Getting Alaskan communities off inefficient, diesel generation is a realistic goal of alternative energy uses.

His stuff sounds like just another Palin Derangement Syndrome sufferer.

Whine, whine, whine.

although the LAT one seems clearcut. The first one named many governors who have been touted as the young faces of the Republican Party. You can’t very well damn Palin without damning them as well.

At this point, given the sources, I’d say there’s more to either story than we know. Sometimes, we react too quickly to wha’s laid before us. I like to let things simmer awhile before I react. Saves a lot of time when often we find out later that we had only half the story and the parts we didn’t have shed new light on the subject.

Especially when we’re all on the defensive because of huge political losses.

Janis: can’t figure out how to edit the font size. I copy/pasted it. Sorry, you’ll have to put on your dollar store reading glasses.

StephC: leave it to a good politician to embellish any story in their favor given the time.

The Conservative Movement is at its lowest ebb….

The post makes Sarah Palin appear as the most supportive of the stimulus among the GOP governors. But, as shown by the statement released by her office, Sarah Palin is very critical of the stimulus plan.
This post is not objective.

…I think I know what I did wrong. I’ll do better next time. Promise.

I, too, supported McCain/Palin. In addition to my straight ticket vote I brought in 7 others that I am certain of. Voted straight GOP ticket since the early ’80s. But I’m convinced that a moderate can’t win. I don’t know if Sarah has aspirations for 2012 but if she does, she’s getting some very bad advice because it looks like she’s trying to play to MSM and come across as a moderate. Wrong. This is the trap that the GOP has fallen into. Play to the Base. The voters. Not the msm and other ngo’s. Also, Alaska is just another state with people in it. I can’t accept that its so radically different. DD

with Gov. Palin’s plan to move Alaska toward energy independence, or with the belief that renewable sources are one part of the solution.

Especially since this statement from Governor Palin is part of the official record.

“I am dismayed that legislation has again been introduced in Congress to prohibit forever oil and gas development in the most promising unexplored petroleum province in North America – the coastal plain of ANWR, in Alaska.”

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Federal revenues from ANWR – cash bids, leases, and oil taxes – would help reduce the multi-trillion dollar national debt, and we’d circulate U.S. petrodollars in our own country instead of continuing to send hundreds of billions of our dollars overseas, creating jobs and stronger economies in other countries.”

(Snip…)

“The development of oil and clean-burning natural gas isn’t a panacea. However, this development should be authorized in comprehensive legislation that includes alternative fuels, fuel efficiency, and conservation.”

(Snip…)

“If we don’t move now to enact a comprehensive energy policy that includes domestic oil and gas production – including ANWR – we will look back someday and regret that we failed to perceive a critical crossroads in the history of America. It’s not overly dramatic to say our nation’s future depends on the decisions made by the federal government over the next few months.”

…which is why I voted for her. I know in my gut that “one” of the reasons conservatives stayed home on 11/4/08 was because of McCains total embracement of the man-made climate change hoax. A big turn-off. Sarah should avoid any connection to that philosophy. This move makes it look like she’s following in McCains footsteps. A bad political move on her part “if” she has 2012 aspirations. And, in my opinion, not the only bad political move she’s made lately. DD

she’s been for everything from tidal power in Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm to wind farms in Western Alaska to the Susitna Dam mega-dam on the Susitna River north of Anchorage. And a mega gas line to the Lower 48. And a “bullet line for North Slope Gas to Fairbanks and Anchorage. And, she now wants to build a road to Nome, about 500 miles across tundra and federal lands like parks, reserves, and refuges, at about $5 million a mile. She’s been talking to Governor Hickel obviously. Like the guy, but even he doesn’t have the money to do any of these projects. Alaska could do one of them, maybe, if it were wlling to sell bonds and pledge the Permanent Fund, something that the People of the Flat Screen will never do. Last I penciled it, she had about $50 Billion in stuff she really liked. This in a state that in a good year has about a $10 Billion budget and before the Fall sucker play had about $40 Billion in savings.

Only God knows what she’s thinking with this stuff. Susitna Dam has been around a long time. I was on an Anchorage Chamber comitttee that supported it back in the ’80s. Nobody has come up with a way to get around the Greenies, the environmental issues, the costs, or the seismic risks, but it does sound good to promise the good people of Fairbanks, Anchorage and the Mat Valley really cheap electricity.

There is some potential for wind and tidal in Western Alaska but at enormous cost and with heavy ongoing maintenance costs for the State; nobody is going to maintain it out there. In any event it only acts to reduce the diesel costs; you still have to have the diesel generators.

These days it just seems she’s saying stuff she thinks somebody wants to hear. Sure, the Building Trades Council will say they like the idea of Susitna Dam or a Bullet Line, but they’re AFL-CIO unions and they’ll still back a Democrat rather than her. Somehow, she’s still in abused child mode and thinks if she’s just nicer to them, they’ll stop beating her.

This sounds like the same nonsense spouted by Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS) sufferer Dan Fagan. Anyone who suggests Sarah Palin supports the Pelosi/Obama bill is either incredibly ignorant or purposely trying to distort the governor’s record.

for these governor to pay if they do not accept federal stimulus dollars. Given the current political envirnoment for republicans it would not be wise to reject federal dollars. It might play well with the conservatives but it will not play well with the larger general voting public. Many of these states have very high unemployment which will get worse before it gets better.

…thanks for being there and being objective. Not governed by your emotions. You know the question remains, Achance, how can Sarah be against Obama’s SPlan and simultaneously lobby Mitch McConnell to pass it? I find it fascinating, baffling and am incredulous regarding the fact that so many well educated Repub’s continue to be so clueless as to why the GOP continues to drive away voters by the millions. Like some sort of spell has been cast over them. Hex’d! DD

Simple, Simple. It is because these voters are Democrats and liberals who will never vote for conservative issues anyways or they are conservatives who are tired of stinking, whining RINOs like you.

…of the GOP to adjust. Its so much easier to resort to name calling/insults. What you’re seeing above ought to make it clear to anyone why the GOP is in an accelerated downward spiral….DD