Sarah Palin throws Alaska under the bus

[Fluffy]

Palin Throws Alaska Under the Bus.

GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is effectively turning over questions about her record as Alaska’s governor to John McCain’s political campaign, part of an ambitious Republican strategy to limit embarrassing disclosures and carefully shape her image for voters in the rest of the country.

That’s the lead in from the Anchorage Daily News story about the latest GOP strong-arm tactics to perform what many Alaskans feel is an outside political takeover of the state’s Troopergate investigation. A pack of high-powered east coast lawyers are the new artisans of the Palin “image”. If anyone has a question about Palin’s 20 months as governor, ask the McCain campaign, because apparently no one else can give you the answers.

This is not going over well in Alaska. I’ll use my usual caveat that there are lots of Alaskans who happily subscribe to the “Sarah right or wrong” mentality, and will continue to do so. However, the progressive take on this whole latest mess is only slightly short of taking torches and pitchforks and surrounding the Attorney General’s office, demanding an end to the stonewalling. I’ve watched Alaskan progressives that I personally know go from saying, “Wow! I can’t believe I voted for a Republican!” to, “She’s doing OK. I don’t agree with everything, but I don’t regret my vote” to being so furiously seething angry they just can’t say anything.

This means that there’s a shift, and shifts tend to bring along all people to a certain degree. If there’s one way to tick off Alaskans it’s by bringing in ‘outsiders’ to try to control state affairs. Imagine if you will how a small independant nation would feel being invaded by the superpower next door. It’s like that.

I’ve even lived to see the day that Republican State Senate President Lyda Green (often vilified by Democrats over the years) agreed to do an interview on the local progressive talk radio station, and was practically hailed as a hero. Why? For simply stating the investigation should and will move forward despite the fact that the Attorney General, under the influence of McCain lawyers, said that state employees would defy their subpoenas. “Nothing has changed,” she said. “Our job is to find the truth.” Real integrity coming from either side of the aisle is what Alaskans want. It’s in desperately short supply these days.

And again, and again, I hear Alaskans quoting that now infamous promise of our governor (who is still our governor by the way) to run the state with “ethical, open and transparent” government.

It remains to be seen how effective the so-called “Truth Squad” is in ’shaping her image’ in the rest of the country, but they are not doing her any favors here at home. I’ve never heard so many people say they can’t wait to see her new approval ratings.

Meanwhile, the opposing side, not to be outdone by a goofy name, has come up with ”Alaska Mythbusters,” a nod to the popular television show. This white hat version of the Orwellian “Truth Squad” is made up mostly of elected officials who have opposed or know Palin and who criticize her work.

So what does the Attorney General Talis Colberg have to say for himself? I know a couple people who know Colberg, and respected him deeply until recently. I heard from a friend of his that this whole thing is really taking a toll on him. “He’s really a decent guy,” says my bewildered friend. So, what say you sir? Hello? Are you there?

Oh. Talis Colberg just went ”on vacation” to Kansas. You can’t make this stuff up.

Beware of tornadoes, falling houses, and flying monkeys! Nothing would surprise me any more.

Palin Throws Alaska Under the Bus. « Mudflats

Sounds like Palin is going to be screwed if she doesn't win the election.

[NicoleWasHere]

But.. was it under the ban bun?

[sluce]

I was thinking about her last night and wondering what will happen to her if they lose in Nov. My prediction is that she completes her term as Gov and then is booted out of office and becomes footnote in American polictics. All while pushing back the progress of women in politics.

[cmmdee]

I think you should change the thread title to "under the BRIDGE"

HAHA.

But seriously... I have a question...

If s he was subpoenaed, is she allowed to say she won't testify/participate in this investigation? It sounds kind of fucky/criminal to me.

A subpoena (pronounced /səˈpiːnə/) is commonly defined as a written command to a person to testify before a court or be punished.
More accurately, a subpoena is the conditionalthreat of punishment made by a governmentalauthority. It is attached to a command, so that if the recipient does not do as commanded then he may be punished. Subpoenas are associated with common law legal systems.

[Sweetie]

^ Yes, she can plead the 5th.

[cmmdee]

^^ Oh, ok.

But it still seems odd to me that she won't participate in this and clear her name.

[kingcap72]

Originally Posted by sluce

I was thinking about her last night and wondering what will happen to her if they lose in Nov. My prediction is that she completes her term as Gov and then is booted out of office and becomes footnote in American polictics. All while pushing back the progress of women in politics.

I think if she loses in November, she either gets impeached or forced to resign.

[Grimmlok]

.. alaska has a BUS!?

[cmmdee]

^^ Not sure about that but they DO have a bridge that goes... nowhere......... !

[NicoleWasHere]

Originally Posted by Grimmlok

.. alaska has a BUS!?

Oh yeah, didn't you know? It's like a little clown car. Palin drives it, and she can pack everyone into it. It's cool, they go hill jumping with it.

[Fluffy]

Originally Posted by cmmdee

I think you should change the thread title to "under the BRIDGE"

HAHA.

