Pawlenty/Palin ticket would result in a landslide win for 2012.

[Maple]

Here's some FACTS Palin, this is a good e-mail that has been FACT CHECKED by 11 different associated press journalists. It's a good summary of what she did in Alaska.

A View From Alaska: By Dewey Whetsell

" The last forty-five of my sixty-six 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 Murkowski, she tore into the Republicans' Corrupt Bastards Club. (CBC) and sent it packing. Many of it's members are now residing in state housing and wearing orange jumpsuits. 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 who has ever done anything similar. But while you're thinking, I'll continue."

2. Now, with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaska politicians to protect the giant oil companies here. So Palin constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." ExxonMobil ( the biggest corporation in the world) protested, and Sarah told it, " Don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." It stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies fell meekly into line. Again, give the name of any other governor in the country who has done anything similar.

3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is that she got the list of state requests for federal funding for projects known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85 percent of them out, 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 was packing heat herself.) I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4. Even with her much-ridiculed " gosh and golly" manerisms, she managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built that will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it even if they tried. If that doesn't impress you, 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 thirty years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thomson. It made excuses the entire time for why it couldn't start drilling. In truth it was holding it as an investment. No governor for thirty years could make it get started. This summer, she told Exxon she was revoking it's lease and kicking it out. It protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the courthouse. Alaska won again.

6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25 percent renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50 percent renewable by 2025. We are already at 25 percent. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everbody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up.


I am 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."

Was this done before or after she QUIT the people who put her in office?

Yeah, she did that in just 2 1/2 years before she quit, pretty impressive huh??


" If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher."

 

[Claudette]

Palin Quit her job as governor to cash in and to avoid the problems this new economy would add to her resume.

She quit in the middle of the HARD work Alaska had in front of it.

She has NO idea how Washington works and cant even name anything she reads to stay informed.

Obama will have been president for 4 years.

You are not very good at acessing the facts

Your facts aren't facts at all. They are all supposition on your part.

The only fact I see is that OL'BO will have been President for 4 years.

Funny. You have no problem bashing Palin for her lack of experience yet you probably burned p the roadway to vote for OL'BO who had none. Your thought process amazes me there TRuth.

 

[VaYank5150]

Here's some FACTS Palin, this is a good e-mail that has been FACT CHECKED by 11 different associated press journalists. It's a good summary of what she did in Alaska.

A View From Alaska: By Dewey Whetsell

" The last forty-five of my sixty-six 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 Murkowski, she tore into the Republicans' Corrupt Bastards Club. (CBC) and sent it packing. Many of it's members are now residing in state housing and wearing orange jumpsuits. 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 who has ever done anything similar. But while you're thinking, I'll continue."

2. Now, with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaska politicians to protect the giant oil companies here. So Palin constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." ExxonMobil ( the biggest corporation in the world) protested, and Sarah told it, " Don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." It stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies fell meekly into line. Again, give the name of any other governor in the country who has done anything similar.

3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is that she got the list of state requests for federal funding for projects known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85 percent of them out, 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 was packing heat herself.) I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4. Even with her much-ridiculed " gosh and golly" manerisms, she managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built that will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it even if they tried. If that doesn't impress you, 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 thirty years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thomson. It made excuses the entire time for why it couldn't start drilling. In truth it was holding it as an investment. No governor for thirty years could make it get started. This summer, she told Exxon she was revoking it's lease and kicking it out. It protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the courthouse. Alaska won again.

6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25 percent renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50 percent renewable by 2025. We are already at 25 percent. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everbody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a cover-up.


I am 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."

Was this done before or after she QUIT the people who put her in office?

Yeah, she did that in just 2 1/2 years before she quit, pretty impressive huh??


" If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher."

Wow....just imagine what she MIGHT have accomplished, if she has actually fulfilled her 4 YEAR term?

 

[Truthmatters]

Palin Quit her job as governor to cash in and to avoid the problems this new economy would add to her resume.

She quit in the middle of the HARD work Alaska had in front of it.

She has NO idea how Washington works and cant even name anything she reads to stay informed.

Obama will have been president for 4 years.

You are not very good at acessing the facts

Your facts aren't facts at all. They are all supposition on your part.

The only fact I see is that OL'BO will have been President for 4 years.

Funny. You have no problem bashing Palin for her lack of experience yet you probably burned p the roadway to vote for OL'BO who had none. Your thought process amazes me there TRuth.

Palin didnt quit as Governor?

She could name the things she reads?

She did work in washington?


Your kinda confused on the facts.

 

[Ravi]

And some more facts, pay special attention to the fact that the Japanese invaded Alaska during World War 11.

I hope she uses that as part of her platform. Millions will vote for her for that very reason.

 

[VaYank5150]

And some more facts, pay special attention to the fact that the Japanese invaded Alaska during World War 11.

