[IWE] Palin co-opted into a Voldemort world

[Ashton Brown]

Anchorage Daily News

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/543289.html

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Buchanan frets about Sarah Palin's radical policy implant by the 
neo-conservatives; so should "true conservatives" be distressed by the 
McCain campaign's political makeover of the woman many Alaskans once 
believed was a reformer. Transparency has been replaced by secrecy; 
bipartisan cooperation has been replaced by stonewalling; and the rule 
of law is being compromised for political expediency.

For most of our recent history, Alaska has been a virtual political 
colony of the Republican National Committee. Add to that the presence of 
an Alaskan on the Republican National Ticket, and it is not surprising 
that the McCain campaign decided that it is their Natural Law right to 
occupy and use Alaska any way it sees fit.

Sarah Palin, who believes her destiny is divinely guided and shares a 
messianic zeal with many of her core supporters, has virtually turned 
our state government over to the service of her political mission. 
Alaska's Department of Law is now under the apparent direction of an 
outside alpha-dog attorney, Ed O'Callaghan, who was parachuted into 
Alaska by McCain's national campaign to scrub the Palin dirt from the 
national lens. One big piece of that dirt is the so-called the 
"Troopergate" inquiry, with which we are all familiar. O'Callaghan 
reminds me of the Wolf, Harvey Keitel's character in the movie "Pulp 
Fiction," whose job was to clean up the blood and ditch the body for the 
employer of a couple of careless hit men.

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