Meet Sarah Palin - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Meet Sarah Palin - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

A profile written in July 2007: "Sarah Palin can teach Republicans how to be Republicans. It's a simple lesson. But it won't be easy for anyone who believes being pragmatic and principled are mutually exclusive.... Gov. Palin vetoed about a third or more of the capital budget, she says. 'It's not an open, transparent process at all. The way (the Legislature) works, the administration doesn't even know what's in it until the gavel falls. It's handed to the governor without public process and public debate. It's a nonsensical way of budgeting.'

"Many of the vetoed items were earmarks by her fellow Republicans. Little wonder she and her party are estranged political bedfellows."