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Palin: A Scandal We Can Believe In!
Talking Points Memo —
As mentioned earlier, Gov. Palin is embroiled in her own trooper-gate scandal up in Alaska. In short, she's accused of using her pull as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired as a state trooper. The brother-in-law is embroiled in an ugly divorce and custody with Palin's sister. And after his boss wouldn't fire the brother-in-law, she fired the boss. Palin originally insisted there was nothing to the story. More recently, she was forced to admit the one of her top deputies had pushed to get the guy fired.
Here's one our recent reports on the story. And we'll be bringing you an updated report shortly.
Here's the local TV news report ...
Continuing Our Leader's Legacy
Jesus' General —
Sarah Palin has the courage to use the vast power of the State to crush her personal enemies.
Palin’s Trooper’Gate: Beating the MSM distortions to the truth
Flopping Aces —
It’s been hours now ...
Rahm Responds to Palin
Firedoglake —
Rahm speaks:
After trying to make experience the issue of this campaign, John McCain celebrated his 72nd birthday by appointing a former small town mayor and brand new Governor as his Vice Presidential nominee. Is this really who the Republican Party wants to be one heartbeat away ...
Palin on “Troopergate” and abortion
The Moderate Voice —
We’re not even eight hours into the era of the McCain - Palin ticket, but I am quickly becoming more and more convinced that John McCain had previously decided upon T-Paw or Romney but hit the panic button and selected Sarah Palin after Obama’s Mile High Stadium speech without full vetting. Two items have already jumped to the front page. The first, of course, is what is quickly being dubbed with the overdrawn nickname of “troopergate.” During our radio show today, I was told by a good friend that “if this is the best they can find...” but it seems the best may indeed have some legs. We live in the internet age, and ...
She’s a little corrupt, hmm?
Comments from Left Field —
Ladies and gentlemen, in a TV report from a couple weeks ago, here’s who McCain wants to be our next veep:
If Gov. Palin uses her office to settle petty family scores, how would she use the Vice Presidency?
[Hat tip: markg8]
McCain VP pick Sarah Palin's ethics scandal
Majikthise —
John McCain picked a fellow "maverick" for a running mate: Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
Josh Marshall explains: As mentioned earlier, Gov. Palin is embroiled in her own
trooper-gate scandal up in Alaska. In short, she's accused of using her
pull as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired as a state trooper.
The brother-in-law is ...
Palin’s Trooper’Gate: Beating MSM distortions to the truth
Flopping Aces —
It’s been over 12 hours now since ...
Facts And Truth - The Gov. Sarah Palin “Investigation” - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
The slobbering MSM has NOTHING on this woman. So you will see them, and the democrat operatives, taking this one thing in particular … trust it, slice and dice it, spin it, half-bake it, and serve it to the public as ready for consumption … when in fact were Palin a democrat these same people would hoist her onto their shoulders and carry her to the Vice President’s estate in Washington D.C. as a hero and example to woman everywhere.
Instead of “abuse of power” you will find a woman who is strong on authority, principles, and doing her job.
Major kudoes to Flopping Aces who did the latenight ...
The framing of the shrew
protein wisdom —
Allah and Charles at LGF have already debunked the early-out-of-the-gate attempts to cast VP candidate Sarah Palin as a “creationist” and an “enemy of science” — Al Gore and his band of hokem-peddling Greenbots being the current champions of forcing junk-science into public school curricula — so the left liberal establishment and the mainstream press have now moved on to Palin’s alleged “ethics violations,” known by the shorthand, “Trooper Gate.” Knowing full well that it is the appearance of impropriety, moreso oftentimes than minor improprieties themselves, that does the hard work of throwing a pall over the character of one of their political ...
Palin's Trouble With The Truth
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
It's rare that a politician allows herself to be exposed in such an obvious lie as this:
McCain-Palin: Sloppy To No Vetting? How Can Anyone Trust McCain?
Firedoglake —
Is it me, or is a statewide tip line being set up for calls and information about potential abuse of power allegations, with Sarah Palin and members of her staff and her husband caught telling big, fat lies about their involvement in "abuse of power" allegations in the midst of a ...
Desperate
Talking Points Memo —
Republican state legislators, at the behest of the McCain campaign, have now filed an emergency appeal with the Alaska Supreme Court trying to shutdown the 'Troopergate' investigation. The plaintiffs (echoing the Bush v. Gore decision) claim "the plaintiffs and Alaskans will suffer irreparable harm" if the Branchflower report is released, as scheduled, next Friday, October 10th.
Bear in mind, the people in charge of the investigation moved the release date up so as not to have it released on the eve of the election. That was the original schedule long before Palin was chosen as veep nominee. And the GOP lawyers the McCain campaign sent ...
Troopergate desperation
Political Animal —
TROOPERGATE DESPERATION.... It's a shame major media outlets never really sunk their teeth into Sarah Palin's "Troopergate" scandal. I thought a candidate for national office in the midst of an ongoing abuse-of-power scandal, in which she's changed her story and pretty clearly lied, would be a fairly big deal. For the most part, it's considered a tangential footnote, which most voters have probably never heard of. Indeed, when Palin broke her word about cooperating with the bipartisan investigation, her aides and husband refused to honor subpoenas, and Republicans filed a lawsuit to quash the investigation altogether, I foolishly assumed alarm bells would go off for campaign ...
