Palin and the Good Old Boys: Say What?

[Blue_In_AK]

Interesting background on Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens/Don Young, and Sarah's "opposition" to the Good Old Boys Network.

http://www.andrewhalcro.com/palin_and_stevens_the_trials_and_tribulations

During the gubernatorial campaign in late October of 2006, a television commercial started airing with U.S. Senator Ted Stevens endorsing Republican Sarah Palin for governor.

The grainy video of Stevens on a make shift stage in Fairbanks, in front of Republican faithful, helped propel Palin into the governor's seat and set the stage for a political relationship that would take more bends than the Kenai River.

During the next eight months a chasm would begin to emerge between Palin and the Congressional delegation. Palin's natural gas pipeline strategy was not well received back east and fears began to surface about the possibility of delays to a project the congressional delegation had pushed so hard for.


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So lets recap; she demanded Stevens and Young release more information to the public about their legal woes. She demanded that Randy Ruedrich step down as Republican Party Chair. And she has consistently attacked the special interest lobbyist that control politics.

Today, Stevens and Young are on the same Republican ticket as Palin, but she has said nothing. Randy Ruedrich is still the Republican Party Chair and is trying to get her elected, but she has said nothing. And according to campaign reports, the McCain camapign has more lobbyist as consultants than any other campaign in recent history, but she has said nothing.

So how does Palin square her campaign stump speech regarding her taking on the good old boys, when not only has she used the good old boys to her political benefit, but is now campaigning along side them?

[WillParkinson]

1. Bygones be bygones...

That was then.

This is now.

Sorry you missed the memo. Republicans are one big, happy family now.

Kind of like the mafia.