Alaska releases Palin emails

[maxiep]

Really? If Palin ended up as the Republican nominee it would mean the Republican party is horribly broken.

Yes, really. As for the Republicans, I couldn't care less about the state of a party to which I do not belong.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Yes, really. As for the Republicans, I couldn't care less about the state of a party to which I do not belong.

That's sad, I'm a Republican and I care very much about the lack of quality candidates for both major parties. I believe the better the candidates will foster better ideas and greater discussion and debate between all Americans.

 

[maxiep]

That's sad, I'm a Republican and I care very much about the lack of quality candidates for both major parties. I believe the better the candidates will foster better ideas and greater discussion and debate between all Americans.

So, you're a Republican and you wouldn't vote for Palin over Obama?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So, you're a Republican and you wouldn't vote for Palin over Obama?

That's correct.

 

[maxiep]

That's correct.

I'm interested to read your reasoning.

 

[MARIS61]

Again, you're just talking out your ass. Here are the facts:

Sarah Palin was elected in 2006. After almost two years in office, she had an approval rating of 82% among all Alaskans. This was after she had passed quite a few pieces of legislation, of course. Can you name any other governor with approval ratings that high after two years in office?

You really ought to think before you post. It makes you look so much more intelligent.

I linked the proof.

I'll link it again since you're handicapped:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin#Job_approval_ratings.2C_with_comparisons

You're the one with the odor of poo on your breath.

And maybe my standards are higher than yours, but Palin's a sad mutt in my eyes.

 

[MARIS61]

A president doesn't do the job alone. They bring a whole host of advisors, cabinet secretaries and get to appoint judges. I think Sarah Palin would bring in people with whom I agree much more than Barack Obama.

You seem to think Sarah Palin is stupid or would make a poor president. What's your reasoning?

I suspect you are playing dumb out of your irrational hatred for Obama.

Most of the world KNOWS she's stupid. Even most conservatives have distanced themselves from her.

She would be impeached within months if she somehow stumbled into the Presidency.

 

[barfo]

Ideology shouldn't the only qualification for president. I'd much rather have Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty as president than Al Sharpton.

Now, Sharpton vs. Palin? That's a draw, I think. Although the debates would be hilarious.

barfo

 

[PapaG]

I think that going into the college records of a candidate is not important. Period. Especially when said candidate does not seem like a bumbling idiot (See Russia watcher from her back yard Palin, Sarah).

You do realize that Tina Fey said that on an SNL skit, right? Palin never said it; it was a so-called comedian that said it as a fictitious verson of Palin.

1:05 of video

[video=youtube;psyo4JDbJJ4]

Now who is the bumbling idiot?

 

[andalusian]

Palin in an interview claimed she has an insight into Russian politics because you can see Russia from Alaska. Thus the joke.

The issue was not the back porch, it was the stupidity that seeing the land gives one insight into it's politics.

I thought it was pretty clear who the bumbling idiot is. Fey did not come with this gem by herself. She just took it to the next level based on the great raw material. That's what comedians do.

"The Alaska-Russia controversy erupted in 2008 when ABC's Charlie Gibson asked Palin, "What insight into Russian actions particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of this state give you?"
Palin said: "They're our next-door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."
The debate continues on the Web: several sources say Russia can be seen from a small Alaskan island, but others argue it's impossible to see Russia from the Alaskan mainland, as they say Palin has implied.
Comedian Tina Fey, playing Sarah Palin during a skit, joked that she could see Russia from her house."

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/01/sarah-palin-you-really-can-see-russia-from-alaska/

I thought people on this forum were able to make the mental jump of two steps at a time. It seems like I was mistaken and from now on will go to the trouble of identifying every little step from one point to the other. My bad.

 

[maxiep]

Palin in an interview claimed she has an insight into Russian politics because you can see Russia from Alaska. Thus the joke.

The issue was not the back porch, it was the stupidity that seeing the land gives one insight into it's politics.

