Alaska Panel Finds Sarah Palin Guilty of Douchiness
So, remember that Troopergate business that was kind of haunting Governor Palin's first few weeks of VP-nominationhood but was ultimately mostly overtaken by her obvious ineptitude?
It's back, and this time it's looking more potent…
A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.
The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.
This might sound bad like a bad thing for a U.S. governor/vice-presidential nominee, and it probably would be for any other.
But for Sarah Palin, it really just reinforces her reputation as a maverick. Assuming what she's mavericking from is the law.
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Ha!
Palin should stay and play in Alaska. No one has a problem with that.
the funny thing is that you all think that your opp. counts{the elect college}will stick it to us again,an elect whom ever they think is in their best intrest.why don't we elect snoopy for pres,let's just hope that when we all vote nothing stops the american people from getting what we all need a pres/vp and others in charge of our best intrests,an hope that they don't screw it up like the last guy did.
well lets not forget the house of rep's/congress/the supreme court, that they will not try to get what they can but to do what they said they would,like i don't know maybe put their best into it for the american people not only here but over seas also.take time to look with eyes wide open an a prayer in your heart that we as a nation can live through another four/eight years {hopefully better ones}
To expect the bulk of America to accept a politician who just crawled out from under the Rock of Alaska is too much to ask in these difficult times. Thinking people know this VP choice was a deperate crapshoot and it worked for awhile, but it won't work in the long run. Alaskans I knew while living in a rural area of California were some of the most bizarre of all, and we were bizarre by mainstream American standards. These people would slip 'up north' when their lives were falling apart. I'm not quite sure what they did 'up there', but they didn't return any saner but much less so. Now, I haven't been to Alaska, and because of the fact that geographically, it's an important part of our ecosystem, I'll give Alaska the benefit of the doubt. But, unless the climate shifts to the point where we're all living in a barren wasteland with few inhabitants, Sarah Palin will have to wait.
Hey Alaskan I feel your pain regarding the misconceptions and generalizations that get associated with certain parts of the country. As a person who lives in a southern state I am bombarded with images of my fellow southerners as stupid bible thumping rednecks. However your esteemed governor has done nothing to dispel the image of Alaskans as folksy backwoods dropouts from mainstream society. When her nomination first broke with the ensuing stories about her moose hunting, gun-toting, book-banning, gay-bashing and troopergate along with her oil-rig-working husband, pregnant 17 year old daughter's impending shotgun marriage to the redneck boyfriend, and apparently no immediate family member who has graduated from college I was just happy that that bunch of rubes wasn't from the South for once. When I heard Katie Couric's interview of Palin, I didn't in any way think her question about what books and newspapers she read were impuning Alaska. I thought they were more directed at Palin's apparent lack of world knowledge and questionable grasp of world affairs. Sorry Alaska, you can't be mad at the bias press or the elitist inhabitants of the lower 48 this time. Be disappointed that your first legitimate Alaskan representative to the world has turned out to be an ignorant rube with a "dog gone it" hockey mom shtick and more baggage than Samsonite. You betcha!
As a working-class woman from Milwaukee, what ticks me off is seeing Palin speaking in older videos and she doesn't talk like the Jill 6-Pack you saw with Katie Couric or in the debate.
I DO. I AM JILL 6-PACK. And it really chafs my fanny that she's putting on my way of speaking to try to connect with me in this fake way, like I'm so dumb I would vote for how a person talks and not who they are or what they've done or what direction they would take this country. Like she's doing a caricature of me all the time.
Now she's whipping up hatred in the no-neck crowd, assuming that every white person with a blue collar is a racist fool, and calling McCain a quitter for not hitting lower below the belt.
She gives Jill 6-Pack a very bad name, and as Jill 6-Pack, it pisses me off.
Here's my theory: After the primaries McCain realized that he was very tired and the whole presidency would probably wear him out. Nevertheless, he was the nominee of the GOP.
So, secretly he devised a strategy to loose the elections without rising suspicions.
One part of this was nominating Sarah as his running mate. The "I suspend my campain" tactics were another. It doesn't look suspicious but it works.
And why else would McCain run a dirty accusations campaign, having originally promised he wouldn't?
Therefore, if you want to be nasty to McCain, vote for him on Nov.4th.
We were all conditioned in high school to vote for class president based on only two criteria:
1) Who was the nicest person; that is, the one you'd either want to date or join in a circle jerk
2) Who most loudly promised Coke in the drinking fountains
This is how we Americans were taught to vote. This is the only explanation as to why even a single person would consider voting for any Republican presidential candidate since 1980.
Found to have abused power.
Uses facilities for family members.
Palin will fit right in with the Bushco Administration
Small minded and views government as a personal toy. No wonder the Republican base love her. And since when did she become a brunette?