VP hopeful Palin's socialist dairy coup
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin livens up John McCain's GOP presidential ticket, though her background in a community that combines libertarian attitudes with actual socialism has made for at least one surprising episode in her past: a government-owned dairy bailout.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's vice-presidential pick for the Republican ticket this fall, has some key conservative credentials -- she's a corruption-fighting, pro-life NRA-member - and some real ground-breakers -- she's a mom with five kids, married to an Inuit fisherman and oil worker.
But she's also from Alaska, a highly socialist place despite its libertarian poses, where government controls most of the land and what's done with it, and public officials exhibit the usual resulting entanglements with special interests.
Palin wasn't above packing the state agricultural board with her loyalists, in a doomed attempt to artificially prolong government control of the state-owned Matanuska Maid dairy in Wasilla, her hometown, when other officials tried to pull the plug. Clearly there's room on her agenda for taxpayer support of failing industries. Check out
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