Helena's 24/7 Palin Thread

[Gypsy]

Helena requested a 24/7 Sarah Palin thread. So here it is. Feel free to add inspirational quotes made by Sarah. Suggested campaign slogans, songs or anything else that is all Sarah.



I'd like to start by suggesting the title for her next book.



And on the seventh day, God invented the Bump It.

Seven steps to pagent queen hair.

[TennesseeRain]

You had to mess up the lounge with this?

[kmiller1610]

You can understand a person by studying their history. Look for the themes and events that recur.



She attended Wasilla High School, where she was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and a member of the girls' cross country team. As captain and point guard of the school's girls' basketball team that won the Alaska state championship in 1982, she gained the nickname "Barracuda" for her competitive streak.



In 1984, after winning the Miss Wasilla pageant,she finished third in the Miss Alaska pageant,receiving the "Miss Congeniality" award and a college scholarship.



In 1988, she eloped with her childhood sweetheart Todd Palin, believing that her parents "couldn't afford a big white wedding." After the marriage, she helped in her husband’s commercial fishing business.



Motivated by concerns that revenue from a new Wasilla sales tax would not be spent wisely,Palin was elected to the city council of Wasilla in 1992. She ran for reelection in 1995, winning by 413 votes to 185, but did not complete her second term on the city council because she was elected mayor in 1996.



Palin served two three-year terms as the mayor of Wasilla. In 1996, she defeated three-term incumbent mayor John Stein, on a platform targeting wasteful spending and high taxes.Stein says that Palin introduced abortion, gun rights, and term limits as campaign issues. Although the election was a nonpartisan blanket primary, the state Republican Party ran advertisements on her behalf. In 2008, Wasilla's mayor credited Palin's tax cuts and infrastructural improvements with helping the local economy, "bringing the big-box stores to Wasilla, ... helping Wasilla grow and draw 50,000 shoppers a day."The Boston Globe quoted a local business owner as crediting Palin with making the town "more of a community ... It's no longer a little strip town that you can blow through in a heartbeat."



She created the position of city administrator,[40] and reduced her own $68,000 salary by 10%...Using income generated by a 2% sales tax that was enacted before she was elected to the city council, Palin cut property taxes by 75% and eliminated personal property and business inventory taxes.



Palin ran for re-election in 1999 and won, with 74% of the vote. She was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.



During her second term as mayor, Palin introduced a ballot measure proposing the construction of a municipal sports center to be financed by a 0.5% sales tax increase. The $14.7 million Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex was built on time and under budget, but the city spent an additional $1.3 million because of an eminent domain lawsuit caused by the failure to obtain clear title to the property before beginning construction.



Palin also joined with nearby communities in jointly hiring the Anchorage-based lobbying firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh to lobby for federal funds. The firm secured nearly $8 million in earmarked funds for the Wasilla city government. Earmarks included $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a transportation hub, and $900,000 for sewer repairs.



In 2002, Palin ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, coming in second. Governor Murkowski appointed Palin to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. She chaired the Commission beginning in 2003, serving as Ethics Supervisor. Palin resigned in January 2004, protesting what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Republican members.



After resigning, Palin filed a formal complaint against Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner Randy Ruedrich, also the chair of the state Republican Party, accusing him of doing work for the party on public time and of working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating. She also joined with Democratic legislator Eric Croft to file a complaint against Gregg Renkes, a former Alaskan Attorney General, accusing him of having a financial conflict of interest in negotiating a coal exporting trade agreement, while Renkes was the subject of investigation and after records suggesting a possible conflict of interest had been released to the public. Ruedrich and Renkes both resigned and Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.



In 2006, running on a clean-government platform, Palin defeated incumbent Governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[77] Her running mate was State Senator Sean Parnell. She will not be a candidate for re-election as Governor in 2010.



In the November election, Palin was outspent but victorious, defeating former Democratic governor Tony Knowles by a margin of 48.3% to 40.9%.She became Alaska's first female governor, at the age of 42, the youngest governor in Alaskan history,[78] the state's first governor to have been born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood, and the first not to be inaugurated in Juneau (she chose to have the ceremony held in Fairbanks instead). She took office on December 4, 2006, and for most of her term was very popular with Alaska voters. Polls taken in 2007 showed her with 93% and 89% popularity among all voters,which led some media outlets to call her "the most popular governor in America."A poll taken in late September 2008 after Palin was named to the national Republican ticket showed her popularity in Alaska at 68%.A poll taken in May 2009 showed Palin's popularity among Alaskans was at 54% positive and 41.6% negative.

[kmiller1610]

The previous page was the Palin Wiki entry.



I would observe the following about Palin, based strictly on the data in the entry:



Likes leadership roles

Aggressive

Tends to go against others, regardless of associations

Whistle blower

A Builder; A cost conscious champion for efficient government (which sometimes conflicts with her role as Builder)



Impulsive

Changes Directions Quickly

Has quit a number of roles and moved onto others without consulting others

Likely to pick fights

[boontito]

Here we go again. And they think Obama is treated as the Messiah.

[kmiller1610]

[quote name='boontito' date='07 January 2010 - 08:16 AM' timestamp='1262870185' post='94244']

Here we go again. And they think Obama is treated as the Messiah.[/quote]



What? You don't think my analysis is accurate? You don't think I pointed out the problems with Palin?



I tell you this. She is neither a bimbo beauty queen nor Presidential timber.



I know that in-between stuff is boring, but that's the way it really is.

[boontito]

[quote name='kmiller1610' date='07 January 2010 - 05:19 AM' timestamp='1262870346' post='94245']

What? You don't think my analysis is accurate? You don't think I pointed out the problems with Palin?



I tell you this. She is neither a bimbo beauty queen nor Presidential timber.



I know that in-between stuff is boring, but that's the way it really is.

[/quote]



No, I think a lot of it is dead on, both on the positive and negative side, in fact the vast majority of people fall in the in-between terrain and there isn't anything wrong with that.



But I think citing things like being captain of her high school basketball team and that she won Miss Congeniality as evidence that she has leadership skills that may be applicable in public office is a bit of a stretch.

[Pragmatist]

[quote name='kmiller1610' date='07 January 2010 - 08:19 AM' timestamp='1262870346' post='94245']

She is neither a bimbo beauty queen nor Presidential timber.



[/quote]



One hell of alot of republicans feel this way. It's why in the republican primary she does not stand a chance. If she were able to win the repub nomination Obama would get all the democratic vote, all the independants and half the republicans because too many of them even have the sense enough to not support this bimbo.



It's the guys like retired army guy that would vote for her. How fuckin many of them could we possibly have?



I'm sure kmiller would vote for her in an instant if she were on the repub ticket but he damn sure will not be voting for her in any primary. Am I right or wrong kmiller?

[Pragmatist]

Does anyone remember what Bush did to McCain in the 2000 primary? What do you suppose her repub opponent will be saying about her come primary time?



Again, the retired army type guys won't listen to it but anyone with common sense will. None of the independants and nowhere near the majority of repubs will vote for this obvious dimwit.



Fanatical idiots is all she has to rely on for support.

[michaelr]

Did I mention Palin is an idiot?