Anyone who comes up with such gems as:
…must be without a doubt quite awesome. Go check out RachelLucas.com!
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Palin Files Ethics Complaint About Self
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported earlier today that Governor Sarah Palin has filed a complaint with the Personnel Board, which handles ethics complaints against government officials in Alaska. This comes after a $100,000 investigation was authorized by the Governor and the Legislature to investigate allegations that Governor Palin used improper influence to have her ex-brother-in-law fired from his position as a state trooper.
I think this is an encouraging sign. Where the Democratic investigation in the Alaska legislature is likely to drag on and on and continue to affect the Presidential election, an impartial investigation by a board that is empowered to do these kinds of investigations will be seen as less partisan and, therefore, the results will be more accurate.
Will this stop irresponsible speculation on Governor Palin’s actions? No. But it shows (just as all her other actions have) that the Governor is forthright and honest about her record.
Sarah Palin: Right From the Start
Much has been made of Sarah Palin’s selection as John McCain’s runningmate. The big complaint about the Alaska Governor from the left is her seeming lack of experience. I’d like to investigate this charge more thoroughly.
Leaving aside the fact that Governor Palin manifestly has more executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket, and the left’s gleeful and hopeful (and ultimately tacky) insinuations that John McCain will die in office, Governor Palin is a great choice. I trust her to make the right decisions for America should she need to assume the Presidency.
As Governor, Sarah Palin has dealt with natural disasters on a large scale. Alaska, being as remote as it is, relies on the Alaska National Guard to assist with natural disaster relief, such as the flooding that took place last year and in August of this year. The people of Alaska have come to rely on disaster management organizations and the Alaska National Guard, but most of all upon Governor Palin’s effective disaster management, to overcome these challenges. Meanwhile, the only experience Senator Obama has with dealing with deadly natural disasters is appearing on the political talk shows to play the blame game. That’s not leadership experience.
Even before becoming governor, Sarah Palin has stood strong against corruption, even when that corruption was found in her own party. While chairing the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and serving as the ethics commissioner, she found corruption among several other members of the commission. After resigning in protest of the corruption, she went after them in the courts, resulting in a cleaning up of the commission. On the other hand, Barack Obama has been implicated in accepting illegal campaign contributions from non-American-citizens (despite, in one case, the check being enclosed with a note that said “I am not an American citizen”). Furthermore, Obama’s association with Tony Rezko raises questions as to his anti-corruption credentials, especially given that Obama bought property at a heavily discounted rate from Rezko before his indictment. Obama only backtracked on these matters when the media caught wise. That’s not leadership experience.
While Americans are plagued by high energy costs, Congressional Republicans and Democrats can’t seem to find a way to relieve the pressure. Governor Palin, in her capacity as Governor of Alaska, has repeatedly stated that ANWR (the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve) is ready for exploration. Senators Obama and Biden (who, like 99% of environmentalists and unlike Governor Palin, have never set foot in ANWR) oppose exploration. Governor Palin, recognizing the need to get America off foreign oil and stop depending so heavily on unfriendly regimes in an unstable region for energy, advocates an “all of the above” energy plan. That means she wants to explore domestically for oil, but also believes that other forms of energy (i.e. wind, solar, hydrodgen, etc.) should be developed. The Obama/Biden plan to secure America’s energy future is to keep our tires properly inflated. That’s not leadership experience.
Instead of engaging Governor Palin on the issues, the leftist blogosphere and the media (with a wink and a nod from the Democratic establishment) have chosen to attempt to smear the Governor and her family with cheap innuendo and scurrilous lies. This just reinforces my opinion that Governor Palin is the right choice: if the left holds such an incoherent, sputtering hatred of her that they have to attack her and her family personally, it indicates that they know they can’t win a substantive argument on the issues.
So when it comes to who to trust to take over on day one, who is America going to look to? Politics-as-usual or a proven reformer? A complainer or a leader? An energy plan so idealistic that it seems childish, or a realistic plan to get the United States off foreign oil?
There’s no contest, the choice is clear. Sarah Palin: Right from the start.
Shocker: DailyKos Spreads Vicious Lies, Film at 11
I won’t like to the site, but suffice it to say that DailyKos is once against spreading its own brand of vicious, hateful slander about Governor Palin. The premise of the innuendo-filled story is that it was Governor Palin’s daughter, not the Governor herself, who gave birth to Trig Palin. But have no fear, certainly DailyKos wouldn’t allow such a thing to be posted without airtight evidence, right? Wrong.
DailyKos’ evidence for this slander includes: photographs in which Governor Palin isn’t showing. No, seriously. However, in every photo they cite there is either an obstruction of some kind (desk, table, other person), or the photo is taken from an angle that the viewer simply can’t see whether she’s showing, or she is wearing a bulky jacket that obstructs her torso. Other ‘evidence’: Bristol was chubby before leaving school for upwards of five months due to an infection of mono.
Needless to say, the unsupported innuendo is being revelled in by the lowlifes at DailyKos, save for the responsible few who call this post what it really is: dishonest, unhelpful, and dirty.
The left has had a cult of personality around Obama for so long that screaming crowds for anyone else are seen as a warning sign, and that person must be destroyed in the most brutal and personal way possible.
Nominating a Pair of Breasts?
Why Governor Palin?
If the answer to the above question is because she’s a woman, congratulations: you’re wrong.
Sarah Palin’s sex is incidental in this case. It’s wonderful to have a woman on the Republican ticket for the first time ever, of course, but anyone who thinks John McCain will pick a Vice Presidential candidate based on the presence of a uterus doesn’t know anything about John McCain or politics in general.
Palin is smart choice (and not just because she has more executive experience than the entire Obama/Biden ticket combined). A lot has been made of her being McCain’s second choice, but all of that is irrelevant because she was his last choice and the right choice.
On the matter of experience, who else was there? Romney, who exchanged blows with McCain during the primaries? Pawlenty, who’s a good governor but is as unknown as Palin and lacks the polish and flair that Palin has? Huckabee, who also slapped McCain around pretty well during the primary? No, certainly not.
Furthermore, for those Republicans (like myself) who have watched the Bush administration descend into the scandal-ridden corpse of its former self, Sarah Palin brings her no-nonsense, non-partisan anti-corruption credentials to the ticket. Whether the pervasive feeling that the Bush administration has done a lot of illegal things is justified or not (and that’s a matter for another day), to nominate Governor Palin to be Vice President shows that John McCain is making the most out of the fact that he wasn’t hand-picked by the gOP establishment. Palin has experience going after her own party when corruption is present, and that’s the most important part of her experience.
The prevailing wisdom (if you can call the talking points of the likes of Barbara Boxer and Barack Obama wisdom) that Palin is a pair of breasts to balance the ticket is not only insulting to the Governor, but also to all women. They’re saying that women can’t do valuable things, can’t be working professionals, can’t be excellent candidates for high national office; they’re just there to look pretty. This just goes to show that NOW represents women in the same way Jesse Jackson represents blacks.
All in all, Palin is an electrifying choice. Her gender adds to her already massive appeal and ensures that, no matter who wins, the United States takes an embarrassingly overdue step forward. And even if Barack Obama wins, Governor Palin will continue her meteoric rise–assuming Obama doesn’t get the country destroyed by February 2009.
