Palin accuses Rouse of stealing "change" & organizing attacks against her

[sonomak]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/10/new-chief-of-staff-with-alaskan-roots-not-liked-by-sarah-palin.html

The low-key Pete Rouse, whom President Obama will name chief of staff on an interim basis later this morning, has at least one high-profile detractor: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Palin has suggested that Rouse was one of the driving forces behind attacks against her.

... Continued Palin: "Their arguments fit the bill. Those who have seen this before traced the ethics attacks back to the period when I was being vetted for the vice presidential slot and also linked them to the partisan investigation known in the media as 'Troopergate.' Walt Monegan knew that I was well within my rights to remove him, and in normal times it would have been a nonissue, but a few days later, the troopers' union and a group of Democrats with close ties to a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, Pete Rouse, then Senator Obama's chief of staff, were demanding an investigation.”...

Palin also suggested that then-Sen. Obama lifted the incredibly common campaign theme of “change” from her gubernatorial campaign. “Every part of our campaign shouted 'Change!'” she wrote. “We were amused a couple of years later when Barack Obama, one of whose senior advisers (come to think of it) had roots in Alaska-- adopted the same theme.”...

After Palin resigned her governorship, Palin adviser Meg Stapleton told TIME that attacks against the governor and her family were from the White House... The magazine wrote that “Palin and her Alaska circle find evidence for their suspicions about the White House in the person of Pete Rouse, who lived in Juneau for a time before he became chief of staff to a young U.S. Senator named Barack Obama. Rouse, they note, is a friend of former Alaska state senator Kim Elton, who pushed the first ethics investigation of Palin, examining her controversial firing of the state's public-safety commissioner. Both Rouse and Elton have joined the Obama Administration.”

[Mz Pip]

1. It's always about Sarah!

Always the victim, that one.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Sarah, you are wrong! You weren't "vetted"!

But you were hand-picked as the tool du jour :P

[katanalori]

3. Message for the Alaska DINGBAT:

Palin - You did NOT invent the "change" slogan - politicians have been running on "change" for decades (or longer).
You did NOT invent the term "commonsense" either.

I LOVE it that sarah's paranoia is there for all to behold. When President Obama appointed Kim Elton (AK) to his cabinet, Palin said
"Elton pledged his allegiance to Obama."

What is wrong sarah? Rouse knows too many of your dirty secrets and ruthless deeds?

SQUIRM, Quittypants - SQUIRM!!!

[MadMaddie]

4. Oh poor Sarah she wants to play with the big boys but she

wants to be treated like a girl. Sorry but that's the truth. She want's to use her sexuality when it is convenient for her. Even when Katie Couric asked her simple questions that have been asked to politicians over decades she whined that they were gotcha questions.

If this guy makes her uncomfortable...good!

[Aramchek]

5. if Change was her motto, then why does she mock "hopey-changey" stuff

[jaxx]

6. That says Pete Rouse is a pretty smart guy.

If Sister Sarah doesn't like him he's ok in my book. Imagine making her have to tweet about him!

[mediaman007]

7. Jealousy? He got to the White House and she never will?

Face it, Palin will never become anyone's vice presidential candidate. She could never be second banana.

[deminks]

8. How'd that changy thing work out for you, Barracuda?

Change for you meant quittin your job!

How arrogant, to think she has a monopoly on change.

[Bitwit1234]

9. Oh boy oh boy

look how she thinks she IS somebody instead of the skunk she is. Everybody and their brother and sister, according to Ms. wiped out Alaskan are out to get her. Gee most of the people she accused of being out to get her, don't even know she exists. BUT she has to keep on saying crap like this to keep her name and face (such as it is) in the news. Damn I thought Bush and Cheney were full of it, but she has them beat by 1000 miles.

[gratuitous]

10. Sounds like Widdle Sarah needs to be changed again

Poor thing soils herself like a puppy whenever she gets "outraged."

[ljm2002]

11. She's so shrill and predictable...

..."Me! Me! Me!"

Anything to get attention and poke elbows at her detractors. She never lets go of any real or perceived slights, and real or perceived attacks against her.

Good, glad to hear Ms. Palin hates Rouse. It definitely reflects well on him.

[joeybee12]

12. What does this dumb b**ch think, that she owns the copyright to the word "change?"

What a ridiculous I can't say but you know what.

[Skidmore]

13. First of all, who cares what she thinks and second,

if the choice of Rouse chaps her tush, I like him all the more.

[louis-t]

14. Next she'll be claiming she invented Facebook.

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