If you need any more convincing that the Governor of Alaska is unfit for high office, you needn't look any further than the Official Press Release her office put out about her resignation.
Either this indicates the slow decline of Anglo-Saxon civilization, or this woman is truy out of her mind:
Hi Alaska, I appreciate speaking directly TO you, the people I serve, as your Governor.
She puts the emphasis on TO. And apparently, she appreciates herself doing it. Show goes on to "all caps" repeatedly throught the document...even where there is clearly no need to ephasize. For example:
We have AGIA, the gasline project - a massive bi-partisan victory (the vote was 58 to 1!) - also succeeding as intended - protecting Alaskans as our clean natural gas will flow to energize us, and America, through a competitive, pro-private sector project. This is the largest private sector energy project, ever. THIS is energy independence.
And ACES - another bipartisan effort - is working as intended and industry is publicly acknowledging its success. Our new oil and gas "clear and equitable formula" is so Alaskans will no longer be taken advantage of. ACES incentivizes NEW exploration and development and JOBS that were previously not going to happen with a monopolized North Slope oil basin.
THIS! NEW! JOBS! I cant believe that someone in high office would produce a written document like this. I can certainly understand such usage in an email, or a diary. But an official press release from a high public official? Unacceptible. I'll avoid noting the numerous and unexplainable violations of English usage. It is sufficient to say she's certainly no Lincoln, or even a Homer Simpson.
We are doing well! I wish you'd hear MORE from the media of your state's progress and how we tackle Outside interests - daily - SPECIAL interests that would stymie our state. Even those debt-ridden stimulus dollars that would force the heavy hand of federal government into our communities with an "all-knowing attitude" - I have taken the slings and arrows with that unpopular move to veto because I know being right is better than being popular. Some of those dollars would harm Alaska and harm America - I resisted those dollars because of the obscene national debt we're forcing our children to pay, because of today's Big Government spending; it's immoral and doesn't even make economic sense!
In the Republican mind, "big government" is a proper noun.
It's pretty insane - my staff and I spend most of our day dealing with THIS instead of progressing our state now. I know I promised no more "politics as usual," but THIS isn't what anyone had in mind for ALASKA.
If I have learned one thing: LIFE is about choices!
Alaska isn't even a regular old proper noun. It is a SUPER NOUN!!!
Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're na�ve if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN. And I'm doing that - keeping our eye on the ball that represents sound priorities - smaller government, energy independence, national security, freedom! And I know when it's time to pass the ball - for victory.
Why is she keeping her eye on the ball AND the basket? This is exactly the sort of thing Orwell warned us about in Politics and the English Language. But even he probably could not of contemplated something this awful would come from a holder of high office.
Of course, everyone has noted her attribution fail:
In the words of General MacArthur said, "We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction."
But what hasn't noted is the fucked up butchering of our beloved language in this quote. "In the words of General MacArthur said?" What is she? A 4th grader?
I believe it was James Madison who wrote "I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom."
The PEOPLE of ALASKA should CONSIDER this next time them are voting.