. Part of the “Good ol’ boys” club! How quaint.
>> She provided lots of entertainment and we’ll never get our half-billion bucks back from the Canadians, never see her vaporware gas line,
From Wiki: “TransCanada has secured state seed money and a license from the state of Alaska to build and operate a pipeline, but does not yet have federal approvals needed to start construction. On June 11, 2009 TransCanada announced it had formed an agreement with ExxonMobil to work together in bringing the gas to market.[2]”
My my seems all is well with the pipeline, and the only thing that is stopping it is the OK from Obama. Now imagine that! Perhaps you should vote for her then so you get the pipeline you are pining for? Just a suggestion.
>> and her confiscatory tax scheme has practically halted oil exploration in Alaska at a time when our production is dramatically declining. Yeah, you folks in the Lower 48 are more than welcome to our celibrity half-governor.
Sure it has. Thats why the population gets its fat checks every year, a record during Palins governance, and why she forward funded education, fixed the pension-system and left the state with 12 billion surplus smack middle in the recession.
Heres a 2011 report for just one small company in Alaska:
“29-Jul-2011, Annual Report – Currently, we are continuing to develop the acreage we acquired during fiscal 2010 and 2011. These acquisitions have grown our Alaskan acreage position to approximately 649,507 acres of gross oil and gas leases and exploration license rights (630,462 net acres), which includes 471,474 acres under the Susitna Basin Exploration License No. 2 and 62,909 acres under the Susitna Basin Exploration License No. 4 (also referred to as our North Susitna Exploration License). We are continuing to assess and add strategic acreage to our Alaska leases and licenses. Our Tennessee leases consist of 37,916 acres, making our total gross acreage 687,423 acres.
During the year ended April 30, 2011, we began completion work on three Alaska wells that were previously shut in, and we have completed work on two of these wells. We capitalized approximately $8.6 million of costs associated with those efforts. In addition, we plan to recomplete eight previously shut in wells in the next three to six months.”
Now I understand why some people can’t leave her alone. She broke the CBCs back and now she is looking at the CBC of all of USA. Ofcourse there is fear. And its the good kind of fear of daylight into criminal behavior. Palin 2012.
And you obviously know nothing about either Alaska or Palin that you didn’t get from C4P or one of her other sycophant sites. Now, I know that approaching a Palinbot with anything resembling a fact about their goddess is a waste of time, but I’ll indulge a little simply because there may be some sane people reading this, not just mind-numbed Palinbots.
Sarah had a good run going as the nothing mayor of Wasilla, a city government that hardly existed and for which she had a city manager to do any real work. She was attractive and wore red well, in addition to being endlessly self-promoting, so she was kind of a rising star amongst Republicans here In ’02 she tried Statewide and ran for Lt. Governor and was soundly defeated by Loren Leman, the SoCon candidate. In those days Sarah hadn’t put on her SoCon makeup.
She got beat for Lt. Gov. and tried to get Murkowski to appoint her to the US Senate. I’m not going to applaud Murkowski for appointing Lisa, it ruined the Administration, but she was a better choice than Sarah, though John Binkley would have been better than either and not nearly so controversial. In any event, Sarah never forgave Frank for not appointing her and has been at war with all things Murkowski ever since. See, e.g., her thinly disguised proxy campaign against Lisa Murkowski using the even flakier than Sarah, Joe Miller.
I won’t call her a liar because she one of those people who is so narcissistic that she believes whatever suits her or which fell out of her mouth last, but what she says happened with Randy Ruedrich is nothing like what happened and her whole “I cleaned up Alaska” meme is simply a contrivance in which she was aided and abetted by the Democrats and their house organ, The Anchorage Daily News. She did help the Democrats pass a revised Executive Branch Ethics law which ultimately was the principal thing that caused her to leave office.
She had the advantage of running for Governor at the time of the USDOJ investigation of half the Republicans in Alaska, an investigation that has subsequently been thoroughly discredited and most of the convictions thrown out. I saw her in the debates here, I’ve heard her make her staff reports to the Commissioner, I’ve heard her make addresses to the Legislature, and the woman in those days was incapable of speaking in coherent sentences or in cogent thoughts; Frank Bailey’s term, Sarah word salads, is a perfect description. She’s better now, but the reason she couldn’t answer Couric’s question was that she had read anything other than the People at the dentist’s office and, maybe, her clipping folder since she left college. And, frankly, I don’t care if it shows; most of us who held elected or appointed positions in Alaska in those days hate her effin’ guts because she has stood on a National stage and got fools to believe her at the expense of our reputations. Because of her I have to listen to some nobody like you who knows nothing about me or about Alaska call me a corruptocrat on the word of that vile woman. What do you know about Alaska politics that you didn’t learn from her and her sycophants?
