Gov. Palin endorsed John Koster for Washington's 2nd Congressional District via Facebook post on the evening of June 12, 2010.

I’m happy to endorse John Koster for Washington’s 2nd Congressional District. John is a strong pro-family, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-development fiscal conservative who will work to rein in the excesses of an out of control federal government. He’s just the sort of Constitutional Commonsense Conservative we need in DC.

John’s free market principles are rooted in his real life experience as a business owner of a dairy farm in North Snohomish County. He served his community with integrity and distinction on the Snohomish County Council and in the Washington State House of Representatives. And now he would like to serve in Congress in order to stop the reckless spending before it’s too late. John knows that growing government is not the answer to our economic problems. He wants to return us to a smaller, smarter government that abides by our Constitution and lives within its means.

With a candor and clarity that is so needed in DC, John says: “History and common sense both instruct us that we cannot spend our way out of debt. The most recent bailouts and stimulus packages are a failure. We are courting long term economic devastation and potentially enslaving our children and grandchildren to pay the debt.”

John is running against an incumbent Democrat who is part of the Pelosi/Reid agenda spending away our children’s future. That’s why we need to send John to DC in his place.

Please join me in supporting John. Visit his website www.kosterforcongress.com and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

John joins other good candidates in Washington State, like Clint Didier, who are ready to shake up the status quo and help put us on the right track!

- Sarah Palin

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Gov. Palin Discusses BP Oil Spill on Fox and Friends

Video Retrieved from FoxNews

Complete Transcript:

(Allison) The crisis in the Gulf of Mexico continues to grow, and now the Obama administration has called a moratorium on deep sea drilling until its safety can be ensured. Governor Sarah Palin joins us now to talk about this and so much more.

Welcome to Fox and Friends, Governor.

(SP) Hey, thanks so much, Allison, glad to get to be here.

(Allison) It's a pleasure to have you.

Alright, so let's talk about the news that has eclipsed everything else. For the past several weeks and that of course is the crisis in the Gulf and the oil spill. You famously coined the term drill, baby, drill. Given this catastrophe, are you rethinking your position?

(SP) No, we still need to drill, baby, drill, and we need to drill safely and ethically, and if we don't do that here then we will be outsourcing our energy production and developments into countries and foreign waters that do not have the strict standards that we have.

The problem here with the Gulf oil spill is that we didn't adhere to those standards, and the MMS didn't regulate aggressively enough, and BP told the government some things that now we're finding out aren't necessarily true.

So, there's a lot of blame to go around, but certainly the American public can't be blamed for the problem that we're seeing today, that tragedy in the Gulf, and they should not be punished. They should not be punished with cap and tax either, a tax on energy that now Obama is talking about in a kind of response to the Gulf spill. And we shouldn't be punished by outsourcing our energy development anymore than we're already outsourcing.

(Allison) And Governor, you've brought up safety, and as you know, the administration has called for a moratorium on deep sea drilling until that safety can by ensured. Given all of the problems that we now know how BP overlooked safety measures, do you support a moratorium until we can ensure the safety?

(SP) No, but we do need to ramp up the oversight of the existing production that we have going on today. And again, the American public should not be punished for BP and the government screw ups in what has led to this tragedy in the Gulf. So no, I don't support the moratorium. What I do support is President Obama meeting finally on day fifty-four, whatever its going to take for him to meet with the CEO and the board members of BP and verify what it is that they have been telling the American public. And doing anything and everything that we can including waving the Jones Act so that we can get some more support and help in from elsewhere to stop this gusher.

(Allison) So when more oversight with the MMS, you're confident that other rigs that are out there right now are not flirting with disaster or that if they were, those are being checked.

(SP) They need to be checked. And Allison, what we did up in Alaska, what I did as governor is in order to verify, not just to give lip service to my expectations and verification of what the oil companies were doing, was I set up a petroleum systems integrity office. I ramped up oversight in our own state to make sure that we could believe what it was that the oil companies were telling us. And I about got run out of town by especially some Republicans thinking I was playing too hard ball with the oil companies. But this public resource and the public trust is important enough to do anything and everything that you can appropriately as a governing body to make sure that the oil companies are on the up and up in what they're telling you about their standards and their operating procedures.

(Allison) I think that that's all the stuff you were talking about on your Facebook page this week when you wrote that President Obama should actually give you a call for some advice. [Palin nods yes.] Has he called yet?

(SP) No, and ya know, I didn't even write that tongue and cheek really. I would like it if President Obama, not, not me, he never will and doesn't have to call me and ask for any kind of advice certainly, but there are experts, including what I believe is America's best oil and gas team that's assembled in Alaska, Tom Erwin, Marty Rutherford, Kurt Gibson, it was Bruce Anders too. These folks who have worked on contingency plans and worked closely with these oil companies, knowing how to play hard ball with them as we still partner with them to develop our natural resources he should reach out to these experts. Let me give you some evidence of this Alaskan team that has had contingency plans in place that the federal government...why they should be reaching out to them.

