Looks like the hubby is going to take the fall....

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Todd Palin: Sarah In Dark On Troopergate (CBS/AP) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin remained in the dark while her husband repeatedly asked top state officials to help get his former brother-in-law kicked off the state police force, Palin's husband and top aides said in affidavits provided to The Associated Press. Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is the focus of a legislative investigation into whether she abused her authority by firing the state's public safety commissioner to settle a long-standing family dispute. The commissioner says he was fired after resisting pressure to fire Mike Wooten, a trooper involved in a bitter divorce with Palin's sister. The investigation has been a distraction for John McCain's presidential campaign. Lawmakers were scheduled to meet Friday and release a report on the case, which could shed light on how Palin governs and what role her husband played in her administration. The affidavits filed with investigators late Wednesday will probably help Palin's defense that the firing was not a tit-for-tat, but they also portray her as uninvolved while her husband met repeatedly with her aides about family affairs. That could provide fodder for her political opponents. “Todd Palin’s statements may help provide the Governor some degree of cover in the probe,” said CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs, “but the level of his involvement here will probably raise even more questions and this continues to be a political distraction to the McCain campaign.” "I have heard criticism that I am too involved in my wife's administration," Todd Palin wrote in his affidavit. "My wife and I are very close. We are each other's best friend. I have helped her in her career the best I can, and she has helped me." The documents, released on the same day the state Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit designed to block the probe, describe Todd Palin's extraordinary level of access to a variety of the governor's top aides. He told them emotional stories about Wooten threatening and emotionally abusing his family. He said he talked to anyone who would listen. He gave them photos and documents, which they forwarded to others in the administration, and he questioned how Wooten kept his job. Even Gov. Palin's special assistant, Ivy Frye, said she was distraught when she was told about the situation. "I've felt empathy for the Palin and Heath families in having to endure harassment, intimidation, threats and abuse from a former family member," Frye wrote. But Frye said she never talked about it with the governor or mentioned the idea of asking Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan to fire Wooten. Monegan says he was fired for not dismissing Wooten, a claim that touched off the politically charged investigation just before McCain chose Palin as his running mate. Palin says she fired Monegan over a budget dispute. The documents filed late Wednesday bolster that claim and also describe an effort by Monegan to wrest control of the department away from Palin. Todd Palin said he never pressured anyone - including his wife. In fact, he says that after talking about the matter with her repeatedly, she finally told him to "drop it." "Anyone who knows Sarah knows she is the governor and she calls the shots," Todd Palin wrote. "I make no apologies for wanting to protect my family and wanting to publicize the injustice of a violent trooper keeping his badge." Republican lawmakers argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the legislative inquiry should be shut down and the report not released. Palin is not a part of that lawsuit. The state's personnel board also is looking into the matter and Palin has said she feels that inquiry is more appropriate. The Supreme Court said it would rule promptly but did not say when. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008...in4511568.shtml

I still say its a load of crap.....
this woman, remember praised vice president cheney for his new "powers" he invented....
and her husband who has no fucking biz in goverment affairs has now added more to discredit her.
Jesus Christ is this what some people think we need in the White House?? Q? can you explain this to me??



fucking crazy as shit,

I hear Palin is palling around with G. Gordon Liddy now and wants him to give a speech on ANWR.

Whatever, she's going to get off the hook for this one. We've got war criminals running our government, what makes you think Palin is actually going to be prosecuted for corruption?

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If by some sheer chance this is true (i will give it the benefit of the doubt, but considering all the lies that come from that side i seriously doubt that it is) does anyone think that this makes her look any better? What it basically says is, "My wife isn't abusing power, she is just completely incompetent". Seriously, the governors husband talking to the top state officials about getting someone fired over a personal agenda and she hears nothing about what's going on? Not a thing? I find that seriously hard to swallow.

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Hey this is great...I can see it now...

Palin divorces her oppressive, criminal husband making her an even-more-independent single mom just trying to make her way in this crazy world, while at the same time distancing herself from Troopergate and her ties to the Alaskan liberation group. By gee golly willikers, she'll be just about as perfect a hockey mom can be!



Heck, if she doesn't become VP she'll give Lifetime, Oxygen, We and OH! enough material for made-for-TV movies for the next decade.

I'm not saying anything to the effect of her current trial. I just think its amusing she is enlisting the aid of a convicted Nixonian asswipe while hitting Obama for Ayers who was never convicted of anything.

LOL

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Panel: Palin abused power in trooper case ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) -- Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator's report concluded Friday. "Gov. Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda," the report states. Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan's refusal to fire State Trooper Mike Wooten from the state police force was "likely a contributing factor" to Monegan's July dismissal, but Palin had the authority as governor to fire him, the report by former Anchorage prosecutor Stephen Branchflower states. However, it states that her efforts to get Wooten fired broke a state ethics law that bars public officials from pursuing personal interest through official action. The bipartisan Legislative Council, which commissioned the investigation after Monegan was fired, unanimously adopted the 263-page public report after a marathon executive session Friday. About 1,000 more pages of documents compiled during the inquiry will remain confidential, the council's chairman, state Sen. Kim Elton, said. Rep. John Coghill, a Republican who criticized the handling of the investigation, said it was "well-done professionally." But he said some of the conclusions were judgment calls by Branchflower, and recommended readers should view them with a "jaundiced eye." Monegan said he was fired after refusing pressure to fire State Trooper Mike Wooten, who had gone through an acrimonious divorce and custody battle with Palin's sister. Palin has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, describing Wooten as a "rogue trooper" who had threatened her family. Wooten denied the allegations. At a campaign stop Thursday, Palin told reporters that she has "absolutely nothing to hide" in the investigation. The governor originally agreed to cooperate with the Legislative Council inquiry, and disclosed in August that her advisers had contacted Department of Public Safety officials nearly two dozen times regarding her ex-brother-in-law. But when she became Sen. John McCain's running mate, her advisers began painting the investigation as a weapon of Democratic partisans. Ahead of Friday's hearing, Palin supporters wearing clown costumes and carrying balloons denounced the investigation as a "kangaroo court" and a "three-ring circus" led by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The state senator managing the investigation, Sen. Hollis French, fueled those complaints with a September 2 interview in which he warned the inquiry could yield an "October Surprise" for the GOP. But Palin's lawyers already had begun pushing for the state Personnel Board to launch its own investigation, calling it the proper legal venue for the matter.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this is the best election ever.

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Originally posted by Renegade I've said it before and I'll say it again: this is the best election ever.

really? i find it all rather depressing. how is the rest of the world meant to respect the US citizenry when the republican nomination shows such little respect for them in his VP choice?

30%-50% of (voting) americans are about to show the world how fucking stupid they are. its just sad seriously, do you feel anything but (uneasy) nationalistic pride for howard/costello/turnbull when compared to this clusterfuck? fuck me, how embarrassing for the sole superpower.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN fuck me, how embarrassing for the sole superpower.

Well that's that I guess. So much for the republicans. We'll see how the Stevens' trial goes and they could end up loosing the state completely.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN really? i find it all rather depressing. how is the rest of the world meant to respect the US citizenry when the republican nomination shows such little respect for them in his VP choice? 30%-50% of (voting) americans are about to show the world how fucking stupid they are. its just sad seriously, do you feel anything but (uneasy) nationalistic pride for howard/costello/turnbull when compared to this clusterfuck? fuck me, how embarrassing for the sole superpower.

Sometimes I wonder if they're all the people who don't have the internet. They're all either old or folks from the depths of the red states, so it's possible. =P