1. She supported the bridge and backed off when it became controversial. Nothing you've said contradicts this.
2. She not only accepted earmarks, when she was mayor of Wasilla she hired a lobbyist to attract federal money, including money for several projects that was secured via, you guessed it, earmarks.
3. "Captures our fair share of record high oil prices" is a nice way of saying "increases taxes." I don't actually think this is necessarily a bad idea, but for someone running as a tax-cutting conservative it's a funny position to take.
4. This supposed "took on the corrupt oil companies" line is an attempt to distance herself from Murkowski and take credit for cleaning things up in his wake. But what it amounts to is the windfall profits tax already talked about and building the gas pipeline.
65. The pipeline project is controversial, in part because the state-funded pipeline goes through Canada and the industry-built line would have been entirely in Alaska. It seems like a good enough infrastructure project for the state but it is dishonest to misstate the size of the project and also use it to burnish her national energy policy credentials when it is basically a local project that has no implications for national energy policy.
I will admit, however, after reading several articles about her Palin seems to have a deep knowledge of the oil industry and public policy about the industry. It's about all she has, and her focus on oil over other sources of energy (including a clear disdain of alternative energy despite the line in her stump speech) is actually a problem for national policy. But she does have that experience.
2. She not only accepted earmarks, when she was mayor of Wasilla she hired a lobbyist to attract federal money, including money for several projects that was secured via, you guessed it, earmarks.
3. "Captures our fair share of record high oil prices" is a nice way of saying "increases taxes." I don't actually think this is necessarily a bad idea, but for someone running as a tax-cutting conservative it's a funny position to take.
4. This supposed "took on the corrupt oil companies" line is an attempt to distance herself from Murkowski and take credit for cleaning things up in his wake. But what it amounts to is the windfall profits tax already talked about and building the gas pipeline.
65. The pipeline project is controversial, in part because the state-funded pipeline goes through Canada and the industry-built line would have been entirely in Alaska. It seems like a good enough infrastructure project for the state but it is dishonest to misstate the size of the project and also use it to burnish her national energy policy credentials when it is basically a local project that has no implications for national energy policy.
I will admit, however, after reading several articles about her Palin seems to have a deep knowledge of the oil industry and public policy about the industry. It's about all she has, and her focus on oil over other sources of energy (including a clear disdain of alternative energy despite the line in her stump speech) is actually a problem for national policy. But she does have that experience.
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