Palin losing friends on the home front

[Cali_Democrat]

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Palin losing friends on the home front

MICHAEL CAREY
COMMENT

Published: September 29th, 2008 10:38 PM
Last Modified: September 29th, 2008 11:02 PM

Sarah Palin may be making new friends as she campaigns the nation, but at home, she's making new enemies. She better get elected vice president. If she returns to Alaska as governor, the reception will be frosty -- and not because winter has arrived.

In the last month, Palin has become something inconceivable during her first two years as the state's chief executive: A polarizing figure rapidly emptying the storehouse of good will she accumulated.

For starters, her relationship with the press has collapsed -- by her choice. She rarely talks to reporters. Her attack on the "media elite" at the Republican National Convention should have embarrassed her. There is no media elite in Alaska, and she generally received favorable press, except from a few conservative dissenters, as a candidate for governor and as governor.

You say she was unhappy with the eastern media, not the local scribes when she spoke to the convention. Well, during her recent visit to New York City she attended a dinner put together by Rupert Murdoch who, according to gossip columnist Cindy Adams, "piloted Sarah around" during the evening. Murdoch is one of the world's most influential media barons. Also present was Cathy Black, president of Hearst Magazines. Other VIPS on hand at Tao on 58th Street, where a Kobe rib eye steak costs $88, included Sarah Ferguson, Martha Stewart, designer Vera Wang and the Queen of Jordan. Not the media elite -- just the elite.

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[tblue]

1. She lost me at "lipstick." And "Community Orrrrganizerrrr."

[vaberella]

2. First off Halcro should have been Gov. Secondly, after those protests...

not only is Palin losing friends but Alaska will turn Blue on election day. Mark my words.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. You think Alaska will turn blue on Nov 4th?

That would be fantastic.

[vaberella]

4. I sincerely do. I figure Florida will be blue.

I also have a sense GA will be blue. I'm not sure about AZ, but that will be fun. But in actuality I sincerely and truly believe Alaska will turn blue.