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Title: In Anchorage, an Anti-Palin Protest
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URL Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/th ... rchorage_an_anti-palin_pr.html
Published: Sep 13, 2008
Author: By Karl Vick
Post Date: 2008-09-13 21:49:26 by angle
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Views: 650
Comments: 39
ANCHORAGE -- A couple of hours after Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the Outside, as Alaskans call the Lower 48, her local critics swarmed an Anchorage intersection to correct the widespread impression that the whole of the Last Frontier endorses her candidacy. The midday protest outside a city library drew a crowd in the high hundreds -- perhaps surging past a thousand -- from the city's relatively liberal environs, who seemed very happy to see one another and be reminded that they are not alone. "The whole thing grew out of frustration," said Charla Sterne, one of the organizers, who like several people at the rally declined to say where they worked (several said they were state employees and feared retribution). "Last week this was just ten women sitting around talking about this perception that all of Alaska supports Sarah Palin. We apparently hit a nerve and started a movement," Sterne said. A sense of festival obtained. There was a woman in a polar bear suit representing "Polar Bear Moms Say: No Palin." Drivers on 36th Avenue saw a little girl waving a sign "Don't Ban My Books." Maia Nolan, 29, wore a sticker reading, "My Mom for V.P." "My mom is from Alaska. She's a working mother. She's good looking," said Nolan. "So she seems to be qualified to be vice president." There were also a few score Palin supporters in the mix, most of them alerted to the event by a conservative talk show host. Eddie Burke of KBYR-AM showed up in person, but while there was no evident friction between the two camps, cheerful chants of "O-bam-ah" effectively drowned out whatever he was saying to the cameras in the center of a mini-media scrum. The din did not prevent reading the signs, pro and against:
Bush In A Skirt
Palin: She Be Failin'
I Love My Alaska Girl
Jesus Was a Community Organizer
We Luv Our Lady Guv
Palin: Thanks But No Thanks
Smearing Alaska's Good Name One Scandal @ a Time
Candidate To Nowhere
Rape Kits Should Be Free
Voted For Her Once: Never Again!
Community Organizers are the Real Patriots
Barbies for War
I Shall Not Be Pandered To
Give Palin Your Vote AND Your Draft Age Child
Sarah Palin: So Far Right She's Wrong
Sarah Palin Is My Hero
Alaska Is Not Frisco
Gun Rights
Coat Hangers for McCain
Sarah Palin, Undoing 150 Years of American Feminism
Hockey Mama for Obama (on a hockey stick)
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#1. To: angle (#0)
There are that many loonie liberals and neocon nitwits in the big city but the rest of Alaska just laughs at them. Here, they are considered to be political low-life that has become the dead albatross around the neck of our republic.
Proud to be a homey from old Nomey.
Wow, I never knew there was a Republic of Alaska. What are you smoking up there?
find the website jefferson party. You will find some interesting stuff there about Alaska.
Oh I know about it alright. I've even been to Alaska more then once believe it or not. Know it pretty well and I have relatives there. That's in the STATE of Alaska. Not the republic.
LOL! I was speaking of our country. In case you were not aware of the fact that Alaska is part of that country, let me be the first to assure you that is so.
Oh no! Steward's folly is part of our oyster? Somebody help us, please. Listen, I know full well that when I was up there, in many ways I was 'just a lower forty eighter' to many Alaskans. That attitude is what I addressed in my post, as that is what I felt was where you were coming from in your statement of opinion. I got into heated political discussions up there -- which is just how my life is, I always have them -- and was told usually at the end of them that they were glad "more libs like me haven't moved to their Alaska." Alaskans have a split personality when you talk about republics, as in many ways they consider themselves a republic in a republic. That was my point. ;-)
Bullseye. If you liked Bush/Cheney, you'll just love McCain/Palin.
