Here is a link to a letter from a Palin detractor in Wasilla: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/130532
This has gotten some play, so let's look at it.

1. The writer has personal problems with Sarah and her authenticity. Consider this statement:
"...by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans."
The next statement?
"Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters."

And her husband is a snowmobile racer. So in what regard is their life not like native Alaskans? This betrays a deeper animus - Kilkenny loves Alaska, and she considers Palin to be an outsider, inauthentic. How can this not color everything else she says?

2. The writer is a political activist. She worked for ten years with "student voting". That's probably a politically palatable synonym for something leftist. And her position problems with Palin all come from the left side. The polar bear is not endangered by any measure, this lady wants to keep it on the list so that the frozen tundra can remain undisturbed. She's in a tizzy because Palin doesn't swallow the 'global warming' bilge. I would bet a limb that she's a radical pro-abortion feminist. Any takers?

3. Palin's greatest reform victory, putting the energy companies in their place, gets about twenty words. This woman doesn't even qualify the success, she just states that Sarah did it. Does that mean it actually happened? Historians - wake up! The lady has spoken. We can officially give Gov. Palin credit for something significant. If you have any other questions of Ms. Kilkenny, Alaska's chief historian, she can be reached at 1-800-DUM-MUTT. 
If you can't reach her, there's plenty of Sarah fodder on her list. The world-threatening disaster of __________ (fill in the blank with some petty BS that this vindictive, angry harpy has on her list) is much worse than a state-wide change that improved the prospects for every Alaskan family. Let's be sure to keep all of this in perspective. 

4. The writer thinks her fellow residents are low-grade morons, and apparently they are. How else can we explain Palin's 80+% job approval rating, and widespread popularity in Wasilla? According to this lady, virtually every public action Palin has ever made has been an unmitigated disaster. How can the people of Alaska be so blind and stupid? If you didn't believe it already, this is proof that the writer is a big fat liberal.

5. Anyone can find a list of mistakes made by a public official. This wacko-nutjob finds fault with everything Palin did. She says Palin is not a fiscal conservative because she initiated a sales tax, even on food! Wait a minute - Wasilla had no sales tax? Gee, it's infrastructure must have been wonderful. And I would bet a dime to a dollar that the sales tax on food applies as it normally does - on prepared food, not on groceries. Did the writer know this and simply fail to mention it? And for the writer's edification: fiscal conservatism doesn't always mean spending less. It means spending wisely. Was the sports complex a bad idea? Perhaps, no one is perfect, except of course Ms. Kilkenny - perfectly vindictive.

6. Jealous. Jealous of Palin's many positive attributes, and jealous of her success. This lady is politically active - she's carried a bleeding grudge against Sarah into the national campaign. Why didn't she run for mayor? My guess is that we'll find out why when we talk to the other citizens of Wasilla. There's a good chance that this lady is considered bright, but nasty, and perhaps mental. Decidedly not leadership material. But you may have launched yourself into liberal prominence, Ms. Kilkenny - the left will love you for it.

7. The writer also shows her radical liberalism over the 'censorship' issue. We know that the list being circulated of "books Sarah wants to ban" is a fake - some of the books on the list were published years after the event. So let me ask Ms. Kilkenny - Does the local library subscribe to "The Advocate", the leading homosexual magazine? Why not? Are there no gays in Wasilla, and don't they deserve some support from local government? How about movies, does the library rent movies? Do they have "Greasy Truckers and Double-Wide Asses?" No? Why not? What if someone requests it? How about the series of books on assassination and bomb making? Your small town library already censors its contents, Ms. Kilkenny. You simply have liberal ideas of what pollutants ought to enter our kids' minds. Like all leftists, you laud the worst sewage vomited up as free 'speech' and never consider where it ends up Nor do you consider whether the founders ever intended bestiality and CG kiddie porn to be free speech (the left side of the Supreme Court believes they are free speech).

That's enough. This is a bitter, bitter woman. She's a hard-core leftist radical who ran up against a real woman more than a decade ago and hasn't had a good night's sleep since.

TOTA

In his Stephanopolous interview, Obama claimed to have considered military service, he said he reflected on it upon graduation from high school - there was no war on, so what caused him to sit down and give it so much thought was that he signed up for Selective Service.

But he graduated high school in 1979, and the SS was instituted by Carter in 1980.

Obviously the entire story is a contrivance. And he said it with such earnestness. Here's what this episode tells us: He is a natural born liar, and he is surrounded by idiots. No one can keep him on a leash short enough to avoid colossal blunders like this one. Clearly, he's trying to pump up his 'natural security credentials' and his patriotism. So he tells a naked lie. McCain gets his arms broken, and the closest this fake comes to military service is lying about having considered it 30 years ago.

TOTA

It matters not to the left that 80+% of Alaskans approve of Palin's work. Alaska had been considered' in play' in the election, which means it was a relatively moderate state. If it was split 50/50 Dem/Rep, that means that more than 60% of democrats are overlooking party, overlooking her 'archaic' position on abortion, and saying, "I'm man or woman enough to admit that someone from the other party is doing a damn fine job.'

