Do Democrats have a hard on for Sarah Palin?
It’s Been more then 9 months since the election, really why does David Letterman and others constantly beat a dead horse?
We get it, Sarah Palin lost. You think a smear campaign would end once the campaign did.
Who doesn’t?
They’re still attacking her because they’re scared of her. Otherwise an ex-governor from Alaska would not be worth the air time.
Palin’s fifteen minutes of fame are over. The only time she is in the news is when she opens her mouth and inserts her foot in it. She is nothing more than tabloid fodder.
No Sara Palin has a big frozen dildo on for democrats and she was stupid enough to go on to david letterman show too rofl I couldn’t beleive she did that at first then after her death pannel twit Ican believe she is that stupid. And the election is over but why can’t FOX news stop their attacks oh it is because stupid folowers of Bish will listen and buy products an their advertising.
Bush Cult Followers remind me of Jimmy Jones Cult Followers
they can’t come up with any thing new on us.
they keep going backwards instead of forward
I like help you remember what a joke she is “joe the plumber” “drill baby drill” “in what context, charlie?”
They are helping her stay in the limelight. She likes to have the notoriety. It also gives her an excuse to go on fox news and add her two cents.
Palin has fought public disclosure throughout her political career. Her first action when elected mayor (of a town of 5,000 people!) was to order city employees not to talk to any reporter. When she overruled the State of Alaska’s scientists to fight against protections for polar bears, she blatantly lied and said publicly that the scientists supported her decision. When a reporter asked to see the scientists’ emails under public records laws, she said it would cost over $468,784 for photocopy costs! And when a federal court ordered the documents released, they showed that the scientists opposed her all along.
She and her staff have adopted one of the Bush Administration’s worst excesses, conducting state business on multiple private email addresses that are not backed up and not accessible to investigators (or historians), as all official correspondence is required to be. On October 10, 2008 an Alaskan court ruled that she was evading Alaska’s open records law and ordered her to produce all emails concerning state business from private email accounts.
Most importantly, she and McCain campaign officials engaged in a furious coverup over the Mike Wooten Troopergate scandal (see Abuse of Power above). After police commander Monegan’s firing, she claimed that neither she nor her staff had ever put any pressure on Monegan to fire Mike Wooten. That was all great until an audio tape emerged of a phone call, where Frank Bailey, one of her staffers pressured Monegan, saying “Sarah and Todd can’t understand why Wooten hasn’t been fired yet.” A bipartisan legislative committee voted 12-0 to start an investigation, and Palin said she would cooperate with it 100%. Their report was due October 31st.
Then she was appointed as McCain’s running mate, and noticed that October 31st was 4 days before the election. She not only stopped cooperating, but she ordered state employees to ignore subpoenas issued by the committee. She hired a private attorney (in addition to the state attorney general who represents Alaska and the governor), and her attorney attacked the investigation as biased. He even filed a new complaint against Palin with the state Personnel Board — which is appointed by the governor — and argued that only it has legal authority to investigate this matter. They tried to get Republican allies in the legislature to squash the investigation, but failed. Finally, Palin or her allies have sued several times to block the legislature’s investigation, using the thin argument that the investigation is “not fair”. Her attorney general ordered state employees to ignore their subpoenas and sued unsuccessfully to squash them. (Note that her attorney general was an small town lawyer unknown even to Republicans in the capital, Juneau. He owes all he has to her.) The only way to enforce the subpoenas is by vote of the legislature, but it won’t be in session until next year. So Palin actually urged her staff to violate the law and ignore subpoenas which were upheld by the courts, knowing that they can’t be punished until after the election. Eventually, courts ruled against her and Palin let her staff and husband answer questions, but too late to fit into the report issued by investigator Branchflower. She even had the nerve to complain that Branchflower didn’t interview her — after SHE refused his request request for an interview.
In the meantime, Palin and allies SUED to try to stop the report because it “wasn’t fair.” Their main evidence was that the man who oversaw the investigation was a Democrat, who said out loud that the report could hurt Palin. (Duh, it’s an investigation of her for abuse of power!) Despite her arguments, the investigation was started by a 12-0 bipartisan vote (with 8 Republicans and 4 Democrats), and the same 12-0 majority voted to release it. The verdict: guilty of abuse of power, plus she lied about threats against her by Wooten, and her Attorney General stifled the investigation by not releasing emails.
It’s a very disturbing sign of her governing style that she urges staffers to break the law and uses lawsuits to stop the investigation’s report from even being made public. She is of course free to argue that the report is unfair, whatever it says, and the committee has no real power to punish her or her staff (except for violating their subpoenas). What is she so afraid of?