When you see that the Gulf spill was reliant upon, the development there in the Gulf, was reliant upon a contingency plan of BP's that was boiler plate language taken from Alaskan plans you see evidence of some lax oversight in the federal government and why it is that if Obama is serious about cleaning up MMS and having aggressive regulatory oversight he needs to tap into those experts who have shifted gears in their own states and ramped up oversight. This contingency plan of BP's, Allison, it included language that was referencing walruses and sea others and other marine mammals that are not indigenous to the Gulf. Those are Alaskan wildlife species. It's evidence that there was boiler plate language stolen, taken from an Alaskan contingency plan and applied, irrelevantly, applied to the Gulf, much different conditions there.

(Allison) Yes, and it also said that even in the worst case scenario they could have this cleaned up in thirty days and that it would never reach the shore. And sadly, we know now that all that was false.

(SP) Yeah, that was false, and there are a lot of things that unfortunately, because it's taken so long for the administration to actually sit down, CEO level to CEO level with BP to not have verified a lot of things, the things that they were telling us. Fifty-four days in, Allison, this is ridiculous because what Obama has allowed now is for this industry player, British Petroleum, to become this entity with such enormous liability exposure to be able to have defined the facts of the spill, and now we find out in a magnitude the facts that they defined for the American public were not accurate.

Governor Palin’s Super Tuesday marked the opening salvo of the 2012 race as the Obama left and the GOP establishment unwittingly united in an all-out war against her, with sexism and misogyny being the main weapon employed.

Mechanics of a Sexist Attack

A sexist attack is always in two prongs with one being the constant: belittle, downplay, disqualify or devalue the woman’s accomplishments. The second prong is sexual objectification. This aspect takes two forms: to hold that that the woman’s only asset is sexual desirability or beauty; or to take the opposite approach and hold that she is undesirable or ugly.

Most people think of sexism as being perpetrated by men against women. This is not necessarily true. In fact, women can be just as sexist against each other as men, especially when they want to promote themselves or someone else ahead of their intended victim. Nowhere could this be more true than with the Republican Party - Gov. Palin's own party.

GOP Completely Devalued Gov. Palin

In "Their Worst Nightmare," a regular feature of "RNC Women" on the GOP website, Jan Larimer (presumably a woman), wrote about "[t]housands of women [who] traveled at their own expense, occasionally through snowstorms to get to our summits in Denver and Columbus, to come together to network and listen to some of the best and the brightest in Republican politics." Which women does the GOP regard as "best and brightest"? Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rogers (R-WA), former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and former State Department official Liz Cheney. Who was absent from this list? The one woman who inspired all the rest...

Inspiring GOP Women

All these women just got their inspiration by osmosis? They all just decided that this would be a good time to get involved? Now, let's talk about the woman who's name does not appear on the GOP list of greats. What woman draws tens of thousands of people to her events? What woman causes a caravan of people to follow her campaign bus 150 miles just to spend a few minutes and bond with her? For which woman do people spend thousands of dollars and travel thousands of miles, waiting 26 hours in the freezing cold just to have 10 seconds of bonding time with? Which woman has inspired women all over the country, and in foreign countries to rise up and run for office? Which woman had a countdown to her speech running for days even though she was the bottom of the ticket?

Sarah Louise Heath Palin.

Why will the GOP not list the one woman who is inspiring all the women within their ranks to run for office? Could it be that they prefer someone like Mitt Romney? None of the women in their list have any hope of running for President in 2012, and none have any intention of doing so. So, who are these women stumping for? Gov. Palin has accomplished so much in her various roles and is for all intents and purposes Ronald Reagan in a woman's body, yet her own party prefers the likes of milque toast RINOs such as Romney.

Gov. Palin's Endorsements Are High-Value and Carry Heavy Weight

When Gov. Palin endorsed John McCain, "true" conservatives were quick to point out that he is a RINO, totally disregarding that he elevated her to the world stage. When she endorsed Rand Paul, a furor erupted that he was "a chip off the old block" and some disavowed their support of Gov. Palin. The Fiorina endorsement brought about much angst from Devore's supporters, who crowed that he was the "true conservative" and "only he can beat Boxer." But Devore lost miserably to Fiorina, in a primary. If Gov. Palin's endorsements are so meaningless and carry so little weight as polling outfits like the leftist "Public Policy Polling" site allege, why all this vitriolic anger, and carrying on as if the world is being knocked off its axis when someone's dream candidate did not secure her endorsement?

Gov. Palin's endorsements do matter a great deal. With Nikki Haley, Gov. Palin did not merely endorse her with a Tweet and a Facebook post; she actively campaigned for Haley and stood by her when allegations of two separate affairs flew. She made robo-calls for Haley. Quantitative and statistical analysis do not account for these activities. The Fiorina endorsement led to more endorsements from the NRA and Sen. Santorum, which paved the way for cautious conservatives to vote for her. Our own Stacy Drake, who formerly supported Devore and donated to his campaign switched to Fiorina following Gov. Palin's endorsement and Devore's reaction to it.

Hot Air Promoting MIA Romney

Sites like Hot Air and Red State are in the tank for Romney and routinely bash Gov. Palin. They run comments based on articles like "101 Days in the Life of Mitt Romney" talking up all the endorsements, media appearances, and fundraiser events he supposedly did and made.

