Sarah Palin is no longer the most popular governor in the country. That title now belongs to Connecticut Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell. Rell has a 70% approval rating (4.10.09). Connecticut has five times the population of Alaska.
Sarah Palin is no longer the most popular politician in Alaska.
Senator Lisa Murkowski is. She is polling at a combined approval of 76.3%. Lisa Murkowski avoids drama. Alaskans, while not always agreeing with her, agree she is, unlike Sarah Palin, at work.
In March 2008, Sarah Palin's combined positives were 85%. Her combined negatives were 12%. In July of 2008, according to the same polls, if you walked into a bar with 100 people, 12 people didn't approve of the job Sarah Palin was doing. Good luck getting a drink.
Last September, Sarah went on tour...and stayed on tour-like an old Aqua Net 80's band that ought to stick to playing local bars and count their iTune downloads. Sarah Palin consistently ignored the needs of Alaskans. As a result of her job abandonment, her approval rating suffered. The new Hayes Research polls show the governor at 54% combined approval and 41.6% combined disapproval. 30% of her former fans now boo her. Love can be fickle.
Alaskans are starting to get it. Palin's job approval numbers have dropped consistently since she came back from the Hate Talk Express tour. Neglect doesn't play well here.
Since these poll numbers were released, Sarah Palin has dug her naughty monkey heels in; she is selfishly refusing $28.6 million in State Energy Program stimulus funds. Alaska has the highest energy costs in the country. Newsflash: it gets cold here! The money would be used to winterize homes, which in turn, would reduce energy consumption and costs, while...ding ding ding...providing local jobs and STIMULATING a sluggish economy!!!
Palin said she doesn't want to be part of "growing the national debt." If she were truly concerned, she would accept the stimulus package in its entirety and then write the federal government a check. The $28.6 million she is rejecting will go to another state-probably California.
In a bipartisan plea to the governor, Senators Bill Wielechowski-D, Anchorage, and Lesil McGuire-R, Anchorage, asked Governor Palin to accept the money to help with urgent and important state needs. Our state budget is almost a billion dollars in short fall, and the $28.6 million would help with long range costs. The state budget prioritizes energy assistance to the tune of $100 million annually. What a concept. The stimulus money would fund more energy auditors, contractors, and tradesmen in the short term. Families struggling to pay high heating costs would benefit in the long term. Those families will spend it-thus the stimulus.
Last year, the governor, in a sweeping "love me long time" gesture, spent $740 million in an "energy assistance rebate." It came in the form of a one time payment of $1,200 to every man, woman and child in the Alaska. You should have seen the line at Best Buy that day. The checks evaporated like Palin's approval ratings.
The governor is, once again, pandering to her disappearing base and prioritizing her dream of a 2012 presidential run ahead of the real needs of Alaskans. Not accepting this money makes her a "conservative?" Her position contradicts the truth. Her own state agency, the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, stated they already have requirements on buildings to insure they meet national energy standards. The federal requirements apply to towns larger than 2,500 people. Granted, most of the state's population lives in larger towns, but the majority has energy codes already in place. So, in fact, Palin could use the funds for projects already under the federal codes.
It's crap. Sarah's excuse is crap. Her actions are as erratic as her reasoning.
Rush "Boss" Limbaugh thinks Sarah is fabulous. Boss thinks she's the new face of the party-the party that "won't attract liberals...thank God." Well, Rush lives in Florida. Rush hasn't spent up to $11 a gallon for heating fuel. Rush hasn't spent three months in sub-zero temperatures. Rush hasn't lived where the sun doesn't rise for a month.
Rush should shut it. He reminds of a guy full of fishing stories who probably can't bait his own hook. Sarah can feel pretty good about her endorsement from the real leader of the GOP. Sarah Palin is sacrificing Alaska for Boss Limbaugh's affection.
If the governor doesn't step up and help the state with some financial energy relief by May 12th, her next polls will drop even lower.
Alaskans don't consider heat a luxury.
Was she honest in stating that she killed the "bridge to nowhere"? No, she fully supported it from the beginning and turned against it when the polls showed that people were pissed off.
Was she honest in speaking about her son joining the military to serve his country? No, he got a plea-bargain deal and joined rather than go to jail for committing arson and destruction of government (Wasilla High School) property to the tune of $50,000 if not more.
Where has she EVER been honest?
Sarah says she relates to Miss California PREJEAN? Well, WE equate Sarah with that exact same ilk.
The only thing that makes Palin exceptional here is that she is the only brunette in a category of vapid, vacuous blondes.
1 out of 10 stories here are about her, and ANY thread regardless of subject eventually mentions her.
LET. IT. GO.
Sarah Palin-Tonya Harding 2012!
Is that a serious question? When I'm working in my garden, and I swat at flies, does that mean I fear them?
just in case....No, it doesn't. It means I have to keep them out of my eyes.
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But your number is incorrect. It should be ~36% and looks worse for Palin.
(85 - 54) / 85 = ~36%
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Old and tiresome,you got choices,no one is holding you here,
lol Ya betchat,*wink*
Start with the conclusion, and then work your way backwards...
The fact that articles are written about her are not proof of any such thing. Lots of articles are written about lots of things, and it doesn't mean that those things are necessarily "feared." Does it now?
You should either stop trying to work out these little ideas of yours... or start trying a lot harder.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/article.php?id=AIA2009040901
Just because she doesnt read the same garbage magazines of the left
They want to paint her as stupid.
I will take one Palin to twentyseven Barney Frank's
http://wwwamericanpatriot-vance.blogspot.com/
I also know she has a "hot line" to the magazine, where in January she left a voice mail message ranting about both Levi Johnston and her daughter Bristol not being high school dropouts. Even though there's documentation from 2007 and 2008 that they DID drop out of high school.
I'll bet The First Dude has a lifetime subscription to Esquire, now that his story has been told there. There's a funny quote by his father-in-law that sounds like another blurting of "too much information" about one of the two babies in the household.
And Sports Illustrated, which covered in great (and very helpful to progressive bloggers in Alaska) detail how he and his snowmachine-racing partner have received $30,000 and more from their sponsors that none of the other racers in the Iron Dog race competition do -- and do you think all of these gift details showed up in Gov. Palin's financial disclosure statement? No.....
No wait,maybe you right,lol
But they have nothing. No philosophy beyond the acquisition of power. They don't understand the constitution or the country.
Because many, many Americans are remarkably uneducated, prejudiced and addicted to television, the GOP is successful in their marketing venture, up until it all falls apart. Which is why Obama is president and Palin is paling.