Did a Scandal Sink the U.S.S. Palin?, page 1
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Topic started on 4-7-2009 @ 10:02 AM by Leo Strauss

Did a Scandal Sink the U.S.S. Palin?


www.thedailybeast.com
Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.
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reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 11:26 AM by elarmstrongo
reply to post by mikerussellus


Oh man that was the funniest thing I have read in a while. But you have to wander about the GOP presidential candidates falling by the wayside one after another. Who is behind these investigations? First Sanford now Palin,Who is next? www.rateitall.com... someone from the top 20 i would guess


reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 11:33 AM by mental modulator
Originally posted by elarmstrongo
reply to post by mikerussellus


Oh man that was the funniest thing I have read in a while. But you have to wander about the GOP presidential candidates falling by the wayside one after another. Who is behind these investigations? First Sanford now Palin,Who is next? www.rateitall.com... someone from the top 20 i would guess


AMEN

it must be Obamas terrorist islamic cousins, executing their Zionist agenda!
Making sure that the Fascism is in place so the socialism illuminate the day and darken the night


reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 11:37 AM by mikerussellus
reply to post by elarmstrongo


The republicans have learn much from the dems, primarily, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
These losers don't need any help from anyone else.
That being said, however, the MSM has taken a gleeful approach to the downfall of some of these jokers. For so many years it has been a demacratic providence to fool around on your spouse, but in the spirit of bipartisanship, republicans feel free to express their inner idiotcy and have dropped trou (as it were) in celebration of the lack of moral principles in Washington DC.

This is the change we can believe in.




reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 12:10 PM by earlywatcher
reply to post by JulieMills


I agree with you. It can't be easy to do a job that i assume involves actual work like being governor while fighting off constant ethics attacks and your family being smeared. she's like a duck in one of those midway shooting games, moving across the range while everybody shoots at her. it still staggers me that it has become perfectly acceptable to insult her in every way, all because she is conservative and of course white.

i am also still amazed at the amount of attention devoted by the press and late ight comics to making her out to be a bimbo. it's like practicing the scales in a piano lesson. do it every day and it sticks. much of the general public and pretty much all liberals--especially women--consider her to be basically unfit to live, and it's based on nothing. just contemptuous remarks and accusations. very scary that they can turn such large numbers of people on anybody.

i too believe she is not finished. i don't know if she really wants to run for president. i think the attacks on her family have taken their toll. it's funny because no other politician that i can think of have endured such attack, even presidents and celebrities, while sarah really is only a lowly governor ("no experience"). i'm not sure she is willing to continue to put her family through this. i do think she will try to get that senate appointment. that would be a place from which she could have some influence.



reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 12:25 PM by Keyhole
Sounds like a PRETTY good reason for her to step down, if you ask me.

Did An Embezzlement Scandal Force Sarah Palin To Resign?

(A little cut & paste from a previous post of mine in another thread)

My other post in another thread

Sarah Palin is a person who likes to be in the limelight, winning the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant and being runner up in the Miss Alaska pageant, a television sports reporter, becoming mayor of Wasilla, governor of Alaska, and making a run for the vice president of the US!

This is somebody who likes to be center stage, the center of attention, for people to see her and to hear what she has to say.

Do you REALLY think somebody like Sarah Palin would, VOLUNTARILY, for NO reason whatsoever, step out of the limelight!

I don't think so, unless something Very BAD was on the horizon for her!

Bad girl, no biscuit!

[edit on 7/4/2009 by Keyhole]


reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 12:30 PM by eniac
reply to post by earlywatcher


they hit her so much because she's a religious fundamentalist who sees the world in black and white, is as dumb as a bag of rocks, yet has tremendous personal appeal. This makes her extremely dangerous as she could conceivably acquire real power some day. In other words liberal talk-show hosts etc. are terrified of her. With good reason imho.

the GOP has plenty of good, smart people of both sexes to put forward next time. But Palin... please God no.


reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 01:06 PM by JulieMills
reply to post by earlywatcher

Ikeep thinking about the senate seat in 2010 also. I am just surprised NO ONE in the MSM has brought that up? are they that caught up on her running for Prez in 2012 that they overlooked 2010 elections???


reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 03:59 PM by Leo Strauss
More news being released. John McCain believes she will continue to play an important role in the party.

From Yahoo:

Palin, 45, also has the potential to make far more money in the private sector than the $125,000 or so she has been making as governor. She already had a deal with publisher HarperCollins to produce her memoirs, with publication planned for next spring. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Six-figure book deals are common for high-profile political figures.


Her....memoirs!

In Alaska, she saw her popularity wane this year after returning from the presidential campaign. She's become a polarizing figure, which in turn has led to multiple ethics complaints filed against her with the state personnel board.

All but two of the 15 complaints have been dismissed with no findings of wrongdoing, although one complaint led to Palin's agreement to reimburse the state about $8,100 for costs associated with trips taken with her children. The state says it has spent nearly $300,000 to investigate the complaints, and Palin says she has racked up more than $500,000 in legal fees fighting them.


If you are innocent why the need to lawyer up to the tune of 500K in Alaska no less? "All but two of the 15 complaints", must be a pretty important 2 complaints.

I was wondering if she might be quitting to join the AK secessionist movement with Todd again??

[edit on 4-7-2009 by Leo Strauss]


reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 04:08 PM by ~Lucidity
reply to post by JulieMills


is she gonna quit that too when the heat gets to be too much? lame duck senators spend just as much as lame duck governors, and that wouldn't be good for alaska.

as for the OP...that could well be it. there's probably more though. she was megahyper and babbling during that announcement. something is definitely off here.

[edit on 4-7-2009 by ~Lucidity]


reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 04:16 PM by Lazyninja
reply to post by JulieMills


The reason people come to such conclusions (that politicians lie) is based on a good sized heap of previous experience of dealing with the people, and observing them.

It's not conspiracy. The older you get, and the more you see the game being played, the more you understand the moves.


reply posted on 4-7-2009 @ 04:22 PM by whaaa
Originally posted by JulieMills
reply to post by earlywatcher

Ikeep thinking about the senate seat in 2010 also. I am just surprised NO ONE in the MSM has brought that up? are they that caught up on her running for Prez in 2012 that they overlooked 2010 elections???


Sorry, Gov. Palin is toast. thinkprogress.org...

It's only a matter of time until she is indited and brought up on Federal charges.

Probably some kind of Lib plot.

Seriously, Sarah was her own worst enemy, completely out of her league.
This news will not help the GOP come 2010 even one little bit as most candidates will be to busy explaining about Sarah rather than run a viable campaign on the issues.

Anyone that has any political savy saw this coming a mile away.
Sarah bailed rather than be impeached.



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