My Palin file so far:
1. Troopergate/ currently ducking a deposition under oath / at her direction 7 of her aides cancelled their depositions, her husband Todd has refused to obey a subpoena to testify, the state GOP is now trying to torpedo the investigation it helped start. The story now is that Palin did not fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan for refusing to fire state trooper Mike Wooten who was involved in a messy divorce with Palin’s sister but that Monegan had sought to go to Washington to seek funds to address Alaska’s severe problems with sexual violence and ****. Why Palin would be against this is unclear. However, state records show that Monegan’s trip had, in fact, been approved by the governor’s office
2. Replaced the guy she fired in troopergate with someone with a sexual harassment complaint who lasted 10 days
3. Todd’s Alaska Independence Party connections, and her own participation
4. Used a state site to promote mining interests over clean water; and accepted several thousand dollars worth of gifts from mining lobbyists
5. Bridge to nowhere: being for it before she was against it
6. For earmarks before she was against them
7. Pumping money into a bankrupt Alaska dairy and then selling it off to cronies
8. Firing employees as mayor over loyalty issues
9. Asserting the right to ban books from the library and attempts to fire the librarian
10. Involved in the 527 for Ted Stevens
11. Her daughter’s pregnancy
12. Her own still dubious pregnancy/flying 3000 miles after her water broke
13. Her expensive ($25 million) screwup with building a rec center in Wasilla as mayor on land the city did not have clear title to
14. Anti-choice even for **** and incest
15. Anti-gay marriage
16. Pro-abstinence only (Tell that one to Bristol)
17. Pro-gun
18. Anti-environment: Spent $400,000 in 2007 to promote the aerial hunting of wolves and bears. Has fought designating polar bears as endangered due to diminishing sea ice from which they hunt.
19. Pro-drilling
20. Global warming denier
21. Creationist/wants it taught in schools
22. Thought the Pledge of Allegiance dates to the founding of the country (it was penned in 1892 and “under God” was added in 1954)
23. Thinks the End Times will occur in her lifetime
24. Attends a church with an anti-Semitic, anti-Islamic pastor which is also into exorcisms and other rites to protect from witches and “python spirits”
25. Charged the state nearly $17,000 in per diem travel expenses when she was living at home
26. Implied she sold the state plane on ebay but it, in fact, failed to sell there, and later elsewhere was sold at a loss
27. Charged the state to fly her daughter Willow to Juneau to tour the church where they worshipped when they were in town; charged the state for a $707 hotel room in New York for 3 days for daughter Bristol; charged the state for the family to watch the beginning of the Iditarod dog sled race and the Iron Dog snowmobile race which husband Todd won; in all her husband racked up $19,000 in state paid travel expenses, and her children Piper, 7, nearly $11,000, Willow, 14, around $6,000 and Bristol, 17, about $3,400
28. While mayor, Wasilla was the only city in Alaska which billed ($300-$1,200) **** victims and their insurance companies for **** kits and forensic examinations
29. Named Deborah Richter her campaign manager for governor to head a division which distributes dividends of Alaska’s oil royalties to its citizens. Richter had only one year of college and was a business partner of Palin in a land investment. Palin fired one of her aides John Bitney for having an affair with Richter during her (Richter’s) divorce
30. Thinks that Saddam Hussein worked with al Qaeda to attack America on 9/11
31. Favors Georgia’s admittance to NATO and military action against Russia if it crosses Georgia’s frontiers again
32. Appointed Franci Havemeister as Alaska’s Director of Agriculture whose primary qualifications were that she was a high school classmate of Palin’s and had had a childhood love of cows
33. Used a state database for political purposes by emailing 23,000 Alaskan business owners to lobby the Alaskan legislature in favor of reducing business license fees
34. Used a private Yahoo account to conduct state business; the account was subsequently hacked
35. Used the governor’s office to try to block a Workman’s Comp claim by her ex-brother-in-law Wooten by pressuring the company Harbor Adjustments which administers the program. Then awarded a continuation of the contract with Harbor Adjustments even though its bid was $1.5 million, $300,000 more than another competitor
36. Supports the Ledbetter decision which makes it extremely difficult for women to sue over pay discrimination
37. Boasted of McCain’s credentials as a reformer in an interview with Katie Couric but could not name a single example of a McCain reform when asked
38. In addition to the claim that she is Commander in Chief material becaus
December 4th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Don’t do that. Anyone that votes for Palin hence voted for Bush can not read all that info.
December 5th, 2009 at 7:10 am
All of them.
December 6th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
39 The fact that you are an extremist and can’t accept other peoples opinions. What Obama mud slinging commercial did you get half that stuff from?
