Palin Knows How To Play The Game and Win.

[unapatriciated]

WASILLA, Ala. — Back in February 1997, Sarah Palin, the 32-year-old mayor of this south-central Alaska town, fired the police chief in a move that foreshadowed the type of tough actions that would propel the political career of the woman who will be nominated this week as the Republican vice-presidential candidate.

The drama splashed out across the front pages of the local newspaper, with the fallen police chief filing a lawsuit accusing Palin of canning him after he exercised his free-speech rights. Palin, a staunch supporter of the National Rifle Association, was unhappy that her police chief had spoken against a state bill to ease restrictions on Alaskans who carried concealed weapons, he said. And Palin, who had gained the backing of Wasilla bar owners in her mayoral campaign, also disliked the chief's proposal to roll back tavern closing hours from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m.

"She wanted to show that she was the boss, and could get rid of people," said Irl Stambaugh, the former Wasilla police chief. "She kept calling it the good-old-boy network." Within her first year, she had dismissed three other department heads, roiling city politics and spurring talk of recalling the first-year mayor. Palin survived the backlash, serving six years as mayor and then winning election to Alaska's statehouse in 2006.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008151136_palin01m0.html


We can not underestimate her, she knows how to use and abuse power.

[the Sundance Kid]

1. do not pass go, do not collect $200

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. She's only ever been a big frog in a little pond.

She may be ruthless in her little world, but she is in a whole different league now. I am not worried.

[Lisa0825]

6. LMAO!

GMTA! :rofl:

[Lisa0825]

3. Big fish in a small pond.

National politics is a whole other ball game. Look how much she has been humiliated already.

[Blaze Diem]

9. Palin doesn't give a crap what is being said..nor the fact that it is her family

who will bear the brunt of her humiliating behavior.
She's in this game to win..family will just have to deal with it.

Small town girl Makes Big !!!
She getting a freakin tough guy sized hard-on for the power that could be hers. She could just be President of the USA someday..& the old guy that's handing her the ultimate ego trip may not last out the next four years. All the time she needs as VP to learn how to handle the Presidenting of America.

She sounds like a power hungry self serving "however I can get it" kinda of b**ch to me.
Bush didn't know crap about being President either. That's what advisors are for, and she's probably already making her list of family and friends to fill that slot. Much like George Bush did. Qualified or not.

There's something very scary about Palin.

[kansasblue]

4. but to fix that 'roiling' the party got her a city administrator..

so she wouldn't screw up like that again.

[parasim]

5. Yeah, she's a female Bush.

The question is, will the American people fall for it once again?

If so, I'm looking for property in Canada.

[NotThisTime]

10. I'm less than an hour from Montreal, what's a 4th house? Anyhow female Bush=Dynamic Obama - Obama

WINS!

[TwilightGardener]

7. That's incestuous small-pond politics. It's like someone going out to my county commission meetings

and watching the assholes there jockey for power. They even had a recall of one of our commissioners last year because of a road-salt facility. Same shit. I'm not impressed.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. I saw you on this show

[unapatriciated]

12. right that's why I just put in ten hour days....

this week-end campaigning for Obama.
and spent today cleaning up our new campaign headquarters.
WE on this board know her for what she is but this too is a small pond.
This post was not meant as a show of support for her it was to point out we shouldn't dismiss her either.
It was also meant to give yet more ammo on how she operates politically.
Damn I didn't think I needed to show credentials to you inch but go ahead insinuate something that is not true.

This is who I am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCutvXccFlA
and who I'm married to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGeVtzqFlUY


so....how did you spend your Labor Day Weekend.:shrug:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Is that what the endless parade of talking conservashits mean when they refer to

her opposition to the "old boy network"? I'll bet they have no idea what specific facts that expression refers to. They've been given pieces of paper that tell each of them she faced down the old boy network and that's as far as their incurious little minds want to go.

[johnaries]

13. She can play penny-ante, this is high-stakes.

She's going to get chewed up and spit out.