I thought it was pretty clear who the bumbling idiot is. Fey did not come with this gem by herself. She just took it to the next level based on the great raw material. That's what comedians do.

"The Alaska-Russia controversy erupted in 2008 when ABC's Charlie Gibson asked Palin, "What insight into Russian actions particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of this state give you?"
Palin said: "They're our next-door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."
The debate continues on the Web: several sources say Russia can be seen from a small Alaskan island, but others argue it's impossible to see Russia from the Alaskan mainland, as they say Palin has implied.
Comedian Tina Fey, playing Sarah Palin during a skit, joked that she could see Russia from her house."

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/01/sarah-palin-you-really-can-see-russia-from-alaska/

I thought people on this forum were able to make the mental jump of two steps at a time. It seems like I was mistaken and from now on will go to the trouble of identifying every little step from one point to the other. My bad.

And you still miss the point. Her point was that the Alaska National Guard (which she oversaw) has duties different than most NGs due to their geography. Admittedly, it's weak sauce, but she was asked a question about foreign affairs, which a governor is always going to be weak on. She stretched it a bit, but it wasn't outlandish.

I'm trying to recall the myriad of questions then-Sen. Obama received about his executive experience prior to running for the Presidency... Oh, well. Lesson learned.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

I notice you didn't answer my question.

why do i think she is stupid? the same reason 90 percent of america does...she is.

only republican shills would even begin to suggest otherwise

 

[3RA1N1AC]

You do realize that Tina Fey said that on an SNL skit, right? Palin never said it; it was a so-called comedian that said it as a fictitious verson of Palin.

1:05 of video

[video=youtube;psyo4JDbJJ4]

Now who is the bumbling idiot?

you do realize that she has quoted palin verbatim for comedy sketches right? that she is SO dumb, they didnt even have to write anything

 

[Eastoff]

It would mean she got 11% of the vote in a 10 person primary.

example how it's fixed!! :MARIS61:

 

[maxiep]

why do i think she is stupid? the same reason 90 percent of america does...she is.

only republican shills would even begin to suggest otherwise

Nothing quite like tautological reasoning.

It's amazing when you ask a simple question and deflection seems to be the only answer.

 

[Eastoff]

Nothing quite like tautological reasoning.

It's amazing when you ask a simple question and deflection seems to be the only answer.

You know I was looking for dirt, and I came across this:

[video=youtube;JDrhVR8d2Gk]

I was pleasantly surprised to hear some hype is wrong.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

she is clearly not good at making people think she is smart. news flash! im not the only one she has failed to impress.

and here you go so you can stop with all the "im waiting for your response" garbage, i mean really? i really dont have the time to appease your insatiable appetite for my opinion every day.

imo

1. she has no global swag
2. very little experience with immigration/finance/healthcare/anything....she seems stuck on "abortion is bad! wave the flag! thump your bible!" the gop is getting away from that, and trying to appear more relevant to actual issues that smart people care about.
3. she has a questionable ethics record.
4. she just doesnt seem like a very dynamic speaker! i cant be the only one who thinks this lol. not that it matters too much, but she will need to talk people into going her way with things
5. she doesnt seem to have much vision. seems more of a reactionary, which is ironic because of the whole "going rogue" idiot trap

and she sells herself like a goddamn whore, she used to be against big oil

plus shes stupid

 

[Eastoff]

she is clearly not good at making people think she is smart. news flash! im not the only one she has failed to impress.

and here you go so you can stop with all the "im waiting for your response" garbage, i mean really? i really dont have the time to appease your insatiable appetite for my opinion every day.