December 9th, 2009 at 2:54 am
If this is true i would say #28 There are more but that is just cold!
December 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
looks like you have done some homework… I would say that the Trooper gate scandal is what bothers me the most, especially if it can be proven, and she is not taken to task for it…
December 12th, 2009 at 2:55 am
the 75% approval rating.
btw, your cut and paste ran out of room.
re. #35….did you approve of the way Clinton used the Oval office?
btw, Bristol has *** ed classes, just the way you want them taught. Didnt work did it?
and #25? Alaska law says that a governors tax home is Juneau. Any trips to their residence are considered business trips. SHe has actually charged the state only 1/3 of what her predessessor did. Know much about Alaska geography?
wow, #28, that was the police chief, before she was even mayor. The point wasnt that the woman would pay, but her insurance company would.
#36, supports a statute of limitations for bringing a suit.
#37. McCain was for more regulation on Fannie and freddie. He called while Obama was taking their money.
#20 She understands global warming. What she said is that it is not 100% caused by man. You do know how the lakes in Minnesota were formed right? Sure wasnt because of my car.
BTW, she set up 2 committees to study the impact of global warming on Alaska.
#19. Pro drilling? Its called national security sweetie (sorry do you find that term condesending? BHO doesnt) 75% of her state wants drilling. DUH.
#23. It just may if BHO is elected.
#15 Anti *** marrige. Not her fault men dont want you. besides, most people dont favor it, including BHO. Read much?
#6 you must be kidding? BHO is the king, along with Joe Biden. Read much?
December 14th, 2009 at 6:37 am
5,9,14-24,30. She is just pathetic.
December 14th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Good list but Republicans can’t read or hear. Otherwise they would have seen or read the Palin interview and booted her out!
December 15th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
All of the above, plus a lot more we probably don’t even know about.
December 16th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Ewwwww Nice list. Mmmmmmm sweet I bet it took you a long time to whip up this batch of goodies hot off the liberal blogoshere. Ohhhhh you should be so proud. AhhhhhHaaaaah such talent. A masterpiece…. of liberal talking points.
December 20th, 2009 at 5:10 am
They are all pretty offensive, but I think her views on woman’s rights, environmental policies, and bible thumping are especially offensive.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 am
39. She does not know her limits….or where she belongs
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
28, the **** kit issues really gets under my skin. Many other things, but that’s what upsets me the most. As a woman, I would expect she would support women so much better than that.
It’s really beyond TERRIBLE!
#11 ticks me off, too. I work with teenagers and I know you HAVE to educate them. That is hypocrisy at it’s best.
December 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
You wasted a lot of energy since the bulk of it has been debunked.
December 27th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Actually they numbers all are most offensive.
Every thing you have listed is either way of base because
1. it is a personal attack on a family members and amounts to a **** crime.
2. your list is based on half truths and twisted information that doesn’t involve facts.
3. reflects similar foriegn policies as the ones that Obama has stated.
4. Missrepresents the ledbetter case altogether.
5. By law the Governor is the “commander in chief” of the states national guard and law enforcement.
6. She actually saved the state money by using yahoo. The account was hacked, the perpetrator is being prosecuted and should be. This is and invasion of privacy issue and the hacker belongs in prison. and, I don’t hear yahoo complaining.
7. she properly used a state data base to convey appropriate information to 23,000 business owners who have a right to know about government functions that may affect their businesses and lives. This is part of the obligation she has as a public servant. And, at least she didn’t sell the names on EBAY like the rest of your vendors do.
8. troopergate is not a real problem, the trooper in question had 12 major complaints on his record from 2001 to 2005. The director had an obligation to fire him long before Mrs. Palin became governor, but it was his friend and drinking buddy. Sarah Palin did not take office until 2006. The whole thing is just a bunch of political horse apples and you know it.
The list goes on and on and I have numbers you haven’t even dreamed of.
It is **** mongers like you who have convinced me I need to vote ANTI-Democrat for president. As far as the rest goes, I am encouraging everyone to just VOTE AGAINST the encumbant. We are going to call this one “Ballots like Bullets” … Just get rid of everyone who is currently in office and get all new faces in washington. We need a revolution, not change.
I am also working on a promo for support for the Roe V Wade debacle and a pro abortion rights rally. We are going to call that one “WOMBS FOR TOMBS” but I will save that one for another forum.
December 30th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Well you didn’t mention that she has no understanding of the job, through her own admission. She does not have the ability or understanding to be vice president little alone step into the role of President if needed. She has a degree in journalism, not government or law or economics. I just do not think she is qualified not only for the White House I cannot understand how she got as far as governor. Out of those you have listed what worries me the most is;
1. Troopergate