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Shortly after becoming mayor, former city officials and Wasilla residents said, Ms. Palin approached the town librarian about the possibility of banning some books, though she never followed through and it was unclear which books or passages were in question.
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Palin’s Start in Alaska: Not Politics as Usual
This particular anecdote creeps me out more than a lot of the others. I don’t mind somebody having a radically different ideology than my own—but any attempt to impose her views through stifling dissent is not “putting America first.” Or at least not any definition of “America” that I would recognize.
Of course, with her sympathy to and possible membership to the Alaska Independence Party is also not lined up with McCain’s new slogan. She too is a maverick. She’ll go against her party. But in most cases, she splits to the right.
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