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Video: Sarah Palin on the Wooten “scandal” and on being VP
hotair.com ^ | July 31, 2008 | Allahpundit

Posted on 07/31/2008 6:53:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Get yourself up to speed by reading this nifty recap from Monday’s Anchorage Daily News. Nutshell version: She fired Walt Monegan, her commissioner of Public Safety, for reasons that are unclear. Monegan claims it was because he refused to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, Palin’s former brother-in-law against whom she’s supposedly had a longstanding vendetta. What’s her problem with Wooten? Like I say, read the ADN piece, which is brimming with colorful nuance involving tasers and “f’ng lead bullets.” She insists the Monegan decision had nothing to do with family issues, but the state legislature voted this week to order a probe, which is probably enough to scare McCain away in case he was thinking of going in this direction.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; monegan; palin; palinattacks; palinrecord; troopergate; troopergateinalaska
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1 posted on 07/31/2008 6:53:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Sarah Palin on the Wooten “scandal” and on being VP

I'd rather she just skip VP and be president.

2 posted on 07/31/2008 7:04:24 PM PDT by FoxInSocks (B. Hussein Obama: The Paucity of Hope)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wanted to shoot my monitor ...who was that obnoxious cretin screaming her down?


3 posted on 07/31/2008 7:04:40 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Leftist MSM hit job. Palin is now tainted, and will not be considered for VP.

Scratch the last conservative.


4 posted on 07/31/2008 7:07:00 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: usmcobra

bttt


5 posted on 07/31/2008 7:07:29 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

Not a very impressive performance for a potential VP.

I think she needs more seasoning. She wilts compared to Bobby Jindal, in my opinion.

I think it is going to be Tom Ridge . . .


6 posted on 07/31/2008 7:10:37 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: Free ThinkerNY
She has a pretty cool job right now? I hope she is referring to Alaska's wintry climate rather than the extent to which she finds being Governor of Alaska amusing.
7 posted on 07/31/2008 7:10:51 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Free ThinkerNY

apparently the obama camp did not want her as mccain’s vp candidate,

so they sullied her up a bit.


8 posted on 07/31/2008 7:10:55 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: usmcobra

The guy screaming at her is Larry Kudlow of CNBC. He used to be publisher of the National Review.

Tough questions, answers were answered with slang like “cool” and “what does a Vice President actually do?”

Not ready for prime time yet.

If you want a really good female communicator I would go with Heather Wilson of New Mexico. More gravitas.


9 posted on 07/31/2008 7:12:58 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: FoxInSocks

Palin needs to stay right here in Alaska where her approval rating is like 80%. Actually, all the state repubs & dems feel threatened by her I believe.


10 posted on 07/31/2008 7:15:57 PM PDT by Eska
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To: Old Sarge

Leftist MSM hit job. Palin is now tainted, and will not be considered for VP.

I dont think she’s tainted.


11 posted on 07/31/2008 7:20:30 PM PDT by Chickensoup ('08 VOTING, NOT for the GOP, but INSTEAD, for the SUPREME COURT that will be BEST for my FAMILY!!)
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To: Chickensoup

If she would get picked the left would use this all day long.


12 posted on 07/31/2008 7:21:52 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: ConservativeMan55

What, that she fired a jerk?


13 posted on 07/31/2008 7:23:14 PM PDT by Chickensoup ('08 VOTING, NOT for the GOP, but INSTEAD, for the SUPREME COURT that will be BEST for my FAMILY!!)
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To: WilliamReading

I think neither of them should be VP. I don’t like Palin’s slang but I don’t like how Jindal speaks much either. Sometimes he sounds like a snake oil-salesman. But I do like him.

I would like Eric Cantor for vice president.


14 posted on 07/31/2008 7:26:30 PM PDT by SMCC1
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I saw the video on this. This woman is tough as nails. She clearly stated that this was a witch-hunt and she did nothing wrong. Her poise, her responses were sharp. Keep in mind that this happened just 3 weeks ago. If she was considering on being McCain's VP, why would she do this now?

Palin's ethics and personality more than makes up for her lack of public elected experience. Even then, she still has more experience than Obama, she was Mayor and she was head of the oil commission. What executive role has Obama done? McCain needs to pick her. Now. The Rats can't slander her. She would win over the South and the Midwest and take away Hillary votes. She would be a shoo-in for the WH in 2012.

15 posted on 07/31/2008 7:29:09 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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Palin is shaking up the RINOs first and the Democrats are trying to look "busy" and not be noticed....

Being Mclaim's VeeP is a career killer..
ALL that are "connected" in Juneau(Ak) are whisling past the cemetary.. ugh.. "smoky room"..
GO GIRL.. watch yer back..

16 posted on 07/31/2008 7:30:15 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Old Sarge
Palin is now tainted

Wrong. If anything, she's been vetted. If this is the best they can come up with, then they have nothing. She probably wasn't planning on being VP anyway in 2008. But whatever happens out of this, she'll be the front-runner in 2012.

17 posted on 07/31/2008 7:30:32 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Govenor Palin just showed me why she is a possible VP candidate!

She doesn’t give a hoot about national coverage! She is governing just as Jindal does, and doesn’t want anything to do with McCain.


18 posted on 07/31/2008 7:32:48 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Got a free burrito, paid for it later!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

EEE, I agree about Palin. I think she is excellent and she would energize the McCain camp 1000% AND she would ‘get’ those disgruntled Hillaryites (middle aged women who came out in droves for Mrs. Clinton but don’t like the smooth talking, tell ya what ya want hear, BHO). Gov. Palin is perfect (IMO)!


19 posted on 07/31/2008 7:35:08 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I am still bitter.)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Exactly what you said.

The "Warrior and the Woman" can Win BIG
as a very large fraction of the pro-Hillary frustrated Democrat women
crossover in each of the 50 --not 57 Obama-- states.


20 posted on 07/31/2008 7:37:13 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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