[Rhodes22-list] Political Cartoon ...

Fri Sep 5 16:49:16 EDT 2008

Rob,

You don't blow-up the "business as usual" crowd without creating
enemies, including the local press. This article was obviously written
for national consumption.  You don't get an 80% approval rating from
you constituents  by lying to them. Lots of Alaskans would like to see
Gov. Palin take a fall, especially those in prison for taking bribes
from oil companies.

Now as to the pipeline, the big oil players have been stalling on
building a pipeline for years because they wanted 4 Billion from the
State of Alaska.  Sarah made an end run around them and solicited
proposals.  A company in Canada proposed a $30+ billion project with a
500 million participation from the State of Alaska and were awarded a
"license" to start the engineering.  You have witnessed a project of
this size before have you not?  They don't happen overnight and the
final cost is ???"

She initially supported the "Bridge to Nowhere" (as did most Alaskans)
until she got in office as the Guv and saw how much it was going to
cost Alaskans and how much federal red-tape was involved.  She killed
it.

I'm sure the ADN misses the "good old days".

Brad

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Lowe, Rob <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
> According to the Anchorage News Paper, Palin exaggerated her claims
> about the gas pipeline.  It certainly isn't being built and has not been
> bid.
>
>
> http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515517.html
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Brad Haslett
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 1:23 PM
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>
> Robert,
>
> McCain had his first meeting with the SarahCuda back in February, so
> if he gets upstaged, he has no one to blame but himself.  Murkowski
> passed her over as the appointment to his Senate seat in favor of his
> daughter and that bit him in the ass big time. She didn't just beat
> him for Governor in the primaries, she smoked him, then took aim at
> the former Democratic Governor candidate and put him away with a clean
> kill.  Moose isn't the only thing she has a deadly aim for. They've
> been trying to get that gas pipeline built in Alaska for years and
> Sarah got tired of pussy-footing around with the oil executives and
> put it out for bid, same as the Governors jet, and guess what, it's
> being built.  There was a great line in her speech about her parents
> raising her to believe there wasn't a door a woman couldn't walk
> through.  Based on the 'good ole boys' experience in Alaska, you
> better move out of the way of the door if Sarah wants to walk through
> or you'll get flattened. If McCain makes it to the White House, I hope
> he gives her this task as her first job, "Sarah, Pelosi hasn't done
> jack about 'draining the swamp' in two years, go take of that and get
> back to me next week for a new assignment"  I'm not quite sure if
> she's the second coming of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, or Teddy
> Roosevelt, but she's a breath of fresh air.  Too bad you have to go
> overseas to get a good media perspective but I'm attaching The Times
> of London's take on things.
>
> Brad
>
> ------------------
>
> >From The Times
> September 5, 2008
> Sarah Palin: it's go west, towards the future of conservatism
> Her thrilling convention speech showed that the Governor of Alaska is
> a force to reckoned with. But she might be more than that
> Gerard Baker
>
> The best line I heard about Sarah Palin during the frenzied orgy of
> chauvinist condescension and gutter-crawling journalistic intrusion
> that greeted her nomination for vice-president a week ago came from a
> correspondent who knows a thing or two about Alaska.
>
> "What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?"
>
> "One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty
> sexy piece of eye-candy.
>
> "The other kills her own food."
>
> Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican
> convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey.
> She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her
> followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in
> that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile,
> as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.
>
> There's a powerful danger in the sheer thrill that has followed her
> astonishing performance that we could get carried away with John
> McCain's running-mate. Some of the coverage has a hyperbolic tone to
> it. Not since Paris handed that apple to Aphrodite has a man's
> selection of a woman had such implications for the future of our
> civilisation.
>
> So let's stipulate one obvious and important piece of wisdom about US
> elections. The choice of a vice-presidential candidate rarely makes
> much of a difference. The pundit class waxes historical in the
> excitement of the moment but usually the vice-presidential choices go
> back to playing second banana. However mawkishly we dwell on the
> mortality of the presidential contenders, it is they who determine the
> voters' decision.
>
> This one, to be fair, could be different. For at least the next few
> weeks the press will follow Mrs Palin's present and dig deeper into
> her past, still hoping for some morsel of stupidity or evidence of
> cupidity to doom her. But in the end, barring such a discovery, this
