Whether or not you agree or disagree with that, you have to question her judgment, though, when she replaced her ex-brother-in-law with a man reprimanded for sexual harassment in a previous job.

It’s not that a sexual harassment complaint cannot be a trumped up charge; I have a friend who was the victim of such a complaint and not only was it completely unfounded, he was exonerated and the complainer was the one who got the written reprimand when it was shown that her story was impossible.

So, I can give the guy the benefit of the doubt even though he got the reprimand. The problem is that Palin never properly vetted the guy and then denied there ever was a complaint….kind of poor judgment.

And now it seems McCain met Palin only once? Goodness, I hope he spent a little more time looking into her past, then she spent looking into her top cop.

Surely you are not presuming guilt until she proves her innocense?

Besides, we’ve got plenty of other things about the Obamessiah to be screaming bloody murder and bashing his poor judgement about!! It’s a long list, brother!!

You get the good with the bad. If you demand an idealogue as your running mate, and this is the best available, you get her warts and all, and we’ll be only too pleased to exploit it.

BTW, the report on the investigation is due 8/31, so that’s 2 months of stress for you guys, and not a whole lot of time to rebound if it does turn out to be nothing. Although I figure Karl Rove will probably see that the charges are dropped within the next few weeks.

My point was that ~90% of Americans currently know these facts about her:

-She’s young enough to be McCain’s daughter. (visually the difference is even bigger…they should avoid appearing on stage together. She makes him look ancient)
-She’s governor of Alaska.
-She’s “under investigation”. Which even if they never hear about the investigation again she is runs the risk of being instantly filed away as being, “another one of those” types of politicians, even if the charges are completely baseless.

Much will rest on what we find out about the guy who got fired, and what his reputation is. For now, there seems to me to be no smoke nor any fire. Palin has a rep as someone who has ruffled feathers by ousting corrupt insiders. And regular folks are savvy enough to know that investigations like these ones may well be blowback from the insider network. I wouldn’t hold my breath expecting this story to harm Palin unless someone comes up with actual info suggesting she really did anything wrong.

Which IMO is as it should be.

Looks like yes, they can be fired on a whim. Sure, you don’t want to make it look like it was a blatant abuse of power, but essentially, it is within her power.

What scumbags are running that union.

In Jersey, he would be getting molested by inmates right now.

But perhaps more importantly is the first impression impact of this mini-scandal. Case in point, this morning one of cable news channels that was on the TV while I was brushing my teeth had a splash screen up that had 4 items on it: A picture of Palin, the fact that she is 44 years old, the governor of Alaska, and was currently under investigation for ethics violations. The investigation doesn’t have to lead anywhere for it to taint the public perception. At the very least it will take her off message for several days.

And, this is a new investigation. This isn’t old news like the Keating Five, or Biden’s plagiarism, or Rev. Wright. Things may still bubble to the surface over the next weeks that will keep interjecting this into the media. Old skeletons in the closet can be dealt with once; new ones still walk around and rattle their chains.

This sounds Scooter Libby-like. They may not find anything, but that’s weird that a subordinate would make an illegal inquirey about his boss’s personal life. Perhaps she didn’t know ,but very odd.