Palin's "Servant's Heart" Needs a Transplant

During Alaska's State of the State speech in January of this year, Governor Palin said,

"As public servants, will we draw from a servant's heart the resolve to put pettiness and power struggles aside and work together for the good of the people? We have the choice."

Wow. She sounded great! What a relief! She didn't get too cranky coming back here after her failed Vice-Presidential bid. She proclaimed she was ready to work with everyone; that it was a choice whether to work for the good of the people or wallow in pettiness! Yea!

She's fabulous when she's reading a teleprompter looking like a Mary Kay advertisement collided with the "hair bump" infomercial. Line up recent events with the "I talk pretty" speech and you find hypocrisy plaque has clogged the oxygen supply to her "servant's heart." If by "we" she meant "me," the answer is "no."

A collective sigh of relief went up from progressives all over the world when Obama's victory was sealed. I wondered if part of it was the wobbly knee feeling you get when you've just avoided a car wreck; Palin. My heart soared and sank at the same time. I knew she was coming back to Alaska.

Many have reported on the political drama brought to the tundra courtesy of the McCain/Palin campaign and James Dobson's Legal Operatives. Meg Stapleton and Ed O'Callahan bloviated like desperate actors starring in a community theater whose very lives depended on their performance. "Partisan Politics!" they hollered. It felt like a guy with a crack pipe lecturing about the ills of cigarettes. Political shrapnel...well, that's one thing. Navigating Juneau would be easier if we had a map of the political payback IEDs Palin planted.

The reality for legislators who supported Barack Obama is grim. God help you if you spoke out about how qualified you felt Palin was to be a heart beat away from the Office of the President of the United States of America-THE WHITE HOUSE! Former political allies, Democrats who passed signature legislation with the administration, damn near need to be organ donor perfect matches to get a meeting with the governor now.

This week, Senator Kim Elton resigned from representing Juneau after 20 years of service to work in the Obama administration in Washington DC. An upgrade, he's now working on behalf of all Alaskans as director of Alaska affairs for the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The Governor's immediate response to Elton's appointment was in stark contrast to her State of the State address just weeks ago.

March 2, 2009: "Senator Elton pledged his allegiance to President Obama last summer. We wish him well as he moves on and hope that he uses this job for Alaska's benefit..."

Mean girl. This is the kind of snarky crap someone who didn't think you'd recognize their handwriting would write in your yearbook.

Senator Elton and the Democrats endorsed Representative Beth Kerttula D-Juneau. During the special sessions to pass new oil tax legislation and advance the gas pipeline, Governor Palin aligned herself with House Minority Leader Kerttula in an "up yours" message to the Republican Senate Leader Lyda Green. Kerttula was also one of the first Alaskans on record saying Palin wasn't qualified to be vice-president...hence the snub.

Wait...Palin doesn't have to use the pool given to her by the Juneau Democrats. It is the tradition, and there are only 38 days left in the session, so the vetting needs to happen. When Wasilla's Republican Representative Vic Kohring vacated his seat to GO TO PRISON FOR CORRUPTION, Palin replaced him with one of the elders at her church and favorite boy of the Alaska Family Council, Wes Keller. His name was one of three submitted to her. Too bad for Beth Kerttula, the Wasilla Bible Church doesn't allow women to serve in positions of leadership. Ironic.

Rumor has it Palin is leaning towards Tim Grussendorf, a fisherman and finance committee staffer. Grussendorf lost his campaign against the indicted Bruce Weyrauch. He hasn't been a registered Democrat for a full year and was eliminated from consideration for that reason by the party. Representative Beth Kerttula was the Democratic Party's qualified, experienced, sensible, deserving and obvious choice. A no brainer! Governor Palin should honor that.

Governor Palin's State of the State address gave many hope for a cooperative and productive session. We didn't go there by ourselves.

She said: "See, we have that choice, how to respond to circumstances around us...I speak for the entire Palin/Parnell Administration when I declare we choose optimism and collaboration and hard work to get the job done."

She was right. We have a choice. She's made hers and it contradicts her public statement. Her servant's heart is on life support. Her declaration of collaboration needs resuscitation. An angioplasty of humility is needed STAT.

