For what it's worth

[catsittingstill]

I'm willing to take it on faith that "Kill him!" at Palin's Clearwater FL rally actually meant "Kill Ayers!" rather than "Kill Obama!" 

The problem is that whipping up homicidal hatred is not okay.  Even if the victim is not a presidential candidate.  Maybe somebody should take Palin aside and mention that, in a mentoring sort of way.

 I'm willing to accept that this is just some weirdo with no sewing experience, and this was just some crazy hankering for the good old days.  McCain's and Palin's attacks on Obama are coincidental, and not related to these whack-jobs.

And in the meantime, there are the results of the investigation of Palin's conduct in office; she abused her political position to pursue a personal vendetta.  And she's claiming the report says the exact opposite of what it says!

I don't know which bothers me more--the report, or her response.  If she's really that out of touch with the real world it's astonishing she can get enough traction to walk.  If not, she's lying.  Again.  On the assumption that we're either too stupid to notice or too morally dead to care..

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[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I find this blank denial of reality, this "reframing" of "Palin committed a breach of ethics in using a public office to pursue a political vendetta" into "the report exonerates me completely" to be deeply disturbing. Kind of pod-person-like.

[lola-mccrary.livejournal.com]

What does it say about her personal integrity that she would so totally allow her personal response to be framed by McCain's spin machine? I have this vision of an imaginary bedroom conversation:

Sarah: Todd, why the heck did you have to give ALL those details in your deposition?
First Dude: They asked me. Couldn't think of anything else to say.
Sarah: It makes all those people think I did something wrong.
First Dude: Sarah, you DID do something wrong. You just got caught.
Sarah: Yeah...and you helped me get caught! No sex for you tonight.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I hadn't considered that her response might be altered by McCain's spin machine rather than coming straight from the core of her personality. But now you mention it, she was originally going to cooperate with the probe; it was only after she hooked up with McCain that they turned all weird and secretive about it.

[antongarou.livejournal.com]

From the descriptions I hear about her(I'm not American) it might very well be she didn't consider that the probe could harm her until the McCain people explained that "yes, it can".

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Um. That's another possiblity I hadn't considered.

Though actually, in terms of remaining Governor--it *couldn't* have hurt her, at least until the next election. In spite of the fact that she broke the law, it's not an impeachable offense; the matter will be judged, and any punishment applied, by a three-person state board that handles personnel issues--whose jobs are controlled by the Governor.

So how likely do you think it is that this board will vote to sanction the person who can fire them at will--and has shown that she is perfectly willing to fire anyone who crosses her in any way?

Yeah, me too.

I suppose she was counting on that, and counting on Alaska voters not caring, or forgetting about it before the next gubernatorial election. Once it was due to come up right before the national election, it became a bigger problem and she started dragging her feet and refusing subpoenas and whining that it was all a political witch-hunt.

Which ironically gets its traction from the fact that we've seen the Republicans initiate a political witch-hunt against the Clintons, so we know it can happen.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

But see here. It's appalling how easy it is to sell many people on confident lies. And Sarah Palin knows, or at least takes advantage of that.