{"id":601,"date":"2008-09-02T18:10:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=601"},"modified":"2008-09-02T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T18:10:44","slug":"in-the-tank-for-mccain-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"In The Tank For McCain \/ 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=\"In%20The%20Tank%20For%20McCain%20%2F%20Palin%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Yesterday I had a good conversation with my sister Mary Beth. We are very close, but differ when it comes to politics &#8211; she is sensibly liberal and I am sensibly <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=581\">libertarian \/ modervative<\/a> (that&#8217;s short for moderate-conservative).\u00c2\u00a0 We were discussing the choice of Palin as the Republican VP pick. Because I was a registered Republican and voted for Bush in 2000, MB assumed I was in the tank for the Republican ticket. Apparently she doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=189\">read<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=230\">my<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=423\">blog<\/a>. MB is very critical of the Palin pick, noting her lack of experience, and I partly agree. Being governor counts for <em>something<\/em>, though I don&#8217;t know if two years in a small populus state counts for much. I don&#8217;t think Obama has much experience either; so for me, it&#8217;s a wash. She noted that Palin was for the &#8220;Bridge to Nowhere&#8221; before she was against it. I had heard than but hadn&#8217;t dug in to the details of it. It appears to be quite correct. Now, though I find it irrelevant, more baby news is breaking. And a letter has surfaced on the internet, a rather damning critique, from someone who lived in Wasilla during Palin&#8217;s tenure as mayor. It&#8217;s long, and the author has an axe to grind, none the less, the meat and bones of it are scathing when compared to the newly born myth of Sarah Palin, and it&#8217;s worth a read:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dear friends,So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the<br \/>\nlast 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in<br \/>\ncommon: their gender and their good looks. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You have my permission to forward this to your friends\/email contacts<br \/>\nwith my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on<br \/>\nany websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nAnne<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT SARAH PALIN<\/p>\n<p>I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.<br \/>\nEveryone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a<br \/>\nfirst-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her<br \/>\nfather was my child&#8217;s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a<br \/>\nfirst name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more<br \/>\nCity Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the<br \/>\nresidents of the city.<\/p>\n<p>She is enormously popular; in every way she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like the most popular<br \/>\ngirl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t vote for her can&#8217;t quit smiling when talking about her because<br \/>\nshe is a &#8220;babe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She<br \/>\nkept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents<br \/>\nfor seven months.<\/p>\n<p>She is &#8220;pro-life&#8221;. She recently gave birth to a Down&#8217;s syndrome baby.<br \/>\nThere is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.<\/p>\n<p>She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.<\/p>\n<p>She is savvy. She doesn&#8217;t take positions; she just &#8220;puts things out<br \/>\nthere&#8221; and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a<br \/>\nchampion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of job is highly<br \/>\nsought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his<br \/>\nwork schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or<br \/>\nso in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their<br \/>\nmajor source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything<br \/>\nlike that of native Alaskans.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s smart.<\/p>\n<p>Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000<br \/>\n(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about<br \/>\n670,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running<br \/>\nthis small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been<br \/>\npushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had<br \/>\ngotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had<br \/>\ngiven rise to a recall campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fiscal conservative\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. During her 6<br \/>\nyears as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over<br \/>\n33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the<br \/>\nCity increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation<br \/>\n(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a<br \/>\nregressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she<br \/>\npromoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they<br \/>\nbenefited residents.<\/p>\n<p>The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration<br \/>\nweren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed<br \/>\nmoney was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it<br \/>\nwith indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage<br \/>\nthe voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said<br \/>\nshe supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a<br \/>\nnew library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a<br \/>\nmulti-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece<br \/>\nof property that the City didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have clear title to, that was<br \/>\nstill in litigation 7 yrs later&#8211;to the delight of the lawyers<br \/>\ninvolved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the<br \/>\ncommunity but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it<br \/>\nwould be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that<br \/>\ncould have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office<br \/>\nredecorated more than once.<\/p>\n<p>These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.<\/p>\n<p>As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus<br \/>\nin Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will<br \/>\nmake us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she<br \/>\nproposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.<\/p>\n<p>In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she<br \/>\nrecommended that the state borrow\/bond for road projects, even while<br \/>\nshe proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today&#8217;s<br \/>\nsurplus, borrow for needs.