Todd's Deposition: A Dud from the Dude

So when does the Recall start? Or perhaps the Impeachment? It doesn't look like Palin will be going to Washington come January, and those of us in the lower 48 are happy to ship her home to you.

Most excellent move on your part. I do hope you realize the problem you have. Because when it is Wooden's turn in the batter' box, your toast. Get your checkbook out and start writting. Oh, and by the way, the legislature's report is out. So now we know, that you both are bold faced liars. How's it feel to have your world blow up around you?

Dirty politics! Dirty politics! What else is in force to win votes? People with vindictive minds are reaking havoc just to get their favorite person into office and they will dig up any kind of dirt they can and call it "justifying our political ethics". I won't say who I am voting for but I can say "Who ever said our government was perfect?". If we were all perfect we wouldn't need government officials. Just like traffic lights were created to keep down confusion on the streets government was created to keep confusion off of main street. More power to ANYONE who wants to protect their family, office or state. What is wrong with that?!!!!!! He who has never sinned (made a mistake and etc.) let him/her cast the first stone. Our court room walls say "In God we trust". Whoever gets into office will need the backing and prayer of every voter and supporter. All men are imperfect but there is one perfect creator who is over all. ~I am the sixth cousin to George Washington and third great grandaughter to Col. John Almus Garnder (Senator and Lawyer).

Thanks for letting us all know what's really going on up there in Alaska. Some media outlets aren't able to give us reliable background information on the Palins. If McCain had truly vetted McCain, you would have been included in his questioning. Keep letting us know the truth!!!

Andrew, Many elected officials use their spouses as sounding boards and support or non-support for that matter. Some say in the waining years of the Regan administration that Nancy was the communicator for Prez Regan due to advancement of Alziemhers.(sp) I see nothing unusual or wrong with Governor Palin discussing issues with her spouse or anybody else that helps her make the best decisions necessary for the State of Alaska. I rely on this input from my family, because I know I can sometimes get off track and miss the meaning behind the issues. Nothing extraordinary here.

This is about a 'corrupt' trooper, not about the AK State Troopers as a whole. There appears to be misinformation flying around that the AK State Troopers are corrupt. Stay on topic. Clearly there are those that feel the masses are corrupt, but keep things in perspective. Wooten's union is not going to go quietly, especially with the likes of John Cyr running the show. Wooten was/is a 'bad egg'. There is no justification for keeping someone on the payroll that clearly is a danger to the people. Palin may have pressured Monegan, but did Monegan completely do everything in his ability to correct the situation? Again, this is about a corrupt trooper that remains on the force (more tragic than a loss of a job or a sullied reputation).

Standing back for a bigger pictures, we see: 1. Rather than sticking to facts and disagreeing with policy, Sarah Palin puts on display her egregiously twisted version of who Barack Obama is. She is shameless in misrepresenting character, in manufacturing from the facts dangerously wrongheaded interpretations and conclusions, and is encouraging others to embrace these marginally vetted rantings and accept them at face value. One gets a sense from this one example of how she operates in general. We now witness Exhibit A of "ambitious woman twists facts for personal gain". Note the repeated theme of calling forth images of potential victimization at the hands of people who might in some way terrorize others (Americans; "my family"), and the fact that she has no shame about drawing even farfetched conclusions. Fast reverse to look to see if this pattern holds in the Wooten/Monegan situation. Looks for all the world to me like ANOTHER situation in which Palin, with neurotic muscularity, strains at credulity in branding Wooten.... essentially a terrorist, who is out to hurt her family. The examples often can't stand the light of truth(like Wooten's bagging a moose without a permit -- the Palins butchered and ate it, and then filed the complaint two years later at the time of Sarah's sister's divorce). So we see that this woman has a track record of questionable judgment and conclusions unsupported by facts in the case of Obama, and it colors the willingness to conclude that she used any judgment in the case of Monegan/Wooten. Based on the Obama baloney, all shreds of credibility in the Monegan firing and Wooten rationalization simply blow away in the wind. 2. Todd Palin's non-response "response" to Stephen Branchflowers interrogatories displays a man so arrogant and convinced of hiw own rightness and self importance, but also so intensely and densely entwined in his own explanations and rationalizations and stories, topped off with a strongly held sense of entitlement that he holds himself as blameless. Little does he know that what was written on his behalf speaks VOLUMES about his character, even as he tries to resahape the public opnion of him. If Palin had cooperated and answered some questions, the public would be more inclined to sympathy. He did not. That will neither wash nor wear well. I'm afraid the scales are tipping away from the benefit of the doubt, Todd. The wolfhunters are crying wolf once too often. But there's one more thing I'd like to contrast all this with: What about the rape victims in Wasilla, having to pay for their own rape kits (investigative tools of the police that should be paid for by the police)? The Palins' inordinate self-pity and inability to disengage from their own web of rationalization, and their inability to tease apart the personal from the political starkly contrasts with the nonexistent compassion for others' experience of actual violence, a moment where the political demands compassion and connection with the personal. Todd Palin's response evokes a gubercouple that is completely wrapped up in themselves and their beliefs and perceptions and high drama, including a boilerplate fear that others may harm them, but are fundamentally unable to connect with the plight of constituents against whom harm was not threatened, but was actually carried out. Weird and weirder.