She governed mostly with the support of the Democrats in the Legislature and her windfall profits tax was the fondest dream of Democrats since the ’70s, something the sane people in Alaska had resisted for thirty years. I don’t know whose annual report you’re citing by the Susitna property they’re talking about is almost 800 miles from the North Slope oil province and must be some local gas province. There was ONE working exploratory rig on the whole North Slope this year. The producers who hold the NS gas have no agreement to ship with TransCanada, and TC has no gas. Consequently, we are further from having a gas line than we were with the deal Gov. Murkowski negotiated and which she trashed as a campaign ploy. ‘Course back then she was all for an instate line paralleling the TAPS to an LNG plant in Valdez because that got her former Gov. Hickel’s support. As soon as she got elected she fell in with the TC gang and dumped the instate line and Gov. Hickel recanted his endorsement of her.
Sarah Palin had absolutely nothing to do with oil prices during her time in office, nor with the fact or the amount of the annual Permanent Fund Dividend. She was in grade school when the Permanent Fund was created and the dividend established. She just had the great good fortune of being in office when ANS peaked at $142/bbl. That helped disguise the fact that our production is down from around 2MM/bbl.dy in the late ’80s, early ’90s to around 6-700K/bbl. dy. today. So she and the Legislature had a lot of money to spend in the first two budgets of her short career. After the speculation driven price bubble burst on Obama’s election, the price tanked to below $50/bbl. She freaked because it was going to be impossible to buy popularity. She tried to send a budget over based on much higher prices so she could force the Leg to make the cuts, but they balked and made her cut the revenue estimates and the budget. When she had to deal with the unhappy process of actually running the government and doing a real budget in which you couldn’t just throw money around, SHE QUIT.
She certainly was popular when the State was spending money like a drunken sailor after years of static or declining General Fund revenue. Your dead yellow dog would have 80% approval if it was giving out an almost $2K Permanent Fund Dividend and an additional “Resource Dividend” of $1000. When she figured out that she couldn’t buy love in Alaska anymore, the Democrats that had helped her turned on her when she became the VP candidate, and the Republicans weren’t afraid of her or the USDOJ anymore, she saw her popularity from the VP run had a shelf life and that Ethics Act she so loved to brag about enacting was standing between her and a whole lot of money. So, now she has the undying adoration of ‘bots like you but couldn’t get elected to anything.
Methinks thou art just an envious and jealous small male. Didn’t know that there are such in Alaska.
“Methinks” you’re an idiot with the hots for Sarah. Your mother thought I was really big.
Oh, and just for the record, here’s the Legislature’s press release on the bill setting qualifications for the “public” seat on AOGCC, the one Palin held until she quit: http://www.akrepublicans.org/kohring/24/pdfs/kohr2006013101p.pdf
I am new to your site, and may I say this discovery has been as rewarding as my Chippendale desk I recently found at a garage sale for $20.
This article brought tears as I laughed so hard. I can’t wait to see bits taken from it by leftists attacking the Tea Party.
Also, I would like to add that those who comment on this site are head and shoulders above the rest. I have learned so much the past couple of days, and have thoroughly enjoyed myself.
I am laid up for awhile, so I am so happy to find a spot which helps keep my mind sharp and a smile on my face.
Thank you!
Great parody of deranged Palin-haters.
But, it’s kind of redundant, since Art Chance showed up.
What a loon.
No, I’m not the deranged sort of Palin hater. Like a lot of people in or who have been in Alaska politics, I’m the real thing; I thoroughly and rationally hate her. I know her. I’ve worked with her. I know most of the people she trashes as corrupt and who’ve had their reputations smeared and in some cases careers ruined by her.
