Palin update: the troubles with Sarah Palin

Should John McCain be elected at the next POTUS, Sarah Palin would sit half a heartbeat from being President.
Here’s what I know thus far:
* most of what she’s told us about herself is utter bullshit worthy of a Penn & Teller episode.
* most of what the McCain campaign tells us about her is utter bullshit [...]

John McCain and the Goldwater Daisy Ad

I posted this entry as a comment over at the www.mudflats.wordpress.com blog entry about the Palin-Gibson interview on ABC last night.  This entry will be a work in progress and will change frequently over the next few days as people give me their own ideas about how to make the make-believe ad come to fruition. 
Please [...]

Bloomsberg News weighs in on Sarah Palin ethics problems

From the www.Bloomsberg.com News website:
Palin’s Ethics Scrapes May Undercut Pledge to End Old Politics
By Timothy J. Burger and Tony Hopfinger
Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) — *x*x* Sarah Palin as his running mate sent a signal that he would end business as usual and cronyism in government. Her record shows the Alaska governor engaged in some of [...]

Sarah Palin’s ethics on view in Troopergate

From the Wall Street Journal:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An informal adviser who has counseled Gov. Sarah Palin on ethics issues urged her in July to apologize for her handling of the dismissal of the state’s public safety commissioner and warned that the matter could snowball into a bigger scandal.
He also said, in a letter reviewed by [...]

Palin’s Country First yelping rings untrue

While Sarah Palin apparently never formerly joined the separatist Alaska Independence Party, she has spoken at their conventions and conferences, often telling them to “keep up the good work.”  Her husband, Todd, was a dues-paying member until it was time for her to run for governor.  Nevertheless, her being governor of Alaska did not stop [...]

Sarah Palin: a separatist in sheep’s clothing?

Today’s entry at http://mudflats.wordpress.com discusses a topic that’s been on my mind for several days.
It’s been known nationally for a few days that Todd Palin, husband of the VP selection, was a dues-paying member of the separatist Alaska Independence Party from at least 1992 until Sarah Palin started running in 2006 for governor of Alaska.  It’s [...]

Things about Sarah Palin about which I am unclear

 
Well, okay, so there are so many unclear things about Sarah Palin that I simply would run out of space; nevertheless, here are a few items that are really bugging me right now:
1)  why has the McCain campaign kept Sarah Palin away from the circuit of one-on-one interviews.  I am tired of seeing the same [...]

Wasilla Alaska: a day in the life of Amber baby

The following is not made up.
While looking around at the various myspace pages allegedly linked to Bristol Palin, her boyfriend Levi Johnston, Levi’s sister Sadie, and a few others, I came across the tidbit italicized below.  Cannot help but wonder if this Amber Ingersoll got her mace’n’video idea from the Florida cheerleader beating case of [...]