I hope she uses that as part of her platform. Millions will vote for her for that very reason.

I know I will. In the primary, at least!

 

[Sarah G]

And some more facts, pay special attention to the fact that the Japanese invaded Alaska during World War 11.

I hope she uses that as part of her platform. Millions will vote for her for that very reason.

 

[Claudette]

Good one Maple. Those are the facts on Palin as Governor of Alaska?? Gee Truth. You reading real facts yet????

I like Palin a lot but do have reservations about her. It is nice to read what she has done in Alaska though. Makes for very interesting reading and makes me really think about this lady.

Gee Truth, read the real facts yet?????? Lets stack her facts up against OL'BO's and see who's look better????

 

[rdean]

Pawlenty says "live within your means". I guess that's why Minnisota's deficit is project to be at 5.4 billion dollars. The guy is as incompetent as George Bush. He slashed funding for police and firemen and then signed an executive order to put together a commission to find out why they have no funds, and all before leaving on a trip to Brazil.
His charter school program, once touted as the future of schools, is a diaster.
Worse, he is anti science and believes "mysticism" should be taught as an alternative to science.
I think he would be a great running mate for "witchcraft" Palin.
I love Republicans who know nothing and rely on mysticsim. Bush proved what nonsense that is. It will be a long time before America falls for it twice.


The Associated Press: Minnesota budget forecasts since 2001

State charter schools program is 'out of control' | StarTribune.com

Pawlenty emergency order on cops, firefighters mum on LGA cuts « Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media.

 

[VaYank5150]

Pawlenty says "live within your means". I guess that's why Minnisota's deficit is project to be at 5.4 billion dollars. The guy is as incompetent as George Bush. He slashed funding for police and firemen and then signed an executive order to put together a commission to find out why they have no funds, and all before leaving on a trip to Brazil.
His charter school program, once touted as the future of schools, is a diaster.
Worse, he is anti science and believes "mysticism" should be taught as an alternative to science.
I think he would be a great running mate for "witchcraft" Palin.
I love Republicans who know nothing and rely on mysticsim. Bush proved what nonsense that is. It will be a long time before America falls for it twice.


The Associated Press: Minnesota budget forecasts since 2001

State charter schools program is 'out of control' | StarTribune.com

Pawlenty emergency order on cops, firefighters mum on LGA cuts « Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media.

MYSTICISM??? Holy shit! Combine that wth abstinence only education, and you are REALLY in for a hoot!

 

[NYcarbineer]

Palin has two kinds of fans, those who are too stupid to know better, and those who support her to spite liberals.

 

[Claudette]

Palin didnt quit as Governor?

She could name the things she reads?

She did work in washington?


Your kinda confused on the facts.

I think she resigned her job as Gov for very good reasons. Like not wanting to go broke fighting lawsuits and not wanting her State to pay for it. She beat all the charges by the way. I venture to say you would have done the same my friend. Thats the reason she gave. Is it the correct one?? Don't know. Thereagain you can suppose anything.

Do you honestly think that Palin couldn't name what she reads?? Are you that hateful. I don't think so. You just want something to bitch about.

She hasn't worked in Washington but she did a damned fine job as Gov of a State and I'm sure, since she's no dummy, she would be able figure out DC without much proble. OL'BO did after all.

 

[Maple]

And some more facts, pay special attention to the fact that the Japanese invaded Alaska during World War 11.

I hope she uses that as part of her platform. Millions will vote for her for that very reason.

I know I will. In the primary, at least!

You libs are historically challenged, I would bet my bottom dollar that you would not realize the geographical importance that Alaska is to the lower 48.

As Ann Coulter states.

" History starts over each and every new day with liberals."

 

[VaYank5150]

Palin didnt quit as Governor?

She could name the things she reads?

She did work in washington?


Your kinda confused on the facts.

I think she resigned her job as Gov for very good reasons. Like not wanting to go broke fighting lawsuits and not wanting her State to pay for it. She beat all the charges by the way. I venture to say you would have done the same my friend. Thats the reason she gave. Is it the correct one?? Don't know. Thereagain you can suppose anything.

Do you honestly think that Palin couldn't name what she reads?? Are you that hateful. I don't think so. You just want something to bitch about.

She hasn't worked in Washington but she did a damned fine job as Gov of a State and I'm sure, since she's no dummy, she would be able figure out DC without much proble. OL'BO did after all.

Ummmm....which one is it, she resigned because she didn't want to go broke, or she resigned because she didn't want her state paying for it?

Oh, and Truth THINKS that Palin couldn't name what she reads, well, because she COULDN'T. Get your head out of your ass already....

 

[Truthmatters]

Palin didnt quit as Governor?

She could name the things she reads?

She did work in washington?


Your kinda confused on the facts.

