Sarah Palin Discovers Conservative Politics, Motherhood And The Flag

Sarah Palin And Hillary Clinton Both With Middle Class Republican Roots But Different Carreer Paths.

Palin first intended to go to the Hawaiian Pacific University lured by the warm climate and romantic setting. However with the beaches and the climate so unlike Alaska she soon became disenchanted with the Islands and decided to transfer to Idaho to continue her education in a climate and terrain some what like her home in Alaska. She was not on the Hawaiian Pacific basketball team although she mentions she did tryout but thought she would be better off devoting her time to academics . At Idaho she majored in Journalism and her first year appears to be uneventful returning to Alaska in the summer to work for next years tuition.

An old friend Linda Menard talked her into entering the local Miss America Beauty Pageant. Sarah didn’t consider herself a beauty contest type however the lure of tuition money caused her to enter and she won in all categories including Miss Congeniality the title she seems to value most. She became Miss Wasilla and the next summer she entered the Miss Alaska Contest and became second runner up and again won Miss Congeniality

which she again seem to value most. On the other hand she was a heartbeat away from being Miss Alaska and going on to the Miss America finals. These contests ended her pageant career but provided tuition for the first two years of college. Her question at the pageant was whether she would vote for a woman for Vice President because she was a woman. Geraldine Ferraro was running on the Democratic ticket. She answered “no” she could only vote for some one who supported the same political beliefs and family values she held.

Thus we see that she had begun to form her political beliefs at this time. Later she extols Ronald Reagan and the ideas of Reagan's Administration. Most of which she still holds today and form part of her “message.”

Immediately after college she worked at various odd jobs including a slime line gutting fish, also as a waitress and with her fiancee, Todd, fishing on Bristol Bay. She married Todd in August 1988 and their first child, a son, Track, was born in April 1989. She is careful to give exact dates as to each event and that maybe iis a clue that this book is mainly for people who can read but cannot think. The fine hand of Ms Vincent is at work here in the

structuring of the information and disclosures of this book.

Palin’s political awareness flowered during her college years. She declared herself to be a Republican and was an admirer of the policies and accomplishments of Ronald Reagan. However she had not become a political activist at this point in her life. She doesn’t describe her academic standing in her class at the University of Idaho nor did she describe herself as a leader of her class like Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton also entered college as a Republican but left the party for what she viewed as racist policies espoused at the 1968 convention and for the Nixon primary campaign against Rockefeller. Hillary at an early stage of her career began to question the values she grew up hearing. Ms. Palin extols the conservative mantra of Ronald Reagan even though unregulated Capitalism, which he preached, is blamed for the current economic situation. We have yet to feel the full pain of the massive deficit spending needed to correct the excesses of the free market policies that flowed from Reagan and his advisors.

Hillary also worked in Alaska after her senior year as a waitress and on a Salmon slime line. However Hillary was an academic leader of her class and at her classmates urging gave the commencement speech. The speech in which she criticized, Republican Senator Edward Brooke, the prior speaker, and earned a seven minute standing ovation and nationwide news coverage. Two young women both from middle class Republican roots but with vastly different career paths who could someday oppose each other for political office one a high achiever intellectually and otherwise and the other a middle class homemaker, and state governor.

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