Cause apparently that what Palin said you will get if you vote for McCain/Palin.

Don't know about you, but it conjures up an image of everybody going their own sweet way whilst nothing actually gets done.

A case of meet the new boss, same as the old boss?

And did anybody else get a whiff of the stepford wives in her performanace?

I kept expecting the mask to literally slip to reveal a chrome face beneath while she got stuck in a loop endlessly repeating the list of buzz words that she had obviously been programmed with beforehand.

A case of meet the new boss, same as the old boss? And Buzz words...wonder if anyone bothered to count how many times Palin said bi-partisan? If anyone believes that I've got some mountain land in Florida they might be interested in.

Remember how bush promised bi-partisanship if he became President? Well, once he took office that lasted about as long as it took him to kick out every Democrat who held any kind of position. I well remember how he and his repub buddies would call for meetings and literally slam the door in the faces of their Dem counter-parts.

No how, no way, no McCain/Palin!

SG

We always rounded up the mavericks and shipped them to market first....or just shot them and butchered them first since they were the ones who were uncontrollable......kind of like these two mavericks, both feel they are so far above the citizens of this nation that they are not answerable to them.

citizens of this nation"???

Where do you possibly get that from?

As an ELECTED official, she certainly knows she is "answerable" to them.

libel against her.

Show where she claims or even believes she is "above" everyone else.

Let’s see…….while mayor and Gov instead of working for the good of her city she goes on personal vendettas getting rid of anyone who won’t bow down and kiss her feet and replaces them with personal friends who have no idea what they are doing.

proof.

Got any?

While in office she cut money from the following public programs…..

Library Book Purchasing Fund Slashed (Budget pages G-5 and G-7): Governor Palin's original budget for FY2000 requested a $35,876 (19%) cut from the Library Department's budget. To meet this requirement, the revised budget cut funding by 28% for library materials (books, periodicals, audio/visual materials, and supplies for children programs).

Animal Control Funding Cut (Page F-6): For a city where vicious dogs are commonplace and bears come to feast on unsecured garbage, the fiscal year 2000 budget cut back Wasilla's funding for the Mat-Su Borough Animal Control by 14%.

Summer Recreation Program Funding Cut Heavily, Partially Restored (Page F-31): Wasilla had traditionally employed 2 to 3 people to run structured summer programming for city children. The initial fiscal year 2000 budget cut funding from $13,966 to $5,000 (a 57% decrease). The revised budget partially restored the cut, providing $8,355 for the summer rec program.

Contracted Out Early-Intervention Services Eliminated (Pages G-9 to G-10): Wasilla runs a Youth Court, a program of early intervention for troubled teenagers. Some of the services (it is unclear what these services were) provided by the court were contracted out. The FY2000 budget eliminated funding for these services

Police Department Public Relations Funding Declines (Page F-27): Under Police Chief Irl Stambaugh, this line item paid for neighborhood watch and crime prevention seminars; Mayor Palin felt that providing a sense of "real down-home community belonging" was of utmost importance. Palin replaced Stambaugh and decreased this line item by 90% between FY97 and FY00.

Rape Kit Funding Transferred to Victim's Insurance ("Contractual Services" page F-28):. Governor Palin recently gave a non-denial denial when confronted about this.

Grant Decreased to Children's Shelter (Page F-6): The Dorothy Saxton Youth Shelter provides residential care and rehabilitation to endangered children, including victims of sexual abuse. Sarah Palin's fiscal year 2000 budget decreased the Wasilla city grant to the shelter by 25%.

Where did the money she cut from funds meant to benefit those who elected her go?

To Defend Against Wrongful Termination Lawsuit (Page F-15): In response to two lawsuits the city was involved in as a result of actions by Mayor Palin, she included $30,000 for legal services in the Mayor's department's budget. The first of the lawsuits filed against the city was filed by former Police Chief Irl Stambaugh. He sued for breach of contract and wrongful termination. The city won this case in March of 2000 when a judge ruled that under Alaska law, police chiefs serve "at the behest of the mayor," an idiom akin to "at the pleasure of the president."

A Costly Land Grab The city of Wasilla sued developer Gary Lundgren and The Nature Conservancy in 1999 after Lundgren and the national TNC closed a deal for land. Wasilla had made an offer to the state Nature Conservancy that had been mostly accepted with a few kinks still to be worked out. The city won the initial case in July 2000 and began building a multi-use sports facility on the site, but after Lundgren won on appeal, the city was forced to take eminent domain of the land for a higher cost. When combined with court costs, the city had spent $1.5 million, five times the initial cost of the land.

Money for a Mayormobile (Page F-15): An expense of $3,579 is allocated for the Mayor's Department in the revised fiscal year 2000 budget for "vehicle lease." The lack of a line-item in this or any other budget showing any vehicle purchase by the Mayor's Department suggests this vehicle was the white Chevrolet Suburban SUV "Mayormobile" mentioned in a recent New York Times article on Palin's tenure as mayor.

Improvements for Rarely-Used Airport (Pages E-1 and E-2): Wasilla residents tend to use Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, and as such, Wasilla's airport gets little use. However, Sarah Palin increased spending for the Wasilla city airport in FY2000 by more than $25,000, from $47,816.26 to $75,135. She cast the tie-breaking vote to propose a tax exemption on aircraft when her father-in-law owned one, and backed the city's repeal of all taxes a year later on planes, snow machines and other personal property.

