Posted on 10/03/2008 9:37:01 AM PDT by Chet 99
The Drive-Bys are all thinking to themselves "This can't be! Katie exposed her as an idiot!!"
Would she?
We're paying for having an unqualified man in the White House at a critical time. I'm not anxious to see us make the same mistake twice.
We have to choose a president/vp from these four people...
I'm aware of that. But that doesn't magically give Palin the background and experience that makes one qualified to be president. I shudder to think of what might happen if either Obama or Palin were in the Oval Office at a time of crisis. I hope McCain wins, I plan on voting for him, and should he win I plan to pray very hard for his continued health and well-being.
Meanwhile I think Palin would listen to her advisors/generals....
Would she?
I don’t see any evidence to make me believe she wouldn’t, do you?
Palin's history as mayor and governor seems to be hiring and firing staff based on loyalty rather than competence. Would she be different as president?
Palin’s history as mayor and governor seems to be hiring and firing staff based on loyalty rather than competence.
I’d like to see such evidence.
When she took over as mayor she fired the police chief and the head librarian, and the reason she gave was that they didn't fully support her. Both had supported her opponent in the election. Similar situation when she became mayor.
It's her right as head of her respective government to hire and fire at will. They work for her. I haven't seen any evidence that those firings were based on "loyalty" as you put it. Perhaps you buy into the mainstream media's definition of "loyalty". Bottom line is if they're not doing their jobs to her satisfaction, she has every right to fire them. Period.
Come to think of it, President Bush should have done some firings based on "loyalty" - there's hundreds of Clintonites still hanging around in the various departments that work for the executive branch. Many of those Clintonites have severely disrupted his ability to do his job (ignoring the fact that he's a bit on the liberal side himself).
There is no doubt that Palin was within her rights to fire anyone she wanted. Department heads held their positions at the pleasure of the mayor and could be dismissed for any reason at all. But Palin upon entering office, Palin fired the head of the police and the library. Two people who had held their jobs for years under the prior administration without any indication that they weren't doing their jobs. But both had supported her opponents. When loyalty takes precedence over competence then I think that raises some eyebrows.
Come to think of it, President Bush should have done some firings based on "loyalty" - there's hundreds of Clintonites still hanging around in the various departments that work for the executive branch.
For example?
First, what definition of "loyalty" are you using in your accusations? Second, show me the evidence that Palin fired people due to their alleged loyalty. I think you're making empty accusations here. If you have a case, prove it.
For example?
The state department is chock full of Clinton leftovers. You'd have to be blind not to see that. It's been discussed on this forum time and time again, since Bush took office in 2001.
the police chief...well we know what happened there with troopergate, and it’s not for reasons you suggest. At all.
And she rehired the librarian.
Can’t make sense of your last sentence unless you meant governor, but again, there’s literllay no proof.
Wrong police chief. This was the chief of the Wasilla police. A man who had been with the Anchorage police for 22 years before taking charge of the Wasilla police force when it was founded in 1993 and running it until Palin decided he wasn't loyal.
And she rehired the librarian.
After firing her. For disloyalty.
Name a few.
Do a search - I'm not your secretary.
Don't know of any, huh? I figured that.
Easily, 90% of the career Foreign Service officers in the State Department are going to be liberals. Joe Wilson is a very good example of the breed.
The other 10% might be conservatives -- but they'll be closet conservatives.
Even if 100% of the Assistant, Deputy and Deputy Assistant Secretaries were Bush appointees (even partisan Bush appointees), the Department of State would still be a liberal institution.
And what, exactly, could Bush do about those? They're civil service and not political appointments. Bush cannot legally fire them, much as you would like. As far as the State Department political appointments go, I defy you to name a single Clinton appointee that survived the first month of Bush's first term. Can you do that.
Not knowing the details, assuming it’s true, that’s 2 people who may well indeed have been fired for “not being loyal”, whatever that means, out of hundreds perhaps thousands of employees.
OK.
Absolutely nothing. Did I suggest he could?
I defy you to name a single Clinton appointee that survived the first month of Bush's first term. Can you do that.
Did I, at any point, address this question? Don't see that I did.
Bump.
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