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   From: karlark@comcast.net   
      
   On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:54:55 -0600, "HEMI-Powered"  wrote:   
      
   >Buffalo added these comments in the current discussion du jour   
   >...   
   >   
   >>> do the country a service   
   >>> write to biden and warn him africa is a continent not a   
   >>> country   
   >>   
   >> Does Palin know that??  I don't think see can see it from her   
   >> house.  :)   
   >>   
   >Buffalo, I was delighted when John McCain picked Sarah Palin as   
   >his running mate because she is indeed a Washington OUTsider.   
      
   I thought she was an outsider too until I read this article which documents all   
   that she did prior to McCain's knowledge of her. She hired an East Coast public   
   relations firm to promote Palin and the natural gas pipeline she was backing in   
   Alaska. She came to the attention of Adam Brickley who registered a website,   
   palinforvp.blogspot.com, which eventually got Rush Limbaugh's attention.   
   Meantime, Palin began inviting the insiders to the governor's mansion beginning   
   the summer of 2007. Willima Kristol (Fox News, The Times), Fred Barnes (Beltway   
   News), Michael Gerson (former Bush speech writer) visited and fell in love with   
   Palin.   
      
   "Indeed, as early as June 29th, two months before McCain chose her, Kristol   
   predicted on “Fox News Sunday” that “McCain’s going to put Sarah Palin, the   
   governor of Alaska, on the ticket.” He described her as “fantastic,” saying   
   that   
   she could go one-on-one against Obama in basketball, and possibly siphon off   
   Hillary Clinton’s supporters. He pointed out that she was a “mother of five”   
   and   
   a reformer. “Go for the gold here with Sarah Palin,” he said. The moderator,   
   Chris Wallace, finally had to ask Kristol, “Can we please get off Sarah   
   Palin?""   
      
   She hosted a second round of insiders from The National Review which impressed   
   Dick Morris who warned her that as a reformer, it was important that she   
   maintain the "outsider cred".   
      
   The article further notes, "By the end of February, 2008, the chorus of   
   conservative pundits for Palin was loud enough for the mainstream media to take   
   note. Chris Cillizza, reporting for the Web site of the Washington Post,   
   interviewed Palin and asked her if she’d accept an offer to be McCain’s running   
   mate. Though she dismissed the notion as a virtual “impossibility this   
   go-round,” Palin, who had been in office for only fourteen months, said, “Is it   
   generally something that I would want to consider? Yes.”"   
      
   You can read it here:   
      
   "The Insiders" by Jane Mayer   
   http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/27/081027fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=1   
      
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