It becomes more apparent by the day that the choice of Sarah Palin may come to haunt the McCain campaign this November. It has now come to light that Moose-ah-lini used her private yahoo email account to conduct state business--flagrantly circumventing Alaska laws requiring all state-related correspondence to be archived and saved. And we recently learned that the self-titled pit-bull's private lawyers (or, more accurately, McCain's) are suing to stop the ethics inquiry she welcomed and the Republican-dominated, bipartisan Legislative Council unanimously decided in July to initiate. Talk about being before the investigation before she was against it. But of course all that was before Obama's choice of Biden and his subsequent convention bounce, and well before McCain realized he was absolutely fucked in November without someone or some way to get evangelicals excited about him--or at least some Republican. As it turns out, now that she's the Republican VP nominee, she'd rather have the investigation conducted on her turf by a "Personnel Board" answering only to her administration. Here's the best part: she filed an ethics complaint against herself--the only way to constitutionally get said Board to investigate--and her appointed, non-elected Attorney General instructed state employees not to cooperate with the Legislative Council supboenas. I guess her brand of government reform is ignoring it altogether when it proves politically inconvenient to her ambitions.
There's a very distinct possibility no laws were violated or ethics impinged, but I generally tend to think that where there's smoke there's a good chance of fire. The bottom line, of course, is McCain's glaring hypocrisy. How can he convince any lucid American he's going to "reform" Washington when he's running as a 25-year veteran of said institution whose running-mate is fleeing from her own ethics inquiry and doing whatever she can to shut it down?
McCain took a risk in picking such a political amateur, but he'll do well to stop her making more sophomoric mistakes so early. It does little good to run as an agent of change and government reform when your running mate agrees to cooperate with a bipartisan ethics investigation and then, six weeks later, does all she can to derail it. I hope Sarah's family enjoys moose-stew as much as she does because, frankly, that's about all she's qualified to nuke.
NON-REFORMERS that were claimed and branded by President Bush are neither mavericks nor reformers at all. THEY JUST LIE WHEN THEY CLAIM TO BE REFORMERS
NON-REFORMERS who's only reform will be to change the names on the President's and Vice President's office door; JUST LIE WHEN THEY CLAIM TO BE REFORMERS.
NON-REFORMERS who's platform still calls for less regulation and less government -- the same formula that created this mess; JUST LIE WHEN THEY CLAIM TO BE REFORMERS.
Senator McCain says we are not responsible for the crisis. However, he clearly believes we are the ones required to take the hit to our home equity values and our retirement savings despite wrongdoing by others.
Check out John McCain's link to Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. After telling Senator McCain that we the people are not fundementals add McCain to the following title with the rest of his buddies: Bernanke, Paulson and Herbert Hoover - Cramer's Stop Trading (6/24/08)
http://seekingalpha.com/article/82659-bernanke-paulson-and-herbert-hoover-cramer-s-stop-trading-6-24-08
McCain's solution to an active and expanding crisis is to appoint a committee to investigate the cause. Whose experience and judgement calls for the snails pace of a committee for an active crisis. When the Russisn missiles launch I certianly hope Senator McCain has a better solution that appointing a committee. ENOUGH!
Get the entire Republican Reform (name changes on doors) and other CHANGES YOU NEED; VOTE DEMOCRATIC for President and Congress.
After months of slamming Barack Obama for "inexperience," here's who John McCain has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency: a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign policy experience, who until recently was mayor of a town of 9,000 people.
Huh?
Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background:
She was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience. (1)
Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest. (2)
She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. (3)
Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools. (4)
She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change. (5)