Romney, has been remarkably absent on all the major issues. Where does he stand on the BP spill? Cap and tax, ObamaCare (which is really RomneyCare on steroids), and current foreign policy issues? His endorsements are mainly to "safe candidates" in "safe districts." Romney events tend to be low-draw snooze-fests. Hot Air and Red State spin it as Romney's "quiet discipline," while treating Gov. Palin as a "shallow rock star."

Gov. Palin's Detractors: Sexism Busting Out Left and Right

For six days, Gov. Palin's detractors have taken up a new hobby that I will kindly call "spherical anatomical analysis." The Obama left and the establishment GOP unwittingly united in the grave concern that a certain attribute of Gov. Palin's appears larger than before and may have been "enhanced." Professional reporters (who should know better), and amateur hate bloggers ran with the rumor. They performed extensive and detailed photo analysis, bringing in their best subject matter experts. As life sometimes imitates art, they did everything they could save for sending another woman to trip in the sauna ostensibly and make the grab accidentally on purpose. If they could, they would.

The whole point of the exercise is to devalue Gov. Palin, a seasoned, accomplished executive - whose accomplishments are real and spectacular, and to send out a very strong message: "shut up and sit down."

Very few people bothered to relate Gov. Paliin's presence at Belmont with her support of underdogs. No one writes about Romney's private parts when discussing him, so why does Gov. Palin get this treatment?

Gov. Palin's lifetime is one of accomplishments, but they are the last thing her detractors want to talk about. So, these people devalue her to the status of sex object. It's not just the Obama left that has taken up "spherical anatomical analysis." HotAir is rife with comments on this subject matter. Why are both the Obama leftists and the establishment GOP carrying on like this?

They know who Gov. Palin is. They are terrified of her. And the prospect of history repeating itself also strikes fear into their hearts.

US for Palin
June 8 - 10, 2010 Story Items

Sarah Palin’s Endorsements Getting Downplayed
by Stacy Drake

It’s amazing to me that if anyone else had as successful of a record in picking winners in elections as Governor Palin has, the entire media and political establishment would never question that person’s impact on a race.

The Sarah Palin Endorsement of Joe Miller Over Murkowski
by Stacy Drake

Last week, Governor Palin endorsed Joe Miller in the Alaska GOP Senate primary race against Lisa Murkowski. The news caused a bit of a happy stir in the Palin blogosphere as many of us are not the biggest Murkowski fans.

Time Promotes Anti-Palin Facebook Hate Group
by Stacy Drake

On Monday, Time NewsFeed online edition published a piece by Kayla Webley called Facebook Group: Plug the BP Oil Spill with Sarah Palin. Karen Allen wrote a piece that details many of the disgusting comments left by the rabid members of the group, here.

Palin Power: Her Endorsements Carry Significant Weight

As the sun rose this day, June 9, 2010, over 80% of Gov. Palin's endorsed candidates thus far emerged victorious. Though Gov. Palin, in her humility downplayed the importance of endorsements, mainstream media (or what we often call "lamestream"), professional pundits, bloggers, and the endorsed candidates themselves all agreed: Gov. Palin's endorsements are valuable and carry significant weight. The anger of those whose candidates did not secure an endorsement is also strong anecdotal evidence to support this assertion. After all, people do not get angry over something that is of little value or not worth caring about.

Nikki Haley, Victorious and Grateful

Politico's Andy Barr cited the success of Nikki Haley's campaign, despite allegations of two affairs as evidence of the power of Gov. Palin's endorsements. Haley's spokesman Tim Pearson called Gov. Palin's endorsement a boon to the Haley campaign. Nikki Haley expressed her gratitude on Fox and Friends and said she would love to have Gov. Palin campaign for her in the general election.

Fiorina Defeats Devore as Predicted

In California, Gov. Palin's endorsed candidate Carly Fiorina easily defeated Devore. As Barr noted, Gov. Palin went against some of her supporters who view Fiorina as a RINO and Devore as a true conservative. Gov. Palin, as delineated in our coverage of the race knew that Devore simply could not muster up the numbers to win the primary much less the general election..

Iowa's Terry Branstad enjoyed a similar outcome under similar circumstances to Fiorina easily defeating Bob Vander Plaats.

The Mechanics of a Sarah Palin Endorsement

Barr noted that Gov. Palin uses the Susan B. Anthony List (owners of Team Sarah) as a resource to select conservative candidates. Ian Lazaran, Conservatives4Palin today discussed a Time Magazine article which gave insight into Gov. Palin's endorsement methodology. Gov. Palin tends to prefer underdogs who have the potential to win with her helping hand.

Locked and Loaded for November and Beyond...

With many of the primaries concluded, the focus shifts to November's general elections, key to defeating Obama's agenda. Once the foundation is laid in November, as Tammy Bruce said in her interview, "why put off for 2016 what you can do in 2012." Our vigil is posted...

Sometimes the Best Man for the Job is a Woman

Gov. Palin is second from the left front row.

See? I told you so.

Executive experience was a focus of the 2008 campaign. In the nascent days of my supporting Gov. Palin, I had noted that of the four people on both tickets, she was the only one with any executive experience whatsoever. The man at the top of her ticket - John McCain - has no executive experience. Neither did candidate Biden. Candidate Obama only had for his non-Senatorial (state and federal) resume, community organizing, and an editor's position on Harvard Law Review - though what he edited there remains a state secret. I have often written that while Obama was a fantastic fund-raiser and would have made a great used car salesman, he would not be fit to be president of the dealership.

