• Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin Watch: Alaska Supreme Court Clears The Way for Troopergate Report

    Sarah and Todd Palin September 15 2008

    U.S. Republican vice-presidential nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, with her husband Todd (R) arrives to speak in Golden, Colorado September 15, 2008

    The Alaska Supreme Court today has refused to shut down the Troopergate ethics investigation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

    The decision Thursday sets the stage for state lawmakers to release a report on their investigation Friday.

    Lawmakers are investigating whether Palin abused her power to settle a family dispute. Her former public safety commissioner says he was dismissed after resisting pressure to fire a state trooper who had gone through nasty divorce from Palin’s sister.

    Republican lawmakers had sued to block the report, saying it had become politicized.

    And, now there are newly released reports that suggest that Sarah Palin was aloof from the FLAP while her husband Todd repeatedly asked top state officials to help get his former brother-in-law kicked off the state police force.

    Sarah Palin’s husband campaigned for years to help get his former brother-in-law kicked off the state police force, newly released affidavits show.

    The documents were released as part of the so-called Troopergate Scandal, in which it is alleged the Republican vice presidential nominee abused her position as Governor of Alaska to settle a long-standing family feud

    Walter Monegan, Alaska’s public safety commissioner, says he was dismissed by Mrs Palin, after refusing to fire Mike Wooten, a trooper involved in a bitter divorce and child custody battle with her sister.

    The 52-page document reveals the extraordinary level of access Todd Palin, nicknamed the ‘First Dude of Alaska ‘ , had to top state officials, more than a dozen of whom he contacted directly to complain about the trooper.

    In his sworn statement to legislative investigators, released yesterday, Mr Palin is unapologetic about his efforts to get Mr Wooten fired, but denied his crusade had anything to do with the dismissal of Mr Monegan.

    He described his former brother-in-law, Mr Wooten, as a violent, unstable man who threatened the family’s safety, used a stun gun on his stepson and unfairly collected disability benefit.

    He said he was frustrated that Wooten kept his job and complained to senior officials in his wife’s administration. He complained to his wife so much, he said, she told him to drop it.

    Key Quotes:

    • “I talked about Wooten so much over the years that my wife told me to stop talking about it with her.”
    • “We had a lot of conversations about a guy who threatened my family and verbally assaulted my daughter. We talked about my concerns. We talked about Wooten possibly pulling over one of my kids to frame them, like throwing a bag of dope in the back seat just to frame a Palin.”
    • “There is absolutely nothing improper about lodging concerns about Trooper Wooten with Monegan or his predecessor – complaints about State Troopers are supposed to go to the Commissioner..”
    • “Anyone who knows Sarah knows she is the governor and she calls the shots.”

    So, will tomorrow’s report implicate the Alaska Governor as someone who has abused her authority as Governor to fire an Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, because he wouldn’t fire Palin’s former brother-in-law? Or will it point the finger to “Alaska’s first dude” as the instigator of the Flap?

    Stay tuned as “Troppergate” either spins out of control as another distraction for the McCain-Palin ticket in the race for the White House, provides political fodder for Team Obama or fades into irrelevance.

    Flap bets on irrelevance after the LEFT attempts to make something out of nothing – as usual.


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  • Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Sarah Palin,  Tony Rezko,  William Ayers,  William Daley

    Barack Obama Watch: The Chicago Way and Shady Politics

    A new Republican National Committee Independent Expenditure Ad hits Barack Obama on his “CHICAGO” political connetctions: Tony Rezko, William Daley and William Ayers.

    The Script:

    ANNCR:         The Chicago Way. Shady politics.

    That’s Barack Obama’s training.

    His teachers?

    Tony Rezko convicted of corruption, money laundering, aiding and abetting bribery.

    Rezko got Obama in on a shady land deal.

    William Daley. Heir to the Chicago machine. A top Obama advisor.

    And William Ayers. Leader of a terrorist group that bombed the US Capitol.

    Obama’s first campaign was launched at a gathering at Mr. Ayers’s home.

    There’s more you need to know.

    The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.

    John McCain and Sarah Palin need to pound the battleground states with this message and the Obama-Fannie Mae, Congressional Democrat subprime loan financial crisis.

    All negative – all of the time NOW!

    The next focus of attack – The Obama – ACORN connection


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  • Barack Obama,  Blogging Matters,  Media,  Media Bias,  Sarah Palin

    Day By Day by Chris Muir October 9, 2008 – Comfort Levels

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    In Wisconsin today there were American voters attending the McCain-Palin townhall meeting bashing the MSM and recommending that McCain and Palin attack Barack Obama more. The candidates both smiled at the suggestions.

    Americans are beginning to understand media bias and must make their voices heard through the commercial marketplace by protesting sponsorships or refusing to watch or purchase their programming.

    The “in the tank” coverage of Barack Obama during this election cycle  will profoundly affect the public’s attitude toward America media and precipitate further collapse of traditional MSM print newspapers and magazines.

    Count on it……

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    In blogging matters, Flap has returned home from Las Vegas and blogging has returned to a more normal routine.

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    links for 2008-10-09

    • David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and vice presidential candidates Monday afternoon, calling Sarah Palin a "fatal cancer to the Republican party" but describing John McCain and Barack Obama as "the two best candidates we've had in a long time."
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      David Brooks like Peggy Noonan are through in the GOP. Walking papers anyone? Eastern elitists who need to go back to being Democrats. Bye Bye…..

      In an interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg at New York's Le Cirque restaurant to unveil that magazine's redesign, Brooks decried Palin's anti-intellectualism and compared her to President Bush in that regard:

    • As the McCain campaign ratchets up the intensity of its attacks on Barack Obama, some black elected officials are calling the tactics desperate, unseemly and racist.

      “They are trying to throw out these codes,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York.

      “He’s ‘not one of us?’” Mr. Meeks said, referring to a comment Sarah Palin made at a campaign rally on Oct. 6 in Florida. “That’s racial. That’s fear. They know they can’t win on the issues, so the last resort they have is race and fear.”

      “Racism is alive and well in this country, and McCain and Palin are trying to appeal to that and it’s unfortunate,” said Representative Ed Towns, also from New York.
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      Yeah Yeah Yeah Every criticism of Obama is racism.

    • I mentioned a few days ago that Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill's mild affect masks a bit of a killer, and that she's perhaps the Obama campaign's deftest surrogate on the attack.

      But I was still kind of amused by her brief interaction with Mitt Romney in the press file just now.

      McCaskill was stepping out of her chair at the end of an MSNBC interview, and Romney was up next. She and a staffer unplugged her various wires, and she handed Romney the earpiece the guests use to hear the host.

      "I spit on this before I put it in," she said to Romney, with a sweet smile.
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      She was joking, Ben. Relax…..

    • The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who've been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure.

      The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama's, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.
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      Hahaha Obama's airplane smells bad – now is that a racist comment? Nahhhh it is form the press.

    • A Tennessee man has been indicted for hacking into the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. David Kernell, 20, was charged with illegally accessing Palin's Yahoo! account "by researching and correctly answering a series of personal security questions," according to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Knoxville. A copy of the indictment can be found below. After accessing Palin's account, Kernell, pictured at right, allegedly changed its password to "popcorn" and made screenshots of the account's directory as well as certain messages, photos, and "other personal information." Those screenshots eventually were widely distributed online. If convicted of the felony charge, Kernell, an economics major at the University of Tennessee, faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Kernell, whose father is a Democratic state representative in Tennessee, turned himself in this morning to law enforcement authorities and has been indicted