Dunno if this will resonate widely, but I suspect it would.

I just told my coworker who is the very definition of "low information voter" about it after he said "she's alright eh? kind of hot, kicks ass!"

When I told him about aerial hunting, the $150 paw bounty, and how Palin wants to expand it even further he said "that's f*cking evil man"

anecdotal for sure, but proof that this issue could resonate on an emotional level - ya know, where the scumbags on the other side wallow in the crapulence.

So much for "pro life". She only reveres human life, obviously.

And how much money is wasted in fuel hunting down these animals?

This is the way it was done by a few people in the 60s (one was a good friend and a bit of a mentor): You got out in a Super Cub (two seats, for and aft, so to speak) the way it is done now, except in those days you did it alone: you flew the airplane with the shotgun (one uses a 12 gauge with buckshot - #4 I'd guess) on your knees, the control stick (the Cub is controlled by a joystick, not a yoke) and the door propped open (pretty cold, needless to say)

You saw the wolf, you got low and slow, and - most days you got the wolf. Some days the wolf got the airplane.

Now it is a pilot and gunner - two against one. Ah, for the sporting blood of old time Alaska!!!!

Governor Palin's record on the environment is truly disturbing, and it is one of the most talked about things on the internet (along with her anti-abortion views). For those interested in more about this topic, go to http://planetpalin.wordpress.com/ for a blog covering the topic with links to many relevant articles (including this one).

Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country. Who shall step forward? Will anyone act to stop it?

"It's also silly to say that no one will care. Did you read the letters?"

Silly?

Delusional: thinking that these Salon letters represent the opinions of even 1/10 of 1% of American voters. Man, some of you have a very inflated view of your importance.

Techinally speaking, NO ONE WILL CARE. It only makes the left look desperate. It's pretty apparent by the low volume of the responses to this article, that not even many Saloners care. 134 @12:00 noon.

...one in six people are connected with the auto industry. Pelosi dropped her gavel, took a vacation/book tour and left all the auto workers twisting in the breeze. People are not stupid. There is a direct connection with the low rating for the do-nothing Congress and it will be remembered at ballot time.

who the demented sack of shit was that supported this policy. I have been receiving emails from activist organizations that plead and beg for us US citizens to plead and beg for this abominable practice to stop. "Culling" is just a euphemism for killing, and worse than that, these inhuman freaks ENJOY this. Coming from Texas, I've heard more than my share of bull about how this is necessary (in this case they're defending trophy hunting of deer or any remaining wildlife)to control the numbers of deer or the poor little things will starve, despite all the troughs of deer food they leave all around to lure near their hunting blinds so they can shoot from the comfort of their beer infested camouflage murder boxes. The reason there is even a problem with the population of evil deer and dangerous white tail doves is because their natural predators have been shot to near extinction by these same hunters. So justifying what is basically glorified trophy hunting by claiming that it's in the best interest of the targeted species group due to an overpopulation problem that THEY THEMSELVES CREATED. ugh. I want to barf. On Sarah Palin. I hope her plane goes down one day in the arctic wilderness and she lives long enough to feel what it's like when the wolves get her on their turf.

There is a spelling error in the article: "he adds about the state's rational for gunning down wolves" should use "rationale", not "rational".

Poor old Salon first its the anti Clinton scenario and now its Palin. Thats what I like about nature its so polite and gentlemanly. You know the wolf before its downs a moose says "I hope you don,t mind if I eat you" just as the crocodidle says to the wildebeest before it drags it under "I hope you won,t take this personally" or the shark says "Have you got any mustard with you" No nature is very cruel and the wolf is not the friendliest of animals. If culling is necessary then it has to be done but as humanely as possible. The crocodile is sacred to the Indian and they won,t harm it and it repays that kinndness and eats 100s of them every year children included

Gunning down helpless animals from the air is heartless and cowardly and begs the question of just who is the predator here. This woman is frightening, and even more frightening is the reality that if elected, she might need to step in as Commander and Chief. Her ideology would have sex education abolished in our schools, contraceptives made illegal, and Roe Vs. Wade overturned. Even our libraries would be compromised by her already documented abuse of power. We need to call an extremist an extremist, to shine a light on the shared anti-democratic ideology of McCain and Palin, the same ideology shared by Bush and Cheney, antithetical to civil liberties and democracy.

the caribou population is booming so we don't need to worry about the effects of drilling in anwr, except that we need to kill off the wolves to save the caribou. i forgot how compelling that rightwing logic can be.

WTF

I'd love to put a bunch of Salon readers in a room full of endangered polar bears, wolves, and moose, and let them have the big love fest they so DESPERATELY crave!