Posted on 09/16/2008 7:57:04 PM PDT by markomalley
Last night, the McCain campaign released documents to show that Gov. Palin did not fire her political appointee, Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, because he refused to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, Gov. Palin's former brother-in-law. An internal state trooper investigation found that Wooten had threatened that Palin's father would "eat a f---ing bullet." Palin had raised concerns to Monegan about the fact that Wooten was still carrying a gun and working for the state, but Palin's legal counsel contends that the decision to sack Monegan was not related to Wooten.
Rather, Palin's lawyer writes, the decision was "based on [Monegan's] refusal to execute her Administration's policy on fiscal and budget matters, a refusal that between late 2007 and the middle of 2008 blossomed into outright insubordination."
Ed Morrissey usefully outlines Monegan's record of insubordination:
* 12/9/07: Monegan holds a press conference with Hollis French to push his own budget plan. * 1/29/08: Palin’s staffers have to rework their procedures to keep Monegan from bypassing normal channels for budget requests. * February 2008: Monegan publicly releases a letter he wrote to Palin supporting a project she vetoed. * June 26, 2008: Monegan bypassed the governor’s office entirely and contacted Alaska’s Congressional delegation to gain funding for a project.
The release of these documents came as the McCain campaign announced that Gov. Palin will not cooperate with the ethics probe "as long as it remains tainted."
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This is a campaign that knows how the slimy side works and knows how to fight. Oh GW why were you so shy?
Pretty thin unless you’re a moonbat. If Obama is counting on this to sink Sarah, it looks like he brought a knife to a gun fight.
“Oh GW why were you so shy?”
I know what you mean. My three-cheers for McCain/Palin has been much about pent up frustration over GW, whose shoulders I’ve wanted to shake so often.
The MSM will simply ignore the facts and repeat the lie.
It seems to me she had a right to fire him because he refused to fire her brother-in-law. If this guy is threatening to shoot the governor’s father he should be gone no questions asked.
The man wins the presidency twice and the governorship of Texas twice and still people tag him as not knowing how to fight in a campaign. Incredible.
Title should say “TASERGATE”, per Rush.
The Moonbats will ignore the evidence. Since the MSM is made up of left-wing Moonbats, this will not matters
Questions. Concerns. Scandal. They’ll just keep on going.
I’m not talking about fighting in a campaign. Rather his lack of a veto pen, his naive sharing of the glory with sleaze like Kennedy, etc. make him look less-than-combative in pressing an agenda forward. Or, maybe he did press his agenda forward, and the results are not to my liking, domestically speaking.
Could you imagine if Laura Bush fired the entire non-partisan White House Travel Office, falsely accused them of felonies and replaced them with Texas cronies? S'pose that might play a role if she then ran for President??
I can't. But I think we can both agree that the country would have been better off had the entire State Department been sacked and replaced with Texas cronies. At least we can trust them.
If he'd done that, he'd have to sack the entire State Department. Which, come to think of it, might not be such a bad idea. :)
He knows how to fight in an campaign. The problem is after he wins.
Actually, I was wondering why Hillary wasn't disqualified for higher office under the same standards that Palin is being held to?
Because Democrats have no standards. And then again, Gov. Palin is far more qualified to be President than Hillary ever was.
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