Beth Kerttula

To millions of Americans, Sarah Palin is the one person who can save the US from the perils of communism, gay marriage and gun control. But can she ever win the White House, or will she destroy the American right?
Sarah Palin pressing the flesh in Grand Rapids, on her three-week-long, 14-state promotional "Going Rogue: An American Life" book tour.

Alaska State Attorney General Dan Sullivan
State Attorney General Dan Sullivan says Gov. Sarah Palin has the power to appoint Alaska’s new lieutenant governor by herself without confirmation by the Alaska Legislature.
Sullivan, in his first formal opinion since he took over June 16, weighed in on the issue created when Palin designated Lt. Gen. Craig Campbell, commissioner of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, as the new lieutenant governor when Sean Parnell replaces her as governor.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
JUNEAU - Gov. Sarah Palin said late Thursday she is refusing to accept the Alaska Senate Democrats’ rejection of Tim Grussendorf as her appointee to the state Senate.Palin said the rejection isn’t legally valid because it happened behind closed doors, and only among Democrats.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin likes to describe herself as a “maverick:” a politician who follows no party line. Her performance as the Republican vice-presidential candidate last year had some wondering if that were true - she did, after all, build herself around an ardently conservative ideology, often taking on tried and true enemies, like “activist judges.”

JUNEAU - Sen. Joe Thomas is upset that promised funding for a state veterans cemetery in the Interior was among cuts Gov. Sarah Palin made to her proposed budget for fiscal year 2010, which starts in July.
The Fairbanks Democrat sits on the Senate Finance Committee, which likely will scrutinize Palin’s budget amendments early next week.
“I’m a little concerned,” he said. “It’s an important project, and it’s floundered around a bit in the past couple of years. I thought we were finally moving forward with it.”

Homecoming Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, her office adorned with banners and balloons, went to work in Anchorage Nov. 7 for the first time since joining the GOP presidential ticket.

Palin's image has changed, for better and worse, in the six weeks since she joined the McCain Republican presidential ticket.