The crazy lefties went down the wrong track in going after her personal life. Even if they had much of anything lefties can’t criticize anyone’s personal life without being hypocritical. And since in Alaska there really aren’t many lefties and Republicans/conservative stringently avoid social contact and even any political contact with them except as is necessary for jobs and offices, none of the lefties really have much personal information on Palin or any other Republican. There is, however, a lot of information on how she did her rocket to stardom, how she actually did, or didn’t do, her various jobs, and what she actually did as Governor other than just be there when oil prices were high and run when they weren’t high any more.
And you and the Palinbots above know what you “know” of her how? You defend her why? You call people like me loons and corruptocrats and suggest that I was a janitor in the Capitol on what authority? I was a high-level technocrat in the State government when she was the sports girl on an ANC TV station and palling around with basketball players. In any event, her star is finally fading and she sure isn’t going to run for any office that involves real work and any limitations on or reporting requirements for any money she makes.
Mr Chance,
Thank you. That was downright informative, just as informative as the article itself was funny. Reality is reality. But when ideology, or a political crush, or pr, or a hot ass, informs feelings, instead of looking the process or the person in the eye, people take irrational sides. Here, most people who bother to write in are at best disillusioned by the left, if not hateful of it. There are a lot of grand reasons for this phenomenon. But the failings of the left does not excuse the ignorance — often apparently willful — of the right. This dilemma leaves people like me stuck between voting for a party/person who supports what I think are destructive (economic, foreign policy) policies and a party/person who insists the world is about 6,000 years old. Tyranny lives on both sides. So, again, thank you for taking the trouble to put forth some actual facts.
You know, I pal around with a lot of those mouth-breathing, sloping forehead, knuckledragging Republicans and I don’t know a single one that thinks the Earth is 6K years old. I do know a lot, myself among them, that think confident atheists are amazingly arrogant and I also don’t accept the Lefty Prime Directive: Leftist and Intelligent are Synonyms. Sorry, they’re not.
And I don’t know where the Palin as hardcore SoCon thing comes from; I think Lefties kinda made it up and she figured out that was a crowd she could play to. When she ran for Lt. Gov. the SoCons here supported her opponent and when I worked with her I never thought her any straighter or more religious than the run of Republicans who kinda, sorta go to church. The Left created that Sarah Palin.
You point out that you were a high level technocrat in state government. In my book that disqualifies you from making any critisism of anybody, anytime, anywhere. When I was in the hiring business I set aside every job application that was from someone who worked for any type of government agency. You see I have a low opinion of them.
I’m willing to bet that I could do your job and you couldn’t do mine. I suffered through a succession of “captains of industry” that couldn’t find the lightswitches and restrooms in a government office and were too paranoid to ask anyone.
Frankly, the greatest liability that Republicans have is that almost none of them have a clue how to run a government, Sarah Palin included, so they leave Democrats in all but the most visible positions and wonder why they’re thwarted, leaked, and sabotaged into one term footnotes and punch lines on SNL.
But, that all said, I’m confident I wouldn’t have wanted to work for an asshole like you.
Seriously, have you been paying attention, these last few years, Obama has foreclosed practically any domestic drilling, he appointed Persilly, who forwarded the same type of folderall you spread, to run AGIA. We know your comments before she was elected and afterwards. As for there are no significant
left wing element in Anchorage, are you kidding,
Nobody with a brain would expect new federal lands drilling in Alaska in ANY Democrat administration. There are drilling opportunities on State and Native lands and also in previously opened federal provinces. Unfortunately, new wells are further and further from the Deadhorse/Prudhoe Bay infrastructure and require ever higher prices for economic viability. Under ACES new development can only be justified at prices that engage confiscatory taxation. There’s a reason all the drilling rigs are elsewhere and North Dakota is full of Alaska license plates.
Lefties have their eight or ten districts in the whole State. They still have some of rural Alaska, the University District in FAI, some of the snobbier areas of ANC, and Downtown Juneau, though they can’t elect a Democrat even in suburban Juneau. Munoz probably wouldn’t make it in Wasilla but she’s a lot better than the socialists you get in District 3. The Democrats can’t win much in any general election off their limited turf. They have made significant inroads in city/muni elections because the elections are held on the first Tuesday after the second Monday after the Full Moon when Jupiter lies with Mars and the only people who vote are public employees and others with their hooves in the trough. You have lefty institutions in ANC because it has become the de facto capital and the unions, the greenie groups, etc. put their major establishments where the power is. Only one of the State employee unions even has its nominal headquarters in Juneau anymore. When Sarah allowed directors and commissioners to keep offices in ANC, everything but the star on the map and the legislative session moved to ANC. Plus, ANC just loved expanding the U at Fairbanks’ expense; when you build a university, the lefties will come. Nonetheless, we remain a largely Red, though tending Purple state and most Democrat gains in State races are attributable to Republican fratricide usually.
