Forget Palin's Pregnant Daughter, Focus on Troopergate

[Better Believe It]

Forget Her Pregnant Daughter, Focus on Troopergate
by John Nichols
The Nation
09/01/2008

ST. PAUL -- Barack Obama's right. The families of candidates for high office ought generally to be "off limits." And that is especially true when it comes to their kids.

Pay attention, instead, to the wholly legitimate -- and rapidly evolving -- scandal known as "Troopergate."

While much of the national media was trying to get a conversation going about Palin's pregnant daighter, a dramatically more unsettling story was evolving with regard to Palin's abuse of her position as part of an effort to punish an in-law with whom she had fallen out.

Each passing hour brings new evidence of just how serious this abuse-of-power scandal has become.

Palin on Monday hired a lawyer to defend her interests as the investigation surrounding the firing of her public safety commissioner explodes into a full-blown political crisis.

Please read the entire article at:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352708/forget_her_pregnant_daughter_focus_on_troopergate

[texastoast]

1. Good luck

:popcorn:

[panAmerican]

2. My contrarian stance on troopergate

Palin may have overreached in the way she went about this, but everything I'm reading about her brother-in-law so far is pretty distasteful.

She should have either recused herself or pressed those with evidence to file complaints, but I can't imagine an in-law acting out so eggregiously towards one of MY siblings and not do everything in my power to stop him.

On Edit: Read this Palin email: http://media.adn.com/smedia/2008/07/23/10/palin-email.source.prod_affiliate.7.pdf

[FVZA_Colonel]

4. But how many of those charges were actually validated?

So far, all I've seen is the tasering and a threat against her father.

[marshall]

6. there's also talk about him showing up drunk for work

I think this will end up being a dry well, but it doesn't hurt to keep digging. Just don't bet the farm on it making much hay.

[FVZA_Colonel]

7. I thought that was one of the things that was investigated and ultimately dismissed?

You're right that we ought be cautious, I just want to be certain we know what we have to go with so far.

[VWolf]

3. Yes - the tabloids will take care of babygate on their own

We need to push the AIP, troopergate and 1,000,000 other issues that should (and hopefully will) sink the ticket.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Hey, You didn't comment on my thread on how they are trying to stop

the investigative report right before the election


Link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6881671&mesg_id=6881671