Interesting counter-point on Sarah Palin from an Alaskan native: "The Alaskan Frontier that we all speak so fondly of around here is being pushed back by a shopping cart of Super Wal-Marts and a brew of Starbucks ... Sad? In a way, but it's progress or slow stagnation and that's just the way it is - and most Alaskans understand that, and they've grown tied of the stench wafting up from that big old pile of business as usual in Juneau. And so, two years ago we put Sarah Palin in the Governor's Office on the promise that she would clean up the mess. And she made good on that promise." (reply)