Hats off to you Andrew Wish all this had come out before she was chosen the first dude is damned scary No Insult to rednecks but is this what redneck power couple does she is more dangerous than bush

Do you have nothing else to do? You sound like you know what your talking about but really all you are doing is bashing someone for getting to an office you could not get to. Correct me if I am wrong but Alaska is an “At Will” state. The Governor should be able to fire anyone she feels is not doing their job. Would you be posting a blog if a CEO of a cooperation fired one of it’s managers for not meeting expectations? Really I think some people just want you to drop it.

Love all you do and trust your judgement and love all you write. Looks like Troopergate is your fault???!!!!! What a bunch of lies the Palin's tell. All the manipulations, lies and sneaky deeds that they do, and they get a white-wash. Why in the world would Alaska pay for her sleeping at home?? that is just one perverted thing that they do. I hate the way she treats women, animals and Eskimo/Indians, I hate the way they uses people. They will lose the election, and put us all out of our misery, with having to listen to both of them. The Report is another white-wash, and Alaska better listen to you and the other Alaskans for Truth and send her back to the PTA.

Andrew, so you're the problem! Now I understand. Thanks to the McCain campaign for explaining it all. Clearly, all that legislative and ethics fuss was for nothing. Seriously, what are they so freakin' worried about? What can possibly justify this level of cover-up? I mean, it seems Todd is willing to take the fall as illogical and unsupported as his story is upon close examination. The over-concerned hubby angle could still play well in a lot of locales. It would have looked bad to some but not to others. But what is it that causes such worry? Interference with the worker's comp claim?

i love you andrew. you may be the only person who can stop palin from getting obama assassinated. i can't believe a mother of 4 (5?) lets racists and violent outbursts go unchecked. xo allison

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/10/10/palin_pre-empts_state_report,_clears_self_in_probe?page=1 Monegan said Thursday that he doesn't know what to expect from the legislative panel's own report. "I just hope that the truth is figured out," Monegan told The Associated Press on Thursday. "That the governor did want me to fire him, and I chose to not. You just can't walk up to someone and say, 'I fire you.' He didn't do anything under my watch to result in termination." Palin's critics say that shows she used her office to settle family affairs. "When you're the governor, you leave your household hat at home and you become governor," said state Senate President Lyda Green, a Republican who has frequently clashed with Palin. McCain spokesman Taylor Griffin, who distributed the campaign's report, said it was based on public filings and Todd Palin's affidavit. The report blames former campaign opponent, Andrew Halcro, who has a blog, of conspiring with Wooten to pin Monegan's dismissal on the family's dispute with Wooten. Three days after Monegan was fired, they say, Wooten told his ex-wife, Palin's sister, that: "You guys are going down. Get ready for the show." Two days after that confrontation, they say, Halcro and Wooten met at a hotel bar in Anchorage for more than three hours _ and that evening, Halcro posted the first accusations on his blog that Monegan had been fired because of a vendetta against Wooten by the Palin family. "It is tragic that a false story hatched by a blogger after drinks with Trooper Wooten led the legislature to allocate over $100,000 of public money to be spent in what has become a politically driven investigation," the 21-page report concludes

haha mr. halcro, the mccain campaign is at it again. they will slime anyone who gets in their way. The campaign's report instead blames former campaign opponent, Andrew Halcro, who has a blog, of conspiring with Wooten to pin Monegan's dismissal on the family's dispute with Wooten. Three days after Monegan was fired, they say, Wooten told his ex-wife, Palin's sister, that: "You guys are going down. Get ready for the show." Two days after that confrontation, they say, Halcro and Wooten met at a hotel bar in Anchorage for more than three hours — and that evening, Halcro posted the first accusations on his blog that Monegan had been fired because of a vendetta against Wooten by the Palin family. "It is tragic that a false story hatched by a blogger after drinks with Trooper Wooten led the legislature to allocate over $100,000 of public money to be spent in what has become a politically driven investigation," the 21-page report concludes. from AP

Palins Repeatedly Pressed Case Against Trooper

Alaska’s former public safety commissioner was contacted three dozen times by Gov. Sarah Palin, her husband and seven administration officials about the status of one of his troopers, interviews and documents show.

Just think-you may be personally responsible for saving the free world from yet another clueless administration! Thank you in advance.

Please respond to the Personnel Committee/McCain Campaign report. From the AP story, it sounds so transparently like a white wash I can't imagine anyone with an ounce of political judgment releasing it.