Flailin at Palin
A picture’s worth a thousand words as NYT kicks off its hit on Palin. Cutline: “Decidedly Alaskan touch.” Subtext: “Right-wing yokel belongs to endangered species death cult.” Here’s the rest, which wants make sure you know she’s no acceptable Hillary substitute and shares only charm with the Anointed One.
WaPo wants you to know about Palin’s trooper problem but doesn’t want to tell you too much about it. It’s not quite like Bill’s trooper problem, but maybe the Clinton backers will get nostalgic. OK, sorry, that was unkind. WaPo’s short on details about whether this was bitter divorce/family acrimony out of control, whether there were other significant extenuating circumstances, and whether it really is what they are saying it is. A little more here, sounds like Dems may push for impeachment, which if it comes mid-election will have more to do with national politics than Alaskan justice.
Anchorage Daily News with considerably more trooper context, suggests there may have been a legitimate problem with the trooper and the handling of it somewhat less than sinister:
Attorney General Colberg also disclosed Wednesday that he’d made a call about Wooten. Colberg said he called Monegan several months ago after Todd Palin asked him about “the process” for when state troopers make death threats against the first family.
“I made an inquiry and was told by commissioner Monegan that there was a process in place and that it was handled and it was over. And I reported back to the first gentleman that there was nothing more that could be done,” Colberg said.
Palin said her husband also contacted Monegan about a threat made by Wooten but backed off when Monegan indicated he couldn’t get into the matter.
The family had alleged the threat in 2005, before Palin became governor. They said Wooten had told Palin’s sister he would shoot their father if he got the sister a lawyer.
Wooten denied saying anything like that. But a trooper investigation concluded he did, although it wasn’t a crime because he didn’t threaten the father directly. Wooten’s actions did violate trooper policy, the investigator found.
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(Public Safety Commissioner Walt) Monegan was a Palin appointee, and she had a right to fire him for any reason. She’s previously refused to say exactly why she got rid of him, but laid out several reasons Wednesday, saying she’s decided to talk about it because Monegan is.
Palin said he wasn’t doing enough to fill state trooper vacancies and battle alcohol abuse issues. She said he “did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues.”
Palin said it’s fine to have debates during cabinet meetings over the budget but Monegan went further and indicated to legislators she wasn’t proposing enough spending. Palin’s acting chief of staff, Mike Nizich, said Monegan asked legislators for spending that hadn’t been authorized by the governor.
“The response he got was don’t come to us and ask for more money when you cannot fill the 56 or 58 trooper positions that were vacant,” Nizich said. “So he was making a pitch for additional funding when he couldn’t even fill what he currently had available to him.”
Anyway, here’s the whole thing.
Then there’s Palin, Buchananite. Article suggests it’s more about state’s rights. We’ll find out whether she’s over the isolationism. Her boss doesn’t have that problem.
Fournier, the AP scribbler who called a Clinton a Clinton and recently PO’d the left by failing to worship the feet of the Messiah, opines that Palin undercuts McCain’s inexperience hit on Obama. One problem. McCain, unlike Obama, doesn’t have an inexperience problem. It’s a glass half-empty angle that ignores the advantages of bringing in an outside-the-Beltway hockey mom perspective. Meanwhile, more agist Dem comments about judgment and experience like this, please:
“On his 72nd birthday, is this really the one-heartbeat-away he wants to put in the White House?” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the No. 3 Democrat in the House. “What does this say about his judgment?”
OK, here’s the Weekly Standard with some Palin upsides.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:59 am Comments (15) on Saturday, August 30, 2008
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August 30th, 2008 at 10:27 am
No, he’s not senile at all. Her resume is far more impressive than Obama’s. She, unlike Obama, has executive experience. All Obama has is being a “community organizer”, state senator, then US senator. None of which gives him one second of executive experience. Has he ever held a job that wasn’t paid with the taxpayer’s money? We know that Biden in practical terms has never held a real job, either.
The Senate is just a debating club. Like consultants senators have no responsibility for the effects of what they do.
August 30th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
“Suffice to say , with her current level of experience, Palin would never have earned the Republican nomination for President.”
But Biden would have earned the Democratic nomination, apparently. So in all this time, why hasn’t he?
August 30th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
“A picture’s worth a thousand words as NYT kicks off its hit on Palin.”
Jules, my goodness, you make it sound like that picture of her office was Photoshopped… it was not.
So why is that photo a hit-piece if that’s how she chooses to decorate her office?
Very misleading Jules.
August 30th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I like the way lefties are comparing Obama and Palin.
For one thing, it’s a slam on McCain’s age, under the assumption that (as Rebecca puts it, heh!) McCain will kick the bucket. But McCain is but 6 years older than Biden*; who’s to say Biden won’t check out in the next 4 years?
Not that it matters, either way. But all this projection by the lefties……can’t they find another way to deal with their problems?
But more importantly, it’s an admission that Palin threatens them. They just had their little game of identity politics thrown back in their face…..by a VP candidate who doesn’t need identity politics to succeed. In reality, much of the Obama campaign are misogynists (”Sweetie”, anyone?) who play the identity politics game (”Voting against Obama is racist!” anyone?) simply to win, not because they are concerned about “equality”, “diversity”, or any other nonsense like that.
So spin away, Obamaists. Please. Show the country what you are really made of. McCain can only lose this election…..Obama has to win it.
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*: Yep, I just compared Presidential and VP candidates. The lefties are already doing it. Sue me.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
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August 31st, 2008 at 6:55 am
Real_JeffS, McCain is also just 3 years older than Nanny Pelosi who is third in the line of succession.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:29 am
That’s right, wf! And he doesn’t use Botox as well. Surely that counts for something.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:12 am
That means McCain is also just 6 years older than Harrison “Indiana Jones” Ford. Millions of people paid money to see him swing from the rafters and some even bought it.
Anyways, if something happened to McCain, Palin could appoint an experienced vice president for herself and end up just where Obama is now. End of story.
August 31st, 2008 at 11:29 am
Well said, wf. Although I enjoyed that movie, I kept on wondering if Ford missed his chest hair……..
And Waffles is at it again, comparing Palin to…..Cheney. (Thanks to Hot Air for the link!)
I don’t know which is more pathetic about this: the Dhimmicrats silly attempt to scare people with images of Cheney, or the implied acknowledgment that McCain isn’t a genuine conservative…..which rips their own ads to shreds.
Besides, Palin never shot a lawyer before. Hmmmmmm……is that a qualification or a disqualification?
August 31st, 2008 at 11:45 am
The picture is perfect; vintage Alaska.
A Grizzly Bear and an Alaskan King Crab; not unlike the Cod at the Massachusetts State House.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
The Palin pick is phenomenal. The left is agog in trying to find ways to attack and smear her.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
The left is agog in trying to find ways to attack and smear her.
And failing miserably. But they’ve only had a few days to developing their talking points. Give ‘em a week, and we’ll a different approach. Irrational and immature, most likely. And certainly unified.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:23 am
What if something happens to Joe Biden, Rahm Emanuel? Are we are zero heartbeat away from disaster?
September 1st, 2008 at 1:13 am
Does he have Alzheimer’s?
No, he’s crazy like a fox. Attacks on Palin’s “inexperience” also amplify in the public’s mind Obama’s even greater lack of experience…and Obama is running for the top spot, not VP.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:59 am
That’s what amazes me, she has executive experience and he has none, yet he’s attacking her experience. Go figure.