One does not simply get executive experience. It is gained on a scale of progression. In the private sector, the first rung on the ladder to the executive suite is front line supervisor, then department manager, and so on.

Put aside "R," "D," right, left, liberal, and conservative. Obama never traveled this road in either the public or private sectors. He never held a leadership position of any kind. He never was even a front line supervisor. Today, Byron York, of the Washington Examiner vindicated my thoughts held since those fledgling days in "the Sarah business." York wrote, "Obama ignored Palin's experience as governor of Alaska, which was considerably bigger than the Obama campaign." Ridiculously, Obama cited as executive experience his campaign for President. York continued, "Fast forward to 2010. The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is gushing out of control. The Obama administration is at first slow to see the seriousness of the accident. Then, as the crisis becomes clear, the federal bureaucracy becomes entangled in itself trying to deal with the problem."

Obama's lack of executive experience prior to becoming POTUS could not be more painfully clear.

Sarah Palin: 20+ Years Executive Experience in the Public and Private Sectors

As Governor (Master List 2006 - 2008 and 2009), Sarah Palin managed a $14 billion budget. She knows how to compute the Net Present Value of a dollar and apply it to a state budget. Her financial administration was over a state whose revenue fluctuates widely, entirely dependent on the price of a barrel of oil.

She was co-commander-in-chief over the 49th Missile Defense Battalion, which performs ground-based interception of intercontinental ballistic missiles (nuclear missiles). This unit is on permanent full-time active duty. She was full commander-in-chief over the Alaska State Defense Force, which is a US Homeland Security-recognized to conduct counter-terror operations.

Her span of control encompassed tens of thousands of state employees. She held chairmanships and vice chairmanships. She worked her way to the top from city council to mayor, to governor, roles of increasing responsibility each time. She still runs a commercial fishing business with her husband. Years ago, she broke her hand on the job and went back to work the following day, gill-netting thousands of pounds of salmon. Most mere mortals would have been out of work six months.

Gov. Palin is an expert on international trade. Meetings with consuls, diplomats and other foreign dignitaries were routine business for her. Gov. Palin did not need a set of Twin Towers to operate her gubernatorial WTC. She was Alaska's Twin Towers.

Today, Gov. Palin is operating her own media empire consisting of a Fox News consultancy position, two special TV series, speaking engagements, and is working on a second book, after authoring a six-week best-seller. Driven out of the governor's office and nearly to bankruptcy by ethics complaints, nary 10 months later, Gov. Palin is reputed to have earned the equivalent to what she would earn serving six presidential terms.

She has become such a financial powerhouse, that New York Magazine penned a hit job titled, "Palin, Inc." The difference between us and them is that we celebrate Palin, Inc. We want to see Palin, Inc. expand. Earn even more income. Because we know, Palin, Inc. will re-invest the profits into serving our nation. And for Gov. Palin, make no mistake about it - at this point in her life - a presidential run truly is service - she would be taking a huge pay cut - to answer her summons.

Leftists: Masters of Sexism and Misogyny

Gov. Palin went to a horse race to bet on a horse named after her husband's nickname. The horse was the underdog and placed third. So, what did the sexist leftists report on? Gov. Palin's white tee shirt. Her hat. Reader commentary focused on the apparent size of a certain aspect of the female anatomy. Only Irish Central and our Missy Stewart bothered to draw a linkage to this story, Gov. Palin's prior overcoming of adversity and the trajectory her life is on.

Meanwhile, a group on Facebook suggests using Gov. Palin's body to plug the BP oil leak. Leftists yuk it up and find this humorous. Never mind that the Secret Service would pay a visit to anyone setting up such a group on Facebook in reference to any sitting president. Leftists routinely post their wishes for all manner of harm to come upon Gov. Palin. They find it amusing and all in good fun. They want to take away our guns, but they want Gov. Palin shot. They champion women's rights - "feminists" they call themselves - but they want Sarah Palin gang-raped.

Sarah Palin's Executive Experience: Real and Spectacular

Gov. Palin has accomplished much in her 46 years on this planet. US for Palin is re-constructing her entire life's accomplishments, a major but inspiring undertaking. Here, you will read about what a woman can do.

Everything about Gov. Palin  is real and spectacular.

Gov. Palin, today June 8, 2010 addressed the Obama administration's gross lack of action on the BP oil spill in a Facebook Note, the complete transcript of which follows:

50 days in, and we’ve just learned another shocking revelation concerning the Obama administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill. In an interview aired this morning, President Obama admitted that he hasn’t met with or spoken directly to BP’s CEO Tony Hayward. His reasoning: “Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s gonna say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.”

First, to the “informed and enlightened” mainstream media: in all the discussions you’ve had with the White House about the spill, did it not occur to you before today to ask how the CEO-to-CEO level discussions were progressing to remedy this tragedy? You never cease to amaze. (Kind of reminds us of the months on end when you never bothered to ask if the President was meeting with General McChrystal to talk about our strategy in Afghanistan.)

