The American Mind

If you’re a fiscal conservative, Palin is a disaster.

Research the recent huge tax increase she pushed for on the oil industry (ACES - Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share), which funds roughly 90% of our state’s budget. Alaska now taxes to a surplus!

She also signed the second largest capital budget in state history.

Then there’s the mess she named “AGIA” (Alaska Gasline Inducement Act) which has basically derailed the gasline process.

You’re stop on about her lack of experience. Before elected governor (thanks Frank Murkowski) she served as mayor or a rural small town. A town where she increased the sales tax and left in debt thanks to a sports center that was built on land the City of Wasilla didn’t own.

Like I said, she’s a disaster.

Maybe she can run with Bobby Jindal in 2012 if Obama proves you only need to be young and fun to get elected President in this country.

Things you should know about Sarah Palin:

Sarah Palin, aka Sarah Chavez, proposed and pushed through the largest raise in taxes in Alaska’s history. She supports the idea that the State can seize the property of oil producers in Alaska if they don’t do what she wants. She has attacked almost the entire Republican majority in the house and senate. She stood by and giggled when a radio shock jock called the Republican President of the Senate a “bitch” and “a cancer”. She threatened to support Democrats running against Republicans if they did not support her tax and spend policies.

She would be a disaster as VP.

Interesting Alaska-centric stuff here: http://www.andrewhalcro.com/

[…] Wizbang passes on a rumor that Sen. McCain’s VP search guru was spotted in Juneau, Alaska. If true that mean’s Gov. Sarah Palin is on the short list. I wasn’t impressed with her in February. If McCain wants to continue using the inexperience attack on Sen. Obama then Palin won’t be his running mate. However, fighting back against the polar bear being listed as a threatened species will make fans among conservatives McCain as so far alienated. […]

Are you aware of the fact that Sarah Palin-Chavez proposed and pushed through the largest socialistic tax increase in the history of the world? It’s a 400% increase on the state’s #1 taxpayer that funds roughly 90% of the state’s budget. (See ACES)

Speaking of budgets… do you know that she increased the fy09 operating budget by 23%?

And what do you think of her left-wing socialist energy rebate debit card for $100.00 and utility reductions for every Alaskan resident? And people wonder why she has high approval ratings… ha! If you can’t figure that out, you’ve never been to Alaska were people love free money from the government!!!

Oh, and… you may want to read this: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/124285

[…] I had reservations towards Palin in February mostly because McCain’s experience argument gets undercut. Now, I worry that when conservatives dig a little they’ll find someone not as much of a conservative rock star as she appears. For instance in an interview in 2006 with the Alaska branch of the NEA Palin not only opposed school vouchers but wouldn’t support changing the state constitution to allow for vouchers. McCain supports school choice: If a school will not change, the students should be able to change schools. John McCain believes parents should be empowered with school choice to send their children to the school that can best educate them just as many members of Congress do with their own children. He finds it beyond hypocritical that many of those who would refuse to allow public school parents to choose their child’s school would never agree to force their own children into a school that did not work or was unsafe. They can make another choice. John McCain believes that is a fundamental and essential right we should honor for all parents. […]