When Sarah Palin came on the scene she was immediately recognized for the threat she was. Two weeks after being selected she was pulling in crowds comparable to The One who had been putting in 18 hour days for two years to get the same public response. And now six months after the election she is still under a blitzkrieg of legal and media attacks for ridiculous trivialities.

She really is what kept the Obama campaign from a 50 state sweep and is the only one on the scene who can effectively challenge him.

The left has been planning this since the humiliation of the Gingridge revolution. They take no prisoners and shoot the wounded. I hope her faith is strong because she is going to need it.

I remember what happened when this same bunch elected that nit wit Edwards to the Senate. They will flood Alaska with millions of dollars. They will lie, steal, bribe, threaten, cheat, etc., etc. These jokers play for keeps. They make Tammany Hall and Cook County Illinois look like Boy Scout Troops. I predict you will have more dead people and non-Alaskans voting that you can imagine. It is like a tsunami; written descriptions cannot adequately convey the experience. Palin supporters from all over the country will try to mount counter attacks. Alaska will be awash in out of state money, political torpedoes, and media yahoos of every stripe and description. I hope she and her people are preparing, or at least thinking about, how deal with this.

In January, 1998, Lauch Faircloth was a well respected senator and articulate voice for conservative principles. He enjoyed very high approval ratings. He had the full support and resources of the Helms machine, the NC GOP, the RNC, the blue dogs, and most national conservative organizations. Edwards was an unknown. Faircloth was consistently ahead in all poling until “they” came to town. Edwards won by 4 points.

Just a heads up.

As Achance has said – over and over – the ethics complaints are BS. With the exception of the email flap. That’s the real deal and she walked right into the bear trap that she herself set.

PS: She needs a speaking coach! She writes brilliantly but she needs a speech coach! She needs to the lose glasses! It would be great to leave the image of 08 behind ahahaha!!

Why hasn’t she written any op ed’s? Is it because she doesn’t feel comfortable tacking on national issues just yet ?

Maybe you folks should chat it up with the gov.
http://twitter.com/AKGovSarahPalin

Sincerely,

Palindrome for life.

PS: She needs a speaking coach! She writes brilliantly but she needs a speech coach! She needs to the lose glasses! It would be great to leave the image of 08 behind ahahaha!!

Why hasn’t she written any op ed’s? Is it because she doesn’t feel comfortable tacking on national issues just yet ?

Maybe you folks should chat it up with the gov.
http://twitter.com/AKGovSarahPalin

Sincerely,

Palindrome for life.

Besides it’s smart of her. If she has her own lawyer, they can not say that she forced some state’s attorney to do her bidding (ala Troopergate) or any other nonsense like that. Though I’m sure they’ll find a way to go after her lawyer. She’s using private money to pay for the trips and private money to pay for a lawyer. She’s staying far away from any future ethics complaints.

You can find travel expenses by SFY for each State Public Officer, including me through June 30, 2006, at: http://fin.admin.state.ak.us/dof/financial_reports/ctep_toc.jsp

State Fiscal Years (SFY) run July 1 – June 30. SFY 06 ended June 30, 2006, the last full year of the Murkowski Administration. All you have to do is go read the CAFRs and you will see that Gov. Palin has presided over astounding increases in the State’s operating and capital budgets. She has then used the line item veto to reward friends and punish enemies and bragged about her budget cuts.

Knowles travelled a lot, but he didn’t haul his wife and kids around with him. Murkowski travelled a lot but when he took his wife he paid for it. Before I became an appointee, I travelled more than the Governor lots of years and since I wasn’t an appointee had to prepare and answer for all my travel expense reimbursement requests, so I know those rules like a Baptist minister knows the New Testament, and Gov. Palin is subject to the same rules. The Gov is just a working bureaucrat and the only rules that don’t apply are time and attendence rules. I would not have dared take my wife or kids with me on State travel, even though my wife was a high level State employee with specific expertise that I could have justified for some purposes. Ethics Act complaints come with the territory if you are at all visible. I spent some quality time with the Department of Administration’s Ethics Supervisor in my last year over a trip I took at no cost to the State and paid for by a Board I sat on because it crossed over two pay periods and some clerk didn’t process my leave correctly. I’ve also had some very frank and informative discussions with the Palin Administration’s Ethics Attorney since I left the government over my work for some of my clients; they like to huff and puff but they couldn’t blow my house down. The Administration isn’t at all reticent to threaten Ethics complaints, it just doesn’t like getting them.

In any event, her handling of the Com. Moneghan/Tpr. Wooten thing was just plain stupid and she laid herself open for what followed. Most of her legal bills are from that though if she were confident she was right, she could have asked the State to defend her. She chose to engage expensive outside counsel. The emails are going to come out unless the State’s superior resources simply wear down the complainants. I know that game because I used to play it with some enthusiasm. Somebody would threaten to sue me and I’d simply say, “The State has 500 or so lawyers who’re going to get paid whether they do anything or not this week, you’ve given them something to do.’ The personal email dodge is just that, a dodge. If you’re a State Officer, it doesn’t matter how and where you conduct State business, it is public record. As to the per diem issue, I must assume that somebody has carefully measured and found that it is more than 50 miles from her home to the Attwood Building. I’ve never measured it, but I know that it is 49.7 miles from the nearby Palmer Correctional Center to the Anchorage Jail, a few blocks from the Attwood, so she’s technically entitled to the per diem. It’s simply an in your face to Juneau and a sop to the Capitol movers in her district.

I don’t know why all the Palinbots assume something happened to me. I was two years past retirement age, bored out of my mind, hated the people in the Commissioner’s Office and politicians generally, and didn’t want to go through another election and transition. I knew Murkowski was going to lose and I also knew that it was highly unlikely that either Knowles or Palin would fire me on taking office. Plus, I had return rights to the classified service if I’d really wanted to stay. It was time to go home and call going to the mailbox once a month working.

This has nothing to do with anybody having an axe to grind. Lord knows I don’t, hell I don’t even care. But I am smart enough (minimum double digit IQ) to look at the rules and compare them to facts of what she did in the case in question. She’s got a big problem.

This is just like you rantin’ on per diems and nonsense, but leaving out the fact that Palin has reduced the overall expense to run her office by $1million over that of either Murkowski or Knowles.

Not sure what happened to you when you worked up there, but there sure seems to be more of a personal vendetta, that a philosophical difference.

Sad.

If she was using a state lawyer, one of those worthless witches up there would file an ethics complaint for THAT!

This is a VERY evil group of liberals. More than most liberals.

That’s OK though, it will backfire on them. This sort of thing always does.

And there’s always the question of why she isn’t asking the State for indemnification and defense. If you’re doing something in the course of your duties and withing the law, the State is obligated to substitute itself as the defendant and indemnifiy you. Inquiring minds and all that.

1 down and a dozen more to go, unfortunately.