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Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:00 AM

Rick Davis: The last 8 years encapsulated

McCain's campaign manager: Troopergate report found "no violations of any kinds of laws or ethics rules." The report: Palin "abused her power by violating" Alaska law

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Sunday, October 12, 2008 02:36 PM

Cut them off

The host/interviewer (Chris Wallace in this case) should simply cut them off, saying, "Unless you admit to the facts, I'm not going to let you use anymore air time. It's either that, or I'm going to have to interject 'Liar!' every 3 seconds while you speak. Which do you choose?"

Sunday, October 12, 2008 02:23 PM

I guess the base will cheer

What's (spit) Bush's approval rating down to now? 25%? Or has it dropped even lower?

These are the people that McCain and Palin are trying to appeal to. Their behavior is being rejected by more and more people every day, and still they persist. That's ok with me. Keep doing what you're doing John. Sink your party so far that they'll forever be reduced to a minor annoyance.

Republicans have PROVEN once and for all that they're unfit and unable to govern this country.

Sunday, October 12, 2008 02:21 PM

One clean finding out of four, and they act like she aced the test

When you see yourself as The Executive or Commander-in-Chief, you view such minutia in terms of its effect on your power; when you see yourself as a public servant, you view it more in terms of how it affects the public and you ask yourself how could I have served them better.

Andrew Halcro has a great take on some of the report findings @

http://www.andrewhalcro.com/rebranding_troopergate_a_seinfeld_moment

Halcro concludes:

In finding Governor Palin guilty of abusing her power as governor, Branchflower concluded:


"The evidence supports the conclusion that Governor Palin, at the least, engaged in "official action" by her inaction if not her active participation or assiatnce to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired (and there is evidence of her active participation). She knowingly permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor's office and the resources of the Governor's office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired."

But more importantly, we know now that Governor Palin's press release on July 18, stating;

“To allege that I, or any member of my family....directed disciplinary action be taken against any employee of the Department of Public Safety, is, quite simply, outrageous"...

....was, quite simply, a lie.

Sunday, October 12, 2008 02:20 PM

Its a perfect ...

example of the denying of that pesky 'objective truth thingy'. If they just ignore it they hope you wont notice.

Sunday, October 12, 2008 02:11 PM

Non stop lies and interruptions

Davis said that he didn't interrupt Axelrod while he was talking. I didn't watch before the part where Davis lied about the Palin/Troopergate findings so I don't know. But Axelrod was able to have "the last word" as Wallace put it, for all of about 15 seconds before Davis not only interrupted him, but never shut the hell up again until the "conversation" ended. He just talked over Axelrod without stopping.

Sunday, October 12, 2008 02:05 PM

Getting it from both ends (figuratively)

What shocks me about the McCain-Palin campaign's reaction to this report is how illogical they have been in their response. On the one hand, they claim that the report shows she did nothing wrong; therefore, they argue, she is totally off the hook. But on the other hand, they claim that the report's conclusions are invalid because the investigation was too tainted by partisanship. One wants to stand on top of a tall object with a megaphone, yelling, "What the hell are you talking about!? THIS MAKES NO SENSE!" I guess that's why you have a blog.

Sunday, October 12, 2008 01:59 PM

Sarah agrees

Yesterday she also claimed no laws were broken. I decided that she has a reading comprehension problem. Link at my name.

Being a maverick means never having to understand what you read.

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