Second, to fellow baffled Americans: this revelation is further proof that it bodes well to have some sort of executive experience before occupying the Oval Office (as if the painfully slow response to the oil spill, confusion of duties, finger-pointing, lack of preparedness, and inability to grant local government simple requests weren’t proof enough). The current administration may be unaware that it’s the President’s duty, meeting on a CEO-to-CEO level with Hayward, to verify what BP reports. In an interview a few weeks ago with Greta Van Susteren, I noted that based on my experience working with oil execs as an oil regulator and then as a Governor, you must verify what the oil companies claim – because their perception of circumstances and situations dealing with public resources and public trust is not necessarily shared by those who own America’s public resources and trust. I was about run out of town in Alaska for what critics decried at the time as my “playing hardball with Big Oil,” and those same adversaries (both shortsighted Repubs and Dems) continue to this day to try to discredit my administration’s efforts in holding Big Oil accountable to operate ethically and responsibly.

Mr. President: with all due respect, you have to get involved, sir. The priorities and timeline of an oil company are not the same as the public’s. You cannot outsource the cleanup and the responsibility and the trust to BP and expect that the legitimate interests of Americans adversely affected by this spill will somehow be met.

White House: have you read this morning’s Washington Post? Not to pile it on BP, but there’s an extensive report chronicling the company’s troubling history:

“BP has had more high-profile accidents than any other company in recent years. And now, with the disaster in the gulf, independent experts say the pervasiveness of the company’s problems, in multiple locales and different types of facilities, is striking.

‘They are a recurring environmental criminal and they do not follow U.S. health safety and environmental policy,’ said Jeanne Pascal, a former EPA lawyer who led its BP investigations.”

And yet just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.

These decisions and the resulting spill have shaken the public’s confidence in the ability to safely drill. Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must! Or we will be even more beholden to, and controlled by, dangerous foreign regimes that supply much of our energy. This has been a constant refrain from me. As Governor of Alaska, I did everything in my power to hold oil companies accountable in order to prove to the federal government and to the nation that Alaska could be trusted to further develop energy rich land like ANWR and NPR-A. I hired conscientious Democrats and Republicans (because this sure shouldn’t be a partisan issue) to provide me with the best advice on how we could deal with what was a corrupt system of some lawmakers and administrators who were hesitant to play hardball with some in the oil field business. (Remember the Alaska lawmakers, public decision-makers, and business executives who ended up going to jail as a result of the FBI’s investigations of oily corruption.)

As the aforementioned article notes, BP’s operation in Alaska would hurt our state and waste public resources if allowed to continue. That’s why my administration created the Petroleum Systems Integrity Office (PSIO) when we saw proof of improper maintenance of oil infrastructure in our state. We had to verify. And that’s why we instituted new oversight and held BP and other oil companies financially accountable for poor maintenance practices. We knew we could partner with them to develop resources without pussyfooting around with them. As a CEO, it was my job to look out for the interests of Alaskans with the same intensity and action as the oil company CEOs looked out for the interests of their shareholders.

I learned firsthand the way these companies operate when I served as chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC). I ended up resigning in protest because my bosses (the Governor and his chief of staff at the time) wouldn’t support efforts to clean up the corruption involving improper conflicts of interest with energy companies that the state was supposed to be watching. (I wrote about this valuable learning experience in my book, “Going Rogue”.) I felt guilty taking home a big paycheck while being reduced to sitting on my thumbs – essentially rendered ineffective as a supervisor of a regulatory agency in charge of nearly 20% of the U.S. domestic supply of energy.

My experience (though, granted, I got the message loud and clear during the campaign that my executive experience managing the fastest growing community in the state, and then running the largest state in the union, was nothing compared to the experiences of a community organizer) showed me how government officials and oil execs could scratch each others’ backs to the detriment of the public, and it made me ill. I ran for Governor to fight such practices. So, as a former chief executive, I humbly offer this advice to the President: you must verify. That means you must meet with Hayward. Demand answers.

In the interview today, the President said: “I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose a-- to kick.”

Please, sir, for the sake of the Gulf residents, reach out to experts who have experience holding oil companies accountable. I suggested a few weeks ago that you start with Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources, led by Commissioner Tom Irwin. Having worked with Tom and his DNR and AGIA team led by Marty Rutherford, I can vouch for their integrity and expertise in dealing with Big Oil and overseeing its developments. We’ve all lived and worked through the Exxon-Valdez spill. They can help you. Give them a call. Or, what the heck, give me a call.

And, finally, Mr. President, please do not punish the American public with any new energy tax in response to this tragedy. Just because BP and federal regulators screwed up that doesn’t mean the rest of us should get punished with higher taxes at the pump and attached to everything petroleum products touch.

- Sarah Palin

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US for Palin
June 2 - 7, 2010 Story Items

Sarah Palin’s Energy Tax Warning
by Stacy Drake

Governor Palin is very savvy. She knows the left's playbook like the back of her hand. She understands that they actually do adhere to the words of Rahm Emmanuel, to "never let a serious crisis go to waste."

