Alaska Without Sarah Palin
It’s quite remarkable that Alaska newspaper Anchorage Daily News finds it necessary to start an article on its own governor with the sentence: “Sarah Palin is the face of the state, like it or not.”
Alaska would still be considered an empty place with nothing but eskimos if Sarah Palin wouldn’t have been Senator John McCain’s running mate last year.
Palin gave the state nationally and internationally respect, prestige, and an identity. The entire world now knows that talented people live in Alaska just like in New York and that the state can play an important role in the debate about energy independence. Palin will continue to play an important role in the Republican Party; she already is one of its national leaders – her power and influence will only increase in the years ahead.
Alaska should be proud it has Palin; without her, it would still be unknown, unloved, and disrespected.
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Excellent statement of FACT and not the usual fiction that quite often passes as “news” in the so-called mainstream media. Too bad there aren’t more like you speaking out in defense of Gov. Palin.
Thanks again.
So true GOOOOOOOOOOOOO Sarah!
Yes! Governor Palin restored my faith in the American political system. At least, someone gets it right. Alaskans should be very proud that they have an articulate, intelligent, honest and courageous patriot as their Governor. Governor Palin has sparked my interest in the beauty of Alaska; I plan to visit as often as I can and spend my hard earned money there.
Very lame. Nothing but a ’suck up’ team sarah type article.
Putin rears his head
I read whatever newspapers that are put in front of me.
I’m a poooooor femal getting beat up by the press (hillary shouldn’t whine about being beat up in the press).
I’m glad they didn’t find me guilty of anything illegal or unethical (actually they did). but then has her own team of people (she can fire) to come up with a different result of not guilty.
todd palin was a member of a group that wanted Alaska to secede from the united states.
sorry, don’t have enough time to list the rest. you people are morons.
care to show where she was found to be illegal or unethical blast3r? or do you only offer mere unthinking partisanship?
May Tina Fey live long and prosper…
Actually, before Palin was nominated, I thought of Alaska as a really beautiful state with wonderful sweet people like the characters on the old television series “Northern Exposure.” Now I think of it as a place where crazy people shoot wolves from helicopters, have serious drug and sexual abuse problems, don’t use birth control, don’t believe in a woman’s right to choose an abortion, fire state troopers for family disputes, know very little about the world, economics or history, and force their unwed teenage daughters to have babies.
I now think Seward’s Folly was not misnamed.
Sure Interested. Where you been hiding at?
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/552393.html
Palin continues to be our favorite political rorschach test.
Shorter PhilosopherJay: Alaska is the Appalachia of the left coast…
But more seriously folks, Palin was picked at a time when the GOP thought Clinton would win the Democratic nomination. OK, I get that. A well grounded and intelligent woman could have been effective in attack mode against Hillary, and could have said things that McCain would have been mobbed for saying, but those damnable Dems chose a black guy instead of a woman. They wanted to run a beauty queen with brains against the “ice queen,” but they ended up with a candidate who could see both Russia and South Carolina from her door…
In case my “South Carolina” reference was too obscure
Wow! What an easy methodology! Now we can stereotype entire states based on nothing more than hyper-partisan misrepresentations about the actions of their governor!
For all their pretenses and self-righteous poses about tolerance and diversity, the most vocal agents of the far left continue to expose themselves as perhaps the most truly intolerant among us. The far left and the Fred Phelps types on the far right differ only in the content of their beliefs — their hate and their rhetorical tactics towards those they disagree with about anything are exactly the same.
Jamerson& Jay: Its really pathetic to see the LiEbeals parrot Tiny Fey and mistake her for Gov Palin. LOL Talk about grasping at straws.
You people don’t even have a leg to stand on – spewing lame jokes about the MOST popular Gov in AMERICA – Gov Sarah Palin.
It was SHE who restored my faith in the American political system.
It’s obvious that the LiEberals are terrified of her. LOL
Go Sarah go – Sarah 2012
PS BO has proved to be incompetent from Day 1 – hiring CROOKS and TAX CHEATS to in his Cabinet. Birds of a feather flock together ya know.
Thank you Michael for a great article
At last, an Alaskan newspaper with some sense. Sarah Palin has clearly been good for Alaska, first as she governs wisely and well, and secondly as she pursues national political goals. Keep up the good work Mr. van der Galien.
Thomas K. McMahan
I read that article today generated out the ADN…did you read the DIARISTS, the posts? The Alaskan people do not seem to like it.
The word PALINESQUE, using any computer search engine, will yeild articles about people being called incurious, verbally challenged and backwards. You use the word PALINESQUE when you want to call someone STUPID. No, the Alaskans resent it.
What a way to enter pop culture.
PS
Thomas McMahan, what do you MEAN AT LAST, an Alaskan paper making sense? The puff piece didnt get by the people, WE SEE THROUGH HER, you will one day, too
@PhilosopherJay
DITTO!
Sarah Palin-Tonya Harding 2012!
Michael, great article. And absolutely right.
I see the haters here and have to burst out laughing. They know nothing but hate, and some BS they read on some hate site like the Huffington Post.
Having followed Governor Palin for years, I can say that she is indeed a leader and a positive force for Alaska, and America.
She is certainly a leader in the party, and is almost a shoe in to win the 2012 nomination and the Presidency.
Thanks again for setting the record straight!
Michael – Thank you for your positive remarks about Governor Palin. I am so accustomed to the in-the-gutter remarks by the media and pundits. Your article is refreshing and very much appreciated.
Funny, that. I could have sworn she was picked the day after the Democratic National Convention, where Obama was officially nominated.
The woman is a moron and a freeloader. She is also an international laughing stock, and the butt of neverending jokes. Is this the type of respect you wish yourself and your state to gain?
Well, first off, Sarah your doing a wonderful job and keep up the fight! We’ve never been more proud of you!
As for those that use Saturday Night Live, and Bloggers for hard sources of legitimate news…. well i dont really need to elaborate on that. It speaks for itself for what kind of Left-ist news media we have, not to mention how people can’t do research for themselves… kinda what Obama hopes you can’t do, think and do for yourself. Cause if is supporters could, he wouldn’t be our president!
I hope he uses some of his left over campaign money, to put the homeless that his campaign drove to the polls, in housing. I hope he uses some of that money to put real flowers on the graves of all the dead that voted for him, that would surely show appreciation! And while he’s at it, why not give some money to Disney so that Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck can get a new wardrobe, afterall, ACORN registered them to vote.
Now come on…
God bless you and
God Bless America!!