Hey, at least when Palin takes a lawyer hunting with her, she will have the common decency to be sober and accurate with her fire. None of this wing them and let them live which is incompetent softie stuff that Cheney is guilty of when he drinks and hunts. She strikes me as the sort who knows lawyer shooting is serious business, and has an important function in today's society.
She strikes me as the sort who knows lawyer shooting is serious business, and has an important function in today's society. Unless it's her lawyer.
One thing is for certain, you can see the Carl Rove influence on the mcinsane/palin campaign. As many of you know, there is an ongoing investigation into the former palin brother-in-law case. palin claims she had nothing to do with trying to get her sister's ex fired. Later on she capitulated and said well she did have an interest in getting him fired. Then she fired a government employee for not firing the ex brother-in-law. Well there has been a bipartisan committee that appointed a special prosecuter tto get to the bottom of it. This special prosecuter was appointed and the investigation began long before palin became a suckass vp runningmate of mcinsane. It was on one of the sunday morning political shows today where she now says she will not answer to any subponeas, in otherwords, she is going to stonewall it just like bush/cheney/rove and Gonzoleas and he rest of the repukes have been doing since they pulled off 9-11. The same old shit we have been having since bushkie took over. She's telling us she's above the law even as a lowly bitch running for vp. Let's hear all you palin supporters defend this bitch C and tell us how happy and proud you will be having more feces in control. None of the 4 running in the two factions of our one party is worth a damn. Garbage in=garbage out.
Bump it.
The more I hear and find out about her, the worse she seems. When asked about what experiences have given her an understanding of foreign policy issues, she said that she could see the Russian coast from an Alaskan island. Not even Bush would say something that idiotic. And then there's her "thanks but no thanks" lie about the Bridge to Nowhere. The Palin lovefest here makes me think that all if would take for some of Bush's critics to become Bushbots is for GW to get a sex change.
The one major obstacle I've faced in convincing conservative Americans to put America ahead of foreign countries in all its policies is the evangelical Israel-first attitude. The one thing! As soon as I found out that she was a AoG'er and was attending a Pentecostal church, I knew that's why she'd been selected.
They mentioned the bridge to nowhere. Actually there were two bridges to nowhere. The legislature stopped the one and palin still supports the other one. I'll go out on a limb here. This palin bitch C couldn't hold Geraldine Ferraro's tampon.
As soon as I heard Palin quoted as saying "The war in Iraq is a task from God," I knew that she was nothing but another moronic tool of the neoconservatives. What I really can't stand about Palin is the fact that she's used effectively as a prop to con some independent voters back into the GOP neocon flock, including former Ron Paul supporters. On policy, she's another GOP hack, but she manages to peddle a phony "independent" image. A lot of voters just can't tell the difference between rhetoric and reality. They were conned by pictures of Bush clearing brush at his ranch, and now they're conned by Miss Mooseburger.
You can trace my threads back to see that I posted my identification of her as a Christian Zionist before that was widely known. This comes from personal experience.
Rupert... You of all people should be more charitable to a lady. hehehe
All of this holy war crap is straight from the Christian Zionist book. That's why I didn't think that the stories about her being a Buchanan supporter were true (and they weren't, she supported Forbes in the GOP primaries and Bush in the general elections). The Christian Zionists hated PJB. Sadly, even though Palin wasn't sold on Buchanan, Buchanan seems to be sold on Palin: buchanan.org/blog/2008/09...ne-of-them-and-one-of-us/ Sorry Pat, but you need a new pair of glasses - ones without those rose-tinted lenses in the shape of GOP elephants. Palin's not "one of us," unless by "us" you mean AIPAC.
Some of them will get wise to her antics and the neocon bullshit and will stay turned off. As for the former Ron Paul supporters, well if they have been seduced by her, they couldn't have been real Ron Paul supporters.
Pat wants so much to be a part of it all, doesn't he?
Does your neighborhood pub have Pentacostal Neocon MILF night?
