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Originally Posted by KSig RC
I sincerely do not mean this to be a dick, so if you don't mind me asking . . . why?
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You mean going back to the last Presidential election when she was first selected for the ticket? That's when I'm talking about. I mean, I liked her through the election as well. I wish she had just retreated from the limelight then and worked on her political weaknesses. Now, I'm just kind of tired of her, and I don't really need whatever it is she offers.
I suppose I excused most of her faults because I think she comparable to most politicians but criticized and scrutinized more harshly, and I simply preferred her persona to that of Obama and/or Biden. Regular gal hockey mom works on me better than nuanced, much-farther-left than I am Chicago cool guy or verbally incontinent lifelong politician from Delaware.
I think some of why I liked her is just a matter of personal psychology, but most of what I knew about her official policies and political actions in Alaska as Governor, I liked okay. Alaska brings some problems to the table as a state if you want to carefully examine the fiscal relationship between citizens and the federal government. But there wasn't much that Palin actually did that would have bothered me had she been the governor of Georgia (that I can think of right now anyway).
ETA: Basically, I liked what I knew about how she governed Alaska. Troopergate and Todd's nefarious influence didn't keep me up at night.