Setting the Record Straight on Governor Palin

I know that from the beginning the left fell in love with the anointed one, Barrack Hussein Obama, and that any criticism of him was reflexively denounced as racism by those knuckleheads, but now that the honeymoon is over and the bloom on the rose is wilting quickly, people are beginning to see that the omnipotent Obama is NOT what he claimed to be during his campaign, and certainly not what this country needs.

Now I instinctively liked a lot of what I saw and heard from Governor Palin when she came on to the national scene. Choosing her as his VP was probably one of the few smart things McCain actually did in his dismal presidential run for the Whitehouse. Without Palin's true conservative principles to energize the GOP base, McCain would likely have lost to Lord Obama by a much larger margin yet.

That being said, I do not know if Palin will run for president in 2012. I do not know if I will vote for her if she does run, but I do know that she is more than qualified, particularly when compared to the inexperienced Marxist man-child currently in office. Further, Palin's conservative instincts and common sense are exactly what is needed should we as Americans care to make an attempt to save what is left of our country before it completely goes under for good.

The state-controlled main stream media has done a masterful job of denigrating and spreading outright falsehoods about Governor Palin. Their Saul Alinsky tactics of trying to ridicule and make her irrelevant have had an effect with regards to those people that don't take the time to actually look at the facts. Regardless, I don't think Governor Palin is going away from the national scene anytime soon and that is a very good thing for America.

With all of that being said, I found this interesting snippet written by one of Palin's constituents that helps put things in perspective. It won't matter to those that have already made up their minds regarding Governor Palin, but to those with an open mind, the facts definitely support the case that she is exactly the type of executive we need in the Whitehouse.

By Dewey Whetsell, Alaskan fisherman

The last 45 of my 66 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 Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. 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 that has ever done anything similar. But while you’re thinking, I’ll continue.

2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES”. Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork”. She went through the list, took 85% of them 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’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then 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 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.

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

By the way, she was content to to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.

Mr. Whetsell, I couldn't agree more!