REally Art, then explain Lisa Murkowski who puts the chiv to everything the Congress is trying to do, on healthcare, the budget, national defense,
First, I think appointing Lisa was Frank Murkowski’s greatest mistake and it was ultimately a mortal wound to his Administration. The ADN particularly already hated him going all the way back to his ’80 victory over the scion of Democrat icon Ernest Gruening, his grandson Clark. Between the built-in ill will, the Lisa appointment, and the jet, the Murkowski Administration was trashed constantly. And then Sarah became the Democrats’ favorite Republican when she joined the trashing. That said, though, Lisa did manage re-election over Democrat icon Tony Knowles, though admittedly it took a lot of help from Stevens and Young. I know a lot of the self-described Tea Partiers and others that think the R is for Redneck rather than Republican like to call Lisa a leftwinger, she’s pretty much the standard issue moderate Republican. Not everybody runs for office under the canopy of black helicopters they have in the Mat-Su Valley.
Joe Miller was Sarah’s proxy in her unrelenting war against all things Murkowski. I sometimes wish Frank had appointed Sarah to the Senate where she quickly would have become an irrelevance, gotten bored, quit, and nobody would remember who she was by now. So, after Sarah loudly expresses her support for Lisa and goes on about how she has no intention of running, and after Joe had told everybody that would listen that he was once again a loyal Republican and he wasn’t going to challenge Lisa, Sarah lines up some outside group calling themselves Tea Partiers and Joe enters against Lisa. Lisa had a comfortable lead until the last couple of weeks when the Outside group poured several hundred thousand into electronic media on Joe’s behalf.
The ’10 Primary was in the main excrutiatingly boring with almost no contested races in either party and turnout was very low. One day I’ll figure out if it was accident or design that put that parental notice initiative on the Primary ballot rather than the General, but that initiative had every preacher in the Interior exhorting their flock to go vote for the parental notice initiative and Joe Miller. The one cohort with high turnout was the Single Issue Values Voter; they would have voted for Ghengis Khan if he said he was pro-life, and most of them wouldn’t have examined the veracity of the statement any more than they examined Joe Miller’s bona fides. The ADN election map was pretty revealing; Miller carried every district outside Anchorage proper that you could reach by road and Lisa carried every district accessible only by air or water plus most of ANC. If you’ve ever driven, say, Wasilla to FAI, FAI to Tok, Tok to Glenallen, and Glenallen back to Palmer-Wasilla, you know that you’d better have your iPod or satellite radio or really, really like Gospel music. I drove from the Border down to Glenallen and on to ANC in August of ’10. While there aren’t a lot of houses, you could practically have walked from Tok to the intersection of the Glenn and Parks on Miller signs, Neverthekess, Joe only won by a couple of thousand votes, hardly the mandate that many claim for him.
Along the way, lots of Tea Party affiliated National Republicans had abandoned Lisa. After Joe won the Primary, most Party leadership either did the dutiful, “I’ll support the nominee” or just shut up. Many Party people already detested Joe over his playing Sarah’s proxy in trying to oust Randy Ruedrich and then, in true Sarah fashion, noisily quitting the Republican Party. Joe managed to alienate a lot of Party people who didn’t already hate him with his howling about voter fraud. He may be even better than Sarah at playing the victim.
I am still amazed that the Democrats weren’t able to get their act together to substitute a Democrat with Statewide name ID for McAdams. If they had, they might well have both of Alaska’s Senate seats. That would have been a real coup for Sarah. At this time, Lisa didn’t have any friends in the Party that would say so publicly. But a LOT of people came to her privately, and expecially pretty much everybody who was anybody in business in Alaska came to her.
