Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman

By Dewie Whetsell,
Alaskan Fisherman.
As posted in comments on Greta Van Susteren of Fox News article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.

The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in
Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last
year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about
persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm
about to mention here.

1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon
as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the
Republican's "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State
housing and wearing orange jump suits The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing,
"la la la la" (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.

2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the
huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and
enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." Exxon (the biggest corporation in the
world) protested and Sarah told them, "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They
stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich... Of course, the other huge international
oil companies meekly fell in line.. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is
she got the list of State requests for federal funding for
projects, known as "pork.." She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the
"when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we'll pay for it
ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got
from selling the previous governor's jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by
dismissing the governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle
issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never
mentioning - I imagine - that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she
also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the
biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If
that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like
this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand..

5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called
Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they were holding it
like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started... This summer, she told them she was revoking
their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that
>she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.

6- President Obama,wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for
electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables
by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and
persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool.
But that's just a cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can
match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't be holding my breath.

By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go
to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no
one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and
tear your face off. Shoulda known better.

You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the
democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers,
dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents' wives...

So "You go, Girl." I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.

I rest my case.

Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.

I believe the crooked politicians in washington, which includes everyone of them at this time,are about to learn the same lesson Admiral Yamammoto warned the emperor about...waking a sleeping giant....of which this time will be the American people....cleaning out the useless self-serving scum in future elections!
How many of you out there watched the senate vote saturday night, where all the liberals signed up for their future unemployment benefits!