Well, so...Sarah Palin. Last Friday, the reaction was pretty polarized here in Anchorage. Reaction was, as you might imagine, split pretty much along party lines, but not entirely. There are republicans who don't like her because she did go up against their party to fight corruption, and to die-hard republican "the party is always right" folks, that's not cool. There are democrats who like her because they know her and say she's good folks, or they like that she fought her party and it wasn't their party. Then of course, there are republicans who like her because she's a republican and democrats who don't like her for the same reason. So Friday, everyone was pretty elated or angry, according to their opinion.
Then the weekend happened.
Early this week, people had kind of mellowed in their opinion, at least on the "dislike" side. A lot of people who had been really upset on Friday settled down to "It wouldn't end the world if she got in." Also, there is the fact that there could be someone who-everyone agrees on this point-is honest and likeable in the national spotlight putting in a good word for Alaska. The state does tend to get overlooked by a good portion of the nation, Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch aside. Also, there aren't any prima donna stories going around about her. Everyone who knows her agrees she's a nice person, and that does count for something. The story about her daughter...well, that kind of is what it is, and I'm glad that everyone has agreed to leave it be.
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