Frankly, Young, both Murkowskis, and Stevens have always been willing to bolt the Republican caucus when they thought it served Alaska’s interest or, more cynically, served the interest of a powerful constituent. Only Begich is a reliable caucus vote, but unfortunately it is the Democrat caucus. They’d probably let him off the hook on an ANWR vote but that would be about it. I know that she feels she really doesn’t owe the Party much and probably feels like she owes some National Republicans some revenge, e.g., DeMint. I supported her write-in but it was really more opposition to that flake Miller than any real support for her. I think she’s pretty good at doing what’s right for Alaska on votes that directly effect our interests, but most any Republican would be. Heck, on direct Alaska issues even a Democrat would vote right though it wouldn’t mean anything and the only vote a Democrat casts that means anything is the vote to organize the Democrat Caucus, a vote that is antithetical to Alaska’s interest. I do think that some of Lisa’s bolting the Caucus position is acting on that old saw about not peeing in wells you might have to drink out of some day, and some Republicans peed in Lisa’s well.
So, before this becomes a book, I don’t think she should have been appointed and she has only remained in office because the electorate couldn’t stand any more Tony Knowles and Joe Miller showed himself to be a complete flake. If and when she has a legitimate Republican Primary opponent, she’ll be defeated. Unfortunately, Alaska Democrats have perfected sounding more like Republicans than most Republicans and we have a VERY transient population that from Senate election to Senate election may well turn over more than 50%, so nobody much knows the candidates’ histories, so she could also be defeated by a legitimate, conservative-sounding Democrat in the General. Thanks to Sarah and Joe Miller, she is very much damaged goods because of her acceptance of Native Corporation and organized labor support. If she votes with them, it costs her support from the Alaska base. If she doesn’t vote with them, Hell hath no fury like a supporter scorned. Hopefully, somebody of substance on the R side will stand for the seat and she’ll either decide to spend more time with her family or be defeated by a legitimate Republican in the Primary.
You do realize that it was the deliberate abuse of the ethics process, directed
by the Wasilla project, which was helmed by Knowles, that is responsible for her resignation, specially after they challenged the legal defense fund, that was designed to deal with said charges, Had Lisa shown even the slightest concern about Obamacare and the mandate, not too mention ‘death panels’ she wouldn’t have earned a challenge, from Miller
Just chug that Palin Koolaid! I worked under the Alaska Ethics Act for twenty years. I was subject even to the Democrat version of it that she liked to take credit for after I retired. I even have a letter from the Ethics Attorney on Palin Administration letterhead because I PO’d them over a contract I took. It ain’t like there weren’t people around who understood the Ethics Act even if it might be a stretch to think Sarah did.
When she wanted to collect per diem while staying in her own home, when she wanted to fly her kids around as props wherever she went, when she wanted to run a VP campaign and continue to draw her Governor’s salary, when she wanted to use private email accounts to escape the Public Records Act, and on, and on, ALL SHE HAD TO DO was tell the Ethics Attorney what she intended and ask an opinion. Oh, and that Ethics Attorney is a political appointee who works for the Attorney General that she appointed and who proved that he’d take a “bullet” for her. If the Ethics Attorney said it was permissible and somebody complained, the respondent would be the State of Alaska, a sovereign, not Sarah Palin an individual. Now why wouldn’t she do that? Could it be she didn’t want the AG’s Office to know what she was doing since they’re officers of the court? Could it be that she didn’t want it on record what she was doing and that she’d been told not to? So, the real answer is that she was either too damned dumb to work around a fairly weak Ethics Law or she was trying to willfully evade the Ethics Act, the PRA, the travel statutes and rules, etc. You pick it. And if you believe that crap about the overwhelming legal bills and how it was distracting her from her duties, I got a bridge we can talk about.
There’s no doubt the Democrats were out to get her, wouldn’t expect anything else. If you’re a Republican elected or appointed official, you KNOW they’re out to get you so you don’t do stupid stuff to enable them to get you.
Bristol Balin Meets Liberal Incivility
Okay, so a 20 year old girl went out with some friends last Thursday to the Saddle Ranch Restaurant in West Hollywood and, being an adventurous as well as pretty young lady, she took a ride on one of those horn-less mechanical bulls intended by management to provide some rocky entertainment for the clientele.
Bodacious but innocent enough, right?
Wrong, when the rider was Bristol Palin, eldest daughter of Sarah Palin, conservative former governor of Alaska and Republican candidate for the vice presidency of the United States three years ago and when members of her audience were foul-mouthed liberals.
