Palin Confidante Cites Distraction of Investigations

Wall Street Journal ^ | JULY 6, 2009 | JIM CARLTON

[Berlin_Freeper]

WASILLA, Alaska -- Sarah Palin resigned as Alaska's governor because the volume of state investigations and public-record requests scrutinizing her activities kept her from doing what she wanted, said one of her closest confidantes.

Kristan Cole, who has been friends with Gov. Palin since both were in the same elementary school nearly 40 years ago, said she heard personally from the governor over the Fourth of July weekend. She was one of the few to speak with Gov. Palin, who stunned the political world when she announced Friday she was resigning, effective July 26. The governor gave no specific reason for her exit, beyond citing relentless complaints into her affairs that were hampering her ability to do her job.

[counterpunch]

She can fight better out of office. It was a good decision.

Fight, yes.
If fighting is what she is meant for and not serving in elected office.
Which, by the way, is exactly what I believe for her.
 

[EBH]

Ain't that what the woman said!!

Trivasanno tonight said there were 15 investigations in the last 2 years.

Results: Nothing, not a thing.

[Aria]

Well that depends on where she goes now and how successful she is at it.

They weren’t driving her out because she was Governor of Alaska, they were after her because they don’t want her to be POTUS and that is still TBD.

Far as I’m concerned Cloward-Piven ought to be a strategy our side looks at using. Then maybe we’ll end up with at least a stand-off. But sitting with our hands tied won’t work.

[counterpunch]

Our side can’t look at the Cloward-Piven strategy.
We don’t have George Soros money.

[Plutarch]

Driving her out of office was their goal, and they achieved it.

Now no Republican is safe from Cloward-Piven.

I agree that the Dems had a strategy of destruction through legal/ethics challenges, that this worked, and Palin's quitting office is a victory for these creeps, that will encourage its practice elsewhere.

I don't think it is called Cloward-Piven though. Cloward-Piven is described thusly:

First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

That describes what the White House is doing with massive deficits, entitlement spending, etc.

I am not sure that a targeted legal/ethical assualt has a name, unless it is now the Palin Strategy.

BTW, I would love to find an Cloward-Piven's original article in the Nation, but haven't seen it posted or .pdf'd anywhere.

[Lauren BaRecall]

Gotta love the WSJ:

In the "Troopergate" matter, an investigation by an agency under her office cleared her of any wrongdoing, while one headed by a legislative committee concluded she had abused her office.

Meanwhile, the following had been posted at the time, on the Flopping Aces website:

Talk about a stacked deck!

Sarah Palin is being investigated by the Alaska Legislative Counsel for any improper action she may have taken in firing the State’s public safety commissioner or any pressure Palin may have put on him regarding her brother in law: a State Trooper known for being violent towards members of his family and threatening to kill Palin’s father.

Mata Harley has the whole story covered in detail.

Questions about the partisan nature of the investigation arose after State Senator Hollis French (D), project manager for the investigation, promised the findings would be an “October surprise.”

Further questions regarding the objectivity of this investigation are raised by the following photograph which shows some Democrat members of the Alaska Legislative Counsel and State Sen. French, at an Obama event July 30, 2008. From the official Obama web site:

(Click link above for rest of article and links.)

This "legislative committee" is referenced again in a recent article at Flopping Aces:

4: Sept. 2, 2008: Palin files an ethics complaint request on her Troopergate charges, saying that the legislative investigation has now become too political. This is the first of the three Troopergate related ethics charges, atop the legislative investigation. One day before the election, the Personnel Board dismissed the charges, saying the firing of Monegan violated no ethics laws. As I said… already been there, done that… see the Troopergate series archives.

WSJ's brief reference to the findings of "a legislative committee" would naturally put doubt in the mind of the reader that, perhaps, Sarah had been guilty of some wrongdoing, especially because it was the "agency under her office" that cleared her.

Slimy, aren't they?

[counterpunch]

The same principle is behind it.
They overloaded Palin’s office to the point that it could no longer function, forcing her to resign as the only way to end it.

Her administration fell due to being overwhelmed by a flood of public-records requests, primarily, thus using the mechanics of the system against itself.

[counterpunch]

Columbia University, you say?
Where did 0bama go, again?

[jpsb]

When you are playing the other fellows game and losing you change the game. You don't play thier game until your beaten and broke. Only a fool would do that, far far wiser to say ok you won that round now we are going to play my game.

Or put in military terms, if you are under siege by a superior force, but your forces are mobile do not wait until you are completely surrounded. Find an escape route, use it, then find a field of battle were you have an advantage.

I can think of more then a few great commanders where retreat, seemly in defeat was in fact a prelude to a great victory. In fact that was one of Napoleons favorite moves, he learned from Alexander the Great.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Theres plenty of time before a campaign can start.

Zero hasn't stopped running for President.

[sausageseller]

I’m not anti-Palin, I’m anti-0bama. And I understand that she would be unable to defeat him in 2012.

As Bams numbers continue to drop you look more foolish everyday.

[Lauren BaRecall]

They drove her out of office. They won.
She let Cloward-Piven take her out.
She buckled under their pressure.

You're right! This is the face of a defeated and beaten woman, wimpering off into the sunset, where the nights are 6 months long, with her tail between her legs. :-)

[MHGinTN]

Bwahahahahaha ... but you don’t expect the poster to get that, do you? Liberals and especially stealth ones at FR don’t have a sense of humor.

[MHGinTN]

Typical filthy democrats.

[Lauren BaRecall]

I know! They’re such an intense group! LOL!

[SandRat]

Palin Confidante Cites Distraction of Investigations

What part of the word confidante doen't this woman understand????

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I don’t badger them with insults as a means to ‘win’.

You're a liar.

[Uncle Ivan]

Are you on the payroll of, say, Romney, Huckabee, or some other politico?

You seem to go far out of your way to be contrarian and negative towards Palin.

[counterpunch]

That’s pretty paranoid, don’t you think?
Are the Palin boosters on her payroll?

[Uncle Ivan]

Not really. But I am reminded of the Hunter people here last year who shotgun posted endlessly against any other conservative candidate, namely Fred Thompson.