Not the movement left. They are consumed with hatred for Sarah. They see in her a possible resurgence of conservatism, a possible start to turning back the decades of liberal ideas dominating government, the arts, academia, and even the press. If she is nearly as popular with Americans as she is with Alaskans, most people will just turn off the old media if it craps on her. The leftist media will have to give her a fair shake, so her message will get out. And that will be the end of leftism as a political force in America, at least for decades if not generations. Sarah can get away with saying much more, and saying it much more bluntly than a man could. We already know she is a caring person (except for the lunatic left, they think she is either stupid or cruel for birthing her child Trig after she knew about his Down's Syndrome. The people making this argument are numerous, and to a person they are mentally ill).
I've watched hours of interviews with Mrs. Palin, she is sharper than any politician I have ever seen. When she answers questions, she treats opposing arguments with the right tone, puts exactly the right emphasis where it should be, and leaves no necessary argument unvoiced. She is going to do extremely well with this week's ABC interview, and on October 2nd, before upwards of 30 million people, she is going to beat poor Joe Biden like a drum. People will pity him, with good reason. The main thing Sarah needs to worry about is beating him so badly that it evens out due to widespread sympathy for Biden. For this and so many other reasons, not the least of which is her obvious goodness, virtue, and beauty, the movement left HATES her.

HATE

The question is often asked, 'If you could go back in time and murder Hitler before he came to power, would you do so?' You can bet that many on the left view Sarah as similarly monstrous. Yes, that is how deranged they are. Consider: To countless abortion radicals, a country where women are forced to put their babies up for adoption instead of aborting them might as well be a giant concentration camp, the nexus of repressive evil in the modern world. Similarly, some view her as a monster because she would help bring millions of Americans out of dependence and to self-reliance, real pride, without the government carrying them every step of the way. The government can instill pride through educating and preparing people for life - meaningful pride is found in living it well as a free and independent person. That satisfaction is the enemy of the left, people who experience it do not desire to become clients of the state, which is all the left really has to offer, before the country turns to mush and the bombs fall.
Sarah repulses all of their plans, and their reaction is precisely what we would expect.

But these hypocrites cannot force Sarah to do anything. She is a lioness who will eat them - and their lunch. The movement left would love to lock up people like her, put them behind barbed wire. Incredibly, a sitting congressman, Dick Armey, said as much at a CPAC conference in the 1990s. He's right - this is what the left is fond of doing whenever they take uncontested power. They lock up those who would stir up dissent against the government (them), or they simply murder them.
It happened to at least 95 million individuals in the 20th century, almost all killed by leftist governments*. The pattern is always the same: Shut down alternate media, take away the guns, and start rounding up undesirables and those whose lives are 'not worth living'. It's happened so many times that the pattern is set. Leftist utopia is dystopia, and not everyone wants to cooperate, so the gutters run with blood.
Consider how closely the fondest desires of the left in recent years coincide with the pattern: For years they were eager to ban and/or register guns, registration being key to later confiscation. Then people realized that this was insanity so the left reluctantly withdrew into the shadows. Now they desire more than anything to punish their political opposition, the Bush administration, and also to silence the opposition of the new media. It's no surprise that accompanying advocacy of the 'Fairness Doctrine' crusade, already, is the concession that blogs and internet content will have to be regulated as well, to insure fairness.
We're in the early stages of their long campaign. If it's not derailed, the end is predictable.

Sarah gives us hope and drives us to work for the movement, even if only through giving our labor through direct contributions. That is another thing the left must crush, our hope.
You can be certain that this is a fact: Destroying the individual named "Sarah Palin" is now the primary and most urgent object of the left. Our lioness may require our assistance, be ready.

TOTA

*From the tome, "The Black Book of Communism", written by French leftists. They estimate 95-200 million people, so I have quoted the low figure. But what's 105 million individuals, give or take? They were standing in the way of the utopia that the brilliant governing leftists sought to create. As Lenin said, one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Last week, O'Reilley helped try to steal the thunder from McCain by allowing the dishonorable Barack Obama to grab some of the spotlight on the night of McCain's big speech. Less known is the degree to which OR has apparently bought into the power of the old media and the radical leftist new media.

Discussing the attacks on Sarah Palin and her family early last week, OR rightly concluded that they were way over the top, and further proof that the media is in the tank for Obama. Then, incredibly, he repeatedly argued that if Palin where hit with one more scandal she would probably have to bow out of the race. Sir, if the attacks are scurrilous, why should it matter how numerous they are or how fast them come?
Forcing Sarah out is exactly what the left wants. Her authenticity has them wetting their pants. So they are pooping in the kitchen sink and then throwing it at Sarah. And O'Reilley is there cheering them on: Keep it up and I'll have to start talking about how she needs to drop out.
Then the narrative becomes, 'Why isn't stubborn Sarah Palin seeing what everyone in the know sees? She needs to exit the national stage! Too scandalous, tsk tsk.' These people are out to obliterate Sarah; they are attempting to destroy her as a person and as a political force (the first woudl have to precede the second). They want her to be a laughing stock, another Harriet Myers, but smeared with mud and worse, broken and bowing to ongoing disgrace.

Don't give these hateful people any help, Bill.

TOTA