Palin abused power, trooper probe says

So who helped them out with arranging this as a Friday news dump? Last Friday it was Palin's questionable tax returns. I wonder what next Friday will bring.

SO WHY ISNT PALIN FIRED?

She's so shady, I think I wanna have her baby.

Another attack on Obama, of course!!

We have nothing to fear, but the 2008 Republican McCain-Palin-FoxNews ticket it's self.
Time for Republicans to regroup for 2012. After Bush, now McCain, they need to acutally get a canidate with a brain...

She should have stationed that guy Wooten on some Alaska mountain and made him keep an eye on Russia. It's right next door you know. That's just one reason Sarah is so "up" on international junk.

In the words of Nelson Muntz: "Ha ha!"

It is so SHAMEFUL for Sarah Palin, and so disappointing for REAL Conservatives like me, but then again, this is NOT the first time she has been disappointing, nor do I suspect it will be the last. OsiSpeaks.com

Palin and abuse of power - makes her a perfect replacement for Dick Cheney.

Great pick McCain for a VP running mate!!! The only time McCain was ahead in the poles was after the RNP and only because he selected a woman to run with him at the very last minute. I don't know how or why Republicans were so happy and excited about this lady. You don't hear them anymore. She has been a laughing stock ever since the Convention. She has no clue about the economy or foreign policy, she is a small town girl. Nice lady, but no VP or Pres in her future. Back to Alaska where she will probably not be governer next term. They will probably impeach her. I wonder if ACORN had anything to do with McCain's choice of Palin. The only good she has done is bringing back SNL. I was dissappointed not to see Tina Fey last night. It would have been a good laugh. Although there was a lot to laugh at McCain about.

Valpey, maybe if the Palin's had cooperated with the investigation, the verdict would have been out sooner. Today was the worst case scenario if none involved were cooperative. I am hoping that next Friday we will all be educated on her dealings with AIP, a hateful, separatist group that the Palin's sympathized with (unlike Obama with Ayers). The AIP's founder was killed while handling plastic explosives, and one of Sarah's appointements in Wasilla has automatic weapons buried in his yard just in case the Feds come a'knockin.

When you are in politics, you can't hide anything and you can expect that all will come out. The same applies to both Obama and McCain. Granted she did not break the law, but what she did was unethical.I don't want another unethical leader representing my country. We have enough problems.

Sure would like to read the email that Palin's attorney general failed to produce. One would guess that it didn't do much for the Gov's claim that Monegan wasn't being pressured to fire Trooper Wooten?

The thing that bothers me most about Palin's Troopergate scandal is that if a man did what Palin did, it would be labeled sexual harassment and the state of Alaska would be paying millions of dollars.

But since its a woman firing a man, it's just called "abuse of power".

You can't fire someone just because they break up with your sister. It doesn't matter if its a divorce or just some casual fling. Both would be legally defined as sexual harassment.

This goes to how Sarah Palin would use her power once McCain dies and she becomes President. She's going to be this vindictive and use it to settle personal vendettas. I'd hate to be that guy if Sarah is President, cause you'll have the FBI, IRS, and who knows who else coming after you.

Do I think this is a big deal in general?...no However, this abuse of power sounds like Palin will fit into the shoes of Dick Cheney. Should have Palin just told the truth at the beginning? of course she should not have lied to the American people.

What perplexes me is that John McCain's lack of thoughtfulness in it's due diligience to overlook this, or try to squash this. I am more concerned by John McCain's impetuous decision making regarding the choice of an unqualified VP (the fact everone is arguing about it shows that there is certainly some question to her credibility. I am not saying she was not good for the conservative base. Simply she is not qualified. Also if she were qualified, she would not be afraid to talk to Meet the Press and Face the Nation at a minimum. The leader of the country should be able to communicate to the media unscripted.

credibility)

Awesome. Well, I guess this blows her "reform" platform all to bits. This may very well spell the end of Mooselini, as well as McCain's bid for presidency. Good Riddance.

