"Sarah Palin is just as much of a reformer and a maverick as she was on Friday morning, but that's not what most people are thinking about right now."

What? She's a reformer and a maverick? You mean, the way McCain is a maverick, voting with George Bush over 90% of the time? Please do your homework. Sarah Palin is a woman who said that our soldiers are in Iraq "on a task from God," she tried to have books banned when she was mayor of Wasilla, the town budget exploded under her watch, she procured tens of millions of dollars in earmarks, tried to fire everyone who disagreed with her, increased a regressive sales tax while mayor that even taxed food, and was a member of a radical fringe group that wanted Alaska to declare independence from the rest of the country. That's not a maverick, that's a wacko.

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