Palin may have been justified in her actions. WKJM is destroying the credibility of a once great site.

...supporters like Jeralyn quoting WKJM. As if he had any credibility left....I've also seen the Think Progress page on the 'scandal' and I hardly doubt a firing of a state trooper who tasered his 11 year old son, made threats against the governor and illegally killed a moose is anywhere in the ballpark of getting sweetheart government contracts like Stevens. Sure seems like the PB 1.0 is in full force today tying all sorts of loose ends together, well, rather loosely.

LINK:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/pali...

The Republicans got GWB, a former cocaine-snorting draft dodger, elected. Does WKJM seriously think they need to worry about a woman protecting her sister against an abusive husband? Yeah, let's start attacking Palin on that front right now -- it's a political winner.

I see only upside to this pick for McCain. He shores up his conservative base and the mudslide of misogyny already heading for Sarah Palin suggests that he will manage to suppress votes for Obama. He may not get some of Hillary voters with this pick but he may get them to stay home. I'm frankly already disgusted by the media and blog coverage of Palin. She's a contemporary of Obama's with a resume that's not on its face much thinnner than his. Why is the bar set higher for women? (I can hear those arguments now). Danger, Will Robinson!

Obama chose to run a personality/character-based primary and allowed McCain to define the GE that way. It's going to be hard to turn the bus around now to issues but they need to do it quickly because Palin is dangerous to them. McCain can afford to give up the experience critique if he can leverage the misogyny angle to get women disgusted enough to stay home.

And since PB1.0 is entirely predictable, they are probably hoping for this. Its not that I think the McCain camp is super smart, its that I think PB1.0/Obama campaign is super stupid.

Perhaps the two equate if they think they can bulldoze the GOP with misogyny the way they bulldozed Clinton.

"You'd better get this straight. Wise up before it's too late." -- Sister Sledge

I mean any public safety director who would keep a known wife-beater-child-abuser on the force needs to be fired.

something they've never done about Obama or Biden to date.

a real issue here.

I love this job!

I love this job!

What if Palin knows she's there to be taken down?

She has a young child with Down's Syndrome, and she'll have to travel far more than she would as Governor.

She flat out said she doesn't know what a Vice President does; wouldn't someone under serious vetting by McCain's team be briefed on this?

What if she wants to twist the knife in all those feminists who don't come to her aid, when she is attacked for solely being a female?

What if she's told not to broadcast that message to Republican women (who'll respond to the fears broadcast about national security, and stick with McCain), but the swing voters and Democratic women who will see a Hillary pillaging all over again?

Is disgust with the entire male wing of American politics strong enough to suppress the *entire* female vote?

Could our leaders do any worse than the wilding and rhetorical gang-raping they've indulged in since Winter?

If this anniversary of American women's suffrage ends by disinfranching women through psychological warfare, TPTB will consider the depredations of McCain's policies to be cheap at the twice the price. Breaking the back of feminism as a political force is worth it.

She has a sinecure future in Alaska, due to the Illinois-strength corruption of the GOP and the oil money culture. She won't be hurting in any way if she's dumped. I think we'll see Mittens on the ballot, once Gov. Palin withdraws from the race, to spend more time with her precious, battered, unjustly smeared family.

And the Democrats will be the equivalent of Bill Clinton (or Bob Packwood) with his pants unzipped -- too intelligent to give a damn about honorable sexual politics.

cg.eye:

Could our leaders do any worse than the wilding and rhetorical gang-raping they’ve indulged in since Winter?

Yes.

Shock Doctrine, Shock Doctrine, Shock Doctrine.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

I don't think for a second that the Republicans would hesitate to pick a VP who had been corrupt or violated state law. The fact that she passed vetting is no proof of whether she did or didn't fire the public safety director for improper reasons.

What I do have great faith in, though, is that she would not have gotten past the vetting process if they didn't think they could absolutely spin the story in their favor.

I do wish that there was some serious reporting on this, because my understanding was that her public safety director's position was one of 'serving at her pleasure'. So can't she fire him for any reason, even a bad one? What grounds was the trooper fired on? (I'm doubting his pink slip said 'for being a bastard to the Gov's sis').

Really, Paul, I don't think you mean what you just said. Someone who uses violence against a weaker person to enforce power is NOT someone who should have police powers under any circumstances.

Would you like to rephrase this?

It's immoral and in fact illegal--you're not allowed to beat your spouse.

I've always found you great on people's rights, and particularly recently, on those people who are women, Paul, so perhaps this isn't what you meant to say?

I think this is going to be taken care of one way or another. And I too wish there were good reporting. I've read lots of stuff. Not all of it the same. But I'm pretty sure the trooper remains on the job. And his boss was fired for refusing to fire him.

Problem is the Gov. is on record as praising the guy's boss, and then she turns around and fires him on what look like trumped up charges. But the manager serves at her pleasure so she could let him go any time for any reason. She can't fire the trooper. Most probably his manager couldn't do it without causing a big fuss, either.

After the Gov. fired the manager, she appointed another man to fill his shoes. He ended up having a skeleton in his closet --some substantial sexual harassment charges against him --and he had to step down. The Gov. gave him a good chunk of severance pay but she'd given his predecessor none.

But don't confuse this with "good news reporting!" I'm just reporting what I've read.