Interesting diversion. An ethics probe right before a presidential election. She did not break any laws but the ruling itself seems a tad political. Monegan was insubordinate and Palin had every right to fire him. During that time she was trying to protect her family from a psycho trooper. Did she file a civil complaint or did she even need to. The media will put this to good use to discredit Palin in any case. That what they have wanted anyway to take the sent off Obama and his bomber friend. How convenient.

Some one has paid to the Alaska judge panel. Wake up judges! It's not a right time for the money.

so basically Palin = Cheny... Oh yea, so wanna vote for McCain/Palin or should we just say Bush/Cheny 2

yeah, I agree!

As big corporations and politicians know: You want your bad news released on Friday, and your good news released on Monday. So yes, it is likely coming out late on a Friday by design - to make it old news by the time of Monday morning's coffee break.

The best day to release bad news is a Friday....Someone cut them a break.

OMG....is this the worst thing they can find....at least she did not start her political career in the home of a terrorist.

Yeah...I read one paragraph...hardly...and thought...this again...BLA BLA BLA WHO CARES? WHO CARES?...WHO CARES...Give it up people. There is so much REAL questionable dirt on Obama. So much to talk about there: Ayers, ACORN, etc. And this is the best they can do...So desperate.

Given the Palin response, perhaps in retrospect it should have been a criminal investigation.

Their statement wreaks of arrogance and is demeaning to read. I don't need to be provided a summary of what the report says nor instructed on how I should respond to it. I can read. It tells me Palin is a crook, and sly enough that she got away with it.

The bipartisan inquiry released their conclusion when they did. Period.
Maybe next week they will reveal that she is not Reagan in a dress but rather Hitler in a dress. She was the worst possible pick for VP.

I would like McBush to accuse Obama of being a mystery - and unload on the Ayers connection during Wed's debate now! Both Obama and Biden pretty much challenged McBush at recent rallies - to say it at the debate. I think McBush and thugs knew this report was coming out today - so suddenly McBush was all conciliatory and asked his lunatic crowd to "respect" Obama. McBush will publicly backpeddle on the Ayers connection - and let Mooselini carry on her attacks. Although it will seem laughable if she brings up Chicago politics - given that we know her as a run of the mill politician abusing power in Alaska politics.

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DID ANY OF YOU IDIOTS READ BEYOND THE HEADLINE?????????????????

THE STORY SAID IN SO MANY WORDS THAT SHE DIDN'T FIRE HIM JUST BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T FIRE HER SISTER'S EX HUSBAND. BUT, THE WITCH HUNT CONTINUES. THE LIBERAL MEDIA WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO UNDERMINE THE MCCAIN/ PALIN TICKET.
SOME OF THE COMENTS MENTIONED INTEGRITY AND HONESTY. HAVE ANY OF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF LIES OBAMA HAS MADE OVER THE LAST YEAR? HOW ABOUT BIDEN? YOU WANT AN HONEST POLITICIAN IN OFFICE? GIVE ME A BREAK. IF THAT WERE TRUE NONE OF YOU WOULD SUPPORT THE OBAMA/BIDEN TICKET. I'M SO SICK OF HEARING HOW HONEST THE DEMS ARE AND HOW DISHONEST THE REPUBLICANS ARE. OBVIOUSLY NONE OF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE CANDIDATE YOU ARE SUPPORTING.

At least four or five of the wheels of the Straight Talk Express came off this week, and tonight we find that the driver has been found guilty of DUI. McCain is torn between listening to (and obeying) the Limbaughs and Hanittys of the conservative talk radio circuit, or actually busting free of the oppressive extreme right wingers who are pouring gas on the fire under the bus. The economy stupid... that's what most Americans are concerned with and you've been spinning your wheels trying to "associate" Obama with a 64 year old ex-hippie (your description) who was a radical protester of the Vietnam War. And BTW, we had no business being in Vietnam, just like we have no business being in Iraq. But your bus driver Palin might very well wind up being a real flash in the pan after all the dust settles.

