Sarah Palin is reputed to have an 80% approval rating here in Alaska. Well, here in Alaska I have heard from people who claim to have voted Republican all their lives who will now vote Democratic, from another who swore he would never vote for Sarah Palin again and is now faced with a dilemma.
Stop and thin about her so-called adminstrative experience in which she has attempted to micro-manage lower level employees. And she has attempted to inappropriately influence voting. There was a recent very public, very controversial ballot proposition calling for stringent controls on waste water disposal from new large scale mines. She appeared on tv saying she was appearing not as governor but as a private citizen, and saying she was voting against the proposition. She also opposes listing the polar bear as threatened or endangered species and has directed the state to bring suit against the listing. She denies there is any man-made cause of global warming.
Because one has been in an administrative position does not necessarily mean one has been a good administrator. The governor she replaced was so bad it would have been hard not to look good.
In one comment I have heard being circulated here in Alaska, "A woman voting for Sarah Palin is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders."
There is so much more to know about Ms. Palin and so little of it tells anything about why she should be vice-president of the United States. Make that none of it would help there.