Thread: Palin Family Values

Originally Posted by aging one

Sort of like the endoscope to a proctologist.

AO - careful with your analogies. I think you just called yourself an a-hole.

sure as hell hope not.

Presidential hopeful John McCain shocked the nation by announcing a dark horse as his running mate: Alaska’s governor Sarah Palin—a woman whose record as a true reformer puts Senator Barack Obama to shame. David Freddoso, author of the bestseller The Case Against Barack Obama, has covered Alaska’s politics for years and says that the contrast between Obama and Palin is night and day.


“Palin is a real reformer who took on her state party’s corrupt establishment and won,” says Freddoso. “Obama is a cog in Chicago’s corrupt political machine, working against bipartisan reformers to help preserve the power of the Daley Machine.”
Unlike Obama, Palin does not focus her power and influence on political allies to ensure they return the favor. Instead, Palin focuses her power and influence on the American people, working for their benefit, not hers.


“With Palin on the Republican ticket, there’s now a real reformer in the race,” says Freddoso, “one who produces change, not just calls for it.”

Change that we can believe in. Lets say that I am hyped up now.

What Palin Does

1. Steps on the story of Obama’s speech (and convention), and possibly the bounce coming from them, and wipes them off the news cycle. The Sunday news shows will be all-Palin, all of the time.
2. Sends Republicans into their convention on a huge head of steam.
3. Wipes out the image of McCain as the crotchety elder and brings back that of the fly-boy and gambler, which is much more appealing, and the genuine person.
4. Revs up the base AND excites independents, which no one else in the party, or perhaps in the world, could have accomplished.
5. Puts youth, change, and history on both of the tickets.
6. May detach some young people, especially women.
7. May attach some women pissed off about Hillary.
8. As a pro-life super-achiever, puts feminists in a tizzy.
9. Revives some of the double-edged nature of the Democratic primary, which featured a black vs. a
female trail-blazer, and put both sides on notice on sensitivity issues. Democrats used to raising charges of racism against Obama’s critics may face charges of sexism and/or condescension if they try to diss her.
10. Steps on Obama’s claims to have been a reformer, as he reformed nothing (much less the corrupt mare’s nest of Chicago arrangements), while she was a dragon-slayer up in Alaska.
11. As a mother of five, one a Down Syndrome baby, helps her side take on the Democrats on abortion extremism and the Born Alive bill.
12. Reignites the deep and unhealed stresses inside the Democrats, some of whom will now wonder more loudly than ever why they didn't pick Hillary.
13. Counters Michelle in a way Cindy couldn’t.
14. Counter-intuitively, makes the issue of Obama’s light resume more potent than ever. Her lack of experience is no more than his is. And he’s--to use a term from Alaska, and the Iditarod--their lead dog.


The Weekly Standard

Hurry up November!

Originally Posted by Hamster

AO - careful with your analogies. I think you just called yourself an a-hole.

Let the poor old man dig his grave Hamster!

lets look at the other side. What is going on in the state she is the governor of.


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DENVER — In unveiling Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as Sen. John McCain’s running mate, the campaign is portraying her as a champion of ethics reform for taking on members of her own party whom she saw as beholden to special interests.
But just a few weeks ago she became the subject of a state ethics investigation.
In August, bipartisan panel of state legislators appointed an independent investigator to look into whether Palin had fired a top law enforcement official in her administration because he had failed to dismiss a state trooper who was involved in a divorce with Palin’s sister.
State Sen. Hollis French II, a Democrat and former prosecutor who is directing the inquiry and picked the independent investigator, said his sense was that the inquiry would probably not turn up a “smoking gun on the governor” but that it “certainly has the possibility of giving her an ethical black eye.”
The questions began in mid-July, shortly after Palin fired Walt Monegan, the public safety commissioner and a former Anchorage police chief. Palin said she had wanted to take the department in a different direction.
A week later, however, Andrew Halco, a former state legislator who ran against Palin for governor in 2006, published a lengthy article on his blog highlighting a bitter back-and-forth between members of Palin’s extended family and the trooper, Mike Wooten. Palin’s sister, Molly McCann, was divorced from Wooten in 2005 and was locked in a bitter custody dispute.
An internal police investigation conducted in 2005, prompted by complaints from McCann and her family, eventually resulted in Wooten’s being suspended for illegally shooting a moose and using a Taser on his stepson, although most of the complaints were dismissed.
A judge in the couple’s custody case questioned the family’s motives for filing the complaints. “It appears for the world that McCann and her family have decided to take off for the guy’s livelihood,” the judge said, according to a recording of a hearing.
The McCain campaign issued a statement saying: “Gov. Palin has been fully cooperative in this situation and has nothing to hide.”
The inquiry by the Legislature centers on what Monegan later described as pressure from members of Palin’s administration and her husband, Todd, to fire Wooten. The governor herself also raised the subject of Wooten with him, Monegan has said.
Monegan, who did not return telephone calls on Friday, told The Anchorage Daily News that Palin had showed him some of the findings of a private detective the family had hired to investigate Wooten and accused him of a variety of transgressions, including drunken driving and child abuse.
Palin told the newspaper that Wooten had made threats against his wife and her family.
As part of her efforts to demonstrate that she welcomed the Legislature’s inquiry, Palin asked the state’s attorney general to look into the accusations as well. Palin initially denied there had ever been pressure applied to Monegan.
In August, however, she released an audio recording of a top aide’s questioning of a police lieutenant about why no action had been taken against Wooten.

What about this, got a 1 year old with downs editing her page on Wiki



Sarah Palin Wikipedia edits--fast and furious

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Sarah Palin's life has been abuzz since she was officially selected as John McCain's running mate on Friday. Her Wikipedia page has, likewise, been awash with activity.
After well over a thousand edits were made to her page that day, the Wikipedia editors raised the page's protection level to restrict who can make changes, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Sarah Palin
(Credit: Alaska governor's office)
Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported evidence via Cyveillance that in the days and hours before Friday's announcement, Palin's page was being edited more frequently than those of other potential vice presidential candidates. A clue, perhaps?
Her page was specifically garnering the attention of someone identified as "Young Trigg," who made numerous edits deemed favorable by a Wikipedia editor.
There has already been much speculation as to who "Young Trigg" may be, especially considering Palin's youngest child is named Trig.
Wikipedia does have specific rules regarding conflict of interest.
However, all it will take to solve the mystery is for someone to track down the identity of "Young Trigg."

Originally Posted by Xtrafresh

Some people from Fox had predicted that Gov Palin would get the nomination. Everything that you are posting is mere speculation and cannot be traced back to Gov Palin. You simply got to offer hard solid facts.

I am just enjoying posting the same kind of shit you do buddy. Fight fire with fire.

Fox news.