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Friday, November 20, 2009

FW: Sarah Palin






Don't know how you feel about Sarah Palin but here's some comments from one of her fans. 

By  Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman. As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.

The  last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in 
Alaska  I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until  this last year.  Here's the breaking point: neither side of the Palin controversy gets it.  It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. 
 Even  Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention  here...

1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowskishe  tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them  packing.  Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, "la la la la" (well, you know how they are).  Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar. 

2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new  system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES."  
Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and 
Sarah  told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way  out."  They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being wealthier.  Of course, the other huge international oil companies  meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar. Each  person that lives in Alaska gets between $1200-$2000 (PFD)  for living there. What do VA. Governors give you? Answer, a closed rest stop.  Now  try to name anything Obama accomplished while a senator? 

3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as "pork."   
She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the "when hell freezes over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it ourselves.  Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use  the money she saved by dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning (I imagine) that she's packing heat herself).  I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism,  
she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas  pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in  the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. 
They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling.  In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started.This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again. 

6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% 
renewable resources for electricity by 2025. 
Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025.  We  are already at 25%.  I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.

By  the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her.
  Now  these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a 'barracuda'.  Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off.  Shoulda known better.

You  have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the 
democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to  discredit her.
  I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives or current  President and his wife and staff.

So "You go, Girl." I only wish the men in 
Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals. I  rest my case.  Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.





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I am married; 5 kids and 7 grandkids. We traveled alot while I was growing up. Life as a kid was a combination of The Sand Lot, Stand By Me, Radio Flyer and American Graffiti. After high school we moved to Silverton, OR where I met Jean on August 10th, 1970. We married in 1971 and have been most happy together ever since. We started having kids right away. We lived in a commune for awhile in the seventies. I went to college, worked in construction and deconstruction, worked as a taxi driver, bus driver, school bus driver, truck driver, warehouse manager, food service cook, cannery worker, certified medical aide, direct care and indirect care, recreation therapist, girls softball coach, soccer coach, Special Olympics coach for basketball and bowling. I have done some acting and singing. I have worked on March-of-dimes campaigns. I was union steward and shift supervisor. My art work is developing. I am hoping to spend a lot more time in that area of my life. Staying healthy and active these days.