I think she resigned her job as Gov for very good reasons. Like not wanting to go broke fighting lawsuits and not wanting her State to pay for it. She beat all the charges by the way. I venture to say you would have done the same my friend. Thats the reason she gave. Is it the correct one?? Don't know. Thereagain you can suppose anything.

Do you honestly think that Palin couldn't name what she reads?? Are you that hateful. I don't think so. You just want something to bitch about.

She hasn't worked in Washington but she did a damned fine job as Gov of a State and I'm sure, since she's no dummy, she would be able figure out DC without much proble. OL'BO did after all.

There is a quote button on the bottom of each post. Please use that to quote me instead of copy and pasting what I write.

It will save confusion in the future, i thank you aheaad of time.

Now the FACTS are that she quit her gov job, she could not name even ONE publication that she read to stay informed and she has NEVER worked in DC.

You are the one with the lack of facts

 

[Maple]

Good one Maple. Those are the facts on Palin as Governor of Alaska?? Gee Truth. You reading real facts yet????

I like Palin a lot but do have reservations about her. It is nice to read what she has done in Alaska though. Makes for very interesting reading and makes me really think about this lady.

Gee Truth, read the real facts yet?????? Lets stack her facts up against OL'BO's and see who's look better????

Talk about not reading?? Liberals don't read, it obvious. They post their liberal talking points with little to no fact to back them up. They don't want to know the facts or the truth because that just gets in the way of what they beleive. Yet, they sure hop on that band wagon when Katie asked Palin what she read. Palin was throughly disgusted with that question by Katie and this time around she wants to interview Katie and ask her what she reads. Probably the National Inquirer.They even confuse Tina Fey, the SNL comedian, and assign what she says to what Palin said. These people vote, that's the scary thing.

 

[Truthmatters]

Good one Maple. Those are the facts on Palin as Governor of Alaska?? Gee Truth. You reading real facts yet????

I like Palin a lot but do have reservations about her. It is nice to read what she has done in Alaska though. Makes for very interesting reading and makes me really think about this lady.

Gee Truth, read the real facts yet?????? Lets stack her facts up against OL'BO's and see who's look better????

Talk about not reading?? Liberals don't read, it obvious. They post their liberal talking points with little to no fact to back them up. They don't want to know the facts or the truth because that just gets in the way of what they beleive. Yet, they sure hop on that band wagon when Katie asked Palin what she read. Palin was throughly disgusted with that question by Katie and this time around she wants to interview Katie and ask her what she reads. Probably the National Inquirer.They even confuse Tina Fey, the SNL comedian, and assign what she says to what Palin said. These people vote, that's the scary thing.

What is wrong with asking a politician what they read to stay imformed?

 

[Maple]

Good one Maple. Those are the facts on Palin as Governor of Alaska?? Gee Truth. You reading real facts yet????

I like Palin a lot but do have reservations about her. It is nice to read what she has done in Alaska though. Makes for very interesting reading and makes me really think about this lady.

Gee Truth, read the real facts yet?????? Lets stack her facts up against OL'BO's and see who's look better????

Talk about not reading?? Liberals don't read, it obvious. They post their liberal talking points with little to no fact to back them up. They don't want to know the facts or the truth because that just gets in the way of what they beleive. Yet, they sure hop on that band wagon when Katie asked Palin what she read. Palin was throughly disgusted with that question by Katie and this time around she wants to interview Katie and ask her what she reads. Probably the National Inquirer.They even confuse Tina Fey, the SNL comedian, and assign what she says to what Palin said. These people vote, that's the scary thing.

What is wrong with asking a politician what they read to stay imformed?

Here is a little more truth for you truth matters.

Oh, there is no left wing media bias. LOLOLOLOLOL Remember Rathergate and did he not work for CBS? You would think they would learn but they never do.LOLOLOL


From Palin's book, Going Rogue, page 272-275 this has been FACT CHECKED by 11 different Associated Press Journalists.

I couldn't have known it then, but what transpired during the series of interviews and what CBS actually aired were two different breeds of cat. Camera crews shot hours of footage across the U.S; Katie and her producers decided on which fraction America would see-- and let's just say the emphasis was on my worst moments. Editing footage is nothing new, of course,' I created video packages when I worked as a sports reporter. But reponsible editing means you keep substance and context, and trim out fat. When I saw the final cut, it was clear that CBS had sought out the bad moments, and systematically sliced out material that would accurately convey my message. The sin of ommission was glaring.

For example, when John and I sat down with Katie for a segment in Columbus, Ohio, she started with an energy-related question. " Governor Palin, it will take about ten years for domestic drilling to have an impact on consumers, " the anchor said. " so isn't the notion of " drill, baby, drill" a little misleading to people who think this will automatically lower their gas prices and quickly?"