While she was mayor of Wasilla, she and her husband had a snowmobile store in town. Now, one of the cool things about snowmobiles is that you can race them. But snowmobile races are loud and can be dangerous, so Wasilla had fairly strict rules about them. Mayor Palin asked the town council to loosen the rules. She grasped immediately that looser rules would mean more races, which would mean more people noticing how totally awesome snowmobiling is, which in turn would boost sales at the store owned by her and her husband and the dangers to people be dammed for the all might dollar she could put in her pocket..

Later in her term it came time to sell the family home. Once again, government regulations posed a problem. This time there was a zoning issue. The mayor approached it with the same problem-solving practicality: She persuaded the city to make an exception in her case. There is no indication that she considered the regulation to be a bad one, she just wanted an exception to it.

Part of the agreement with the town was that the Palins would remove a certain fire hazard from the property. They promised to do so, got the exception to the zoning regulations and sold the property for $327,000. They never did remove the fire hazard. Palin had a buyer, but he wouldn't close the deal unless she persuaded the city to waive the violations with a code variance.

Palin spent about $55,000 redecorating her office without council approval, said former council member Domonic Carney, a former ally who sparred with Palin when she was mayor. Carney said he confronted Palin about the unauthorized redo and was told to butt out. "She said, 'I'm the mayor, I can do anything I want to until a judge tells me I can't,' "

dismisses people who disagree with her.

You only cite ONE possible case...and the court ruled in her favor.

You prove your lack of reading comprehension again…

While in office she cut money from the following public programs meant to improve the lives of the citizens and redirected that money over and over again to her personal wants and needs. Then using her position to enrich her and her husband again at the risk of harm to the citizens. Then her statement She said, 'I'm the mayor, I can do anything I want to until a judge tells me I can't,' " shows us her mentality of she is “in power” and to hell with the citizens and their needs, remember she knew the law and that she was suppose to have counsel approval before expending this money but IGNORED IT because she wanted more personal comfort and was willing to get it at the expense of the citizens.

otherwise Obama and Biden would just be more of the same.

who didn't agree with her.

You haven't provided ONE example of that.

As far as "doing anything she wants until a judge tells her she can't", both the President and Congress feel the same way. They have signed and passed numerous laws that were later turned over by courts.

You can't ask a court ahead of time to rule on a law you are considering. A court can only rule after a law becomes law.

Largely, from what I've seen, the courts then UPHELD what she did.

I wonder what Obama's rate is of laws he signed on to that were then later turned over by the courts?

I understand parts of the Homeland Security bill had to be changed after court review.

So you support the typical CRIMINAL way of thinking.....I'll keep doing it till I get caught......and her re-do of her offices never went to court......they just allowed her to do as she wanted because they couldn't see taking more money from the citizens in order to fight her......seems they cared far more for the citizens than she did.

Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

When there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. What were her qualifications for a job paying $95,000 a year……as a child she loved cows….

On her first state budget instead of working with the people that were elected by the citizens she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.

If you don’t agree with her you are referred to as “haters”.

Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials.

Last summer State Representative John Harris, got a call from the governor’s husband. He said he was unhappy that Mr. Harris had hired John Bitney as his chief of staff, the speaker recalled. Mr. Bitney was a high school classmate of the Palins and had worked for Ms. Palin. But she fired Mr. Bitney after learning that he had fallen in love with another longtime friend.

“I understood from the call that Todd wasn’t happy with me hiring John and he’d like to see him not there,” Mr. Harris said.

Once in office Palin quickly fired the town’s museum director, John Cooper. Days later, Mr. Cooper recalled, a vocal conservative, Steve Stoll, sidled up to him. Mr. Stoll had supported Ms. Palin and had a long-running feud with Mr. Cooper. “He said: ‘Gotcha, Cooper,’ ” Mr. Cooper said. Seems Palin again was doing favors for friends.

A builder who is a friend of Palin’s and a campaign supporter, complained to Palin when the city attorney put a stop-work order on his housing project. Palin responded, by engineering the attorney’s firing.

In a campaign Palin repeatedly attacked state Republican leader Randy Ruedrich, for conducting party business on state time. How ever when in the middle of the campaign when a conservative columnist in the state, Paul Jenkins, unearthed e-mail messages showing that Ms. Palin had conducted campaign business from the mayor’s office. Ms. Palin handled the crisis with a street fighter’s guile.

“I told her it looks like she did the same thing that Randy Ruedrich did,” Mr. Jenkins recalled. “And she said, ‘Yeah, what I did was wrong.’ ”

Mr. Jenkins hung up and decided to forgo writing about it. His phone rang soon after.

Mr. Jenkins said a reporter from Fairbanks, reading from a Palin news release, demanded to know why he was “smearing” her. “Now I look at her and think: ‘Man, you’re slick,’ ” he said.

The business of Government is the business of the citizens, but not in Palin’s view. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.

Even those who helped her to get into office are not safe from attack. Dan Fagan, a prominent conservative radio host and longtime friend of Ms. Palin, urged his listeners to vote for her in 2006. But when he took her to task for raising taxes on oil companies, he said, he found himself branded a “hater.”

Anyone in Alaska who stands up to her or disagrees with her are labeled as “bad people who are anti-Alaska.”

Even today if any of her old friends are being interviewed her aides set in. She proves she doesn’t trust anyone to toe the line for her if they are not being watched.

Members of the Wasilla Chamber of Commerce have been told not to speak to reporters but to refer all calls to the Governor’s office. It seems if you work with or for Palin you automatically give up your First Amendment rights,” unless you are going gaga over Sarah and blindly support her you have no rights.

Not a single proven incident of what you claimed.

The one that went to trial...she won.

The others didn't even try, how weak is that?

And Cooper resigned, he wasn't fired.