The Tragedy of Sarah Palin
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-tragedy-of-sarah-palin/308492
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from the moment sarah palins acceptance speech electrified the republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologueto which soon was added thin-skinned and vindictive. but a look at what palin did while in office in alaskathe only record she hasshows a very different politician: one who worked with democrats to tame big oil and solve the great problem at the heart of the states politics. that sarah palin might have set the nation on a different course. what went wrong?