Vetting the Veep...post announcement

Sarah Palin has allowed the Generals at the Alaska National Guard to intimidate and retaliate against any Guardsmen who speak out against this abuse. Moral is low. I know because my son was a Guardsman there and was intimidated when he spoke out against injustices by these Generals. It is corrupt and good people want out. Please try to get this travesty investigated. I have evidence and intend to nail these "good old boys" including Sarah Palin if necessary. From a Viet Nam Vet

Andrew--when will the press get the story of "Cost Cuttin' Sarah" and the Mat Maid Dairy fiasco--how "her" Dairy Board tried to close Mat Maid to save the State money, and she fired them all and replaced with her friends to keep about 4 dairy farmers in the Valley going--and then finally closed Mat Maid some months later after loosing a lot more money. I think the press has yet to come up with this story, and its a good one!

http://www.defendersactionfund.org/newsroom/sarah_palin.html You may want to look at this. I am appalled by what I am reading here. Check out the video.

Andrew this statement fueled people's notion of an insufficiently vetted pick. I know its just a blog but you have a lot of ears now. "The campaign of John McCain has sent a staff of eight people into Alaska to conduct background checks and vetting on Governor Sarah Palin." That's a statement of certainty. Unless this came from *at least* one McCain campaign member, IMO this should have been phrased as rumor.

You guys wait until her nomination ... then you'll see all the dirty stuff about her in the national media. boy, this one is going to take more than 1000 Karl Rove to clean up. The campaign is dead! What a bad choice! It tells you how bad McCain's judgment is.

I wonder if we will hear about her membership in the Alaskan Independence Party whose goal is as follows: 1) Remain a Territory. 2) Become a separate and Independent Nation. 3) Accept Commonwealth status. 4) Become a State.

How come anyone has yet to make the obvious comparison of Sarah with Tonya Harding, the redneck who'd break her opponent's knees to gain step in the race? Is she really too pretty for that?

Look people, the US Congress canceled the Bridge to Nowhere earmarks in 2005. That was BEFORE Sarah Palin began her run for the governorship. So on Friday, in front of 15,000 people in Ohio and millions of people in the US and around the world, she lied through her teeth. She couldn't have stood up to Congress as she claimed because the Republicans had canceled that specific earmark. They nevertheless sent the money to Alaska, and she used it. She is building a road "to nowhere." And after the earmark was canceled she was still supporting it and others snared by Alaska's powerful, scandal-plagued Republican Congressional delegation. It's not that hard to grasp. The issues here are two: this woman cannot be trusted if on her first rollout she is lying so blatantly, and McCain's judgment and temperament, as Republicans in the US Senate have repeatedly suggested, are seriously lacking. It's as if this whole thing were a joke predicated solely on pleasing right-wing evangelicals, big oil and the tiny group of Hillary PUMAs who'd vote against their ideological interests, with the laugh being on the 200+ million rest of us. If you cannot vote for Obama and Biden, then vote for Nader, vote for Barr, vote for McKinney, but this McCain-Palin ticket makes a mockery not only of the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, but of our entire American political tradition. It's a disgrace, and if the baby drama is what it takes to get people to realize how disgraceful it is, so be it.

Look people, the US Congress canceled the Bridge to Nowhere earmarks in 2005. That was BEFORE Sarah Palin began her run for the governorship. So on Friday, in front of 15,000 people in Ohio and millions of people in the US and around the world, she lied through her teeth. She couldn't have stood up to Congress as she claimed because the Republicans had canceled that specific earmark. They nevertheless sent the money to Alaska, and she used it. She is building a road "to nowhere." And after the earmark was canceled she was still supporting it and others snared by Alaska's powerful, scandal-plagued Republican Congressional delegation. It's not that hard to grasp. The issues here are two: this woman cannot be trusted if on her first rollout she is lying so blatantly, and McCain's judgment and temperament, as Republicans in the US Senate have repeatedly suggested, are seriously lacking. It's as if this whole thing were a joke predicated solely on pleasing right-wing evangelicals, big oil and the tiny group of Hillary PUMAs who'd vote against their ideological interests, with the laugh being on the 200+ million rest of us. If you cannot vote for Obama and Biden, then vote for Nader, vote for Barr, vote for McKinney, but this McCain-Palin ticket makes a mockery not only of the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, but of our entire American political tradition. It's a disgrace, and if the baby drama is what it takes to get people to realize how disgraceful it is, so be it.

