Palin problems part 3.....
Sorry, I can't resist another post on Rethuglican Sarah Palin's problems. They just keep on coming.... At this point, the danger is that there are so many things that the average voter's eyes glaze over, and they just assume the press is on a vendatta. Nope, the truth is that Palin REALLY IS worse than most candidates running for national office. Not only did McCain fail to thoroughly vet her, her lack of prior national exposure means that unlike Joe Bide, who previously ran for president, she has never been thoroughly checked out by the media.
Well, here goes #3.....
1. Sarah Palin's husband Todd is being subpoenaed to testify in the troopergate probe. The subpoenas are "part of the investigation into whether the Republican vice presidential candidate abused her power in trying to get her former brother-in-law fired".
2. As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin used her local government e-mail account to send a number of political e-mails during her failed 2002 campaign for Lt. Governor of Alaska. Using government facilities or resources in a political campaign is illegal.
3. In her first, and so far only, interview since being chosen as McCain's running mate, Palin did not know what the Bush Doctrine was. (It is the doctrine that the U.S. has the right to preemptively attack countries that we think might be a threat to us....). I wish none of us had ever of the Bush Doctrine either.....because I wish it didn't exist.
4. Palin lies about her view on global warming. She told ABC News that "Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect -- or no effect -- on climate change," challenged Palin. "I have not said that. However, in December of 2007, she said "I'm not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist blaming the changes in our climate on human activity." On August 28, 2008, she said "A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made."
5. In 1998, while Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the town started a policy of billing rape victims for the cost of their rape kits. (A rape kit is an evidentiary kit used to look for the suspect's semen, hair, or fibers). This was unusual and repugnant: the Alaska legislature then passed a state law forbidding the practice. Palin's staff denies she knew about this, yet she signed a budget verification on the budget where rape kit funding was cut that she approved the budget.
6. Moderate Republicans are coming out against Palin. Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-RI, called Sen. John McCain's running mate a "cocky wacko" at an event in Washington, DC, on September 11th , the AP reports.
So many stories, so little time. Fun fun fun.....
Well, here goes #3.....
1. Sarah Palin's husband Todd is being subpoenaed to testify in the troopergate probe. The subpoenas are "part of the investigation into whether the Republican vice presidential candidate abused her power in trying to get her former brother-in-law fired".
2. As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin used her local government e-mail account to send a number of political e-mails during her failed 2002 campaign for Lt. Governor of Alaska. Using government facilities or resources in a political campaign is illegal.
3. In her first, and so far only, interview since being chosen as McCain's running mate, Palin did not know what the Bush Doctrine was. (It is the doctrine that the U.S. has the right to preemptively attack countries that we think might be a threat to us....). I wish none of us had ever of the Bush Doctrine either.....because I wish it didn't exist.
4. Palin lies about her view on global warming. She told ABC News that "Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect -- or no effect -- on climate change," challenged Palin. "I have not said that. However, in December of 2007, she said "I'm not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist blaming the changes in our climate on human activity." On August 28, 2008, she said "A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made."
5. In 1998, while Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the town started a policy of billing rape victims for the cost of their rape kits. (A rape kit is an evidentiary kit used to look for the suspect's semen, hair, or fibers). This was unusual and repugnant: the Alaska legislature then passed a state law forbidding the practice. Palin's staff denies she knew about this, yet she signed a budget verification on the budget where rape kit funding was cut that she approved the budget.
6. Moderate Republicans are coming out against Palin. Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-RI, called Sen. John McCain's running mate a "cocky wacko" at an event in Washington, DC, on September 11th , the AP reports.
So many stories, so little time. Fun fun fun.....
posted by Mike Grayson @ 5:48 PM
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