Walt Monegan has every right in the world to sue Palin and win easily. People had rumored that both Sarah and her husband were extremely pushy people, and now a truly bi-partisan committee has found her guilty of breaking the law. Her crony appointments of unqualified high school chums to state posts will probably be next on the docket. The best Lawyers in the country are probably calling Monegan right now to get the opportunity to do some pro bono work on the come.

To make matters worse, there is a groundswell of republican congressmen and governors who are repelled by the direction McCain's campaign has taken over the past 3-4 weeks. Needless to say they are worried about being associated with this nonsense and also with being re-elected.

How does Todd palin get away with this crap?? A fisherman/oil worker doing his wife's dirtywork in her office right after she's governor? I'm 11 and I can tell that's wrong. Why could he see employee files and even meet with mr. Monoghan?

Well folks the Palin hate party is over. The "ethics" ruling was based on an assumption by Branchflower and not based on fact. So the ruling was bogus. Palin on the other hand had every right to fire Walt Monegan. So screw the media and the Acorn it rolled in on.

#17, you're wrong. This investigation was going on BEFORE she was even picked by McCain (by a bi-partisan panel at that.... more Repubs than Dems), so you can't blame the Dems on this one! And it makes McCain look REALLY bad for picking someone under investigation who he knew was not qualified for the job. Certainly not country first!

Sarah Palin unethical?? I'm shocked! Shocked!
She has been so ethical in her campaign speeches so far. It must a typo in the report. Or maybe the 8 Republicans who voted to release it were bought off by the Democrats. Or maybe NYT conservative columnist David Brooks wrote the report.
I just can't get over it...Sarah Palin abused her power. What is this poor world coming to when a fine, upstanding, bridge-building, lies to us all?
I am going to have to go off and think about this for a while. My entire world view has been shattered tonight. Sarah, Sarah, why did you do it?

Het, hey there! Calm down. I LIKE Sarah Palin. I'll bet she's fun to have a coupl of beers with, especially after a long day of moose hunting, over a mug of moose stew, sittin' in our in our moose fur coats also, don't cha know. Of course she's whacked out and can't be trusted to do the right thing sober, but I'll bet she's a hootful with her snootful!

It's just so mavericky of Sarah to blame Obama for this bipartisan inquiry finding that she abused her power, isn't it?
The whole thing was set in motion and the panel appointed long before she got the come hither wink from John McCain. Was Obama somehow psychic?

R E S I G N S A R A H
America should really not let an abuser of power into the White House...not again.
Think Watergate, Cheney, Iran Contra, Valerie Plame...it all starts just like this.

As Palin would say "Who is Obama?...Perhaps the question now should be "Who is Sarah Palin?........Come on all you hockey and soccer moms you would of fired him to!

Oh, say it ain't so, Joe! Sarah did something wrong? You mean, after she's been slingin' all that mudd at Obama, bless her heart. God love her, you know where her 'reward' is gonna be in the end, now don't ya'. Golly gee.

PS: Ms. Palin, you're not like one of OUR family! Thank God.

Palin has humiliated John McCain and disgraced the Palin-McCain campaign.
Shame on Sarah.

Reading these comments really concern me - Let's stop trying to take the speck out of another's eye while we have a log in our own. We are all American. Our right is to agree that we disagree. We have the right to vote. Take it to the polls. Let's not separate ourselves from each other by party lines. It is not about whether it's a democrat or republican - Obama or McCain. it's about who can lead our nation with the most wisdom, ethics, dignity and respect for all the world to see and follow. We have always been the leader in the world, and now we look like the three stooges - Democrat - Republican and Independent. Who really wins when we play this silly blame game? Do your homework - study EACH candidate and simply VOTE!

