That left a road north along the Lynn Canal as one of the few potential options. Similarly, the route up the Taku River is blocked by ever-shifting glaciers. So why is there no road to Juneau? A road going due east wouldn’t work out so well with an icefield the size of Rhode Island separating Juneau from Atlin, British Columbia. While Juneau is not the only capitol city not connected by road, sharing that designation with Honolulu and Victoria, BC, it is the only one located on the mainland. The idea was to create easier access to Juneau, Alaska’s capitol, which remains accessible only by air or sea. It was in the early 1990s that the latest incarnation of “The Road” took shape. ![]() A half-hearted effort at the nomination will follow, an attempt to catch lightning in a bottle, as it were, with desperate grabs at whatever embers fall her way in the spring and into the summer and fall, which will be highlighted by a primetime early-week speech at the Republican convention that will represent her swan song from the American political scene.Īll things considered, four years in the political limelight isn’t bad considering how little Palin had to offer outside of the occasional incendiary Facebook post and two glorious years running a state with a budget smaller than your average county government.Ĭolumn by Chris Graham. More likely she’s 2012’s Rudy Giuliani, the 9/11 hero who blundered his way into an ignominious early exit in the 2008 GOP nomination contest and now is a C- or D-lister in the GOP celebrity pantheon.īased on those presumptions, I wouldn’t expect Palin to formally enter the race until sometime in the third quarter of 2011, so that she can have enough time to maximize the cash out on her fleeting celebrity. If Palin lasts into February 2012 with a fighting chance, I’d be surprised. It won’t take much for the likes of Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee to paint a picture of Palin as the modern-day GOP version of George McGovern, the darling of the liberal left who swept to the Democratic nomination in 1972 to face the hated oppressor right-wing nut Richard Nixon, who promptly wiped the floor with McGovern in a landslide to end all landslides. She doesn’t come close to winning the Republican nomination, and the reason has nothing to do with lamestream media socialist anti-American libs. A decision by Palin not to run would be akin to joining the hate-America lamestream libs. That group sees Palin standing up to the big bad Democrats who are trying to turn America into Europe. ![]() Whatever value Palin has is to the 35-40 percent of the voting electorate that considers her the hero of the far, far right, and her value to them is in her Facebook posts blasting socialist ObamaCare death panels and similar noisy claptrap. Run or not, she’s on the road back to nowhere sometime in 2012.Īnd I think she’ll ultimately decide to run, mainly because she has to, if she wants to scratch and claw a few extra minutes to add to her 15 minutes and counting. I’d like to throw in a third rail to the Palin question. The conventional wisdom: She’s running, no question about it, yep, she is, damn the torpedoes, or she’s not, because she’d rather be a conservative celebrity, because being a conservative celebrity pays more than being a presidential candidate. Rampant speculation continues over what Sarah Palin’s plans regarding 2012 might be.
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