"Palin may well be Dick Cheney’s reincarnate".

[rainbow4321]

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/


It’s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically about Palin – especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. For one thing, with every journalist in the world calling, phone lines into Alaska have been mostly jammed since Friday; as often as not, a recording told me that “all circuits are busy” or numbers just wouldn’t ring. I should think a state that’s been made richer than God by oil could afford telephone lines and cell towers for everyone.

On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they’re afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine. Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.

“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,” an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. “It’s corrupt and arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to.”

“She’s doesn’t like different opinions and she refuses to compromise,” Kilkenny notes. “When she was mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t hers. Worse, ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits but on the basis of who proposed them.” Sound familiar? Palin may well be Dick Cheney’s reincarnate.

[Muttocracy]

1. except Cheney had decades of federal experience, right? nt

[jenmito]

2. What's the difference between Cheney and Palin?

Lipstick!

And years of experience.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Not only no, but hell no

Dick Cheney is a consummate Executive Branch insider, and had, by the age of 44 (Palin's age) had been a Congressman, A White House Chief of Staff, Deputy Treasury Secretary, and Campaign Manager for Ford in 76.

Like him or not, you can't say the dude don't know how shit works.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. Dick Cheney with lipstick: Dickstick

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

5. I wish

Cheney is nothing but a pragmatic tyrant and thief like a Brezhnev or a Khrushchev. He wants to live to enjoy all that he has stolen. Rapture Caribou Barbie, who will succeed to the POTUS within a year or two after Grampy's "heart gives out" will happily push the button to start World War Last because that's the best way to advance her cult's aims - nuke the world to speed the return of Rambo Jeebus and the Rupture.

As evil as Cheney is, he would not torch the planet in a fit of religious insanity when there is so much more to steal.