Has she ever been a legilsator?

Actually, yes, on the city council. But you’re referring to her as Governor. No, a Governor is not a legislator, but a Governor, like the President, can certainly wield influence over legislators (see Bush v. Congressional GOP on NCLB or the Medicare bill). And like Presidents, Governors can sign or veto bills. Palin has never tried to influence the state legislature to pass bills that may reflect her own social conservatism, and recall that she chose to veto that bill.

to play Devil’s advocate here… Has she ever been a legilsator? I ask because I do think that legislators shold have the most leeway to ‘vote by their beliefs’ they’re hired to make laws that are the best (as they see it) for the country. Tne executive carries out the laws or, in most cases, say if they can’t follow the law because of the constitution.

I trust in Sarah Palin far more then I do in so called liberals who claim to be feminists and also accepting of Gays UNLESS you are not the correct kind of feminist or the correct kind of Gay person (code word for if you aren’t liberal..then you are a freak..)

in this day and age with a lot more to worry about in this country, all the MSM can come up with in general is past craziness when attacking Sarah Palin…..while being boot lickers for Nobama..

as V the K said that is what you get from idiots who can’t see past their noses and in San Francisco are mystified about the rest of the country that treat people as people and don’t care what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms and whom they love as consenting adults….unless you are liberal and they care plenty then if you don’t have their group think….

they are as predictable as Nobama is present but unaccounted for in the issues of the day.

The media’s dead, killed off by elitist liberals. Nobody’s watching anymore.

Barack Obama has not had a press conference since March 3, 2008, which he walked away from in a huff after dodging eight questions.

You lost, talkingpoints.

Media blackout for Palin at, what, 24 days and counting?

As for Palin herself? She probably falls into that category. The only thing we really have to judge her on is her veto of the anti-gay legislation that would have barred DP benefits. As I recall, she said she was vetoing it because she had to under the state’s constitution as interpreted by the court but she was personally in favor of it, regardless of the veto. That’s a principled stand and I can respect it as a professional and political decision. It doesn’t mean I have to like the underlying sentiment or her support for the state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

“the gay experience in the Last Frontier is marked by contradictions that can perplex the rest of the country,” the gay people she talked to find a welcome in the state governed by the Republican vice presidential nominee.

Perplexing only to those who cling bitterly to an outdated stereotype of how conservatives feel about teh gheys.