I'm a big fan of framing, and I especially like simple frames that can be repeated endlessly until they become common wisdom.
To that end, I think it would be helpful to wrap up what we know of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin into a short-and-sweet description that anyone could use whenever referring to her.
More, including some initial attempts, on the flip.
We know quite a bit about Governor Sarah Palin's stands on many issues, The vast majority of which she has avoided discussing publicly.
For inspiration, we have the great front-page story right now by Georgia10:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here's another one, putting a number of concerns about the Governor in line-item format, by Davefromqueens:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
And, of course, we have the 63-page Democratic oppo research report:
http://www.politico.com/...
So.
Here's a few of my initial attempts at easy-to-remember descriptions of the Good Governor...
- Ethically-challenged Governor Sarah Palin
- Ethically-troubled Governor Sarah Palin
- Hard-right Governor Sarah Palin
- Far-right Governor Sarah Palin
- Innocent-appearing Governor Sarah Palin
- Sweet-looking Governor Sarah Palin
- Hocky-mom-lookalike Governor Sarah Palin
- Professionally-trained Governor Sarah Palin
- Lobbyist-affiliated Governor Sarah Palin
- "Undisclosed Location" Governor Sarah Palin
- Governor Sarah Palin, Climate-change denier
- Militia-affiliated Governor Sarah Palin
- Hardline anti-choice Governor Sarah Palin
- Anti-contraceptives Governor Sarah Palin
- Anti-birth-control Governor Sarah Palin
- Tax-and-spend Governor Sarah Palin
- Governor "Troopergate" Sarah Palin
- Governor "Abuse of power" Sarah Palin
- Censorship-backing Governor Sarah Palin
- Book-banning Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
- Anti-conservationist Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
- Anti-sex-ed Governor Sarah Palin (Ford Prefect 2)
- Policy neophyte Governor Sarah Palin
- First-term Governor Sarah Palin
- Ideologue Governor Sarah Palin
- Scandal-plagued Governor Sarah Palin
- Scandal-ridden Governor Sarah Palin
- Scandal Governor Sarah Palin (ht Richmonds)
- Governor Sarah "Umbridge" Palin (h/t tojojo
- Secessionist sympathizer Sarah Palin (zagzagel)
As you can see, what I'm trying to get at is a simple pairing of descriptions of policy positions/issues with Governor Sarah Palin with her name, in order to provide a ready description that can be used whenever referring to the Governor. Rather like "Indicted former congressman Tom Delay" -- except, of course, she hasn't been indicted yet.
I'd like to focus mostly on issues and known problems with the Governor, and stay away from overly-controversial stuff (like, ahem, family issues). The idea is to have something that even newspapers could and would use.
So, any further ideas? Let's brainstorm on this and come up with some great framing possibilities!