As far as her honesty and integrity go — look at her denying that she had done anything wrong in abusing her power in trying to get her ex brother-in-law fired, even after she was found guilty by the official report from the state of Alaska!

I have a primary degee in History and would consider myself widely read in literature, politics and history. I also have a masters degree in strategic business mgt amd I have a PH.d in economics. Yet Gov Palin cammands my respect. Of the numerous negative allegations made against her, I have geneally found them, on investigation, to be false, based on half truths/distortions, or political motivated, are trivial or if they were made about democratic rivals would be ignored to given a free pass. The are also based on the worst form of anti-religious bigotry. When I consider the hate/slime/snearfest conducted against this person by mediocre scribblers, I am reminded of the description of such mediocrity written by the French writer, Ernst Hello:

‘”he Mediocre Man is the natural enemy of any person of talent and conviction: and enemy at the same time most cruel and ferocious. He opposes to the person of talent that most cruel and redoubtable of forces: the power of inertia. The Mediocre Man is more evil than he appears. His basic wickedness is hidden beneath his external frigidity. He peddles against the enthusiasts his endless little infamies, which because the are little are not taken to be infamies. He is fearless knowing that he has behind him the multitude of his similars. He never fights knowing that he has gained the victory in advance”

My respect For Governor Sarah Palin obviously is not unqualified, but she is no mediocrity.. I am not so sure that this cannot be said about her numerous vilifiers.

I have to ask you one thing, why do you feel “she is a great person”? Do you think she’s done a good job for Alaska, or has she merely SAID she’s a reformer but gone ahead and done business the same as her corrupt predecessors?

I’ve read enough Alaskan fact-finding information that’s been surfacing since her VP nomination to think it’s the latter.

I plan to be as intolerant as possible towards this woman, who seemingly can look even her constituency in the eye and lie without blinking. Or at least that’s what appears to happen every time she gets in front of a microphone.

I can tell you this. Her state legislative partners are going to look into some of her methods of doing business for that state, investigating among other things Troopergate, Couturegate, Travelgate, SportsComplexgate, HomeVs.Mansiongate, Pregnancygate, Daughterpregnancygate, and DudeMansionBudgetgate, to name a few topics of interest.

Because I formed the EXACT OPPOSITE opinion of her after
1) hearing the various themes of her stump speeches,
2) hearing some of the racist/murderous reactions from her rally crowds (and seeing her smiling encouragement),
3) hearing some of her unscripted interviews (few as they were during the campaign), and — worst of all —
4) hearing that “Masked Avengers do Sarkozy” telephone call which must be the culmination of proof that Sarah Palin has no notion of protocol, diplomacy, knowlege of current affairs and representatives of other countries, or even support for her partner on the ticket…not to mention sounding like a foolish teenager giggling throughout the conversation with the fake “Sarkozy”.

You and those like you with such egotistical, self-centered, small-minded beliefs and actions are what is destroying this country. But, great job “making this country work”. The country is obviously at its peak economically, socially and globally.

Disgusting.

Disgusting

You attempt to sound thoughtful and intelligent, with your rhetorical questions and intimations that the those who are considered liberal are nothing more than poor, lazy persons (”…so get a job, instead of sitting around waiting for the Obama hand-outs…”). However, your efforts to “speak the truth”, so to say, are misguided. First, I will point out that Palin’s “high” approval rating has dropped from a respectable 80% to 65% in the past few months. This is no doubtedly due to her actions and behavior (upon which people have formed their opinions) throughout the campaign. Furthermore, the “liberal pundits” with no knowledge of who Palin really is have merely based their opinion upon the information available; just as you have formed your high opinion of her, some have formed a more negative opinion. But for you to say that those who disapprove of her are just “hate-mongering” and behaving “sophomoric” is ironic, as you are doing the same regarding Obama. You obviously disapprove of him; are you a hateful, essentially terrible person like you say people who disapprove of Palin are? Have you met Palin personally? You suggest you know her pretty well. And on the flip side, have you met Obama personally? Because you suggest you know him just as well and know ouright that he is a terrible person, who will do this country no good.

