"Nailin' Palin?"
Nailin' Palin?
There's a feeling among her vocal supporters that a huge disconnect exists between Sarah Palin and the Lower 48, especially the news media down here.
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So, far be it from us to excite their passions with what they would consider an illegitimate attack on the Alaskan governor's abuse of power and violation of government ethics rules in her administration's tireless efforts to sack her former brother-in-law from his state job.
It's a complicated and unseemly stew of family and state politics known as Troopergate.
Last week, the bipartisan Alaska Legislative Council released a voluminous report whose bottom line was this: She abused her power and she violated the state's ethics law.
Naturally, none of this put a break in the Republican vice-presidential nominee's jaunty stride. Nor did it change her insistence that she's an ethical reformer.
Indeed, Palin confidently declared herself vindicated -- no abuse of power, she said; no unlawful actions on her part, she asserted.
We won't bother with Lower 48 media responses to this startling reaction.
What we will share is comment from the editorial page of the Anchorage Daily News, which knows Gov. Palin better than most. It affirmed she was within her right to fire her public safety commissioner, but the violation came in the vendetta against her brother-in-law. The newspaper wrote:
"Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian.
"Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: 'I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.'
"In plain English, she did something 'unlawful.' She broke the state ethics law …
"Palin's response is the kind of political 'big lie' that George Orwell warned against. War is peace. Black is white. Up is down …"
More investigation under way.
Editor's comment: As one who has had enough of Dick Cheney, and as one who was JOYFUL when Sarah Palin was chosen but is NOW HUGELY DISAPPOINTED -- especially about her penchant for lying at will, not to talk about her "Dan Quayle" concerns -- can ANYONE convince me that I should TRUST her to be that close to the Presidency (I'm glad I do NOT have to vote today)?
ANYONE?
Hello?
Anyone?
Stay tuned.
There's a feeling among her vocal supporters that a huge disconnect exists between Sarah Palin and the Lower 48, especially the news media down here.
Advertisement
So, far be it from us to excite their passions with what they would consider an illegitimate attack on the Alaskan governor's abuse of power and violation of government ethics rules in her administration's tireless efforts to sack her former brother-in-law from his state job.
It's a complicated and unseemly stew of family and state politics known as Troopergate.
Last week, the bipartisan Alaska Legislative Council released a voluminous report whose bottom line was this: She abused her power and she violated the state's ethics law.
Naturally, none of this put a break in the Republican vice-presidential nominee's jaunty stride. Nor did it change her insistence that she's an ethical reformer.
Indeed, Palin confidently declared herself vindicated -- no abuse of power, she said; no unlawful actions on her part, she asserted.
We won't bother with Lower 48 media responses to this startling reaction.
What we will share is comment from the editorial page of the Anchorage Daily News, which knows Gov. Palin better than most. It affirmed she was within her right to fire her public safety commissioner, but the violation came in the vendetta against her brother-in-law. The newspaper wrote:
"Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian.
"Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: 'I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.'
"In plain English, she did something 'unlawful.' She broke the state ethics law …
"Palin's response is the kind of political 'big lie' that George Orwell warned against. War is peace. Black is white. Up is down …"
More investigation under way.
Editor's comment: As one who has had enough of Dick Cheney, and as one who was JOYFUL when Sarah Palin was chosen but is NOW HUGELY DISAPPOINTED -- especially about her penchant for lying at will, not to talk about her "Dan Quayle" concerns -- can ANYONE convince me that I should TRUST her to be that close to the Presidency (I'm glad I do NOT have to vote today)?
ANYONE?
Hello?
Anyone?
Stay tuned.
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