> is still an Obama-McCain contest.
>
> But let me try to explain why Mrs Palin, whatever impact she might
> have in November, may be a figure of real consequence in our lives.
>
> It's partly about what she represents and partly about what she has
> already done, but mostly about where she and her ilk might take the
> Republicans - and possibly America.
>
> It never ceases to amaze me how the Left falls again and again into
> the old trap of underestimating politicians whom they don't
> understand. From Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to George Bush
> and Mrs Palin, they do it every time. Because these characters talk a
> bit funny and have ridiculously antiquated views about faith, family
> and nation, because they haven't spent time bending the knee to the
> intellectual metropolitan elites, they can't be taken seriously.
>
> So the general expectation was that Mrs Palin would stumble on to the
> stage in high heels, clutching her sprawling, slightly odd family
> (five children! how weird), mispronounce the name of the Russian Prime
> Minister, mutter a few platitudes about God, and disappear for ever to
> a deafening chorus of sniggers.
>
> No one paid much attention to the fact that she had been elected
> governor of a state. Or that she got to that office not because,
> unlike some politicians I could mention, her husband had been there
> before her, or because she bleated continuously about glass ceilings,
> but by challenging the entrenched interests in her own party and
> beating them. In almost two years as Governor she has cleaned out the
> Augean stables of Alaskan Government. You don't win a statewide
> election and enjoy approval ratings of more than 80 per cent without
> real political talent.
>
> Never mind all that. She didn't have a passport! She was a former
> beauty queen! It was so axiomatic that she was a disaster that I was
> told by lots of savvy men - with deliciously unconscious sexism - that
> the real problem was what the choice said about Mr McCain and his
> judgment: cynical, irresponsible, clueless. It was as if Mrs Palin
> wasn't really a human being at all, but an article of Mr McCain's
> clothing that showed his poor taste, like wearing brown shoes with a
> charcoal suit.
>
> So here's why she matters.
>
> First of all she offers an opportunity for an ailing Republican party
> to reconnect with ordinary Americans. She's conservative, but her
> conservatism is not that of the intolerant, uncomprehending white male
> sort that has so hurt the party in recent years. She is much closer to
> a model of the lives of ordinary Americans - working mother,
> plainspoken everywoman juggling home and office - than any Republican
> leader in memory.
>
> The contrast with Mr Obama is especially powerful. The very fact that
> Mrs Palin didn't go to elite schools but succeeded nonetheless - the
> very ordinariness with which she so piquantly jabbed Mr Obama on
> Wednesday - is what will make her so appealing to Americans. And as a
> pro-life conservative she debunks in one swoop the enduring myth that
> all women subscribe to the obligatory nostrums of radical feminism.
>
> But there's more to it than that.
>
> The Republicans have decided that they are not going to make the
> mistake Hillary Clinton made and run against the effervescent Mr Obama
> on the premise of experience.
>
> Experience hasn't got Americans into a very comfortable place. They
> want change. Before he signed up to some of the less attractive
> Republican attitudes this year, Mr McCain's career had embodied that
> change - the anti-establishment candidate running against his own
> party. Now he is joined by a woman who, in her short career, has done
> the same thing.
>
> Democrats think that Mr McCain, with the social conservative Mrs
> Palin, will launch an old-fashioned culture war at them, using her
> appealing manner to drive a populist assault on the familiar
> Republican issues of God, guns and gays.
>
> Perhaps this Manichean interpretation will prove true. But I suspect
> that it misses the real appeal of the Republican team. The opportunity
> for McCain-Palin is not reaction, but reform - a reform rooted in a
> distant conservatism that could be due for a comeback
>
> Hailing from Arizona and Alaska, the Republican ticket has a chance to
> rekindle a western conservatism different from the old Yankee
> paternalist sort or the Bible Belt version. They like their guns out
> there (some still kill their own food) and they are pro-life and
> deeply pro-America, of course. But at a time of grave challenges, the
> themes of economic freedom and opportunity, the resistance to the idea
> that government holds all the answers, could resonate with voters.
>
> This is an election, as the Democrats have realised all along, about
> an America on the cusp of change. With the moose-hunting,
> establishment-taunting Mrs Palin at his side, Mr McCain might
> represent a bigger change than the one that his opponents are
> offering.
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Robert Skinner
> <Robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
>> Figured I'd clean up the pic a little, and guess what I found?
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>> Tootle wrote:
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>>> Ed K
>>> Greenville, SC, USA
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