Can He Stop 'Troopergate'?

When Clinton was in office the republicans spent millions of taxpayer's dollars in investigations, putting a US president on public trial and making the US a laughstock to the rest of the world. We have lost so much credibility. The really scary part is if she did in fact abuse her office and it gets covered up until after the election, we are in deep do-do. I keep remembering the Keating 5 scandal and puzzling over how the heck MCCain could possibly still be in office, let alone be so close to the presidency. I didn't think it could get any worse. It really could if they make it into the White House.

The McCain campaign & Palin's actions are so preposterously sleazy they don't even merit any thoughtful discussion. As a former Army officer, Vietnam combat veteran and Arizona native, I once had great respect for John McCain, and still can admire the man he once was. Not any more. He has brought shame to the U.S. Naval Academy, the people of Arizona and the Republican party. His selection of the wholly unqualified Ms. Palin for VP is an insult to the American people. Read, if you will, an article by Richard Cohen, who once spoke of John McCain with admiration for his integrity:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502406.html?referrer=emailarticle

Win or lose, John McCain will have lost what he can never get back: his integrity and noble character. At the Naval Academy, midshipmen are, without exception, held to the credo that "an officer does not lie, does not cheat, and does not steal". Now the man who was once an great example for others is presently engaged in all three endeavors

Walt Monegan served at the blessing of the Governor. He was going behind the Governor's back with meetings that he shouldn't have had. It got to a point he was trying to run the state. He should have done his job under his new boss. If he had, he would still be in his job. This whole scenario is a non issue.

"I will fully cooperate." "Palin is unlikely to cooperate."

Just imagine the stink if it were Biden. Republicans would be all over it. She is doing EXACTLY what the republicans hate...saying one thing and doing another...yet there she is, one of their own, and they can't even see how two-faced it is. I'm not sure where the open and transparent government starts. When she was mayor she instructed all her employees not to talk to the press. Open? Transparent? She used her private email for government business knowing it couldn't be looked at without a warrant. Open? Transparent?

This sounds like typical "old boy" politics to me, woman or not.

the investigation was requested before her selection and she said " i welcome the investigation, keep me accountable"

It is true Loriw,

Palin has more experience than Obama in lying, corrupting and manipulating the media, the government and the country. I guess I still prefer a new honest person like the Democratic couple. I say ENOUGH OF REPUBLICANS IN POWER,

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The investigation involves four Democrats and Eight Republicans! Furthermore it sounds like just another Bush "I'll fire the leaker" comment AGAIN. Incidentally the investigation didn't find there was no reason to charge Palin; they found there was sufficient cause to continue the investigation. So now we have McCain acting as judicator from the attempted executive branch and he's not even there yet-and probably won't ever be there. Yes McCain is now above state law!!!! AND he says he all for states rights! Yes what we need are more criminals in office!

McCain's forgotten, and Palin probably never even knew, that in politics, it's not the crime, IT'S THE COVER-UP.
As long as Palin dodges the investigation, it will remain a simmering story. It won't go away. And more and more people will get pulled into a web of lies to make it go away until. . . .it becomes a major scandal. You think these people would learn -- but every time a politician gets caught at something, they think they're big enough, or powerful enough, or charming enough, or just plain stubborn enough to beat the rap. They never are.

Brought to you by the type of Republicans who went gaga over Gore in the 2000 election claiming to invest the Internet:

"Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry
Asked what work John McCain did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate's top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.

"He did this," Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry. "Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that's what he did.""

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/HoltzEakin_McCain_helped_create_BlackBerry.html?showall

Oh, can I hear the squeaky sound of the McCain campaign trying to backpeddle their way out of this latest ditch? This proves once again that his economic advisors are really credible and up to the job.

Let's recap one more time. The man who doesn't know how to work "the email" or do "the Google", invented the Blackberry. Too bad McCain has no clue about how to use the Blackberry (not his own mind you because he doesn't operate one) for its purpose of accessing "the email" and "the Google."

The oldest technology of all, wheels, are flying off the McCain campaign bus.

This is on the same day Palin repeated the lie that her teleprompter went out at her acceptance speech. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/palin-and-the-t.html Right after she says she won't participate in the Troopergate investigation she originally called for and said she would participate in, and which incidentally is run by a non-partisan board of three Republicans outnumbered only two Democrats.

The McCain Palin crew seem to have a teenie eenie weenie credibility problem when it comes to technology and how they govern, among many many other things.

Wait - wasn't this investigation going on PRIOR to her being named as McCain's running mate?

Typical Republican trick - put the investigation into the hands of people who have to answer to, or be fired by, the person they are supposed to investigate. Bet that would be a fair and unbiased investigation - not.

Let's be real. The vast majority of people who bother to THINK are not going to fall for this crap. We have had 8 years of it and we want CHANGE.

Fox news has just reported that the Attourney General has dismissed all supeonas and no one has to testify... Hmm... smells like stinky republican stench...

McCain/Palin are still trying to change the rules at the end of the game. Palin needs to be vetted; McCain didn't do it. Therefore, the media should. She is not qualified to be VP, even though she may be a great Mom, Hockey Mom, PTA leader does not qualify her for VP. What else are they hiding?

Unfortunately, I think he did.... Fox news is now reporting that the Attourney General has removed all supeonas, and no one has to testify... Hmm... Smells stinky like republican stench...

Isn't "abuse of power" a bad quality in a vice president? As a citizen, I deserve to know if a vice presidential candidate isn't fit to serve. Why have people been forced to testify in government hearings or go to prison, but these corrupt (and guilty) neo-cons are above the law? They did the same thing when their attempts to corrupt the federal judical system was uncovered. They refused to testify and take responsibility for their underhanded, unethical, practices. These laws are in place to protect the citizens of the United States. I was never going to vote for war monger John McCain, but the long held respect I had for his military service is lost now that I see the lies and dirty politics he is using to steal the election. Americans have the right to know what kind of people they are voting for. If she has nothing to hide, then she should show her face in court.

Hey, this adminstration is not going to mess around, we're going to have a big scandal and cover up even BEFORE they get elected ... now that's efficient governance! The Palin story is becoming more surreal with each new day. I think even the brain dead one-issue evangelicals and the good old boys who think anyone that reads a book is an "uppity" (to use their word) liberal are having doubts about this clown.