{"id":5609,"date":"2011-05-10T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2011-05-10T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:57:29","slug":"the-ultimate-hit-piece-on-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=5609","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Hit Piece On Sarah Palin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Ultimate%20Hit%20Piece%20On%20Sarah%20Palin%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>From the liberal leaning Atlantic, a reasonable piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/06\/the-tragedy-of-sarah-palin\/8492\">Sarah Palin<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As governor, Palin demonstrated many of the qualities we expect in our best leaders.  She set aside private concerns for the greater good, forgoing a focus on social issues to confront the great problem plaguing Alaska, its corrupt oil-and-gas politics. She did this in a way that seems wildly out of character today\u2014by <strong>cooperating with Democrats and moderate Republicans<\/strong> to <strong>raise taxes on Big Business<\/strong>. And she succeeded to a remarkable extent in settling, at least for a time, what had seemed insoluble problems, in the process putting Alaska on a trajectory to financial well-being. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PALIN HAS GAINED a reputation for being erratic, undisciplined, not up to the job. But that wasn\u2019t how she looked as governor. She began by confronting the two biggest issues in Alaska\u2014the gas pipeline and the oil tax\u2014and drove the policy process on both of them.<\/p>\n<p>After taking office in December 2006, she kept her word and hired Tom Irwin, and other members of the Magnificent Seven. They devised a plan to attract someone other than the oil companies to build the pipeline, and they bid out the license to move ahead with it\u2014to the deep displeasure of the oil producers, who vowed not to participate. Palin came under serious political pressure. Although she doesn\u2019t mention it in Going Rogue, the Associated Press discovered that Vice President Dick Cheney called her at least twice that month. According to her aides, Cheney urged her to make concessions, but she didn\u2019t.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;Cooperating with Democrats and moderate Republicans???  &#8230;Raise taxes on Big Business?????  &#8230; She said &#8220;NO&#8221; to Dick Cheney?????   <\/p>\n<p>Sarah Palin is secretly a moderate RINO!<\/p>\n<p>To quote Keanu Reeves&#8230;.  WOAH!!!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m libertarian with a small &#8220;i&#8221;. The Sarah Palin in this piece&#8230; the early one&#8230; she sounds like the kind of person I could have voted for. Hell, she almost sounds like the kind of person my liberal little brother could have voted for!  Too bad she decided to be a political rock star instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Ultimate%20Hit%20Piece%20On%20Sarah%20Palin%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>From the liberal leaning Atlantic, a reasonable piece on Sarah Palin? As governor, Palin demonstrated many of the qualities we expect in our best leaders. She set aside private concerns for the greater good, forgoing a focus on social issues to confront the great problem plaguing Alaska, its corrupt oil-and-gas politics. She did this in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}