excellent & very scary article about Palin in the NYTimes today

[peacebird]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp

"She is bright and has unfailing political instincts,” said Steve Haycox, a history professor at the University of Alaska. “She taps very directly into anxieties about the economic future.”

“But,” he added, “her governing style raises a lot of hard questions.”

[msongs]

1. petty vindictive small town woman put on a larger stage with the same old skills nt

[Sulawesi]

2. An incredible read...

[Sulawesi]

3. An incredible read...

[Bubbha Jo]

4. She somehow misses that her behavior is that of the "good ole' boys"

[grasswire]

5. more Bush-Cheney

"Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records."

[moobu2]

6. Dick Cheney’s long lost little sister

[grasswire]

7. shades of Richard Nixon

"The administration’s e-mail correspondence reveals a siege-like atmosphere. Top aides keep score, demean enemies and gloat over successes. Even some who helped engineer her rise have felt her wrath.

Dan Fagan, a prominent conservative radio host and longtime friend of Ms. Palin, urged his listeners to vote for her in 2006. But when he took her to task for raising taxes on oil companies, he said, he found himself branded a “hater.”

It is part of a pattern, Mr. Fagan said, in which Ms. Palin characterizes critics as “bad people who are anti-Alaska.”

[jazzjunkysue]

8. No wonder the GOP likes her: She's one of them. Mean, and petty.