Re: I read one paragraph...hardly...and thought...this again...BLA BLA BLA WHO CARES? WHO CARES?...WHO CARES. Another nitwit for Palin. Maybe if you read the article, Christine, you would care. She lets her husband use her office to get an ex-family member fired? And you don't think it shows her character (lack of) or ethics (lack of)? You brag that you don't read the article and then say "who cares". Are you the type of idiot that thinks Palin is vice-presidential material because she can spell her name?

Can't wait for the Palin lovers to watch in horror for eight years while someone with a brain gets to sort out Bush's ineptness. I hope somehow Obama steals Ohio and then Palin and McCain sulk in Sedona.

So the truth of the matter is Todd Palin used Palin's office to discuss Wooten's firing. Why not indict him in the meantime? And they're worried about a guy named Ayers?

Tell us . . . who makes up the 25% that still approves of Bush?

I love all the Republicans who come on now and say that "abuse of power" is something that we should ignore in a Vice Presidential Candidate...ARE YOU JOKING???? Grow up and take off those rose tinted glasses

All your dirty laudry will be aired by the American media - period! She abused her powers - period! Although she prides herself as a "Washington outsider," her at the very least "allowed heckling" as governor shows even small city girls can get in trouble too. Call in "pre election Democrat mud-slinging" if you will, but don't even try to downplay the fact that this calls into question her morals, ethics and leadership abilities. It's going to be a hard song for her to dance around and I presume the Republican election team (aka Republica machine) will continue to keep her as far from speaking in front of a camera as possible. As usual, her silence will be deafening and more and more popular and electoral votes will slip from McCain's old, withered hands. Might the Republicans risk her to be alowed to speak in front of the "media filter" - nope, just keep getting the angry racists at Repubican pep rallies all stirred up. God bless America where even a country bumpkin can make a sizable but ignorant percentage of people "believe" in what she claims to represent. Get the puck out of here and back into your snowy state!

Wow....you have to question McCain's decision making at this point. The Republicans really didn't have any better options. A Creationist who 'abuses power' who can't give a solid interview and is shielded from the press as if she can't fend for herself?

How long are we going to have to hear about how since Obama knows a 60's radical (the predominant sentiment at the time) who is currently a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, he's a terrorist. And that since he wants to make those earning 250k pay the same taxes they were when Clinton (you know the guy who didn't put us into trillions in debt) was in office, he's a communist. The right wing has truly lost it. Get a grip guys....you're looking overly desperate.

Dam the members of the partisan investigation committee they are picking on the bulldog with lipstick!

Ops! Ten republicans and four democrats, blame them anyway it is McCain’s style of politics.

Oh! I know it was the Moslems on the committee, what no Moslems?

Ok! Lets blame the Blacks, what!!! No blacks?

Gee! Do you think it was witchcraft, hurry up call the exorcist!

That leaves us with the fact that the members were sexist, lets get the Hillary Clinton supporters to protest the sexist Alaska legislature.

If all else fails just blame the liberal media for reporting this.

You go girl, wink, wink. ;-)
Kwaayesnama

"The evidence supports the conclusion that Governor Palin, at the least, engaged in 'official action' by her inaction if not her active participation or assistance to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired..."

Let me get this straight: She "engaged in official action by her inaction" and thereby abused her power?

All I can say is: Can't that woman control her husband when he tries to get sleazy cops fired just because they threaten her family?????

Wow, Obama and ACORN, how damning. Wait, first Obama is belittled as a lightweight because he was only a namby pamby community organizer, but now we are to quake in fear at the unbridled power of community organizers when they... wait for it... organize!

Don't forget, Jesus was a community organizer (and a liberal Jew as well), Pontius Pilate was a governor.

Well, I guess that just means that Sarah Palin is just as unethical as she is unqualified.