<\/p>\n<p>She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas<br \/>\nor compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t generated by<br \/>\nher or her staff. Ideas weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t evaluated on their merits, but on the<br \/>\nbasis of who proposed them.<\/p>\n<p>While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected<br \/>\nCity Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from<br \/>\nthe library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents<br \/>\nrallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin&#8217;s<br \/>\nattempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew<br \/>\nher termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the<br \/>\nLibrarian are on her enemies list to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah complained about the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old boy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s club\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when she first ran for<br \/>\nMayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of &#8220;old boys&#8221;. Palin<br \/>\nfired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as<br \/>\nGovernor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,<br \/>\ncreating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally<br \/>\ngrateful and fiercely loyal&#8211;loyal to the point of abusing their power<br \/>\nto further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the<br \/>\ncase of pressuring the State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top cop (see below).<\/p>\n<p>As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Police Chief because he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153intimidated\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nher, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska&#8217;s top<br \/>\ncop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure<br \/>\nand she had every legal right to fire him, but it&#8217;s pretty clear that<br \/>\nan important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nfire her sister&#8217;s ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation<br \/>\nfor abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen<br \/>\ncontacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she<br \/>\nlater fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to<br \/>\nreplace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded<br \/>\nfor sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew<br \/>\nher support.<\/p>\n<p>She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in<br \/>\nhelp. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town<br \/>\nintroducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council<br \/>\nbecame one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She<br \/>\nabruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<br \/>\nlike the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.<\/p>\n<p>Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything<br \/>\npublicly about her.<\/p>\n<p>When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got<br \/>\nthe best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one<br \/>\nof the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no<br \/>\nbackground in oil &amp; gas issues. Within months of scoring this great<br \/>\njob which paid $122,400\/yr, she was complaining in the press about the<br \/>\nhigh salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the<br \/>\nstructured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this<br \/>\nCommission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)<br \/>\nengaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some<br \/>\nundoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all<br \/>\nher problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and<br \/>\ngarnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a<br \/>\ngutsy fighter against the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old boys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 club\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when she dramatically quit,<br \/>\nexposing this man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ethics violations (for which he was fined).<\/p>\n<p>As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from<br \/>\nSenator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel<br \/>\npolitics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bridge to<br \/>\nnowhere\u00e2\u20ac\u009d after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.<\/p>\n<p>As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget<br \/>\nguidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing<br \/>\nprojects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative<br \/>\naction restored most of these projects&#8211;which had been vetoed simply<br \/>\nbecause she was not aware of their importance&#8211;but with the unobservant<br \/>\nshe had gained a reputation as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anti-pork\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party<br \/>\nleaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated<br \/>\nthem. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a<br \/>\nfiscal conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.<br \/>\nThey call her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sarah Barracuda\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because of her unbridled ambition and<br \/>\npredatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly<br \/>\nstories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made<br \/>\npoint guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah&#8217;s<br \/>\nmother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and<br \/>\nexperienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.<\/p>\n<p>As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package<br \/>\nof legislation known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153AGIA\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that forced the oil companies to march<br \/>\nto the beat of her drum.<\/p>\n<p>Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife<br \/>\nRefuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to<br \/>\nglobal warming. She campaigned \u00e2\u20ac\u0153as a private citizen\u00e2\u20ac\u009d against a state<br \/>\ninitiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from<br \/>\npollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the<br \/>\nstate (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<br \/>\nlawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to list polar<br \/>\nbears as threatened species.<\/p>\n<p>McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a<br \/>\nheartbeat away from being President.