She's from Alaska. Still a frontier state where guns are as common as frying pans (and for a good read, check out www.stabenow.com; Dana Stabenow is an Alaskan mystery writer who is, in a word, awesome).
So...knowing what I know about Alaskans, and the info Dana Stabenow harvested from local papers about Palin and how she got to where she was (shudder...I am as qualified to run for VP as she is!), there is a stubborn, do-it-yourself streak permeating Alaskan culture. If you can't fix your own gear (truck, snow machine, plane, gun, furnace, chain saw), people will look down on you. Nobody up there will be "handled". I actually respect that trait. However, it explains a lot about SP: where she got the grit to get to where she is now, as well as how come she is such a loose cannon.
Didya know she got the idea of running for a Vasilla town commissioner in an aerobics class? Word got around...in a small town where everybody knows everybody, votes received election junk mail for the first time in their lives. She won, overreaching the budget by millions, spending the money on a gym instead of a water treatment plan (and she built the gym on a land which's title is under dispute, costing further millons in legal fees). She caught the eye of the GOP, got snagged for some oil watchdog appointment, wasted further millions and gave a lot of jobs to her friends, then ran for governor. The rest is history. If she wasn't so damn charismatic we wouldn't have this problem.
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Date: 2011-01-10 02:20 pm (UTC)So...knowing what I know about Alaskans, and the info Dana Stabenow harvested from local papers about Palin and how she got to where she was (shudder...I am as qualified to run for VP as she is!), there is a stubborn, do-it-yourself streak permeating Alaskan culture. If you can't fix your own gear (truck, snow machine, plane, gun, furnace, chain saw), people will look down on you. Nobody up there will be "handled". I actually respect that trait. However, it explains a lot about SP: where she got the grit to get to where she is now, as well as how come she is such a loose cannon.
Didya know she got the idea of running for a Vasilla town commissioner in an aerobics class? Word got around...in a small town where everybody knows everybody, votes received election junk mail for the first time in their lives. She won, overreaching the budget by millions, spending the money on a gym instead of a water treatment plan (and she built the gym on a land which's title is under dispute, costing further millons in legal fees).
She caught the eye of the GOP, got snagged for some oil watchdog appointment, wasted further millions and gave a lot of jobs to her friends, then ran for governor. The rest is history.
If she wasn't so damn charismatic we wouldn't have this problem.
Anyhow. Off to work.