Comparing bour books that critically address Sarah Palin - from ProgressiveAlaska

[Blue_In_AK]

This article is really interesting, especially since Phil Munger has lived in Wasilla and known the Palins for over 15 years and is associated with all these authors in one way or another.

It's wonderful that all these truths are finally coming out about SP and should be a warning to all parties (and voters) to vet their candidates thoroughly.

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2011/09/comparing-four-books-that-critically.html

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I feel almost too close to a lot of the content to be able to review the volume (The Rogue). It does bring up, once again, a subject Judy and I have discussed fairly frequently over the past three years - how much we've forgotten about Palin, that we knew, and that we knew was really awful. McGinniss addresses the climate of fear the Palin camp has created in the Wasilla area since the mid-1990s, better than anyone else has. Far better. He lived through it.

Here's one example. My longtime friend (since 1974, in Seattle, before he moved to Alaska), Dewey Taylor, used his truck to bring some chairs over to McGinniss' new rental next to the Palins. Apparently, some of Palin's advocates took note:


Then I hear that at about four o'clock this morning somebody shot out the driver's side window of Dewey Taylor's truck, which was parked in his driveway.

I call him and offer to pay for a new window. "Don't be ridiculous," he says, "it was probably just a coincidence."

"How long have you lived there?"

"About twenty years."

"Ever had a problem with a vehicle parked in your driveway before?"

"Nope."

"I don't think it's a coincidence."



A couple of interesting things should be noted here. I see Dewey a lot. He's never discussed this incident with me. Strange, eh? Maybe not, as three months earlier, Palin-loving vandals (a week after this incident) had drained the oil from my Subaru (probably using a Jabsco pump), cut the oil warning light wire, and cost us $3,500.00. And I've never shared that with Dewey. We're both "I'll move on" kinds of people - Dewey more than I - but did fear of even dwelling on the vandalism help us keep our mouths shut?

How many other stories like that are there out here in the Mad Zoo? The climate of festering fear or immediate retribution here - not just from the Palins, but from the nutty right-wing and Christianist zealots - should not be underestimated.

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[mwb970]

1. The time for discussing Palin is just about over.

Her shtick is worn out. Few people care what she says or does any more. Her 15 minutes are on life support. So enjoy posts like this while you still can!

[Logical]

2. People have been saying this for month. Yet she is still here.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Indeed.

As I said, I'm just grateful that people are finally feeling comfortable enough to divulge all the secrets. And she is definitely a cautionary tale. McCain's people did no vetting of her in Alaska or else they would have been able to find out a lot of this stuff and would never (one would hope) have brought her out onto the national stage.

[Raschel]

4. As for me, I'll discuss her ugly truths whenever they come out. She's been given a free national

platform by the media and PAID by Fox to spread her hate and lies. She's responsible in a big way for the tone in this country.

From the start of the RNC convention till now, she has come out flinging red meat and fear at the ignorant and the bigots while being given a free pass on her own low IQ.

p.s. I think the revelation that she was pallin' around with nee-groes is just killing her! lololol

[mwb970]

5. None of this would have happened if she weren't good looking.

Her appeal is so superficial. "She's cute." "She's hot." OK, I agree, but what does that have to do with the fracking PRESIDENCY?

[wildbilln864]

6. what are "bour books"?