imo

1. she has no global swag
2. very little experience with immigration/finance/healthcare/anything....she seems stuck on "abortion is bad! wave the flag! thump your bible!" the gop is getting away from that, and trying to appear more relevant to actual issues that smart people care about.
3. she has a questionable ethics record.
4. she just doesnt seem like a very dynamic speaker! i cant be the only one who thinks this lol. not that it matters too much, but she will need to talk people into going her way with things
5. she doesnt seem to have much vision. seems more of a reactionary, which is ironic because of the whole "going rogue" idiot trap

and she sells herself like a goddamn whore, she used to be against big oil

plus shes stupid

I had forgotten about the abuse of power with the brother-in-law state trooper

 

[PapaG]

you do realize that she has quoted palin verbatim for comedy sketches right? that she is SO dumb, they didnt even have to write anything

Palin never said she could see Russia from her backyard. Foolish leftists confuse FeyPalin with the real Palin.

You do realize this, right? I find the irony of "smart" liberals mocking Palin because of something that Tina Fey made up to be quite fascinating.

 

[PapaG]

I had forgotten about the abuse of power with the brother-in-law state trooper

You forgot about it because it didn't happen as you leftists thought it did, and she didn't "abuse her power".

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/11/palin_cleared_i.html

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was cleared tonight by a state personel board of any ethics violations in the firing of Alaska's public safety commissioner.

The report from Timothy Petumenos, an independent counsel for the Alaska Personnel Board, says there is no probable cause to believe Palin, Alaska's governor, or any other state official violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with the firing of Walter Monegan.

She was cleared by the actual bi-partisan ethics board, yet the idiots on the left took the "findings" of a democratic hack as truth.

So ... 0-2 in this thread on Palin. Are you starting to feel at all stupid?

 

[Eastoff]

You forgot about it because it didn't happen as you leftists thought it did, and she didn't "abuse her power".

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/11/palin_cleared_i.html


She was cleared by the actual bi-partisan ethics board, yet the idiots on the left took the "findings" of a democratic hack as truth.

So ... 0-2 in this thread on Palin. Are you starting to feel at all stupid?

I guess you're right, that must be why I didn't hear anything more about it. =]

e:whenever I start to feel stupid, I look at your avatar and feel like a genius.

 

[PapaG]

I guess you're right, that must be why I didn't hear anything more about it. =]

e:whenever I start to feel stupid, I look at your avatar and feel like a genius.

Haha!

Bert Kolde KNOWS basketball!

Politics is so stupid and divisive. I don't even like Palin, and would have a hard time voting for her. I'd probably go 3rd-party if faced with a Barry/Sarah race. I just get irritated when I see the same lies over and over about her, when just a tiny bit of research would answer some questions. Let's not forget that the head of the Paul Revere Historical Society begrudgingly admitted that Palin was correct in her comments on Revere's message. Sure, he said she probably got lucky, but considering Palin had just toured the museum, I'm guessing she was remembering what they told her.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Palin never said she could see Russia from her backyard. Foolish leftists confuse FeyPalin with the real Palin.

You do realize this, right? I find the irony of "smart" liberals mocking Palin because of something that Tina Fey made up to be quite fascinating.

huh? when the fuck did i ever say anything about russia and backyards? take it down a notch gumshoe

 

[Eastoff]

Haha!

Bert Kolde KNOWS basketball!

Politics is so stupid and divisive. I don't even like Palin, and would have a hard time voting for her. I'd probably go 3rd-party if faced with a Barry/Sarah race. I just get irritated when I see the same lies over and over about her, when just a tiny bit of research would answer some questions. Let's not forget that the head of the Paul Revere Historical Society begrudgingly admitted that Palin was correct in her comments on Revere's message. Sure, he said she probably got lucky, but considering Palin had just toured the museum, I'm guessing she was remembering what they told her.

The most they can say is correct in her statement about Revere was "we know what an old man remembered about his life 30 years before in a single letter." I must admit, I never knew so much of Revere's ride is a poem meant as an allegory for the civil war.

 

[maxiep]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1345033

 

[3RA1N1AC]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1345033

thank god mitt romney showed him that loophole, id hate to see all of patricks cock shots, i bet its huge

 

[Klinky]

You forgot about it because it didn't happen as you leftists thought it did, and she didn't "abuse her power".

