Anchorage Daily Not Softening on Palin; Gives speech "very mixed review"

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Editor&Publisher: Anchorage Daily Not Softening on Palin
By E&P Staff
Published: September 04, 2008

NEW YORK One might have expected the home state's largest paper to rave more enthusiastically than most others about Gov. Sarah Palin's speech before the GOP convention on Wednesday but the paper that knows her best did no such thing. While against expressing the point that her elevation "was a proud and exciting moment for Alaskans," it went on to offer a very mixed review.

It also published a separate editorial that gave the same up-and-down appraisal of her record as governor. And it featured stories near the top of its home page with the following headings:

* Palin education took her to five colleges

* Cindy McCain parts with Palin on abortion, sex ed

* Iraq war, gas line God's will, Palin said

* Palin pressured Wasilla librarian

Here are some excerpts from the speech review:

POLITICS-AS-USUAL SPEECH

Though the American public doesn’t know her well, she didn’t spend a lot of time introducing herself to the nation. Instead, the vice-presidential candidate who promises to reform politics as usual gave a-politics-as-usual speech....

Unleashing Gov. Palin in that typical political role could be a gamble. While the Republican audience ate up her strong rhetoric, it’s unclear how well it will play with voters who were seeing her for the first time. They may discount the self-professed reformer’s promises to bring a different kind of leadership to the country....

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