When the State Senate President of your own party is taking steps to make sure the TrooperGate investigation goes forward, you know this is no partisan witch hunt. Lyda Green talks to the Mojo Blog: Calling herself a “raging Republican,” Green says, she is “absolutely disgusted, embarrassed, and ashamed” by the McCain-Palin campaign’s intervention in [...]

Todd Palin and a few of his wife’s staffers failed to appear recently, even though they were subpoenaed. Still, the prosecutor Stephen Branchflower says the investigation will be finished soon. But will it be of any value if nobody involved testifies? More from MSNBC: Todd Palin’s attorney sent French a letter Thursday listing Palin’s objections [...]

As I said from the beginning of this nonsense. Ed Morrissey covers the story: “Sarah Palin issued a response to the Troopergate investigation yesterday by releasing internal memoranda that show Walt Monegan got fired for insubordination on budget matters and not because of his refusal to fire Palin’s former brother-in-law. Monegan went behind Palin’s back [...]

From MSNBC: McCain campaign spokesman Ed O’Callaghan told a news conference Monday that the governor, the Republican nominee for vice president, will not cooperate as long as the investigation “remains tainted.” He said he doesn’t know whether Palin’s husband would challenge a subpoena issued to compel his cooperation. The campaign insists the investigation has been [...]

She just can’t admit that she’s not being honest… Here’s the truth… Actually, Congress put the kibosh on the Bridge to Nowhere back in November 2005. Since Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) was then head of the Senate Appropriations Committee he was able to force a compromise in which the earmark for the bridge was killed [...]

The hits just keep on coming… NEW YORK – Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday defended two debunked television ads attacking Democrat Barack Obama and claimed erroneously that running mate Sarah Palin never sought money for lawmakers’ pet projects as Alaska governor. Palin sought $197 million in so-called “earmarks” for 2009. In the previous [...]

CNN has it… ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) — A special counsel has asked Alaskan lawmakers to subpoena Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband and a dozen aides as part of the investigation into Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner. Here are more of the posts on TrooperGate… Ethics Adviser Warned The Palins About TrooperGate Judge Warned Palin [...]

So you know that ethics bill that Palin touts on the trail as being one of her biggest accomplishments during her tenure as Governor? Well, the guy who helped develop a key part of that legislation also had some free advice for Sarah and her husband regarding TrooperGate. From Wall Street Journal ANCHORAGE, Alaska — [...]

We know she asked the librarian what the process was to ban books from the public library. We know that the librarian was fired a few weeks later. And Palin rehired her after Wasilla residents demanded it. So what happened? ABC takes a look… So the question remains…why was the librarian fired? Unfortunately we still [...]

Another interesting twist in the TrooperGate investigation. Apparently Palin and her family were talking publicly about Mike Wooten so much that a judge essentially put a gag on them. And this was before she was Governor. From Newsweek… Court records obtained by NEWSWEEK show that during the course of divorce hearings three years ago, Judge [...]

In an article that details how Palin’s Bridge To Nowhere claim is a lie, The Wall Street Journal also points out another fib that McCain has been throwing around on the campaign trail… At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois [...]

And with Hollis French at the helm. From the AP: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Republican effort has failed to unseat the Alaska state senator overseeing the ethics investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she dismissed the state’s public safety commissioner. Democratic Sen. Hollis French was accused of manipulating the probe [...]

In particular, play Part Three and note at the 1:10 mark how a lifelong Democrat and a Hillary supporters praises Palin as a “breath of fresh air” and suggests that she could be a problem for the Dems if she’s on McCain’s ticket. Part One Part Two Part Three More as it develops…

C-SPAN has it. I’m only about 20 minutes into the 1.5 hr debate, but she seems like a very normal politician so far. However, the questions haven’t really been hard hitting, so we’ll see if anything challenging pops up. Anybody want to place bets now that she’ll probably do a decent job in her debate [...]

Does Sarah Palin have an affiliation with the Alaska Independence Party? Some AIP members say she does, but the McCain campaign says she has never been a part of that group. Right now, there appears to be little proof of her affiliation. Given that Alaska is smaller in population than most major American cities, I’d [...]

As more question marks emerge about Palin, I can’t help but think the answer to the titular question is “Barely.” TPM points out what has been revealed about Palin just yesterday… * The news that Palin once backed the Bridge to Nowhere went national. * It emerged that Palin has links to the bizarro Alaska [...]

In an otherwise by-the-numbers pro-Sarah Palin editorial, The Wall Street Journal makes one very interesting point: Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska’s politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on. Palin became [...]

Lots of polling today, and most of it favoring Obama in traditional swing states and at least one Republican stronghold. The numbers… McCain – 45% Obama – 41% Rasmussen breaks down the demos… This is the third straight poll showing Obama within single digits of the presumptive GOP nominee. A month ago, McCain was up [...]

He has won the majority of the states tonight, including many traditional Republican strongholds. Because of this I think he’ll be able to credibly make the case that he can contest some of these states in November, especially since most of these red states broke BIG for him. I’m almost ready to go to bed…almost…