Sarah Palin Runs Like First Dude at Belmont Stakes
by Missy Stewart

Gov. Palin and her husband Todd attend the Belmont Stakes, placing a bet on the horse "First Dude", who placed third. As Sean O'Shea, reporter for Irish Central pointed out, Gov. Palin "hung in there and is now still a prominent runner in the Republican presidential stakes."

CBS’ Scott Conroy Interviews Me & Other Palin Supporters
by Adrienne Ross

Scott Conroy, journalist for CBS and co-author of Sarah from Alaska, interviewed me and several Palin supporters and published his story today on CBSNews.com. His story relied mainly on interviews conducted with members of 1) Hillbuzz, the ardent Hillary Clinton and now Palin supporters and 2) Conservatives4Palin, for which I also write.

Sarah Palin Tells Radical Environmentalists: “You Are Damaging The Planet With Your Efforts To Lock Up Safer Drilling Areas”
by Gary P. Jackson

No one credible disputes Sarah Palin's expertise on energy. This woman knows what she is talking about here. The radical left has a diabolical scheme, but it has little to do with a clean environment, and a lot to do with destroying America, and lining its pockets in the process.

“Greenie’s” Try to Distort Sarah Palin’s Position on Oil
by Stacy Drake

Drilling in shallow water has long been a concern of environmentalists. They even expressed outrage when Barack Obama recently granted a permit for oil drilling in shallow water in the Gulf of Mexico.

Say It Ain’t So Joe! Sarah Palin’s Deranged Stalker’s Publisher? Nazis, The Real Kind!
by Gary P. Jackson

Joe McGinniss, called Sarah, and by extension, all red blooded Americans, Nazis? If not, let’s refresh our memories here. My guess is demented stalker guy’s publisher is not going be too thrilled with this. You see, Stalker Joe’s publisher, Bertelsmann/Random House, has a bit of history in this area.

Sixty-six years ago, today June 6, 1944, the Allies stormed the beach at Normandy to free Europe from Axis control. Today, Gov. Palin wrote about the Anniversary in a brief Facebook Note, including an excerpt of speech from President Reagan who spoke at the 40th anniversary of D-Day.

Today, on the 66th Anniversary of D-Day, let’s remember the courage and sacrifice of our Greatest Generation whose actions helped liberate a continent. I’d like to share with you excerpts from President Reagan’s beautiful speech on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day honoring the Rangers who took the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc:

“Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them here. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender’s poem. You are men who in your “lives fought for life and left the vivid air singed with your honor.”....

Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief. It was loyalty and love.

The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead, or on the next. It was the deep knowledge -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.” - Ronald Reagan

May we never forget the sacrifices made for liberty.

- Sarah Palin

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Coach John Wooden
October 14, 1910 - June 4, 2010

Coach John Wooden, irreplaceable in American life. God bless your soul. You shall be missed dearly, and we shall remember your lessons.

- Sarah Palin
Tweeted Friday, June 4, 2010 at 2226 EDT

On May 26, 2010, "[f]ormer UCLA basketball coach and Hall of Famer John Wooden [was] hospitalized at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center" for dehydration. Coach Wooden is most well-known for his Pyramid of Success, an autographed copy of which is cherished possession of Gov. Palin's. Indeed, that Pyramid may be the bedrock of Gov. Palin's Transformational Leadership skills. Both Gov. Palin and her husband Todd revere Coach Wooden as a hero, and today June 10, 2010, Gov. Palin expressed her get well wishes in a Facebook Note posted 11:14 EDT.

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” - Coach John Wooden

Ever since we were kids, Todd and I have looked at Coach John Wooden as a true hero. His quotes plastered our bulletin boards, school notebooks, and locker doors. Realizing this mutual admiration of Coach Wooden when Todd and I first met about 30 years ago was a sure sign that we were on the same page.

From afar we have admired Coach’s wit and wisdom, we’ve absorbed his writings and the life lessons he’s taught from the basketball court. Coach’s “Pyramid of Success” is a blueprint that everyone in this country should tack within eyesight and try to follow daily. Coach teaches: “Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters,” but I admit I fail that material possession lesson as I prize a favorite one that’s displayed in our living room – a genuine autographed copy of his Success Pyramid.

Feel better, Coach Wooden! You are God’s gift to those who recognize value in life lessons learned in the arena of competition. In the midst of all your success on the parquet you’ve reminded us what really matters. You remind us to be courageous and optimistic and prepared. Truly, you are a gift on this earth, and our world needs you to keep on giving!

Feel better. We love you. Thanks for teaching us: “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”

- Todd and Sarah Palin and our families, your biggest fans

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” - Coach John Wooden

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Governor Palin endorsed Cecile Bledsoe, who is running in Arkansas' Third Congressional District, via a brief Facebook Note posted today, June 3, 2010. Ms. Bledsoe is a Reagan Conservative.

Just had a great talk with Cecile Bledsoe (and talk about “boots on the ground” in her grassroots campaign, she answered her own campaign phone when I called). She’s an inspiring individual whom I’m happy to support.

Cecile is another Commonsense Conservative “mama grizzly” running for Congress this year. Her mission to protect our great country’s freedom is so commendable. Cecile is a pro-family, pro-2nd Amendment, fiscal conservative who will work hard for the people in Arkansas’ 3rd Congressional District.

