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Palin has been reported to not want the $100,000+job she was given with the oil commission (I may have got that name wrong) as it was a regular job, with regular hours and she became bored after a year (approximate?) and left. In this article she is reported to be incurious and to know little about the workings of Alaska's government and its 1500 employees; evidently she doesn't monitor them, or, presumably, their supervisors.
She also has been reported in many places to have attended five colleges before graduating (from U.Idaho).
Her demonstrated restlessness and inability to 'attend', her lack of curiosity, would seem to rule her out as a candidate for Vice President of the United States. --Wouldn't it?
She seems to be what is known in family therapy circles as 'a runaway', someone who operates in many ways out of bounds and no one stops her or contains her. These people are usually asking to be contained. Their unearned power scares them. But they will go on going on until they are actually and firmly stopped.
Palin's demonstrated and documented (in many places) style of vengeance, going after people who disagree with her (plus having an outwardly 'nice' persona), has gotten her this far. People seem to be afraid of her and with good reason: she has fired many from their jobs for not being loyal to her. She arranges it so everyone in Alaska gets given an extra (on top of their usual yearly oil rebate) $1200-1500 (I have forgotten the exact figure), each man, woman and child. Many people reward her with their vote (and their hopes, no doubt, that this will continue).
Her husband's power-meddling in Alaskan politics is disturbing. The author's final question is a good one.
[At the anti-Palin rally on Sunday, after her speech that morning (see DailyKos.com for photos and description), there were some with signs which proclaimed they had voted for her once but never again. If this keeps up, she will not get voted in for a second term. Thus, her desperate, lying campaigning for another job -- as our Vice President.]
Another final question remains: When Palin was campaigning for governor and people asked her who would mind the children if she became governor, she told them her husband would -- and he publicly agreed. But he now is reported to have gone off snow-mobiling (yecch, incidentally, what a loud insult to nature) and hunting (I think it was; anyway, another of his hobbies, the moment his wife was elected). He is shown holding their new baby a lot during her campaign. -- In addition to allowing the sleeping baby to attend the extremely noisy Republican convention, he even held up the (sleeping!) baby's hand, recently, and waved it to the cameras like a puppet or a doll.
If the father was also at meetings with the mother, who is governor: Who minds the children? Children are ALL our business. Neglect of children cannot be ignored.