The responses to this report, stun me. Do you who have read this report not understand the nature of an ethics violation. Several times when he was contacted Mr Monegan refered to "discoverable" evidence. He was telling the various people from Todd Palin to Sarah Palin's staffers that there were ethical concerns to discussing the charactor of an Alaska State Trooper. There have been reported over two dozen contacts made. It is never appropriated to use one's position of power to advance one's personal needs. There were proper review boards to look into allegations of illegal activities on the part of Trooper Wooten. Gov. Palin did nothing to stop the contacts with Mr. Monegan, and in fact denied that anyone in her office made any calls to pressure Mr Monegan. That changed when a phone call between Frank Bailey an aide to Gov Palin and a trooper named Rodney Dial surfaced.
Do Americans want someone who can not separate their personal life from their public duties? A breach of ethics in not a small problem. This speaks to a lack of integrity, and vindictiveness. Why did Sen McCain nominate a candidate who was being investigated?

don't feminist and gay liberals have anything better to do than type on a computer all the time? Seems like the few times I get on here and check out the blogs, they're always here, whining about one thing or another. For liberals, they sure are hateful folks. I guess it stems from jealous and misery. Get a life, would you folks. And, God bless you Sarah; you're awesome!!

THIS WOOTEN GUY SERVED PALIN AT HER WILL AND COULD BE FIRED FOR NO REASON ANYTIME SHE WANTED. THIS INVESTIGATION WAS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED BECAUSE SHE IS RUNNING OF VP BY BITTER REPUBLICANS THAT SHE EXPOSED FOR FRAUD IN HER STATE. THEY WILL NOT BE REELECTED AFTER THE PEOPLE FIND OUT THEY ARE DOING THIS TO HER THERE. WHY ARENT ANY ILLINOIS POLITICIANS INVESTIGATING OBAMAS CONNECTION TO DOMESTIC TERRORIST AYERS OR FOR CAMPAIGNING FOR ODINGA IN KENYA IN 2006 WHICH ODINGA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR BURING CHRISTIANS ALIVE IN CHURCHES AFTER HE LOST THE ELECTION OBAMA CAMPAINGED FOR HIM FOR? WHY ISNT ANYONE INVESTIGATING THE REAL ESTATE DEALINGS OBAMA HAD WITH PEOPLE THAT WHERE THROWN IN PRISON? HIS TIES TO THE RADICALS IN CHICAGO? PATHETIC. YOU ALL ARE SHEEP AND KOOLAID DRINKERS. THIS COUNTRY DESERVES EVERYTHING IT HAS TO SUFFER THREW BECAUSE IT HAS IDIOT CITIZENS THAT THINK LIKE A BUNCH OF MORONS. YOUR LETTING THE "NOT SO MAINSTREAM MEDIA" FOOL YOU AND BRAINWASH YOU INTO BELIEVING LIES ABOUT OBAMA AND YOU ALL FALL FOR IT LIKE IDIOTS! YOUR ALL PATHETIC!!

You better go read up on Sarah Palin and the Alaska Indepedent Party that she once was a member of along with her husband. A very terrible hatefulGroup.
Go to You Tube to see for yourself. You will be suprise. Worst than Ayers.

Lipstick on a pig? No, lipstick on Hitler. She plays the fear mongering card so McCaine can look clean.

Yes, this is minor but is at best unethical. Just another corrupt politician who doesn't understand history.

Here are the heroes of the Republican party.
Jack Abramoff (convicted of corruption)
Ted Stevens (how many times was he re-elected?)
Larry Craig (I'm not gay, just have gay sex. Tap, tap, tap)
Ted Haggard (The only difference between me and W is Ford vs GM)
(I'm also not gay, I pay for sex and drugs, that's different)
Trent Lott (Scruggs plead guilty to conspiring to bribe a Mississippi Judge by promising him a federal judgeship appointment using his influence over Lott)
Tom Delay (Indicted on criminal charges for campaign finance violations)
John Negroponte (Has denied having knowledge of any wrongdoing by Honduran military forces while he was ambassador there)
John Ashcroft
Katherine Harris
Phyllis Schlafly
Pat Buchanan
Jerry Falwell
Rick Santorum
Paul Wolfowitz (my girlfriend was qualified for the job)
And # 1,
Cindy and John McCain for the Keating 5.

