NY Times Shows How Palin Will Clean Up Washington

A commenter (BigA) on the Right Coast says

Now I understand why the NYT lobbied so hard to raise the minimum wage for unskilled, entry-level jobs like bagging groceries and mopping kitchen floors at McDonalds.

It's a golden parachute for their editorial staff. (Rimshot)

That's clever.

But seriously folks, the NY Times and all the other MSM organs that are desperately trying to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin are coming up with things that shock and surprise no-one except those who believe that Palin is the Messiah. After the Obama debacle no one on this side of the aisle is making that mistake.

Tom Smith at the Right Coast reads the NY Times story and finds that:

You have to check this out. It looks like the reporters the NY Times sent up to Alaska to dig up what they could on Palin have sent back their first missive. I would say the great Klondike strike, it ain't. But, I do agree Sarah Palin's case for canonization is now in serious doubt.

Among other things you will learn:

-- Upon getting elected, Palin fires people who have held jobs for years ("professionals") and puts in people she has known for years, often going back to her high school days. Why a reform-minded politician would do this in a notoriously corrupt state is, of course, baffling.

-- Palin bears grudges and takes them personally. This is a rare fault in politicians and not to be endured. The Clintons, for example, have set a fine example in letting bygones be bygones.

-- Palin is an evangelical Christian who went so far as to inquire about taking the inoffensive book "Daddy's Roommate" out of the public library.

-- Todd Palin called somebody and let them know he and his wife were unhappy that he had hired somebody or other who had broken up with somebody or other over something. This one made a deep impression on me I will not soon forget.

-- Sarah Palin when she was mayor put pressure on the town council to fire the town attorney, whom she did not like, possibly because he was not pro-development enough. I earnestly pray this is not true.

-- Sarah Palin often uses lots of notes when she speaks, even going so far as to use tabs and different colors of notecards. This is just so unbelievably tacky and small town I am considering killing myself.

-- Not only Governor Palin but members of her staff sometimes use their personal email accounts to do public business. This charge is perhaps the most deeply shocking of all. Then, these same officials have sometimes resisted turning over their personal emails on public business to their opponents in political disputes.

The intrepid slueths at the Times do admit:

Still, Ms. Palin has many supporters

Those would be the people of Alaska who give her an 80% approval rating.

Read the Times story carefully and you will find that many of the complaints come from people who had jobs in government before Sarah Palin came in to clean up and that don’t have those jobs now. Do you really expect to get bouquets thrown your way when you fire someone? But tell me how you change policy and clean up a corrupt culture without changing people.

The entire thrust of the story that the Times uses as an indictment tells me that if Sarah Palin gets elected as part of the McCain-Palin ticket, there will be real reform in Washington, DC.

Before I read the Times story I wondered how Palin would approach the problem of changing Washington. Now I know.

There is no greater truth than the old saying: “personnel is policy.” It looks like Sarah Palin understands that and (as Martha Stewart is fond of saying) "that’s a good thing."

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey at HotAir

The management style of Palin, and her popularity: The two don’t appear to go together if one reads the twin profiles in the New York Times and the Washington Post. For the most part, it’s pretty easy to determine why. The press spent the last two weeks in Wasilla, Anchorage, and Juneau and could only find complaints from people fired by Sarah Palin during her time as mayor and Governor. The so-called “Troopergate” scandal gets scant mention in either article, making what’s left a series of petty comments from the 15% of Alaskans who don’t like Palin.

At Commentary.com Jennifer Rubin writes:

I am not the only one to be underwhelmed by the New York Times trip through Alaskan trivia. There does seem to be a disconnect in the MSM storyline: is Sarah Palin a savvy political operator or an unqualified rube? They really need to pick one narrative and stick to it.