...and the scandal is clearly enunciated on the NYT Sunday front page,"ONCE ELECTED, PALIN HIRED FRIENDS AND LASHED FOES".
Are you kidding me? I encourage anyone to read the entire NYT article in today's paper. Talk about no smoke, no fire. With all the resources of the "grey lady", after spending the last few weeks digging and digging with three reporters, the big scandal is that Governor Palin dispatched her enemies and hired her friends? That's news in politics? Please. Do I agree with some of the hires? No. But, I didn't win the election.
Bottom line remains. This hockey mom took on the republican party in Alaska, beat the incumbent powerful republican governor Frank Murkowski in the primary then defeated a former two term Democratic Governor in the general election. Along the way she raised taxes on the oil and gas industry and passed along the largess to the citizens. Governor Palin currently has a 80% approval rating. And the, yes, elite at the NYT don't understand it. You can feel the condescension dripping off the page. "These people are so stupid", is what the writers really want to say.
When people win elections they get to call the shots. No so long ago another ambitions woman who, didn't win an election, but wielded great power, made some changes too. From the White House travel office and attempting to reform our health care system an un-elected Hillary Clinton dispatched the disloyal and filled positions with Razorbacks.
Nothing wrong with that. You get to do that when you win.
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