McCain was one of the Keating Five, the guys who brought you the first S&L scandal that cost taxpayers billions and fleeced elderly investors out of their life savings. 5th from the bottom of his class, McCain also has the track record of cheating on his first wife, and getting engaged to his second wife before his divorced to his first wife was finalized. Does he sound trustworthy? McCain has been treated for advanced melanoma: it is a deadly form of skin cancer. Why won't he release his medical records? Will he live four more years? McCain said he thoroughly vetted his VP running mate Sarah Palin. Does that mean she has had her rabies, feline leukemia, and distemper shots?

Omg. Seriously people say that Obama is desperate even though he is up in the polls. Come on.BS. It's sad that people who say he's a terrorist can't look it up for themselves and find that it's NOT TRUE.it's just one whole big distraction from the economy, the palin abusing her power, palin being a ditsy, mccain an angry little man and all the other stuff that are irrelevant. Oh no he's gonna bomb my own country please grow some balls and vote for someone who is not focusing on running ads about personality and some one that lied, give me a break. There is no politician out there that hasn't lied. But yet they still get put into office. And using obamas full name... Lol. So ridiculous. Oh no he's sadam hisseins brother. Lol. Comedy. Please.

Bickering aside:
What America needs, I believe, more than anything, more than 700 billion dollars, more than health care, more than another chapter in the so-called cultural wars, is a good ROLE MODEL. Our leaders, in business and in politics have been stupendously venal, corrupt, cowardly and bogus. We need Congresspeople with backbones and intellectual rigor and above all with integrity. These past decades have been horrid, from open lies to economic hooliganism.

McCain and Ms. Palin are both so power hungry, they would do anything, say anything to just get into the White House. No schadenfreude about Ms. Palin being charged with abuse of power from me, she is a bizarre and sad figure, who should have refused the job. But from the first minute on, when she told us she didn't blink when asked to join the ticket, I, and millions of others, already knew she had a problem with "power". The McCain request should have elicited an answer like "Give me three-four days to think it over, discuss it with my family, check the records..."

As for McCain, he had his chance. Even up until a few days ago, he could have kept to a substantive debate, but no, the taste of power overwhelmed him.Here is a man who resisted the Vietcong in Hanoi for 5.5 years, but it took him about 5 months to surrender to the temptation of giving up all he believed in to imbibe the bilge of the GOP far-right "base." His "agents of intolerance" are no his religious gurus, the people who taunted him in 2000 are now the advisers to his campaign. And now he realizes how frightfully he underestimated the intelligence and insight of the American people (not the lunatic fringe, that will go for McPalin no matter what). So now he calls Obama a “decent man.” ... McCain must have been told that the attacks were blowing up in his face (many of us predicted that after Palin's disastrous debate).

He must have terrible difficulties facing his own self in the morning. I don’t want that man to be the leadership role model for my kids. No thanks.

Role models. Americans have surrendered that job to talking heads, hate-radio jocks, bad politicians, silly actors, feral and hysterical pastors of fly-bitten churches or billion-dollar bethels. We venerate people who become absurdly rich, we venerate figures who brutally punch their way through life, we venerate politicians who give us the feeling of being good at barbecuing. That's why I will not have a television in my house.

Setting an excellent example..... that is perhaps the most important aspect of the Obama/Biden presidency and why such a man as Obama is desperately needed today.
Talleyrand

It's all about character. Why would anyone vote for a candidate who has "abused power"? If that's what Palin did on a small Alaskan scale, what would she do on a grand American scale? The reason people are paying attention to this "abuse of power" issue is that McCain and Palin have been slamming Obama on every minute association possible, defaming his character and shredding him to pieces.............for what?......the likes of Ayers? Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was involved in Viet-Nam war protests, and serving on a charity board with him 40 years later should not cast a negative light on Obama at all.

