Suburban mom’ who took on her own party
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Denver

Published: August 29 2008 18:18 | Last updated: August 29 2008 18:18

Sarah Palin made the leap from being a small town mayor to governor of Alaska two years ago by vowing to reform a party that was imbued with corruption and tainted by its cosy ties to the oil industry.

The meteoric rise of Alaska’s first female governor, a mother of five who is a conservative Christian, soared to even greater heights on Friday after John McCain, Republican presidential candidate, chose Ms Palin as his running mate.

EDITOR’S CHOICE
McCain picks Alaska’s Palin as running mate - Aug-29Forum: Share your views on Palin - Aug-29Gideon Rachman: After Palin and Denver - Aug-29Editorial Comment: Battle of the conventions - Aug-29McCain gambles on inexperienced conservative - Aug-29In depth: US campaign 2008 - Aug-29In some ways, the choice reflects Mr McCain’s own narrative of being an outsider within his own party, a politician who chooses country first with “grit, integrity, and good sense”.

Ms Palin became governor in 2006 by defeating Frank Murkowski, the sitting governor, in the Republican party primary. In that race she portrayed herself as a reformer, an agent of change amid a state Republican party whose most senior members were under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Attacks by her Democratic opponent that she lacked the skills to negotiate with oil companies to build a new natural gas pipeline, fell flat. Voters connected with her image as a “suburban mom” who ran marathons and liked to hunt and fish.

She stood out for accusing Randy Ruedrich, the chairman of the state Republican party and a member of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, of misusing his office for political gains.

In her gubernatorial run, she stressed her abilities to build consensus among diverse groups and work with competing interests.

Ms Palin’s personal story is also compelling. After completing her first year in office, the mother of four, who was pregnant with her fifth, was told her child had Down’s Syndrome. Three days after she gave birth the governor returned to work in Anchorage with her baby son and husband.

“It’s a sign of the times to be able to do this,” she told the Associated Press. “I can think of so many male candidates who watched families grow while they were in office. There is no reason to believe a woman can’t do it with a growing family. My baby will not be at all or in any sense neglected...

I like the fact that she took on corruption in her own Party. Lets see if anyone in the Dem Party takes on Obama for being part of lying, cheating bigotry, and the Chicago Democratic Machine...

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A Liberal is a Man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (Robert Frost 1874-1963).

Here's another example of libs having their brains go into contortions. It's a good thing when she goes after a corrupt government, and officials, she kicks the butts of Republicans up and down, and out of the state. But a woman must know her place. She's fine staying in the forgotten state of Alaska in her political modern day version of Wyatt Earp. But don't come to the lower 48, and certainly not a heart beat from the Presidency. A woman must know her place.

Libs showed us how to put Ferraro in her place, just play the race card. Hilliary was shown the glass ceiling is higher and thicker, we Dean types in the DNC did this on purpose. Now you have a living breathing practitioner of what Pelosi promised in 06. Remember "drain the swamp". Palin drains it, has a 80 plus approval rating, while Pelosi creates an even bigger swamp, while letting the previous one stand, and has a 9 rating.

You don't suppose the hot button that has libs concerned is what is at play with Stevens? Do you suppose they think, she will come into town "guns blazing", and put pressure on other Senators in Washington. If I were Reid, I'd be getting a itch in my "consecrated underwear", and wonder if she would be wanting to look into my corruption in Nevada.

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'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.' - Ronald Reagan

Nice touch on the sarcasm LCOF... I'm starting to like McCains sense of "Independence" from the Main Stream Republican Party.


Peace unto thee, and thine own.

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Well, other than what I googled this morning, I know next to nothing about sexy Sarah but I am willing to listen to her. We know what we will get with Biden since he is a beltway bandit for all these years and hasn't once tried to help the American people unless it helped the party first.

I will give her a chance.

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Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan

Goverment takes from the needy and gives to the greedy, Ronald Reagan

Sarah is doing a fine job.

Not! according to some who love her .


Hot Air Blog Archive Palin backed Alaskan windfall-profits tax

Palin backed Alaskan windfall-profits taxposted at 8:50 am on August 11, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
Send to a Friend | printer-friendly John McCain and nearly every economist agrees that a windfall-profits tax on the oil industry would drive away investment, increase prices to consumers, and make Americans more dependent on foreign oil. If anyone wants to see that in microcosm, they only need look at Alaska. With the backing of Governor Sarah Palin, the state managed to drive away investment in development by hiking taxes on oil companies drilling on state lands:
Over the opposition of oil companies, Republican Gov. Sarah Palin and Alaska’s Legislature last year approved a major increase in taxes on the oil industry — a step that has generated stunning new wealth for the state as oil prices soared. …
BP Alaska, which runs Prudhoe Bay, said earlier this year that it had delayed the development in the western region of the North Slope as a result of the tax. ConocoPhillips cited the same reason for scrapping a $300 million refinery project.
“What the tax has done is take away all the upside,” said Doug Suttles, president of BP Alaska. The U.K.-based oil company paid more than $500 million in taxes to Alaska last quarter — far more than it earned in profits from Alaskan oil, according to Suttles.
Investment dollars are flowing instead to places that have a better return, like the massive deep-water projects offshore in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where ConocoPhillips said the government take equals less than 50 percent of the barrel.
In fact, Palin’s plan looks similar in concept to Barack Obama’s plan. The state gave Alaskans $1200 checks from oil revenues as a one-time bonus to pay for increased fuel prices, a move Palin pushed. That echoes the Obama plan to send one-time rebates to taxpayers, funded by similar levies on oil companies.
However, the results in Alaska should warn the rest of the country about pursuing this policy. Already oil companies have stopped drilling on state lands, thanks to the tax burden Alaska imposes. It should be cheaper to drill and extract from these areas, but the oil companies have decided to focus their investment instead on the Gulf, where the costs and risks would normally be higher. In Alaska, the government takes 75% of the price on a barrel of oil at current prices, which gives them no incentive to work there.
If this plan gets pushed across the country in an Obama administration, then we can expect similar disincentives to curtail domestic production all across the nation. Oil companies will explore other parts of the world, but American oil companies will not have the access they enjoy here. Our own companies will be weakened in international competition, and we will have to both buy more oil from abroad, and more from state-owned companies, while American investors lose significant ground.
Palin has been a strong voice for opening ANWR to reasonable and planned development. Perhaps she needs to rethink her approach to overtaxing oil companies for their work on state lands while encouraging the use of federal lands, too.


Oh my the guys are so unhappy they thought they had a real anti tax beauty queen till she started a wind fall oil tax. LOL


Don’t get me wrong, your still hot, but I wouldn’t vote for ya.

RobertInAustin on August 11, 2008 at 8:53 AM

Too bad, so sad, Sarah. I re-think my good feeling about you.
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letget on August 11, 2008 at 8:53 AM

Yeah, this is a deal-killer to me. McCain should remove Palin from the VP list, even though it pains me to say that.

I also find it outrageous that Alaska’s tax burden amounts to 75% of the price of a barrel of oil, or even that drilling in the Gulf requires the oil companies to pay a tax equal to 50% of the price of the barrel. The 50% level is basically a European level of taxation. No wonder the feds have to give the oil companies various tax breaks.

Rob,,, you amaze me. I've yet to see you raise your hand in anger, or voice. Thus, I speak unto thee, Thy words and Thoughts bespeak to me of a kind soul, one unwilling to cause pain toward another...

Thy Heart and Soul remains Unsullied.

Peace unto thee.

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