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The Palin Meltdown in Slo-Mo
TPM Election Central —
... * Palin lawyered up in relation to the trooper-gate probe in Alaska -- a move that ensures far more serious attention to the story from the major news orgs. ...
St. Paul, Kinda Day One
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right —
This Labor Day holiday has to be one of the stranger, most disjointed convention days in recent history. We are relatively in a bubble here once again as far as seeing how cable news is covering the day’s events, but one can only assume the dominant story is Gustav with little else getting oxygen. There’s probably a little bit of Sarah Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy (released at the precise moment of Gustav landfall) and Troopergate thrown in, but not much else. Here on the ground, one of the big stories is the major demonstration of thousands of marchers ...
Meltdown
Shakesville —
... First – Alaska Always." • Palin served until 2005 as a director of a 527 group organized by corrupt fuckneck Senator Ted Stevens. • Palin's claim, in her veep acceptance speech last Friday, about her purported opposition to the infamous Bridge to Nowhere was a flat lie. • Palin, despite her assertion that she's "championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending," nonetheless relied on it as Alaska's governor. • Palin has just hired an attorney regarding the ongoing Troopergate scandal, for which she's under ...
Palin (and McCain) in Loads of Trouble...
The BRAD BLOG —
... how she'd possibly make it through another week, much less the General Election. Even with that lock, I still don't see how she ultimately survives at this rate.
(Though Dem partisans might be careful what they wish for, as a second shot at it will almost certainly bring a more sensible, and palatable, pick.)
The most salacious of the concerns (so far) came today, as 1) the admission that Palin's unwed teenage daughter is pregnant and 2) she's now lawyering up in Alaska to fight the "TrooperGate" investigation.
And then there are ...
beyond the palin
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... * palin lawyered up in relation to the trooper-gate probe in alaska -- a move that ensures far more serious attention to the story from the major news orgs. ...
An Honest Question
Balloon Juice —
... , in which it is alleged that she fired someone for not firing a trooper who used to be an inlaw, and then replaced that person with a high school buddy. She has recently lawyered up when it became clear she was lying. ...
Hullabaloo — ... * Palin lawyered up in relation to the trooper-gate probe in Alaska -- a move that ensures far more serious attention to the story from the major news orgs. ...
The Horrendous Mistake That Is Sarah Palin
Comments from Left Field —
... picked someone who is only now being vetted after the media and the blogosphere has already smelled blood in the water.
This has put Republicans back on their heels as they attempt are forced to defend against not only the doubtful baby saga that has filled the internets over the weekend, but also Palin’s past love for pork that she now claims to be against, her role in a secessionist group in Alaska, and what is to me perhaps the most important, troopergate. Of course, there is much much more.
Why would McCain do ...
