James Grimaldi and Kimberly Kindy of the Washington Post already have a story out that seems to undermine the McCain campaign’s attempts to assure us that Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s lack of experience is o.k. because she’s a reformer.
Palin’s sister apparently did not exercise great judgment in choosing her husband, Mike Wooten, a State Trooper. She filed for divorce, and things got ugly. No real political problem there. Messy divorce proceedings aren’t exactly uncommon.
But then, while the divorce was pending, Sarah Palin got elected governor and she and her family began pressuring the State police chief to fire Wooten. The police chief wouldn’t do it, and she fired him. Then she denied that she and her family had been involved in pressuring for Wooten’s termination.
Now she is backtracking on her denial that she pressured for Wooten’s termination, and an investigation has been launched into whether the police chief’s termination was improper.
Palin would be right at home in a Bush administration. This is fairly reminiscent of the Bush administration’s history of firing Attorneys General for personal/political reasons, denying what they had done, then stonewalling Congress.
Whatever you think of McCain, he is not going to clean out the Washington stables of the mess created by the Bush administration. Possibly he would have been tolerable if he was coming in fresh in 2000 — I voted for him in the primary back then and intended to vote for him in the general; though, as the Iraq War saying goes (not for McCain), if I knew then what I know now, I would not have cast the vote.
There’s nothing there.
Read the whole story doesn’t seem to be a whole lot to it but it is still under investigation.
Her husband and staff made numerous phone calles, and she didn’t know. Then she did know.
We’ve already had that presidency.
Oh, NO! Not another -gate! Please, can’t we just start calling them scandals again!?!?
I think the thing that annoys me the most about that meme is that Watergate was just the place where another scandal occurred, but then every other one with the -gate has actually attempted to describe the subject.
In any case, you’ll (the media, and I guess that includes you, Doug) have to choose another name. “Trooper Gate” has been used twice before, first time being with Clinton.
We can’t afford 4 more years of the same. Grampie McSame and Caribu Barbie have got to go!
Troopergaate is about to become Palin’s undoing.
This mess is about ready to explode and it’s not going to be pretty for the gov. Some concerned Alaskans, myself included thing that Ms. Palin should be impeached. You can check in on latest developments on the anchorage daily news website.
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