Because of the high taxes on Big Oil, Alaska has, arguably, the most "socialist" economy of any state in the USA.

Do Palin's brain-dead supporters know that? Does *she* know that? Oh, sorry, that's probably why she resigned after half a term - in protest!

The travelin' train wreck called Sarah Palin is fascinating because she shows how far a person of limited sense and maturity can go in America. At least G.W. Bush has degrees from Yale and Harvard (Palin has a communications degree from the University of Idaho). And W wasn't an insinuating wise-ass with an eternal chip on his shoulder.

But many voters love insinuating, irascible wise-asses, because that's what they themselves want to be.