OK, just one political rant

In case anyone is interested, I just sent this to letters to the editor in the Anchorage Daily News. 

Dear governor Palin,

you say that you are fighting against "Politics as usual" and "the Good Old Boy Network", yet your pick to be VP candidate was completely political (even ask Karl Rove) and you are now being controlled and fed words by the very network you claim to combat.  You came on to the scene fighting for ethics, but you are accused of abuse of power and nepotism.  Do you care to stand and be judged or doesn't it matter now that you have money and power to block the case?   Your excessive use of the word "Maverick" makes me think you are branding a product.  Are you a product now Sarah?  Can I buy you with a vote and get your glasses and your lipstick too?   We  here in Alaska felt you were doing a good job as governor, but now many deplore what the McCain campaign has turned you into.  Or were you this person all along, only needing the opportunity.  I wonder what your political life will be like when you lose and have to come back to our state and try to just be governor again.  Have you burnt any bridges?  Do you feel good about who you've become?  It will be interesting to see.

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Since being picked for VP candidate a lot of stuff has come out that we didn't know.  the book banning thing wasn't public before, and lot of her alleged abuses of power.  I didn't know she was so much the bible thumper.  Those things just didn't come up at election time.  The last gubernatorial election was really about who can get the gas line through and bring home more bacon (we get a lot of oil money from the state).  (When Alaskans bang the drum to open ANWR, we are really just after another oil boom.  Big $$$$$ Don't let em fool you!)   

She ran against a former two term gov. Tony Knowles, who I voted for.  But many people were just sick of his face and wanted someone new.  And we all must admit, her face is easy to look at.  She did take on a party boss here or there, she was a thorn in their side, outing some corruption that was going on.  But that's what makes who she seems to be now so hard to take.  Now she's so full of shit, which really means, she was full of shit all along.  

carry on,   (and vote Obama!)

Mike  

PS, this is a real cover for Alaska Magazine (owned by Morris Communications of Tennessee or somewhere like that.)