A blow for Palin fans everywhere....

POSTED BY: MrBlueSun
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 18:46
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MRBLUESUN

Saturday, October 11, 2008 1:23 AM

Whilst i generally try to avoid debating american politics the vitriolic lengths that some people on this board go to in order to defend their candidate's various errors can occasionally be intriguing (and amusing) so i thought you guys might want to take a crack at this little story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7662820.stm

Stay shiny now

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CHRISISALL

Saturday, October 11, 2008 1:41 AM

It's lie, lies & more lies!! It ain't true, I tell ya...and, uh, even if it IS, she did what she thought was right, just like President Bush always does!! Laws apply only to average citizens- good leaders have to know how to get around them to get the good works done!
She is great * can do no wrong in the eyes of the dear & fluffy Lord.

I have spokenisall

FREMDFIRMA

Saturday, October 11, 2008 2:45 AM

*borrows Tonya Harding's favorite crowbar and smacks him in the ankle with it to remind him that women are, in general, evil.*

DoubleDoseOfSnarkinFrem.

SERGEANTX

Saturday, October 11, 2008 3:32 AM

Was I the only one, upon reading this thread title, to think that a 'blow' might be just what a lot of Palin's male supporters are hoping for?
SergeantX

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FUTUREMRSFILLION

Saturday, October 11, 2008 3:34 AM

Does Palin have.......fans?

Couldnthappentoabetterpersonisall

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AURAPTOR

Saturday, October 11, 2008 3:46 AM

Mrs Palin acted within "proper and lawful authority.

end of story.

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SIGNYM

Saturday, October 11, 2008 4:07 AM

"for personal gain"

case closed

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Let's party like its 1929.

JONGSSTRAW

Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:46 AM

I'm very proud of Sarah Palin and Todd Palin and the way they acted during this entire thing. Set aside the politics for one minute if you can. Stop and think clearly. Think about her sister, her nephew, and her father as just American citizens with civil rights. There's a father, a State Trooper who is an abusive dangerous loose cannon. He abuses the wife, tasers his own 10 year old son, he threatens to kill his wife and Sarah's father. The Palin's excersized tremendous restraint in their efforts to have him removed for Public Safety concerns. By any measure of justice and safety that Commissioner who she fired was just an arrogant bastard. He worked for her. He was simply insubordinate in defying her. That Trooper thought his closeness to the Governor gave him special priviledge to behave like a lunatic, threaten to kill people, DECLARE HIMSELF PROUDLY TO BE UNTOUCHABLE & LAUGH, and batter his son. That is far greater an abuse of power than anything the Palins did. Now he's being portayed as something akin to a born-again Tookie Wilson, a Mr. Nice Guy or something. What a pathetic and dis-honest ploy. Now, back to politics. You Dems are salivating like diseased vultures over a fresh corpse because you feel this will hurt her & McCain. Twenty-four days is plenty of time for this to be absorbed by voters. Sarah and Todd will tell their story and we'll see how America responds. The depth of this Trooper's cruelness and neaderthalism went a tad beyond what NBC news calls "a messy divorce." If it had been the Clintons back in Arkansas, that Trooper would have been quietly picked up by guys in trenchcoats and shot in the woods and dumped in the river.

AGENTROUKA

Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:10 AM

If this is true, why is trying to get him fired the only thing she did about it? Shouldn't the violence and threats have been reported and made public in the same way Sarah Palin's own actions were? Wouldn't it have been very simple to clear up this whole affair mentioning these things in the press?

Seems.. weird that all these very serious factors wouldn't be mentioned more by those who would stand to gain from it. Or has it? This is the first I ever heard about it.

ETA:

I found this article using google. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008
090503407_pf.html

Quotes:
"Wooten, however, contradicted Palin's statement that she overheard him in 2005 threaten her father during an argument with Palin's younger sister, Molly McCann, Wooten's wife at the time. Wooten noted that an internal investigation failed to sustain the death-threat allegation."

Also:
"He was found to have violated state policy for using a Taser on his 10-year-old son, killing a moose while using his wife's permit, drinking a beer before driving a state vehicle and having an open beer can in the vehicle."

Regarding the taser:

"He said his stepson became curious and wanted to feel the Taser in the same way that troopers tested the device on themselves during training.

"He was inquiring about the Taser and all the ins and outs about it," Wooten said. "I hooked him up to one of the training aides and turned it on for less than a second. I had him on the living room floor with pillows around him and made it as safe as possible. When it was over he thought it was great and wanted to do it all again. He was bragging about it and telling everyone in the family about it."

Jon Marc Peterson, one of Wooten's attorneys, said the Taser incident was a violation of policy because he was using state equipment for personal use. "It was not the actual Tasing of the stepson that was the issue," he said.

Wooten's wife was in the home at the time, investigative reports state. The boy's extended family, including Chuck Heath, the father of Sarah Palin, thought the story was humorous, Wooten said.

That's not quite the same as what your words imply.

JONGSSTRAW

Saturday, October 11, 2008 11:23 AM

Don't fret. All of the truth is coming out, and many of us Palin admirers have known all this since after the Convention. Even usually Dem slanted CNN went into it last night. I applaud them for that. The networks and MSNBC, the NY Times, and all the liberal machinery of the media just called it a messy divorce. Why else do you think the Palin's went ballistic in their efforts? Just a whim? What, the Trooper cheated at the family poker game? But they didn't really go ballistic. They acted with restraint and just talked to people. The State Troopers and the civilian adminstrators are a good old boys club. They weren't going to discipline this rogue threat the the citizens.

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