Sarah Palin, John Coale and Paying Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Debts

Did Sarah Palin entertain the idea of paying off Hillary Clinton’s campaign debts which she amassed running against Barack Obama?

Well, that is the leading question that Jonathan Martin is implying.

In an unusual attempt to forge an alliance between two of the most prominent families in American politics, John Coale, a Washington-area Democratic donor and onetime adviser to Sarah Palin, urged the conservative Alaska governor to use her political action committee to help retire the presidential campaign debt of Hillary Clinton.

Coale, a wealthy trial attorney and the husband of Fox News talk show host Greta Van Susteren, approached Palin with the improbable plan in February while in Alaska with his wife, who was taping an interview with the former Republican vice presidential nominee.

An outspoken Clinton supporter during the Democratic primary who switched his allegiance to the GOP ticket for the general election, Coale made his case to Palin at the Iron Dog snowmachine competition in Fairbanks, where Todd Palin was competing over Valentine’s Day weekend. His broader aim, say Palin camp insiders, was to help Palin develop a relationship with the former first family that he thought could bolster the polarizing governor’s standing with Democrats and independents.

Palin was amenable to getting acquainted with the Clintons but was skeptical of using her PAC to help the former first lady.

She expressed concern to aides about Coale’s request that weekend and a few days later directed Meg Stapleton
, an Alaska-based campaign aide, to tell Coale that she would not help retire Clinton’s debt.

John Coale is a scientologist political kingmaker/matchmaker with a prominent wife in the media. Should Palin continue the whacked out association with this groupie it will be to her detriment with her conservative base.

And, Flap agrees with the observation that Sarah Palin needs a Washington based GOP political operative to move to Alaska to help her win re-election and then immiidatley therafter help her re-emerge on the national political scene.