<\/p>\n<p>There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more<br \/>\nknowledgeable and experienced than she.<\/p>\n<p>However, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are<br \/>\nregretting it.<\/p>\n<p>CLAIM VS FACT<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hockey mom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: true for a few years<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u0153PTA mom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary<br \/>\nschool, not since<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u0153NRA supporter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: absolutely true<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill<br \/>\nthat would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships<br \/>\n(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to<br \/>\npromote it.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pro-life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s syndrome baby<br \/>\nBUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life<br \/>\nlegislation<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Experienced\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has<br \/>\nresidents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.<br \/>\nNo legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on<br \/>\nsupervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city<br \/>\nadministrator to run town of about 5,000.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2political maverick: not at all<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2gutsy: absolutely!<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2open &amp; transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at<br \/>\nexplaining actions.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2has a developed philosophy of public policy: no<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00e2\u20ac\u009da Greenie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores<br \/>\nand disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2fiscal conservative: not by my definition!<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city<br \/>\nwithout a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built<br \/>\nstreets to early 20th century standards.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on<br \/>\nresidents<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city<br \/>\ngovernment in Wasilla\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2pro-labor\/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union<br \/>\ndoesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim<br \/>\nthat she is pro-labor\/pro-union.<\/p>\n<p>WHY AM I WRITING THIS?<\/p>\n<p>First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed<br \/>\nvoter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting<br \/>\nprograms in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +<br \/>\nAlaska), you will find references to my participation in local<br \/>\ngovernment, education, and PTA\/parent organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I&#8217;ve always operated in the belief that &#8220;Bad things happen<br \/>\nwhen good people stay silent&#8221;. Few people know as much as I do because<br \/>\nfew have gone to as many City Council meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Third, I am just a housewife. I don&#8217;t have a job she can bump me out<br \/>\nof. I don&#8217;t belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no<br \/>\nfool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will<br \/>\ncost me somehow in the future: that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100<br \/>\nor so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah&#8217;s<br \/>\nattempt at censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to<br \/>\nsay anything because they were somehow vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>CAVEATS<br \/>\nI am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in<br \/>\nspending &amp; taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)<br \/>\nfrom information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of<br \/>\nWasilla, and I can&#8217;t recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust<br \/>\nfor inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible<br \/>\nfor a private person to get any info out of City Hall&#8211;they are<br \/>\nswamped. So I can&#8217;t verify my numbers.<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the<br \/>\npopulation of Wasilla, ranging from my &#8220;about 5,000&#8221;, up to 9,000. The<br \/>\nday Palin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s selection was announced a city official told me that the<br \/>\ncurrent population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was<br \/>\n5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to<br \/>\n2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Kilkenny<\/p>\n<p>August 31, 2008<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After reading the letter, it would appear Palin is not the fiscally responsible administrator or small government proponent, and maybe not the competent governor, she is being billed as, which kills the deal for me. She also may not be as socially conservative as the far right may think. But, no matter what information comes out to diminish the rational for voting for her&#8230; I mean the McCain \/ Palin ticket, they will go to the mat for her, as Rush has been doing this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 She is pro-life, and for the religious right, that is all that matters.<\/p>\n<p>Many have speculated that McCain didn&#8217;t do much vetting of the potential candidate, but rather looked at her popularity as Governor and reputation as a maverick to guide his decision. He took a gamble in order to attract women voters, and shore up the base. He has accomplished the latter, but almost certainly failed at the former. I don&#8217;t see many Hillary voters switching sides to vote for Palin over Obama. In fact I think McCain has doomed his chances because Palin will be portrayed as too conservative, which will cost McCain some of the independent voters who had stood with him up til now. With the choice of Palin, he seems too tied to the right wing of the party, which dampens some of his appeal. In short, a comment I read somewhere on the net sums it up perfectly &#8211; I like the McCain of 2000 better.<\/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=\"In%20The%20Tank%20For%20McCain%20%2F%20Palin%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Yesterday I had a good conversation with my sister Mary Beth. We are very close, but differ when it comes to politics &#8211; she is sensibly liberal and I am sensibly libertarian \/ modervative (that&#8217;s short for moderate-conservative).\u00c2\u00a0 We were discussing the choice of Palin as the Republican VP pick. 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