In response to Campbel's above post, "Monegan was insubordinate and Palin had every right to fire him. During that time she was trying to protect her family from a psycho trooper. Did she file a civil complaint or did she even need to." I think as the Gov of Alaska she would be aware of the protections that the law allows these cases. Had the Palin family used the same system provided by the law that the rest of us have access to, this would not be an issue of ethical behavior on Gov. Palin's behalf. Senator Joe Biden wrote the groundbreaking bill that eventually passed as the Violence Against Women Act of 1994,
Notice a diiference in the VP candidates now?

I am an Indian interested in us politics.
and according to the birds eye view i get frm here
ur republican party seems to be a replica of bjp here a communal hatred spreader who calls itself nationalist.
obama simbolises the opressed trying to get power using democracy
and the rulers getting mad at the idea of it

I personally do not need an investigative committee to tell me that something is wrong with Sarah Palin. The fact that her husband made 36 contacts to try to get fired a personal contact of the governor and spoke as if his activity was totally legitimate tells me that Ms Palin's temperament is unsuited to be president. I say president because McCain has been secretive about his medical records and that which I, as a physician, have been able to discern suggests to me that the possibility of her being president is far more likely than in an ordinary situation.

We have seen the results of having a president who was unsuitable for the job by temperament. Ms Palin is equally unsuited. Whatever else is said about this matter nothing will change her unworthiness.

#17 Campbell, a diversion?

This whole investigation could have been over a month ago, or soon after Palin was chosen as McCain's VP. Her all of a sudden her change from transparency to secrecy started when she accepted McCain's offer. Palin could have come forth, but didn't

Read the Anchorage Daily News, online. You'll get far more coverage and reaction from people who actually live there. And, BTW, Palin's approval ratings in AK have been slipping, day-by-day.

Her family was in fear? Really? Well then, the logical step is to get the man they fear fired... a man that owns, or has access to, weapons. That makes a lot of sense, lol.

These people must think we're idiots.

Has anyone ever heard about Palin requesting addition security for her or her family after these "threats"? I haven't. Hmmmm. Yes, get the ARMED man who allegedly made threats good and angry but take NO SECURITY MEASURES.

Better still, can anyone imagine ANY governor getting a death threat from a state trooper, and that trooper not being in jail within 24 hours? Hmmmm. Forget about getting him fired, he'd be in jail... IF a threat was actually made to the top official in the state.

Please don't insult us any longer, Sarah.

"First Dude" flexed his political clout and settled a family score. If his wife couldn't stop him or wouldn't stop him, and I'm not sure which is worse - she's just as guilty.

There was no threat.

Uh Huh, so the title indicates she was totally abusing her power when she fired the guy who wouldn't fire the state trooper despite the state trooper having TASERED THE 13-YO BOY of his girl-friend. So exactly what do you wonderful people "THINK" should have happened? I get it, a parent tells their child "NO" to something so they get investigated for it by the government, BUT a government official doesn't do a thing about a STATE TROOPER abusing a child with a weapon and it's OK... Typical idiot liberal pigs. So, the governor actually does something about it. Oh, and little brained people, something you might want to know: The guy that got fired said she was right to have done so. You people are the first to whine when someone, such a barney frank or the Hitlerite nancy polosy, are shown to have been bribed. "Oh, they are wonderful people and you shouldn't judge them for what they have done." Then your hypocritical self-righteous moronic selves go around and judge every single person you can who doesn't agree with you or shows that you are hypocrites (Oh, note for all those wonderful feminist, Palin is female...wasn't feminism about women obtaining powerful positions? Hypocrites-R-U). You people are the Nazis (NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY for you idiots). You are the type of people who allowed the murder of hundreds of millions throughout Europe and Asia last century. "GIVE PEACE A CHANCE", yea that worked for Chamberlin

This Troopergate stunt by the Democrats won't work for Obama.Look at the ghost looming in the corner for Barrack,Ayers,ACORN,Rev Wright,Farragan,Voter Fraud,Father Phflagger,Ozinger of Kenya,Palestinian Terrorist connection,Race and many more follow.

