koyunbabaSarah Palin, We Wish We Never Knew Ye
July 29th 2009 23:14
Now that she's out of public office, I've begun to sigh a rich, bellowing sigh of relief. She came, she saw, she swept across the nation on her whirlwind tour of idiomatic expressions and distasteful criticisms of the media. And she left the same way.
In many ways, I had a lot of respect for Sarah Palin when she ran for Alaska's Governor in 2006. I was living in Ketchikan, Alaska at the time and her platform of... oh I don't know, Maverickism, was very appealing to me. She did in fact take on her own party and promise an end to the seemingly endless corruption in Alaska. She was also a proponent of the "bridge to nowhere" - a bridge that would have connected Ketchikan to nearby Gravina and Pennock Islands, thereby allowing room for expansion and allowing commuters to get to the airport without taking a water taxi or ferry (trust me, this is more inconvenient than it sounds). In any case, I left Alaska in 2007, so I never really got to see first hand the fulfillment of the promises she made during her campaign. To be sure, her very election was a step forward - taking on Frank Murkowski as the incumbent took a lot of chutzpah and was a welcome change. Yet she never seemed to go anywhere from there. It seemed like she was waiting...
...to be asked to be John McCain's running mate. No, I'm not suggesting that she had any inclination until that fateful day, I'm just saying she was a do-nothing Governor. But when she was released from Seward's Icebox, no one could have expected the insanity that would ensue. In any case, you were all there for that mess, so I won't belabor the point. I am interested in hearing your opinions on her future. Where does she go from here? Does she stay quiet and make do with a book deal or two? Or is she lying in wait until her next opportunity to take America by storm (or typhoon, maybe)?
In many ways, I had a lot of respect for Sarah Palin when she ran for Alaska's Governor in 2006. I was living in Ketchikan, Alaska at the time and her platform of... oh I don't know, Maverickism, was very appealing to me. She did in fact take on her own party and promise an end to the seemingly endless corruption in Alaska. She was also a proponent of the "bridge to nowhere" - a bridge that would have connected Ketchikan to nearby Gravina and Pennock Islands, thereby allowing room for expansion and allowing commuters to get to the airport without taking a water taxi or ferry (trust me, this is more inconvenient than it sounds). In any case, I left Alaska in 2007, so I never really got to see first hand the fulfillment of the promises she made during her campaign. To be sure, her very election was a step forward - taking on Frank Murkowski as the incumbent took a lot of chutzpah and was a welcome change. Yet she never seemed to go anywhere from there. It seemed like she was waiting...
...to be asked to be John McCain's running mate. No, I'm not suggesting that she had any inclination until that fateful day, I'm just saying she was a do-nothing Governor. But when she was released from Seward's Icebox, no one could have expected the insanity that would ensue. In any case, you were all there for that mess, so I won't belabor the point. I am interested in hearing your opinions on her future. Where does she go from here? Does she stay quiet and make do with a book deal or two? Or is she lying in wait until her next opportunity to take America by storm (or typhoon, maybe)?
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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hahaha
i wonder which advisor told her to emphasise the word Maverick as often as possible? surely it was all part of some elaborate practical joke . . . right?
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