Palin has a high disapproval rating throughout the nation (I direct your attention to the election results) due to her extremism, especially when it comes to the policies she supports that are based on religion (i.e. gay marriage; give me one CONSTITUTIONAL defense of refusing this right). What the Republican party needs is to return to economic conservatism. The extreme faith-based party that it has morphed into has, obviously, done more harm than good. It does not matter if you are Christian. It does not matter if you believe in a God or not. Some of the writers of the Constitution may have been religious, but they included the right to the freedom of religion for a reason. Religion has no place in government. That is a fact.

Now to your questions.

1. It has been a little over a week since Obama became President-Elect. How do you know it looks like he is not going to live up to his campaign promises? He has not even taken office yet. Furthermore, as with any previous president in our history, he will certainly not live up to all of them. (I remind you of the phrase “no new taxes!”)
2-3 (they are the same question). I wish someone would give an answer as to how we will pay back the TRILLIONS of dollars in debt we are in, due to the obscene cost of the Bush administration, without raising taxes. If not now, we will raise them later. Bush has attempted to lessen our debt by cutting taxes and giving us stimulus checks. Twice. Look where it got us.
4. The next administration, no matter if it was McCain or Obama, would have to fix what the Bush administration screwed up. We should have focused on Afghanistan all along. The Obama administration will no doubtedly attempt fixing this situation, however, through diplomatic means (what right wing conservatives have criticized him on). Interesting how, assuming you are one of these conservatives, you disgrace diplomacy and yet you ask how big of a war we “will” get into. If no talk and no action, what do you suggest we do in Afghanistan?
5. It is not even worth my time to address this question.
6. The entire world has congratulated Obama. Our allies do not like him? This is just plain false. And please show me the evidence that he accepted illegal foreign campaign donations. (Not rumors, facts please)
7. Interesting how you refer to Obama’s administration as a “regime.” I believe the closest we will get to a regime is what we have endured for the past 8 years. And again, refer to my answer in 2-3 in response to the second part of this question.
8. We have worsened our national security ten-fold in the past 8 years as the entire world looks at us with scorn and disapproval. Taliban recruiting is as high as ever; why do you think Al Qaeda endorsed McCain? An “immature and dangerous” foreign policy is refusing discussion, ignoring allies and acting unilaterally.

Palin is a successful governor with a high approval rating in a huge state with significant budget, a significant BALANCED budget attained with no tax increases…something Obama sure can’t do.

Few candidates are perfect and undoubtedly Palin is also not perfect. However, to blindly believe the spew coming from liberal pundits with no knowledge of this woman is just hate-mongering and trashing someone’s name for no good reason. At this level, this type of bashing is just sophomoric hate, sexism and an obsession.

The presidential election is over….so get a job, instead of sitting around waiting for the Obama hand-outs and move on to other conversations.

Some conversation suggestions:
Is Obama going to live up to ANY of his campaign promises?…it doesn’t look like it.
How high will your taxes be under Obama?
Are Obama’s plans going to cost us extra millions or billions and who will pay for them?
How big is the war Obama is going to get us into in Afghanistan?…looks like it will make the Iraq wore look small and brilliant?
Why will Obama only release a birth registry and not his legal birth certificate and why did he have his birth certificate sealed? If it’s not an issue, then why not be transparent and just show America that one small document? McCain proved his citizenship…Obama submitted a birth registry….that’s it. It almost appears he has something to hide….like he tried to hide Rezko, Ayers, Khalidi, Sinclair, etc, etc, etc, etc., etc., etc.
Why do our enemies like Obama so much, but not our allies?…and why did Obama take so much illegal foreign campaign donations?
How are YOU going to pay for Obama’s regime?….the hand-outs ARE going to have to stop and then you’ll have to pay for this guy’s plans.
And, why can’t Obama keep confidential matters confidential?…does he not understand the crucial nature of national security?…or are our allies right that his foreign policy stance is “immature and dangerous”.

If you can answer any of those questions, it will give you something to do, besides being obsessed with a hard-working governor of a resource-rich state.

Is it a conservative policy to allow rapists to choose who will be the mothers of their children too (Sarah P apparently believes so)? Don’t you find that notion absolutely disgusting?

For so many reasons, republicans and neocons are dying a little death each day. As proof, just look at the electoral map from the election.

This article concluded with a list of problems that our country faces. But careful research will trace many (most?) of those problems back to liberal (not conservative) policies.