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October 12, 2008 by Brad
Filed under: Election 2008

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Sarah Palin is certainly dancing around like a candle in the wind this weekend, and she deserves to burn out taking her legend of stupidity and childish behavior with her.

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Did Governor Sarah Palin abuse the power of her office in trying to get her former brother-in-law, State Trooper Mike Wooten, fired? Yes.

Was the refusal to fire Mike Wooten the reason Palin fired Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan? Not exclusively, and it was within her rights as the states’ chief executive to fire him for just about any reason, even without cause.

These were the answers we expected to hear out of the commission. Is this bad news for her, sure, but not as bad as many Americans would have loved it to been. She won’t be forced off the ticket and isn’t likely to be indicted on any felony counts that could screw up the republican election chances. What it does do is solidify the Obama-Biden ticket in with people still not sure. Nathan Thornburgh wrote best describes the situation that many of these swing voters are now looking at.

Is the Palin administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly so.

I think the most damning thing personally for Palin and the cronies she would no doubt try and bring to Washington should the republicans win (cringes with fear at even writing about the possibility) is they don’t know when to back away. She and her cronies get power it will be another justice department scandal or worse. Can we really afford to let her play these games on a national level?

Not only did people at almost every level of the Palin administration engage in repeated inappropriate contact with Walt Monegan and other high-ranking officials at the Department of Public Safety, but Monegan and his peers constantly warned these Palin disciples that the contact was inappropriate and probably unlawful. Still, the emails and calls continued — in at least one instance on recorded state trooper phone lines.

Not Alberto Gonzales, not George W Bush, not even Richard Nixon can hold a candle to her in this sort of political bullying. She abused her power which might be okay with those mavericks in the Alaska Independence Party. Something she apparently doesn’t know since she is obviously a Washington outsider, the Vice President of the United States takes and oath that goes like this:

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Failure to uphold that oath isn’t just a crime against the god she so casually flings about her belief in, it is a crime against the all people of United States not just her friends and cronies.

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