I think Palin will continue to be underestimated for a while. I watched the way she connected with people, and she’s powerful. Her politics aren’t my politics. But you can see that she’s a very powerful, very disciplined, incredibly gracious woman. This was her first time out and she’s had a huge impact. People connect to her.
Here are the clips from Sarah Palin’s appearance on SNL.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Lorne Michaels is a McCain supporter. This isn’t surprising. I don’t know his personal views as far as how ‘left’ he is, but he’s definitely not a social conservative.
It’s getting harder to find anyone outside of wingnuttia with a functioning brain stem that actually likes Palin. Life is tough. Can’t wait till the fundies have her run in 2012. Hopefully she’ll read a book without pictures or something by then.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:29 am
Sarah Palin is a socialist and supports efforts to break up the United States. From Newsweek:
To the extent Palin has a governing philosophy, it was shaped by her political mentor, former governor Wally Hickel. The 89-year-old Hickel is a member of the Alaska Independence Party, which espouses, among other things, greater autonomy or even separation from the United States. (Husband Todd Palin is not a member of the party now, but he was registered as an AIP voter at different periods of his life totaling seven years. Sarah has never been a member but attended a party conference in her hometown of Wasilla.) Hickel advocates an “economy of the commons,” which would place the state’s vast energy and mineral wealth in the hands of the state government and its citizens. In that vein, Palin this year ordered a one-time $1,200 energy refund distributed to each Alaska resident. (The revenues came from recalculating the tax on oil producers.
Now really Charity- her one signature accomplishment in Alaska is raising taxes on oil companies and redistributing that wealth in the form of a big fat welfare check to every Alaskan.