Please join me in supporting another member of the “pink elephant stampede” of Commonsense Constitutional Conservative women who will take this country back to our roots of limited government and fiscal responsibility. Please vote for Cecile on Tuesday, June 8th.

You can visit Cecile’s website here, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

- Sarah Palin

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Close-Up Footage of Mavi Marmara Passengers Attacking IDF Soldiers

Mavi Marmara Passengers Attack IDF Before Soldiers Board Ship

Weapons Found on the Flotilla Ship Mavi Marmara Used by Activists Against IDF Soldiers

On June 1, US for Palin ran Gov. Palin's Facebook Note about this Flotilla with a brief analysis. These videos - special thanks to Henry's Mom of Team Sarah and Smart Girl Politics for providing the lead - prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that these were no "peace activists" but rather low-grade weapons smugglers supporting Hamas terrorists.

The original Note and analysis is re-printed below.

Gov Palin's second Facebook Note of June 1, 2010 addressed purposeful distortion of the Israel Flotilla story by the mainstream media, specifically those outlets with leftist and/or anti-Israel leanings. Gov. Palin preceded her Note with a Tweet, urging her followers to read columns written by Charles Krauthammer, David Horowitz and others regarding the flotilla incident. US for Palin author Gary P. Jackson detailed how terrorist Bill Ayers and Obama's top campaign bundler Jodie Evans are activists involved with the flotilla group.

The Real Story about the Flotilla

The second paragraph of Gov. Palin's Note synopsizes the flotilla incident nicely.

As far too many in the media, and in various governments, rush to condemn Israel, we must put the recent events off Israel’s coast into the right perspective. This “relief” convoy was not about humanitarian aid, as the liberal mainstream media keeps reporting. The whole operation was designed to provoke Israel, not to provide supplies to Palestinians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Anyone who sees the video of Israeli commandos being attacked as they land on that ship knows the people aboard were vicious thugs, not “peace activists.” The media insults our intelligence with their outright mischaracterization of who these enemies are.

How Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Really Works

In paragraph three, Gov. Palin goes on to delineate precisely how humanitarian aid to Gaza works.

Israel delivers thousands of tons of humanitarian supplies every week to Gaza. These ships could have offloaded their cargoes at a nearby Israeli port if they really wanted to help the people of Gaza. Instead, they chose to incite confrontation and violence. Israel has a right to prevent arms shipments to Gaza that will be used to target innocent Israelis, so they were legitimately checking the cargo on the flotilla. Turkey has chosen to condemn Israel but we should be asking some serious questions about Turkey’s role in this whole affair. Why is a fellow member of NATO sponsoring such a dangerous publicity stunt? As one expert points out: “Three ships of that six-ship pro-terror convoy flew Turkish flags and were crowded with Turkish citizens. The Ankara government – led by Islamists these days – sponsored the ‘aid’ operation in a move to position itself as the new champion of the Palestinians. And Turkish decision-makers knew Israel would have to react – and were waiting to exploit the inevitable clash. The provocation was as cynical as it was carefully orchestrated.”

In her closing paragraph, Gov. Palin exhorts the Obama administration to stand by Israel.

We can only hope the Obama Administration does not join the anti-Israel chorus in the aftermath of this staged confrontation. Please, Mr. President, we need to let Israelis know we stand with them in their fight against terrorists and those who arm and support them. America and her ally, Israel, stand by waiting for your response.

- Sarah Palin

Conclusion

Anyone who continues to harbor doubts about Gov. Palin's knowledge of foreign affairs can lay them to rest. Gov. Palin has clearly done her homework on this issue. Unfortunately, Obama's handling of foreign affairs has been less than stellar, to put it kindly. I share in Gov. Palin's hope that he'll stand by Israel, but I honestly would be very surprised if he does, for Obama has demonstrated numerous times that his loyalty lies elsewhere.

Gov. Palin today, June 3, 2010 endorsed Terry Branstad for Governor of Iowa in a brief Facebook Note. Terry Branstad is the incumbent Governor of Iowa.

Complete Transcript:

Iowa, your great state’s motto is “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.” That motto will be well served by voting for Terry Branstad for governor next Tuesday!

Please join me in supporting Governor Branstad’s campaign. Visit his website here, and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

- Sarah Palin

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Gov. Palin lambasted the hypocrisy of environmental extremists in a hard-hitting Facebook Noted, posted in the early afternoon, today June 2, 2010. In the transcript, Gov. Palin wrote:

This is a message to extreme “environmentalists” who hypocritically protest domestic energy production offshore and onshore. There is nothing “clean and green” about your efforts. Look, here’s the deal: when you lock up our land, you outsource jobs and opportunity away from America and into foreign countries that are making us beholden to them. Some of these countries don’t like America. Some of these countries don’t care for planet earth like we do – as evidenced by our stricter environmental standards.

The next two paragraphs are particularly salient as Gov. Palin delineates the consequences of the environmentalists' actions:

With your nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all you’re doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a dirtier planet. Your hypocrisy is showing. You’re not preventing environmental hazards; you’re outsourcing them and making drilling more dangerous.

Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

In the final paragraphs, Gov. Palin discusses the tiny portion of ANWR that would be required for drilling; and how this resource belongs to us - the people of the United States, and not those who want to deny its use.

We need permission to drill in safer areas, including the uninhabited arctic land of ANWR. It takes just a tiny footprint – equivalent to the size of LA’s airport – to tap America’s rich and plentiful oil and gas up north. ANWR’s drilling footprint is like a postage stamp on a football field.

But it’s not just ANWR; it’s our Petroleum Reserve, too. As Governor Sean Parnell noted today in the Wall Street Journal:

“Federal agencies are also now blocking oil development in the National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska.

Although familiar with ANWR, most Americans are less likely to know about NPR-A and how vital it is to our energy security. Given recent developments, it’s time to elevate the position this area holds in our national discourse.

NPR-A, a 23 million acre stretch of Alaska’s North Slope, was set aside by President Warren Harding in 1923 for the specific purpose of supplying our country and military with oil and gas. Since 1976 it has been administered by the Department of the Interior, and since 1980 it has been theoretically open for development. The most recent estimates indicate that it holds 12 billion barrels of oil and 73 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

In addition to containing enormous hydrocarbons, NPR-A is very close to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which means that there would be relatively little additional infrastructure needed to bring this new oil to our domestic market.

But even here, progress has been stalled.”

Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives.

- Sarah Palin

Gov. Palin today, June 2, 2010 endorsed Joe Miller for the US Senate seat Lisa Murkowski now occupies. The endorsement was made, because Gov. Palin noticed a pattern by Murkowski of becoming more a part of the establishment, i.e. a RINO. Miller is a Reagan Conservative. The complete transcript of Gov. Palin's Note and the rationale behind her endorsement follows:

Contested primaries are so good for America’s political process! Competition makes everyone work harder, be more efficient, debate clearer, and produce more. So, Alaskans should be thrilled that Joe Miller jumped in the GOP race and is ready, willing, and able to serve us as our next United States Senator.

I’m proud to join so many other long-time Alaskans in supporting Joe Miller in the upcoming Alaska Republican Primary. Joe is a true Commonsense Constitutional Conservative, and we’re thankful he and his family are willing to offer us a choice in Alaskan leadership.

I share Joe’s belief that we are at a critical time in our nation’s history and the status quo will no longer do. Unfortunately, Lisa Murkowski and much of the political establishment have recently evolved into being a bigger part of the big government problem in Washington, and they’ve strayed from the principles upon which they had espoused. They ushered in the largest increase in federal domestic spending since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society; it’s an increase in government that political machines may embrace, but “we the people” reject because we know it’s unsustainable and immorally burdensome to future generations.

Over a year ago, upon kicking off our Political Action Committee to assist candidates and promote competition in the nation’s electoral system, with no one willing to challenge the political machine at the time, and amid rumors that I would challenge Lisa Murkowski for the U.S. Senate, SarahPAC contributed to Lisa’s campaign. As she and I discussed, this was an attempt to reassure the Senator that I, as Alaska’s governor, had no intention of jumping into the race. Though the media has tried to portray some sort of feud or bad blood between Lisa and myself, such is not the case. I’ve always wished her well, but it is my firm belief that we need a bold reformer who is not afraid to stand up to special interests and take on the tough challenges of our time. Joe Miller has stepped forward. I am thankful for his willingness to serve. He has fought alongside me and others to help clean up the Republican Party here in Alaska by bringing in new leadership, new ideas, and commitment to putting government back on the side of the people, not any political machine.

Joe is a man of true integrity. He will never be bought off; he knows what a solemn trust it is to be given the responsibility of spending other people’s money prudently and wisely.

Joe also more closely shares so many of Alaskans’ values. He believes the greatness of our country is grounded in the founding principles of limited constitutional government and individual freedom.

Joe believes that we must repeal the new Obamacare health care mandate and seek true market-based reform to allow competition, control costs, increase access, and give Americans more freedom in health care; Lisa opposes repealing the law.

Joe is unashamedly and unequivocally pro-life; Lisa is not and has voted to use taxpayer funds to support abortions and embryonic stem cell research.

Joe is against granting amnesty to illegal immigrants; Lisa has voted for it.

Joe is against cap and trade (Obama’s new job-killing energy scheme that I call cap and tax); Lisa believes Al Gore’s insistence that man-made global warming is fact, so she’s on record as being open to cap and trade legislation to address weather changes.

These are just some of the major differences between these two candidates. I believe Joe is the better choice for Alaskans.

Joe worked commendably through West Point, the University of Alaska, and Yale Law School. He has shown courage under fire in service of his country, earning a Bronze Star to prove his commitment to freedom. He has demonstrated his abilities in our courtrooms as a state magistrate and later a federal judge, has established a successful business with his own law practice, and has served as a volunteer and leader throughout his community and our state. Joe has the right values; he is ready to help lead the greatest state in our exceptional nation; he is Alaska’s true Commonsense Conservative choice, and I’ll be proud to vote for him for the United States Senate.

Please join my family and me in supporting Joe Miller, and please donate to his campaign so a contested primary can do what it does best: produce the best candidate in the name of public service.

You can visit Joe’s website at www.joemiller.us and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

- Sarah Palin

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