Alaska Pride
If the selection of the 65-year-old Joe Biden by the 47-year-old Barack Obama can be characterized as
"the cradle reaching out to the grave", then the selection of 44-year-old Sarah Palin by 72-year-old John McCain can be characterized as the
"grave reaching out to the cradle". McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, reported nationally on
CNN, has stunned the nation and triggered discussion far beyond the normal venues, to include seemingly unlikely venues such as the
Vanguard News Network Forum and
Stormfront.
And Alaskans, including myself, are just as stunned as most other Americans at this selection. I genuinely believed that what chances she actually ever had died with the onset of the scandal unleashed beginning with the
firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. Then she compounded that error by hiring former Kenai Police Chief Chuck Kopp as Monegan's replacement without properly vetting him; he turned out to have had a past as a sexual harasser, and
he also resigned, under fire.
And many Alaskans, in particular
Andrew Halcro (view all his posts on Palin
HERE), remain strongly critical of Sarah Palin's
Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as well as her legislatively rubber-stamped decision to select Trans-Canada to build the pipeline, even though Trans-Canada, by their own admission, will not begin construction until 2015, AFTER their Canadian gas lines are built and AFTER the value of Alaskan gas is weakened by the expected flood of Canadian gas.