Sarah Palin appeals to union rank and file
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Seth Lipsky: ... So which Republican is reaching out to union labor today in the way that Reagan did? It turns out to be another union veteran, named—wait for it—Sarah Palin. Almost the first thing she said in 2008 when she was introduced by Sen. John McCain as his running mate was that she was married to a proud member of the United Steelworkers. She herself was, when she worked at a local power utility and telephone company, a card-carrying sister in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Mrs. Palin has been using Facebook to reach out to the rank and file. A few months ago she so enraged AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka that he travelled to Alaska to give a speech attacking her. Mrs. Palin responded with a Facebook posting headlined "Union Brothers and Sisters, Join Our Commonsense Cause." It was not she, Mrs. Palin wrote, whose policies were causing such high unemployment—"that would be the man in the large whit...