All of a sudden, our little backwater of a state is the happenin' place to be these days. Here are some resources/info to be found online about our very own potential VPOTUS. See below the fold...
From the excellent Alaskan blog Mudflats, a link to the 2006 democratic opposition research on Sarah (PDF):
http://mudflats.files.wordpress.com/...
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...and from today's Juneau Empire online, a letter from a University of Alaska professor (who must have tenure) can be found here. The summary paragraphs:
As a vice presidential candidate, though, Palin could be disastrous. She's not a policy wonk, and she's incapable of holding a press conference without a coral reef of staffers to feed her answers. Though amiable and charming in debates, she is staggeringly uninformed on most issues of national significance, and voters would do well to wonder how the erstwhile Mayor of Wasilla would manage the American imperium when President McCain strokes out over a third-tier international crisis.
More ominously for Palin, she's made a tremendous number of enemies during her rise to power, folks who have remained more or less quiet about the less savory aspects of Palin's professional and personal life. Given the McCain campaign's apparent failure to thoroughly research Palin's past, I would not be surprised to see some highly public score-settling over the next few weeks.
Sarah is quite the distraction, I must say. I'm walking precincts for Obama and hope we can keep her as our very own governor for the rest of her term--or until she is impeached or indicted, whichever comes first.