According to this article from the New York Times, Sarah Palin offers more of the same, Bush-style politics that have plagued the United States for the last eight years.
Apparently, she appointed a former classmate to direct Alaska’s Division of Agriculture (a 2 Million Dollar Agency) on the sole basis of a stated “Childhood love of Cows”. I hope for the sake of the Alaska National Guard that none of Sarah Palin’s friends had a childhood love of G.I.Joe. At best, we can hope that her cronies will do a heck of a job.
Her penchant for injecting personal grudges into political appointments also mirrors that of George Bush. As the Mayor of Wisilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin fired the City Attorney after he put a stop-work order on a builder’s housing project. No surprise, that builder was one of her campaign supporters.
With Sarah Palin, we ironically risk getting yet another member of the “Ole Boys Club”; a hot-headed executive who will hire incompetent friends and fire competent (perceived) “enemies”. That’s a heckuva change.
