The New Testament of Sarah Palin: Spring 2010
Writing is hard. I struggle. Being a mom is hard. It's worth the hard work. Being a wife is hard. I wasn't good at it. Being a governor is hard. I've seen few really good at it. Campaigning is hard. As good as you can strategize and frame your message; sometimes you still don't get elected.
Just how competent is Sarah Palin? She hasn't been able to juggle everything to date...and now a new "ball" is up in the air.
Harper Collins just signed the Governor of Alaska to a book deal. In a time tight budgets and economic chaos, they managed to find a great sum to trade for the memoirs of a girl from Wasilla, Alaska. The book is due next spring. It was reported she was getting an $11 million advance. She denied the amount. It flies in the face of having a legal defense fund.
That's fantastic! Great! Get a laptop and a bottle of Adderall...you'll be fine. If you get stuck...well, make it up. It's worked so far.
The governor said about her new book, "There have been so many things written and said through mainstream media that have not been accurate, and it will be nice through an unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all about." Who is "WE?" How in the ham and cheese can Sarah Palin know what "Alaska is all about?" No one can sum this place up; that's what I love about it. We are too mavericky to have one voice define us.
Palin added, "The idea is to focus on the content of the book and what's coming in terms of me being able to tell my story unrestrained and unfiltered." Well, that's precious! The idea of being governor, traveling around, and making promises for votes, is to FOCUS on the State you were elected to represent.
"It will be nice to put my journalism degree to work on this and get to tell my story, Alaska's story. There have been so many unauthorized books and publications that have spoken to somebody else's opinion of who I am, what my family represents and what Alaska is all about." AGAIN, SARAH, what 41.6% of Alaskans, according to last weeks poll numbers, think Alaska represents, is NOT YOU. Tell your family story, your story, but not ours.
For all the reasons it took her three weeks to sign a bill to support the emergency funding for the Alaska Territorial Guard, Sarah sure found her pen today.
But there is a problem.
Remember all the ethics Palin was touting during her un-holy national tour on the Strait Jacket Express? They include specific statutes:
S 39.52.170. Outside Employment Restricted.
(a) A public employee may not render services to benefit a personal or financial interest or engage in or accept employment outside the agency which the employee serves, if the outside employment or service is incompatible or in conflict with the proper discharge of official duties.
(c) The head of a principal executive department of the state may not accept employment for compensation outside the agency that the executive head serves.
Rest easy, I'm not going to file an ethics complaint over this. The system has been wildly abused, including the one Sarah filed on herself. Ethics are not something you can legislate; either you have them or you don't.
Alaska has a citizen legislature. They are expected to have employment outside of the 90 day session. The governor and her cabinet are considered full time employees. I'm not an attorney, but, after reading the details of the statutes, they seem specific and unambiguous; the governor can't be paid for other employment.
Sarah Palin is living the dream. People want to read about it. Some Alaskans are living a nightmare, and she needs to do her job.
Since the governor's return to Alaska, not much has progressed. Our legislature couldn't even pass the bestiality bill dubbed "Ididadog." Groundhog Day is now Marmot Day. We have a new state dog. Our minimum wage won't be the lowest in the nation. Sarah's pet projects crashed in committee. Her AG and cabinet appointments were rejected by the Republican majority legislature. Some of that I'm good with, I don't want the uterus police in my business or a bigot as Attorney General.
Palin hasn't been able to perform her duties as governor without a book deal. What ever she writes, Rush Limbaugh will consider it a pop-up book. Now that she has a contract, it won't take an ethics board to figure out Alaskans lose again.
Any guesses for a title?
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To be honest, I wouldn't punch a woman, but I'd punch her. One on behalf of the people of Alaska who she doesn't care even though that's well...her job. A job that mind you, pays her out of the pockets of hard-working Alaskans. When you lie, cheat, steal, and deceive and in the same breath, have the audacity to take the money of your employer, the people, with a smile on your face, you deserve nothing less than as Fred Sanford so eloquently put it: "One across yo' lip". You get paid to do a job by your employer, and when you don't do it, you and your employer got a problem.; it's just that simple
Another example of the tolerant left.
says the gun toting shoot 'em up right
Didn't I read one of your low-information voter comments just a few days ago? I do believe I did. You have a lot to learn about politics. So much, in fact, that I have no confidence in your abilities to understand the fine nuances of policy making.
"Any guesses for a title?"
I'm sticking with:
The Dogpatch Diaries.
