Sarah Palin even has more staying power than Bob.
Posted on 06/25/2010 10:03:27 AM PDT by Bob J
1. Alaska State Ethics LawsMuch is made of the back bencher dems in Alaska who filed ethics complaint after ethics complaint which "hounded" Palin out of office. But we have to remember this severely flawed ethics law was one that was championed by Palin and which she signed into law.
Now it happens that sometimes flawed laws get passed and signed but when they are discovered it is possible to go back and fix it. From the beginning of these ethics charges right up until now I've never understood why a Republican Governor with a 2/3rds majority in the State Congress couldn't just go back and amend the law allow the State Attorney General the ability to handle and defend these issues (like most states) and also if the charges are thrown out or deemed without merit allow the politician in question to recover any legal costs incurred.
Seems reasonable to me, why was this never done, maybe never contemplated by Palin or the pubs in Alaska? Palin supporters make much hay about how the law is flawed, how it was used to harass and bankrupt her, just fix it, dammit!
You claim to have followed Palin closely. As a Romney toady, I suspect that you have done some of that.
Yet your post conveniently ignored the fact that most of the Republicans in the Legislature at the time were clients either of the Murkowski Administration or the Oil Companies (Exxon-Mobil, Conoco-Philips, or our old friends, BP, as in "Beyond Petroleum").
So what you dishonestly, and quite conveniently omit in your post is that there was no incentive for these Republicans to go back and amend the law that they deliberately fixed to omit them, but not a Governor who had fought them tooth and nail on many reform issues.
Alaska has a corrupt political culture. Good people like Palin and her successor, Sean Parnell, cannot for long serve in that system and hope to bring fundamental reforms to it. Parnell survives because he does not rock the boat. Palin fell because there was no incentive for Republicans in Alaska to help her out.
Too many of them were corrupt.
And you just apologized for them. Which makes you part of the problem. Just like them.
Best,
Chris
p.s.: Now you can go back to your Sarah bashing, not that it will do you any good. If the G.O.P. is foolish enough to nominate a soggy cucumber-and-mayonnaise Bushie Republican like Teh Mittens that you apparently so eagerly want to inflict on the Conservative Movement, we will deserve to get beaten like the proverbial Rented Mule by Obama and his minions.
Great post.
Good luck to all of you MittCare supporters lol.
Yeah, that will work.
However, I've not heard their names come up in the meantime.
I am curious whether any of the people advising her were actually 'plants' meant to sabotage her?
It seems there'd be a long line of willing volunteers for that.
I'd bet money that Governor Palin and her husband read EVERY single comment that either Bob J and mkjessup ever post here.
Anything resembling onstructive criticism is not something she can find anywhere else; the stuff the far leftie libs write is normally way off the wall insane, and to her fervent supporters she is Perfect, so they are entirely uncritical.
I seriously doubt that the palins lurk at all.
You are making much out of nothing. The people who set up the fund included lawyers who read the law one way, which was in the opinion of the investigator, not the right way.
Sarah Palin even has more staying power than Bob.
1) Never say that “ Palin is not qualified “ or “ not ready to be president.“ That is the greatest sin.
2) Don't say that she is “not electable”, jeeze, that's generating negative Karma.
3) Don't say she is not interested. Alternatively she is not obligated to run either. But we need her to run to save us, even if she doesnt want to, but she doesnt have to. All clear??
4) Don't say she is a RINO just because she campaigned for a RINO. She had to do that because .... OK this will be understood later, Have faith!
” 3) Don’t say she is not interested. Alternatively she is not obligated to run either. But we need her to run to save us, even if she doesnt want to, but she doesnt have to. All clear?? “
LOL!
So? The point of the complaint was the word "official" might lead to confusion with her position as Governor. If she is not Governor, it only means "personally authorized"
A keeper.
“Your argument is fine, except that Sarah Palin had nothing to do with the defense fund, never asked for it, never touched it, and didn’t make any of the decisions about it.”
That’s just not true Charles, she obviously was involved in many of the decisions in starting it up.
“She was acting on the advice of her attorneys.”
What advice? “Her” attorneys? “Acting on”?
The language in the ruling makes it apparent Palin was receiving legal opinions and had the final decision on whether to go forward. In addition she was setting conditions like “keep it Alaskan”. The trustee was a close, personal friend.
None of this points to an arm’s length distance on what was going on.
I didn't accuse Palin of doing anything illegal in fact I stated I thought the charges were pretty thin. The point of my article is that all of these problems with the LDF that led to it being judged a violation of Alaskan ethics laws could have easily been avoided early in the process but bad and quite suspect decisions by Palin led to this debacle. Now she has to return most of the money and start over.
I see very few if any addressing these points, just the usual fanboy personal attacks and diversionary responses. But I bet there are several hundred, maybe more, who read this thread and didn't post, but agree with my evaluation.
It seems that you are suggesting the pubs in Alaska purposely wrote a flawed law in an effort to encourage harassment from the dems leading to multiple ethics complaints forcing Palin to resign?
Ouch.
BTW - Who signed that legislation into law?
There you go humping a Palin thread again (bumping it right back up to the top).
Pleas sir, may the thread have another?
Post 87 - “Bob J did a hit and run thread. Last post was at 1:15pm or around 70 posts ago.”
You - “There you go humping a Palin thread again (bumping it right back up to the top).”
Reading and comprehension are your friends.
I doubt that the Palins even know about FR. If they did, they'd be embarrassed by their so-called supporters here. With supporters like the loony Palinistas, who needs detractors?
Pleas sir, may the thread have another?
To: mnehring
Post 87 - “Bob J did a hit and run thread. Last post was at 1:15pm or around 70 posts ago.”
You - “There you go humping a Palin thread again (bumping it right back up to the top).”
Reading and comprehension are your friends.
97 posted on Saturday, June 26, 2010 8:34:30 AM by Bob J
Yes Bob, by all means, quit humping your OWN thread ;-)
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