Governor Palin can be reached at [phone] or emailed at [e-mail].

Comments

[militantfeather]

Hoffman will support Grussendorf , so maybe this will be a cause of internal fighting among democrats - Blue fight!

I am sure we can add Beth to other nasties that will be stalking Palin for denying them a job.

Sounds great ... Palin is a true fighter, she just loves it.

[militantfeather]

What a breathless story. Wait. There's more!

Straight out of school, and like a schoolgirl..."Mean girl.", "their handwriting would write in your yearbook." Please.

"Beth Kerttula was the Democratic Party's qualified, experienced, sensible, deserving and obvious choice. "

Sorry , not so .... doesn't deserve any free hand up at all - she can work for it like Palin did. Good luck beth, despite her family, she's just about unelectable.

[jerrypl]

There is a cancer upon the body politic, and it is called GOP, with one of the most damaging tumors named Palin.

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com

[alaskacat]

Luckily, it has to be a Juneau Democrat to fill the empty seat; otherwise, we would have the equivalent of Palin's friend she appointed to agriculture who loved cows as a child.

We are working very hard up here in Alaska to prevent Palin from winning the 2010 gubernatorial race.

Palin's latest greatest hit was telling the villagers that they need to get jobs outside their villages on a 1 week on, 1 week off basis. Oh yeah, that will work when most flights to the villages get weathered in or out! What a great way to keep an oil job on the north slope.

Yes, you all should feel very sorry for us Alaskans who have to put up with this woman on a daily basis. And don't blame me. I voted for Tony Knowles.

[demfriend]

Glad to hear from Ms Moore in Alaska and how i's going, or not, there! Palin is what I believe is an infection from a known disease who lays in wait it our country for the opening to yet do more damamge to us all. I feel extreely bad for Alaskans that they still have to deal with her but I still woder just how deep did they look while they elected her? We have Arnie still in Ca and he was an unknown when we got him but no matter what he replaced someone we knew needed to be replaced at the time, Davis. We gave him a chance and he didsoe good things for a while and unless he can tie the horrible economy we have now to the world his butt is going back to the movies! Palin had to be discovered and uncovered by national media for the Alaskan people and she is the snake inthe grass nasty woman no one would like to work with as she gets even in mean hateful ways. But she always did. It is up to us to keep her in Alaska but up to the Alaskans to send her butt home. She has done enough bad crap so make a case please an toss her out now!! Ms Moore cannot be the only one who wants this.

[kareemachan]

And now there's a group starting her presidential bid...

www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/11/draft-palin-effort-begins_n_173832.html

[AnnfromCA]

I'm afraid I don't follow your points here. Too bad. It sounds interesting. The projects she recommended sounded, to me, very smart for Alaska, so I don't get why all the resisitence.

[newpantaloons]

Don't pay any attention to AnnfromCA, Shannyne. She is a Republican from CA.

[Freesia2]

"Also and" (to paraphase Sarah) a PUMA trying to justify how she went from supporting a smart woman like Hillary to giving her vote to the neuron-challenged Palin for any reason other than abject pouting.

Thanks for putting on the warning sticker. Oh and I like your new pantaloons. (Cool name)

[WinterParkMom]

Hopefully the voters of Alaska and the rest of the states will have come to realize by the next elections that NO republican is running for office for the good of the people they represent/hope to represent. They are in it purely for the power and the future wealth it represents. Americans rise up and use YOUR power of the ballot to make it clear that the republicans are NOT the way forward for the future benefit of this country.

[den1953]

All this is boring the lower 48 i hope Alaska gets the best representation from her as they can get anything else is just the standard same ole BS!

[meede]

Yea well -- the stupidity runs free in the lower 48 too. Because Alaska is not directly attached to the lower 48 by land, doesn't mean it's not part of the US. DH

[kwalters]

It may be boring to you personally, but when Palin is constantly mentioned in the Top 5 Leaders of the GOP, AND she is on the short list for the Republican Nomination in 2012, you ought to pay attention to what Shannyn, among many others in Alaska, is DOCUMENTING! Sarah Palin needs to be exposed as the "mean girl" she is. She is a total pathological narcissist DSM IV. And she is revealing herself to be a more hardline right winger by the day. Constant vigilance is required to diminish and hopefully extinguish Sarah Palin.