I sometimes feel sorry for the guy. He's like the kid who finally gets the guts to tell the leader of the treehouse club off, but a few days later goes begging for the new secret password to get back into the treehouse.
Rupert... Shame on you Rupert. Good heavens... Actually we are dry as can be here. Alcohol is legal but we have no watering holes. We really are backwards here in the hills. Last still went out 20 years or more ago. We are so clean living and righteous that we do not have police, nada. Bitter small towners, dont you know.
Good analogy. I supported Pat in 2000. When he supported bush in 2004 after bad mouthing him, rightly so, and then kissing his ass in2004, he lost me. Politics and power does strange things to people.
LOL! Split personality indeed and what, on earth, does "a republic in a republic" even mean? LOL! My point was that I believe you had no point just a distasteful innuendo. Rational people here have learned to expect that sort of political discussion from most socialist/fascist advocates since their adopted political dogma can not be defended rationally because it has been an abject failure throughout history.
A lot of good his ass kissing did him. What did it gain him? A cabinet post? A token column in a neocon magazine? I don't think so. The Bushbots still hate Buchanan, and the neocons will still hate him after he (assuredly) endorses McCain in November. Seems like all Pat accomplished by going back on his past criticisms of Bush and the GOP is piss off his former supporters, like you and me.
The Washington ComPost is sorta embarrassing, ain't it? I'd deny they were the source as well, if you wanted to give yer post any credibility whatsoever...MUD
Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, Pat is very smart to a fault. He appears to have the need to be a part of a group, campaign, party and so on but is watched very carefully by those in control. They don't mind using Pat, but they are afraid of Pat also. Pat can rub it in and alienate those around him.
i think several of those have come around again, thank god. she so exposed herself as a parrot/tool in the interview with charlie gibson. after that, i found myself thinking that she wasn't even physically attractive anymore.
Do You Know What Freedom Really Means? Freedom4um.com
The GOP loved Buchanan as long as long as his op-eds and TV appearances said what they wanted him to say, which was up until 1992. When he starts to think and act independently, he was like the Doberman who turns on his master - bad news for Bush, Dole, and the rest of the GOP establishment. But then, like a good dog, he comes running back to his GOP masters with his head down and tail between his legs, wanting his old job back.
Good summation. Pat couldn't stand being an outsider very long. Pat wanted to go fom the inner circle to the top with out holding any office in between. This rarely works.
That's really something ... I had that thought too and even wondered if anyone else did ... even though it's the first time I had ever had such a change of attitude about someone's appearance due to what they said ???
"Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States." "Mr. Chairman, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here that the United States was to be lowered to the position of a coolie country. . and was to supply financial power to an international superstate -- a superstate controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the World for their own pleasure."
Buchanan's strategy of going from speechwriter/journalist to President was doomed to fail. A lot of people who liked his views were still reluctant to let somebody with no executive or legislative experience cut his teeth on the highest executive office. PJB should have run for House or Senate in 1992, and used that as a starting point for a Presidential run in 1996 or 2000. That's why Jesse Ventura may still have a shot - he has a good record as Governor of MN, and could easily win a Congressional seat if he tried.
Well at least he has held an office and elected to it.
She did indeed. She has seemingly turned to the dark side. Her attitude is vastly different from what we here in Alaska have previously experienced. She now seems willing to say anything to participate in national political theater, even to the detriment of our republic. Many Alaskans are, in my opinion, very disappointed.
Did you have a problem with the link? It worked just fine for me.
Thank you for your insight.
The midday protest outside a city library drew a crowd in the high hundreds -- perhaps surging past a thousand -- from the city's relatively liberal environs, who seemed very happy to see one another and be reminded that they are not alone.
#2. To: angle (#0)
Alaska Is Not Frisco
I've already said too much.
#3. To: eskimo (#1)
"Here, they are considered to be political low-life that has become the dead albatross around the neck of our republic."