The NY Times has a good summary of the developments the week before McCain chose Palin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/us/politics/02vetting.html?hp

His first two choices, Lieberman and Ridge, are pro-choice and McCain was deluged with acrimony from the right-to-lifers and influential Republicans, so he backed off. McCain decided against Pawlenty and Romney for unclear reasons. His advisors told him his campaign was stagnating. He needed to infuse it with a VP choice who would be palatable to the far right and also give the campaign some energy. He knew virtually nothing about Palin, but he knew she was against abortion. He acted hastily, regardless who's telling the story. How this could ever reflect well on him and his decision making process is anyone's guess. For his team to wait so late in the game to make a crucial choice for running mate is pretty much an indictment of his authority within his own party.

John McCain is doing all he can to avoid high-tailing it to the twin cities to the get RNC show on the road and who can blame him. Sarah Palin has had her 15 minutes of fame and now American needs to know the truth about her. Now John McCain has decided to vet his 'soulmate' but America is already a step ahead of him. We're looking at everything in her background to find evidence that she deserves to be a 'heartbeat' from presidency. Americans have a right to question anything about Sarah Palin even her ability to be a good mother. Sarah Palin will prove manipulative. I think it will come out that Trig is in fact her grandson - not her son. In almost every photo, Bristol is holding the little boy in a way that suggests she is his mother. Why did Sarah Palin pull her daughter out of school for 5 months? In previous photographs that show Sarah Palin as a pregnant mother, she looks really pregnant. But no person can say that Sarah Palin looked visibly pregnant during her 'last' pregnancy and she boards a plane - in labor - from Texas to Alaska - none of it makes sense. Any mother in labor is not going to get on a flight to deliver a child when there are better hospitals in Texas than there are in Alaska. Then this Superwoman returns to work in 3 days, heavy bleeding and all. hmmm. Also, why is Sarah Palin's son going off to Iraq on Sept. 11 instead of going off to college. Is Sarah Palin 'shipping' him off for some reason. Sarah Palin certainly does not seem to support post secondary education. We will learn that Sarah Palin is a con artist who uses her sex appeal to make things happen for her much to the detrement of others. Any other candidate would be ripped to shreds but now all we hear are people covering up for her. Let ALL the truth be told. We're going to learn that the Monehan Troopergate issue is just the tip of the iceberg.

for having the kid free zone and sticking to it....also for rising above the gossip and getting into the meat and facts. Some meat for discussion, as folks in the states are calling and mentioning, the bridge to nowhere. There were 2 bridges and both of them we ridiculed> Why is Gravina Bridge the only one talked about now?

Is it a vetting mission . . . or a scrubbing mission?

Interesting tidbit of info. Care to clue us in on how you came about with the info? Any idea what they plan to do? Did they make pre-arranged points of contacts? They could just be a staff to help easy her thru the deposition and clean up any minor infractions that McCain may find difficult to explain later on. Then again, things may go missing after they've vetted material too. Hope there are numerous copies of all files relating to the gov.

Why bother vetting now? McCain made his choice, I doubt he back tracks from his decision. If his choosing Sarah Palin didn't cost him the election, dropping her certainly will. Nothing short of a miracle will prevent the GOP from nominating her.

You are a rumor monger! With no proof, you push stories other bloggers can quote. Why don't you go and find out if McCain sent 8 investigators to Wasilla? You could take photos, even interview them! You don't, though. I think you are a lazy guy with your eye on the main chance to be famous at the expense of Sarah Palin.