Posted on 07/11/2009 5:09:06 PM PDT by Steelfish
From The Sunday Times July 12, 2009
White House ‘dirty tricks’ torpedo Palin
Sarah Baxter in Washington
Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate, has accused members of President Barack Obama’s administration of a dirty tricks campaign to derail her political career.
Palin’s bizarre announcement that she would quit her post as governor of Alaska on July 26 stunned political friends and foes and has been greeted with derision by a growing number of prominent Republicans. Some conservative insiders have accused the charismatic mother-of-five of succumbing to “paranoia”.
Among the many explanations for her abrupt departure – from an alleged desire to be free to pursue the presidency in 2012 to money worries and ethics problems – the theory put forward by her spokeswoman, Meg Stapleton, is that members of Obama’s White House are to blame.
Palin, 45, complained in her resignation speech on July 3 that she was being hounded constantly by “frivolous” ethics complaints. “This [is] political absurdity, the politics of personal destruction,” she said. “Todd [her husband] and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills to set the record straight.”
Palin and her advisers believe the most damaging ethics accusation concerned “Trooper-gate”, when Palin was accused of pursuing a vendetta to get her former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, sacked as an Alaska state trooper.
A month before the 2008 presidential election, in which she was Senator John McCain’s running mate, the Alaska legislative council found Palin guilty of abusing her power after an investigator concluded that “impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda”.
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Oooooooooh boy. The stuff is gonna fly now.
The Brits often have more clue about American politics than we do. But here they haven’t the foggiest.
Obama could have stopped much of this, just like he could have stopped things during the campaign,. He chose not to do so...
Would it were that “Troopergate” was the size of it! Uh-uh no way jose did ankle biters stop there.
I bet they know something about who it is in the White House who's stirring up the ANC creepazoids.
If the Zero and Nancy Pelosi had just spoken up together and told the Democrats that this was very unseemly and to please stop it at once, they would have kept Sarah Palin pretty harmlessly bottled up in Alaska. But no, they had to go throw “Sister Rabbit” in the briar patch. They will intensely regret this in 2010 and 2012.
Dummies. They burned her church and repeatedly assaulted her daughter’s reputation. Angry Momma Bear will not forget. Heaven help any of them if she is in a position to return the favor.
Go Cudda!
Obama chose not to because he is responsible for it. Taking out his opposition in this manner has been his MO throughout his political career.
This sounds more like Rahm “Steak Knives” Emanuel’s hand in the Zero puppet.
A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (”SLAPP”) is a lawsuit that is intended to intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. Winning the lawsuit is not necessarily the intent of the person filing the SLAPP. The plaintiff’s goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate.
Yup...scum he is. She needs a fund to cover her frivolous lawsuits and then get to the bottom of who is behind this -and let er rip.
“They burned her church”
...and no one has been charged. People were inside but escaped. The exits were targeted.
Now who would do that? Guesses?
It’s all the same team. Evil is as evil does.
One of Sarah Baxter’s first jobs was with the feminist publisher Virago
her activism on behalf of anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s
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The Sunday London Times ^ | January 25, 2009 |
Sarah Baxter
CHICAGO THUGS?
“Kim Elton, the Alaska state senator who chaired the legislative council, is a friend of Peter Rouse, Obama’s former Senate chief of staff, who used to live in Juneau, the capital of Alaska. Rouse now serves as a senior adviser to Obama at the White House and Elton was appointed director of Alaska affairs at the US Department of the Interior in March”
So heres a smoking gun,quid pro quid and it merits no further discussion in the lengthy article?
It's far more than that. He gave the OK for this, and IMO Axelrod and Emanual directed things.
Paybacks are hell!
“CHICAGO THUGS?”
And we’ve not heard much at all, even with $1mm+ in damage. With people inside, including at least 2 children, and accelerant at the doors, this was attempted murder. She didn’t win the ticket. They wanted to kill her anyway, along with the congregation. Burning down a Christian church and attempting murder, with impunity, is not a hate crime, apparently, especially for the enemedia & WH. IMO, that was the new Reichstag fire; we are all targets now.
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