Could someone, please tell me why with the wall to wall coverage on video and in print about the Ayer's thing, the MSM has not done an in depth investigation into Sarah and Todd Palin's very solid relationship (Todd's 7 year membership also) with the Alaska Independence Party? We know nothing about this candidate. In the interest of fairness, (considering the amount of time spent on Ayers) shouldn't this issue be opened up to the public?? Don't we have a right to know about this?

Can anyone explain why the media is ignoring this?

The possibility of Palin as VP is frightening. And considering McCain is 72, has battled Cancer 4 times, and refuses to release his medical records, is disturbing. In addition to my concerns about McCain's health, I hope anyone voting for him is in excellent health, and have Palin praying for their health as well:
McCain Has Received $1 Million+ From the Health Care and Insurance Industries. According to the Center for Responsive Politics
2005: McCain Voted to Cut Billions from Medicare and Medicaid. McCain voted for the budget reconciliation bill that cut $3.9 billion from the amount Medicaid pays for prescription drugs, and cut $3.2 billion by allowing states to reduce benefits and increasing the amount beneficiaries pay. The bill also reduced spending on Medicare by $6.4 billion by requiring that beneficiaries purchase medical equipment and cutting payments to home health care providers. [Senate CQ Vote #363, 12/21/05; CQ, 12/26/05]

1999: McCain Voted for a Tax Cut That Benefited Insurance Industry. McCain voted to include a $950 million provision to allow insurance companies to write off losses accrued by their affiliates. Insurance companies gave more than $31 million to Republicans in the 1997-1998 election cycle - or 70 percent of their total political contributions. [Senate Roll Call #261, 08/5/99, HR 2488, Center for Responsive Politics Money in Politics Alert, "The Big Winners: A Look at Tax Breaks Won by Special Interests," 8/2/99]

1996: McCain Voted for Medical Savings Accounts. McCain voted against an amendment to take the Medical Savings Accounts provisions from the underlying Kennedy-Kassebaum bill that would have increased health are portability. Medical Savings Accounts help the healthy and wealthy while driving up costs for others. [RPC, web page, Vote #72, 4/18/96]

1995: McCain Voted to Drastically Cut Health Care for Children. McCain voted for the 1995 GOP budget that would have repealed guaranteed coverage of preventative, primary care and hospital services for about 18 million children. The $170 billion Medicaid cut proposed by the GOP would have drastically reduced the availability of preventive, primary, and hospital care for poor children. In addition, the GOP proposal in the 1995 budget to block grant Medicaid would have left states at risk for 100 percent of unanticipated increases in the need for health care due to economic downturns, inflation, population changes, communicable disease outbreaks, or other circumstances. [Senate CQ Vote #584, 11/17/95; DPC Legislative Bulletin, H.R. 2491, 11/17/95; Congressional Quarterly, 11/18/95, p. 3540]
McCain at the New Hampshire Debate 1/6/08: "We will secure the borders first." [Debate, 1/5/07]
Vote Obama/Biden!!
Or stay in excellent health, and prepare for the dome on the White House being replaced by a steeple!!

If Obama were the man McCain is, he would have used this to destroy Palin. That is exactly the approach McCain uses. You'll notice that Obama did not. He just kept talking about the issues facing America and his proposals to heal the country and our economy. That's what a president does. He leads.

Great news for McCain-Palin and America!

"Governor Palin's firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority"

Now when will the Globe put the same effort into Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko? Yeah right, as usual they won't put any effort into any story that makes Obama look bad.

Another Republican criminal in our White House like Bush or Cheney except this time named Sarah Trooper Abuse Palin? Wow, I'm shocked. Not.