If this campaign is about personality, not issues, it’s become clear that John McCain is ready to lie his way into office. And it’s becoming clear that Sarah is a bit too vindictive to hold this office.

I’m also impressed with the way Barry has been handling this. There are plenty of ways he could joined them in the mud, but he’s held back and been strong yet civilized. That’s in strong contrast to what we see in this revelation about Sarah.

- you exposed yourself man. Unless you can provide the facts, we’ll chalk this article up in the BOGUS column.

What are the facts? I thought she was still married to him. Provide evidence that they weren’t and I’ll change it.

Regardless, he was punished BEFORE Palin was in office, so the basic point still stands, does it not?

Also, I think there’s a reason that a bi-partisan panel launched this ethics investigation. If you don’t agree, that’s fine, but it was bi-partisan.

The Road to Nowhere
Posted on September 10, 2008, 2:09pm | Radley Balko

“I missed this when it came out a couple of weeks ago. From an Anchorage Daily News article on the “Bridge to Nowhere” flap:
Meanwhile, Weinstein noted, the state is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone — because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government.
So not only did Palin support the BtN before she opposed it, not only did she accept the money for it anyway then divert it to other projects, she also then went ahead and took federal funding for a road that was to connect the bridge, even though the bridge wouldn’t be built, rendering the road useless, because unlike the bridge she–ahem–courageously opposed, she couldn’t divert the road money to other projects.

Quite the profile in political courage.”

http://www.reason.com/blog/

If there is nothing here then these stories won’t matter as kritter points out, but if there is (as you seem to be afraid of…”stop looking!”) then it was worth the effort to uncover.

The accusations are detailed in two thick binders, the result of a nearly yearlong investigation by troopers.
“The record clearly indicates a serious and concentrated pattern of unacceptable and at times, illegal activity occurring over a lengthy period, which establishes a course of conduct totally at odds with the ethics of our profession,” Col. Julia Grimes, then head of Alaska State Troopers, wrote in March 1, 2006, letter suspending Wooten for 10 days. After the union protested it, the suspension was reduced to five days. (Prima facie evidence of how hard it is to fire bad government employees and therefore why we should have less government –a lot less).

http://www.adn.com/politics/story/476430.html

•Wooten used a Taser on his stepson.
• He illegally shot a moose.
• He drank beer in his patrol car on one occasion.
• He told others his father-in-law would “eat a f’ing lead bullet” if he helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073154/posts

“In fact, he had been punished while he was still married to her sister.”

- you exposed yourself man. Unless you can provide the facts, we’ll chalk this article up in the BOGUS column.

• Palin didn’t have the right to fire the folks fired
• the folks fired didn’t deserve it

If these are not shown, this continues to wither on the vine.