Also, I'm from CT, too!

New to politics. VERY new. As in "no-interest-what-so-ever" and "leave-the-room-if-the-topic-comes-up" for the first 43-1/2 years of my life. (Lemme put it THIS way: I had to take this test to find out that I'm not the conservative independent I've always considered myself to be, nope! I, sir, am a hard-core Liberal!) My 'world' was very small, consisting only of the people I care about, and extending only to those I've actually met.

As far as I was concerned, all politicians were possibly hard-working, but definitely smooth-talking spin-masters, skilled mostly at telling everybody what they most wanted to hear, may the best PR firm win....

Until, that is, one night in late August, when I happened to channel-surf to the RNC, just as Sarah Palin was introduced...

...and I found myself laughing, though she hadn't even said a single word.

My only thought at the time was probably something along the lines of, "Considering the supposed male-to-female ratio in AK, I'm not surprised SHE got elected Governor!" assuming I had even that much internal dialog going on. I was amused at the sight of her, but not interested enough to actually hear what she had to say. I probably switched to Animal Planet for the night....

The next day, though, I found myself bothered by my laughter. I didn't know that woman, I didn't know anything about her at all... who was I to laugh? Since I knew next to nothing about Alaska anyway, I got online and found the ADN website. I looked for articles citing court documents or official reports, as well as Op Ed pieces and letters to the editor, hoping to find the balance point between the pro- and con-Palinites. I began to form a picture, but it lacked cohesion. Certainly, it didn't reflect my image of a woman suited to one of the highest offices in the US of A.

But I've never trusted the accuracy of newspapers, anyway. It's a sad truth that flashy headlines increase sales. I wanted to know what REAL Alaskans thought of their legislature.

(Be vewwy, vewwy qwiet.... I'm huntin' bwoggers! Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh!)

I found Mudflats early on, but I read any blog I could find. I found it interesting that enough of the 'pro-Palin' sites seemed peopled by... I don't want to say 'stupid', but definitely less intelligent-seeming indivduals. They all had their opinions, but so few of them seemed based on verifiable fact....

I returned to the 'flats more and more, and now I happily consider myself an honorary Mudpuppy!

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