Subsequently identified as Stephen Hanks, a Hollywood talent agent with little talent but with a remarkably-obscene vocabulary to his credit, the liberal proceeded to verbally attack Ms. Palin after her engagement with the mechanical bull, clearly demonstrating that stuffed bulls have more brains, class, and civility than Stephen Hanks.
The rocking, twisting bull eventually threw Bristol but Hanks didn’t.
The 47 year old Hanks, seated with his buddies at the Saddle Ranch bar, courageously peppered a 20 year old girl with the most vile, vicious invective this side of Hollywood after she got up to the applause and high-fives of the crowd. She then directly confronted the talentless talent agent.
Greeted by the bald-headed Hanks with, “Your mother is the f*cking devil,” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5548.)
Mr or Mrs Art Chance. Boy, you certainly have busy fingers, writing all this stuff. It seems like you are one of those people who others are afraid to say good morning too, in case there is an argument.
I wasn’t too sure about Palin for Prez , but reading your rants has helped me make up my mind.
Go Sarah!
Nothing better to do on a lousy sports weekend, well other than the Pitt – Indy game, and lots of Palinbots to play with. Only Ron Paul types are in the same league of ignorant and obnoxious as Palinbots, so they’re both fun to play with.
Dueling Black Men: Herman Cain and Morgan Freeman
Barack Hussein Obama hasn’t even officially declared his intent to seek a second term but his attack machine is already deployed against the Republican Party with Teamsters President James Hoffa declaring all-out war against those “sons of bitches,” Vice President Biden labeling the GOP “barbarians,” and virtually every Democrat slandering Governor Rick Perry as “dumb” and accusing the Tea Party of racism and Nazism as the Anointed One remains above the fray by playing yet another round of golf.
It’s hard to believe it will get worse over the coming months, but it will. Conservative Republican candidate for the presidency Herman Cain can attest to that.
Following Cain’s speech at CPAC some months ago, Cain got a taste of the future when Alternet.com characterized him as a “monkey in the window” and when MSNBC’s Janeane Garafolo called him “a person of color” whose candidacy was manipulated solely for the purpose of deflecting “the racism that is inherent in the Republican party, the conservative movement, [and] the Tea Party.”
( Just incidentally, Janeane is looking more and more dissipated lately, the consequence of either her twisted leftism or, well, of being Janeane Garafolo, or both.)
If nothing else, it must be conceded that when liberals find hooks–such as racism and those damnable, Satanic Tea Partiers–they never let go. And now actor Morgan Freeman has joined the insane free-for-all.
Herman Cain suffered from racial discrimination in Georgia, went on to graduate from Morehouse College, earned a Masters of Science degree from Purdue, worked for the Department of the Navy, served as deputy chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, authored four books, was the CEO of a major U.S. corporation, and supports the Tea Party.
Morgan Freeman left Mississippi to become an actor and doesn’t, yet he is accorded more credibility than Cain by the liberal media.
Now, why is that?
The 84 year old Freeman proved that singer Tony “Are We the Terrorists?” Bennett isn’t the only octogenarian who seems to have slipped into the dark abyss of senility.
In the interests of preserving his career, Bennett at least apologized for suggesting we caused 9/11 by bombing Muslims while Freeman has yet to apologize for his contention that Obama made racism worse in the United States, or his election did, or something like that by opening the door to, you guessed it, the racist Tea Party movement, or something like that.
Since he tended to ramble, it’s hard to tell eactly what Freeman meant as seen in the transcript of his chat with CNN’s Piers Morgan last Friday but what’s certain is that he firmly believes the Tea Party is “going to do whatever [they] can to get this black man outta here. It is a racist thing.”
Asked by the more politic and cogent Morgan, evidently trying to provide the actor with a gentle reality check, “Is it not Republicans, wouldn’t that [sic] say that about any Democrat president?” Freeman responded with a few headshakers, first saying, ”No, they would have gotten rid of Bill Clinton if they could have.”
Told by Morgan, “They tried,” Freeman rejoined, “They did try, but still. I don’t, they’re not going to get rid of Obama either. I think they’re shooting themselves in the head,” which, as we all know is far worse than shooting themselves in the foot. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5555.)