Title "The Failin Palin delusional memoirs". Great article as usual Shannyn. I sincerly hope Alaskans come to their senses in 2010 and vote this useless, lying, egomaniacal, arrogant, narcissist, igit out of office. Seems she has over stayed her welcome.
How about "Palin Into Insignificance?"
You are right. If ever there was an eejit, it is this inhabitant of Cloud Cuckoo Land!
I cannot take Sarah Palin seriously, or her supporters. I find it to be a good litmus test: I avoid all contact with Palin fans, which saves me from having to explain the simplest things over and over. My headaches are fewer and the stress level has gone way down. I recommend it. I just don't suffer fools lightly. Thank goodness they're irrelevant.
I use the same test. When I get a positive, I just turn the conversation to the weather and try to disengage as quickly as possible. You're right- it's a great stress reliever.
Its also a good approach in general to do this for anyone you disagree with. It keeps your mind closed, and doesnt burden your head with inconvenient facts.
That ghost writer had better have a hefty fee arranged before hand. He/She is going to earn every penny that's for sure.
Repeat after me: 7 to 11 million dollars, 7 to 11 million dollars, 7 to 11 million dollars
"You betcha I wrote this book, also."
Since Govenor Palin life story is so inspirational it should be a best seller and because she is a devout Chistian she should donate the proceeds to the sexual abstinance cause.
Ditto!
Second that one..........
I am sorry, but with Zillions of funds she helped magically disappear, with her support of policies that will still cost the children of our children billions, and with a husband who hates America - THAT is your bone of contention?
Ok, it may be that it is staying in line. - The line of everyone chiding or even pittying men and women who committed high treason and every single warcrime in the book who now run around telling the world they had the right to do it. If ANY other criminal did that, some judge would have him gagged and dropped off at an insane asylum where he could watch someone babbling to an invisible friend for the next 50 years.
But PLEASE stop whining about someone like Palin making a few millions while nodding off two Million dead iraqis as necessary and trillions of dollars in cost for not failed but successful policies. - Because that is what they were: successful. They made Politicians and Millionaires rich and cost none but the taxpayers real money. I think there is a real problem with priorities in the US. You don´t criticise - let alone demand punishemnt for policies based on high treason but get huffed up because someone makes a few million? - PLEASE wake up!
How can Sarah Palin write ANYTHING if she can`t even complete a coherent sentence?
Governor Sarah Palin has written numerous articels and op-eds on a variety of policy issues, especially energy policy. She is a fine writer with an engaging direct style, economical use of language and excellent use of metaphor. I look forward to reading her book.
Ah- she already has a good writer working for her. Thanks for clearing that up.
dis-engaged from the genepoolexpress ?
"articels"? you bet. she can kill the wolves and drill baby drill! thank "god" she is not a vice president; from an atheist!
Speaking is thinking is writing, Gene. Sarah Palin can't write.
Examples?
:)
Honest Christian Sarah, will you still write the book you are dying to write if it's illegal to accept pay for it? Do you still have the drive to "get out the truth" with that big journalism background...or is it all about the Benjamins?
after watching & listening to this lady the $64 dollar question is,
Just how competent is Sarah Palin?
an dfrom what I've seen & heard.... not very !!!
Horror may be is a better category????
Can't wait to read her recipe for moose stew.
Hillary wrote HER books while in office, got richer. No problem.
Barack wrote HIS books while in office, got rich. No problem.
Palin writes a book and all the sudden it's a problem?
We get it. You don't like her. We also get that you're willing to use the tools of state to go after people with whom you disagree politically. Congratulations, you have something in common with Hugo Chavez and the Castro boys. Go get 'em!
Were Hillary and Barack under Alaska statute?
Were those books written illegally ?
So you agree? She should be PROSECUTED? Good luck with your Brave New World.
President Obama's books were written while not in office. Sorry.
Allow me to correct myself--his first book was written in 1995, when he was not holding office. He was a Senator when he wrote his second book in 2006, and that doesn't exactly make him unique, being a literary legislator.
RTFA. This deals with Alaska state law.
What do you want? That is Alaska statutes,ok
and NIxon ----didnt he use the tools of state to go after those who disagreed and some say bush did too-- like joe wilson for example. if you do a list why leave so many off.
Sarah Palin 14:59........
Title 'Sarah Palin - Smarter Than a 5th Grader' you betcha!
No, then she could be sued for false advertising.
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