Sarah Palin was appointed chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (responsible for overseeing the state's oil and gas fields), then she became the youngest person and the first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska, then the first Woman on the Republican National Ticket when she was appointed VP candidate for John McCain. She has endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement (a pro-constitutionalist conservative faction). Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies.
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Sarah Palin
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She’s so dumb, she said, “you can see Russia from my house"
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That was Tina Fey. When asked in an interview about foreign policy experience and the proximity of Russia to Alaska, Palin replied, “they’re our next-door neighbors, and you can see Russia from an island in Alaska”. (Which is true). She went on to explain that she had just negotiated the largest ever Native American, Alaskan and Canadian oil treaties, which gave her far more successful foreign policy experience than Obama or Joe Biden had.
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I'm neither her biggest fan, nor detractor. Her played up folksy demeanor can grate on some people, but it's less fake than Obama's black "hood" persona -- so it seems to grate based on the like/dislike of the political position, more than the affect. Basically, she's a partisan that will repeat talking their sides talking points -- like a Maxine Waters or Nancy Pelosi, if either of them had ethics and a clue. But I still roll eyes when I'm going to hear every partisan trope repeated through their mouths (no matter the side).
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