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Sarah Palin and the ‘Tasergate’ Report

Posted By: 'Okie' | 9:05 am — 10/11/2008 | 3 Comments See comments below:

When I first heard the news report on the The Branchflower Report — the initial results (263 pages!!!) from an investigation directed by Obama supporter and Democratic state senator Hollis French, that it indicated that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin had used her gubernatorial powers in excess in the attempted firing of Commissioner Monegan for, supposedly refusing to fire the state trooper ex-husband of Palin’s sister — I was pretty distressed for our side. I mean, the MSM and all the Lefty talking heads would pounce on this like it was manna from Heaven, even though so far it isn’t really anything except for an opinion. According to Beldar, a practicing attorney and guest blogger at Hugh Hewitts’ blog, it’s not even a very well executed opinion either, full of major contradictions and twisted logic.

Here’s a note to Mr. Branchflower, who clearly is verbose, but obviously none too keen a scholar of logic: Gov. Palin’s so-called “firing” of Monegan (it wasn’t a firing, it was a re-assignment to other government duties that he resigned rather than accept) can’t simultaneously be a violation of the Ethics Act and “a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority.” This, gentle readers, is a 263-page piece of political circus that actually explicitly refutes itself on its single most key page!

What’s more incredible is that Branchflower utterly ignores the public admission made by Walt Monegan himself that ought to have ended this entire inquiry (boldface mine):

“For the record, no one ever said fire Wooten. Not the governor. Not Todd. Not any of the other staff,” Monegan said Friday from Portland. “What they said directly was more along the lines of ‘This isn’t a person that we would want to be representing our state troopers.’”

But then I started lookin’ on the bright side. Anyone that believes this crap is already lost to the aura of the Chosen One, anyone that can read and understand partisan B.S. has another reason not to put Mr. ACORN-van-Ayers into the seat of power.

BTW — Sarah says it’s B.S. Who you gonna believe, a Governor with the highest approval rating in the country or an old bloviating Senator with bad hair plugs?

Sure that’s mean — like I care?

heh!

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  • http://WhiteTrashVote.blogspot.com Lisa

    Palin’s errors in judgement pale next to Obama’s. So do McCain’s.

    1. The Ethics inquiry concluded that Palin was ‘proper and lawful’ in firing a state commissioner – but failed to keep her husband from meddling in the trooper’s discipline.
    2. McCain was also cleared of impropriety but criticized for poor judgment.
    3. Four of the Keating five were Democrats.

    In fact, so distressed was McCain about the Keating affair that he went on to introduce legislation to prevent that type of thing from happening again.

  • K

    30 investigators doing their best to dig up the smelliest stuff, and this is all they can come up with? Puhleeze. The allegation only makes me respect Gov. Palin more — it was SHE who was trying to defend the people of her state against a psycho who has no business working in any law enforcement capacity anywhere.