I said, " And it's why we should have started ten years ago tapping into domestic supplies that America is so rich in. Alaska has billions of barrels of oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean, green natural gas onshore and offshore. Should have started it ten years ago, but better late than never."

That's the part CBS left in. They edited out a discussion of the need to wean ourselves off hydrocarbons and a call for America to stop spending billions of dollars on foreign oil when we could be investing it at home. Did Katie think Americans wouldn't be interested to know that I was in favor of alternative energy sources and reducing our carbon footprint? Or that I might be a conservative who was both pro-development and pro-environment? Perhaps my answer did not fit her agenda.

Katie then moved on to ANWR. " Experts say it will take almost twenty years.... to achieve peak production," she said. " And it would still only cut foreign oil dependency by about two percent and only for a little while...so is it really worth... the risk?'

I replied that I didn't know which experts those were. But I explained that as the chair of the AOGCC and IOGCC, I knew from the geologists and petroleum engineers with whom I had worked that it could be done a lot quicker. I also pointed out that ANWR is a 2,000-acre plot that's in the midst of 21 million acres. Americans needed to know how unconscionable it is that anti-development radicals use ANWR as their fund-raising poster child. They use bogus Photoshopped pictures showing moutains and waterfalls and lush forests with Bambi prancing to and fro. That's all fake and these fund-raisers know it. It is an absolutely barren, permanently frozen, remote sliver of land that requires a minimal drilling footprint, and its development parameters are equivalent to the size of L.A's airport. But neither Katie's question nor my answer wound up on the air.

I knew the media would distort my responses on social issues. But I thought surely they couldn't distort my economic and energy-related responses, because they would have to stick with the facts. I was mistaken.

Though Katie edited out substantive answers, she dutifully kept in the moments where I wore my annoyance on my sleeve. For instance, when she asked me how living in Alaska informed my foreign policy experience, I began by trying to frame the geo-graphical context. Lower 48ers grow up seeing our state tucked with Hawaii in a litte square off the coast of Mexico on the nightly news weather map. So I began by trying to squeeze a geographical primer into a ten-second sound bite, explaning that only a narrow maritime border separates Alaska from Russia, that we're very near the Pacific Rim countries, and that we're bordered by Canada.

But Katie interrupted and I did not complete my answer. I wish now I had stopped her and said, " here's the geographical context. Now may I answer your question?"

There was so much I could and should have said, and I later kicked myself for not doing so. There was much Katie appeared not to know, or care to hear about. For instance, that Alaska's geographic position makes our relations with Pacific Rim countries of great strategic import, and that we're the air crossroads of the world. That Russian bombers often play cat-and mouse with our Air Force near Alaska's airspace. That I dealt with Canadian officials on a weekly basis and have signed agreements concerning everything from security to salmon fishing and that NAFTA has significantly affected our economy. That melting polar sea ice has created trade routes but has also created security threats to North America. That Alaska takes on Japanese and Russian fishing trawlers that want to ravage the ocean floor. That Chinese and Russian energy companies had both sought access to ( and possible control of) our natural gas resources. That these and other countries were staking their own resource claims in Artic waters while the U.S sat on its hands. And that, yes, you can indeed see Russia from Alaska.

And those were just the foreign policy issues ( though issues certainly foreign to most governors). How much more I would have liked to say about Alaska's contribution to the U.S economy, its potential to help the nation reduce its dependence on foreign energy sources, and the delicate balancing act required to manage and responsibly develop our abundant wildlife resources.

But Katie wasn't interested in discussing these issues. And when I did, she didn't air them. Instead, when I tried to describe frequent Russian incursions by figuratively referring to Vladimir Putin entering our airspace, CBS researched the Russian leader's actual flight plan over the United States and called my statement inaccurate. And when I referenced Alaska's narrow maritime border to describe our close proximity to other nations, CBS reported that the Coast Guard monitored the border and not the governor.

But Katie's purpose--shared by most media types--seemed to be to frame a "gotcha" moment. And it worked. Instead of my scoring points for John McCain, I knew that I had let the team down.


For all of you historically challenged liberals, you do know that during World War 11, the Japanese entered Alaska attempting to get a foot hold there. Thankfully they were beaten back.

Alaska is not an important state to you libs but the Japanese certainly thought it was.
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[Claudette]

Oh my head isn't up my ass Yank. Yours seems to be up yours though. Do you honestly think a person doesn't know what they read??? Get real.

I would have resigned also. Were those the real reasons?? Those are the reasons Palin gave. I guess you can think what you will as I know you will. Either way, she saved herself and her State a ton of money fighting ridiculous charges.

She now has a best selling book and can laugh her way to the bank. Good for her.

 

[Truthmatters]

Why do you assume Palin is telling the truth?

Do you think she shouldnot have her book fact checked?