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/11/palin_cleared_i.html


She was cleared by the actual bi-partisan ethics board, yet the idiots on the left took the "findings" of a democratic hack as truth.

So ... 0-2 in this thread on Palin. Are you starting to feel at all stupid?

1. Governor Sarah Palin abused her power as Governor in that her conduct violated AS 39.52.110(a) of the Ethics Act, which provides "The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust."

2. Although Walt Monegan's refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. In spite of that, Governor Palin's firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.

On September 1, Palin essentially filed an ethics complaint against herself, asking the state Personnel Board to review the case.[125] Her lawyer asked the state Legislature to drop its investigation, saying that by state law, the board had jurisdiction over ethics issues.[126] Palin also asked that the Board review the matter as an ethics complaint.[82]

The Personnel Board is a three-member panel appointed by the governor, and confirmed by the legislature. Members serve a six-year term,[128] and not more than 2 members may be of same political party.[129] The three people on the current board were first appointed by Frank Murkowski (R), Palin's gubernatorial predecessor; Palin reappointed one member in 2008.[130] Another member donated $400 to Palin's 2006 campaign for governor.[131] As governor, Palin has the authority to remove members of the board, for cause.[132] The Personnel Board hired Anchorage trial lawyer Timothy J. Petumenos, a registered Democrat who contributed to Palin's opponent for governor in 2006,[133] as its investigator. In 2002, his firm handled the $15 million bond issue for Wasilla's hockey complex, a pet project of then-mayor Palin.[134]

On November 3, 2008, the Alaska Personnel Board concluded its probe and determined that Palin had not violated ethics laws, contradicting the earlier investigations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska...er_dismissal#Branchflower_Report_and_response

 

[PapaG]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska...er_dismissal#Branchflower_Report_and_response

She was cleared by the actual Ethics Commission, which is what matters. The "investigator" who wrote the first report was a rabid Democrat.

The idiocy around here astounds me at times. Did you get run out of your other site, Klinky? Many of us here talk chess, and you like to pull out the wiki-Checkers as your trump. It's amusing.

 

[Klinky]

She was cleared by the actual Ethics Commission,which is what matters.

Given that the legislature could have impeached Palin(doubtful), I don't think you're correct that the Personnel Board's opinion is the only one that mattered.

The "investigator" who wrote the first report was a rabid Democrat.

Stephen Branchflower, which the investigation was named after, was the actual investigator who was doing the actual investigating. He was hired by a bipartisan committee. Sen. Hollis French, who was overseeing the investigation, did make some public statements that made him sound very anti-Palin. But he wasn't the investigator.

I am glad you consider one investigation initiated by a bipartisan committee as being done by rabid Democrats. While you hold up the Personnel Board as being exemplary in their actions, partly because they're bipartisan... Hmmm...

The idiocy around here astounds me at times. Did you get run out of your other site, Klinky? Many of us here talk chess, and you like to pull out the wiki-Checkers as your trump. It's amusing.

I made you a new avatar

 

[PapaG]

Given that the legislature could have impeached Palin(doubtful), I don't think you're correct that the Personnel Board's opinion is the only one that mattered.



Stephen Branchflower, which the investigation was named after, was the actual investigator who was doing the actual investigating. He was hired by a bipartisan committee. Sen. Hollis French, who was overseeing the investigation, did make some public statements that made him sound very anti-Palin. But he wasn't the investigator.

I am glad you consider one investigation initiated by a bipartisan committee as being done by rabid Democrats. While you hold up the Personnel Board as being exemplary in their actions, partly because they're bipartisan... Hmmm...



I made you a new avatar

Dumb people make me laugh. French had his fingerprints all over that "investigation". Have you researched the trooper who was fired? Do you agree that wife beaters should be troopers?