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Unfortunate that the Republican party ruined this woman. All I can say is Sarah Palin can be much, much better than I ever thought possible and the Republican Party is much worse than I thought. Thankfully there was the FBI to do the job when required.
You really have to read all of it to get an appreciation of what happened to her if you're interested. It would make a good movie so she should probably sell her story to make a few bucks if she's not going back into politics, it would do a lot to improve her image as well as her bank account.
In addition, it's bad for Alaska she's not still Gov. because the state is moving in the wrong direction of the corrupt days of the past controlled by the oil industry.
I think she should tell the truth about what happened to her and join the Democratic Party. It's okay to be against abortion and be a Democrat. Not all Democrats are in favor of abortions. In fact, if you want to have less abortions people should vote Democrat not Republican.
The Tragedy of Sarah Palin
From the moment Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska—the only record she has—shows a very different politician: one who worked with Democrats to tame Big Oil and solve the great problem at the heart of the state’s politics. That Sarah Palin might have set the nation on a different course. What went wrong?
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What happened to Sarah Palin? How did someone who so effectively dealt with the two great issues vexing Alaska fall from grace so quickly? Anyone looking back at her record can’t help but wonder: How did a popular, reformist governor beloved by Democrats come to embody right-wing resentment?
If it hadn’t been for her stunning ability to confuse personal interests and her role as governor, she could have gone on to be tremendously successful.”
John McCain’s advisers say he chose Palin because they believed that the race needed shaking up. But she must have appealed to him for reasons beyond her gender and vivacity. Palin was fresh from major, unexpected victories. She had challenged her own party’s corruption, at grave risk to her career. For this, she was wildly popular. Surely, that brought back McCain’s old battles against George W. Bush and the Republican establishment, and the glory they had won him.
But McCain and Palin didn’t run as mavericks. Instead, they turned hard right. Palin’s old colleagues were stunned. “The speech at the Republican convention that made her a star, that was just shocking,” French told me. “She could have said, ‘I’ll do for the nation what I did for Alaska: I’ll work with both sides and won’t care where the ideas come from.’ Her background supported that. Instead, they handed her a red-meat script she’s been reading from ever since.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-tragedy-of-sarah-palin/8492/
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