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#4. To: eskimo (#1)
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
Wow, I never knew there was a Republic of Alaska. What are you smoking up there?
#6. To: Old Friend (#5)
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
Wow, I never knew there was a Republic of Alaska. What are you smoking up there?
#8. To: eskimo (#7)
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#9. To: angle (#0)
(Edited)
Bush In A Skirt
#10. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#9)
(Edited)
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#11. To: Ferret Mike (#10)
Hey, at least when Palin takes a lawyer hunting with her, she will have the common decency to be sober and accurate with her fire. None of this wing them and let them live which is incompetent softie stuff that Cheney is guilty of when he drinks and hunts.
#12. To: Rupert_Pupkin, ALL (#9)
Bullseye. If you liked Bush/Cheney, you'll just love McCain/Palin.
#13. To: LACUMO (#12)
One thing is for certain, you can see the Carl Rove influence on the mcinsane/palin campaign.
#14. To: LACUMO (#12)
Let's hear all you palin supporters defend this bitch
#15. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#14)
#16. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#14)
And then there's her "thanks but no thanks" lie about the Bridge to Nowhere.
#17. To: buckeye (#15)
As soon as I found out that she was a AoG'er and was attending a Pentecostal church, I knew that's why she'd been selected
#18. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#17)
#19. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#17)
Miss Mooseburger.
#20. To: buckeye (#18)
You can trace my threads back to see that I posted my identification of her as a Christian Zionist before that was widely known
#21. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#17)
What I really can't stand about Palin is the fact that she's used effectively as a prop to con some independent voters back into the GOP neocon flock, including former Ron Paul supportersWhat I really can't stand about Palin is the fact that she's used effectively as a prop to con some independent voters back into the GOP neocon flock, including former Ron Paul supporters
#22. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#20)
#23. To: Cynicom (#19)
You of all people should be more charitable to a lady.
#24. To: buckeye (#22)
(Edited)
Pat wants so much to be a part of it all, doesn't he?
#25. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#23)
#26. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#24)
I sometimes feel sorry for the guy. He's like the kid who finally gets the guts to tell the leader of the treehouse club off, and a few days later goes begging for the new secret password to get back into the treehouse.
#27. To: Ferret Mike (#8)
Alaskans have a split personality when you talk about republics, as in many ways they consider themselves a republic in a republic. That was my point. ;-)
#28. To: LACUMO (#26)
(Edited)
Good analogy. I supported Pat in 2000. When he supported bush in 2004 after bad mouthing him, rightly so, and then kissing his ass in2004, he lost me. Politics and power does strange things to people.
#29. To: angle (#0)
"Source: [None]
URL Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com"
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the U.S. Constitution!!
#30. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#28)
(Edited)
Seems like all Pat accomplished by going back on his past criticisms of Bush and the GOP is piss off his former supporters, like you and me.
#31. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#17)
What I really can't stand about Palin is the fact that she's used effectively as a prop to con some independent voters back into the GOP neocon flock, including former Ron Paul supporters. On policy, she's another GOP hack, but she manages to peddle a phony "independent" image.
#32. To: LACUMO (#30)
The don't mind using Pat, but they are afraid of Pat also. Pat can rub it in and alienate those around him.
#33. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#32)
(Edited)
But then, like a good dog, he comes running back to his GOP masters with his head down and tail between his legs, wanting his old job back.
#34. To: christine (#31)
after that, i found myself thinking that she wasn't even physically attractive anymore.
#35. To: LACUMO (#33)
#36. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#35)
That's why Jesse Ventura may still have a shot - he has a good record as Governor of MN, and could easily win a Congressional seat if he tried.
#37. To: christine (#31)
she so exposed herself as a parrot/tool in the interview with charlie gibson.
#38. To: Mudboy Slim (#29)
I'd deny they were the source
#39. To: eskimo (#37)
Many Alaskans are, in my opinion, very disappointed.
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