AND what Palin's Board of Game have just done, creating a "predator control" program on steroids, needs to be examined and documented as well. Sarah Palin's Board of Game has now appoved and expanded shooting bears and wolves out of helicopters AND GASSING WOLF PUPS!!!

From the ADN:

The board expanded the program by:

- Allowing hunters to put bear snares on the ground or in buckets attached to trees in an area north and west of Cook Inlet.

- Letting hunters use private helicopters to fly into remote bear-baiting and snaring camps in the same region.

- Allowing employees use poison gas to kill orphaned wolf pups in dens, and

- Renewing existing wolf kill programs.

[Freesia2]

Oh that is awful. Especially the wolf pups.

[me again]

Rather than a heart, she has blind ambition and little intelligence to back the ambition.

[levibatgirl]

Thanks for the article. Most voters thanked their lucky stars that Palin and McCain lost.
From what I have read about her she would have looked us all dead in the eye and lied without hesitation and with every decision being for her own self interest. I don't doubt that for a minute.

She is the worst of the worst of the republican party. Sorry you have to put up with her. : (

[tm68]

This is the scary thing about her lies. She doesn't think she is telling lies. Despite the fact that they can be proven as lies beyond a doubt, she continues to tell them and that is evidence of a truly pathological mind. I am appalled that a person like this can get as far as she has in this life. I understand that sometimes karmic payback occurs in future lifetimes, but must we ALLsuffer right now until that happens? They say karma is a b#@!%, but it could stand to ratchet it up a couple of notches where she is concerned.

[realitychecks]

She has no heart,someone direct her to the Yellow Stained Snow,tell her to find the Wonderful Wizard of Wasilla to receive a heart.HA HA HA

[sippewissett]

BRAVO. Keep the expose on Palin coming. She may be the darling of the deranged Right, but she would make a villainously inept national leader. (Yes, I acknowledge that she is already that at the state level.)

Palin inspires passionate defenses from groups like TeamSarah (rabid anti-abortionists), KKK, skinheads and 18-year-old boys with more testosterone than grey cells. However, the GAP between her collaborative rhetoric and her partisan, self-interested actions is growing wider all the time. And the ethics investigations will not stop because she invites them with her bad judgment , decision-making and appointments.

Her current unwillingness to appoint Kerttula and to even consider Grussendorf ( "...a fisherman and finance committee staffer. Grussendorf lost his campaign against the indicted Bruce Weyrauch. He hasn't been a registered Democrat for a full year and was eliminated from consideration for that reason by the party.") is ludicrous and castst the same doubt on him that Blago's appointment did on Burris.

Keep it up, Shannyn. We need more light shed on this presidential wannabe.

[UsofA]

Shannyn (just a girl from Homer) Moore is a favorite blogger of mine (me, being just a guy from Salt Lake City.) Her pieces on Palin amount to exposes on what I consider the political figurehead of intellectual, ethical and Constitutional deconstruction. Moore's insider dispatches from the tundra where Palin roams largely unquestioned and unchecked, add a degree of balance and perspective for the rest of us in America who consider Palin both laughable and dangerous.

[Freesia2]

Oh Shannyn. I'm so sorry you have her for governor, but it's a little outweighed by the unbelievable relief I felt at knowing she was coming back to you. I've never been so glad to see the back of a little red jacket in my life. Double monkey pumps marching away from the White House was downright music to my ears.

I don't know what gives there. I sense that the demographics of Alaska are sort of comparable to Appalachia. In that if someone is pro gun and evangelical, they are on their way up the political ladder. And I have a feeling that she's going to go for it again in 2012. Please keep her. We don't want her any more than you guys do.

Meanwhile, try to vote her out. And I still maintain if those witchdoctor tapes went mainstream, and if Sarah went through a major weight gain or a little premature sagging - that she'd be finished anyway. Feed her some whale blubber and zap her with a gravity ray, maybe press some dvds of weird evangelical ceremonies for major distribution, won't you? :-)