But seriously... I have a question...

If s he was subpoenaed, is she allowed to say she won't testify/participate in this investigation? It sounds kind of fucky/criminal to me.

A subpoena (pronounced /səˈpiːnə/) is commonly defined as a written command to a person to testify before a court or be punished.
More accurately, a subpoena is the conditionalthreat of punishment made by a governmentalauthority. It is attached to a command, so that if the recipient does not do as commanded then he may be punished. Subpoenas are associated with common law legal systems.

She has the right to not testify; however, she has been quoted on the record at least eight times by saying she would cooperate fully with the investigation before she was named McCain's VP.

[cmmdee]

^^ That's because she's a

[MrsMarsters]

Damn, you nearly gave me a seizure.

[Fluffy]

More proof that Palin's burning her bridges in the land of the midnight sun.

PALIN TRUTH SQUAD: BURNING BRIDGES IN ALASKA
I attended Governor Sarah Palin’s press conference this week. I witnessed the “Palin Truth Squad” first hand. It was as “truthy” to politics as the Jeffrey Dahmer Cooking School would be to the culinary arts. It made me nauseous. With a precarious political atmosphere in Alaska, we are still making our way through indictments, trials, and federal penitentiary sentences; the past two years of bipartisan work and healing thrown under the bus in attempt to win the White House.

National political assassins have invaded Alaska. They were visible and in full force at the McCain-Palin press conference yesterday. Alaskans don’t roll that way. People get cranky, even nasty at times, over politics and what they think is best for the state. Alaska Lawmakers are sitting in federal prison for selling their votes and it wasn’t this nasty. The McCain-Palin ticket has become a poster child for partisan politics on steroids. On November 5th, the day after this election, the shrapnel of this campaign will be strewn across Alaska. It’s going to take Dr. Phil and a few Barry White albums to get the healing started.



Right off the bat, a full-on assault of character was laid out-Walt Monegan the target. Meghan Stapleton, lead off hitter for the Palin Truth Squad was polished, assertive, dramatic, professional, fantastic….and LYING! For all of her assertions of Walt’s “loose cannon” behavior, you would have thought he was tasing Alaska children. A stack of emails from or regarding Monegan, chosen by Palin’s state paid attorney, were released to prove his incompetence. I asked why, if he was such a terrible employee, was he offered another position in government? How could they risk something so important as the oversight of alcohol in rural Alaska? After all, alcohol is a huge contributor to our domestic violence and rape statistics. Meghan’s answer felt like an out of control carnival ride for all the disingenuous spin! Her co-“truther” is Edward O’Callaghan. He looks and acts like the evil and unstoppable Agent Smith from “The Matrix”. Six weeks ago he left his job as Co-Chief of the Terrorism and National Security Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s office in New York. Does the McCain camp consider a bipartisan group of Alaska Lawmakers to be terrorists?

The “last straw,” Meghan-Super-Spokes-Model Stapleton said, was a July trip Monegan planned to Washington D.C. to seek federal money for investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases. You would have thought he was planning to lobby Washington D.C. for a new super trooper jet-boat, complete with lightening bolts, water cannons, cup holders and satellite television. If it is true Monegan was fired for trying to drum up funds to protect Alaskans, I’m more disturbed than if he was fired for NOT carrying out an old family proxy vendetta against Trooper Wooten. Four days before Walt Monegan was fired, John Katz, the governor’s special counsel and inaugural PTSer, in a July 7 e-mail, noted two issues with the trip: the Governor hadn’t agreed the money should be sought, and the request “is out of sequence with our other appropriations requests and could put a strain on the evolving relationship between the Governor and Senator Stevens.” Why the continuing theme of subverting the treatment of epidemic sexual assaults in Alaska?

Last Friday I sat through the subpoena hearings. The “Remote Control Legislator”, Gene Therriault, who would check his blackberry and then ask texted questions, was the knight in tarnished armor. Challenging reason and truth, the only thing transparent was his political crush on Sarah Palin. Republican Senator Charlie Huggins, sitting in camo pants, wishing he was sitting on the edge of a muskeg listening to the sounds of love lorn moose, presented the best side of Alaskans. He announced himself as a McCain voter, and said he would also vote for subpoenas. So have many other Republicans in this investigation. I never believed the argument from their party in the 90s over Bill Clinton’s lie. But I think now, when I see a Republican put integrity and principle in front of protecting their party, some of them may have been telling the truth.

The partisan accusations are coming from partisan Republicans. Representative Bob Lynn is one of five Republican Lawmakers filing a law suit, all designed by the Palin Truth Squad, to stop the investigation of Sarah Palin’s abuse of power allegations. Just a couple of weeks ago, Lynn was a delegate on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. What isn’t “partisan” about that? The PTS has posters with pictures of Alaska Democratic leadership and big arrows pointing to a photo of Obama. It is vulgar and flies in the face of truth and justice. Frankly, I didn’t expect anything different from John McCain. Sarah Palin knows better. How dare she sacrifice Alaska for the White House. The PTS is giving me PTSD…

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