She's said recently she doesn't know what McCain's plan is for Iraq. Doesn't even know if we have a plan for Iraq but thinks one would be nice.

I'll give her this; based on what you wrote, it sounds as if she has a pretty strong grasp of McCain's plan for Iraq.

Apologize in advance for any double posts.

Rec'd

Indeed, she should choose life outside of Washington. As the Alaskan bumpersticker says:
Focus on your own damn family.

As if Billy cared for anything other than Billy. He truly does love that one thing a lot.

But it's a great post! Rec'd.

I can't for the life of me figure out why this isn't counted as a scandal also ...

http://community.adn.com/node/128527

http://community.adn.com/sites/community.adn.com/files/McLeod%20Ethics%20Complaint1.pdf

It seems like this ethics complaint was filed Aug 6th. It names Sarah Palin, her chief of staff and several other members of her adminstration.

The gist is that Palin used her office to secure a "protected position" with the DOT for a campaign fundraiser/friend in the Alaska. When asked, Palin said nobody got any favors.

The complaint seems pretty well documented, but the person who filed it might have an axe to grind with Palin(but that doesn't seem hard to find in Alaska). IMO this should at least be looked at as a part of a proper vetting.

Palin fired top cop in Alaska because he wouldn't play politics with Alaska's equivalent of the US DOJ.

DOES ANYONE ELSE THINK THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR?

Maybe the 18 year old who banged Bristol has a plan, McCain shook his hand see link below.

Imagine if Obama had a pregnant 17 year old and the dude who did her showed up to the Democratic Convention to be received like a prince. Its OK with Republicans because they have 'values'.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/09/03/20080903mccain-palin0903-ON.html

That reminded me of a great political cartoon. Too funny (and too true).

NO RECORD OF PALIN 'SON' TRIG BORN ON THE DATE CLAIMED ... THIS IS BRISTOL 2ND PREGNANCY NOT THE 1ST!!!
http://www.mediatakeout.com/2008/26353-more_palin_drama_no_record_of_palin_son_trig_born_on_the_date_claimed__daughter_supposedly_got_pregnant_while_she_had_mono__attempts_to_force_daughter_to_get_married.html

People's children are off limits? This is not about her daughter bristol, no one is attacking her daughter... this is about another GOP corrupt politician who wants to be vice-president or president.
We don't need it... not another 4 or 8 years of lying corrupt president and vice-president.... we had enough of bush and cheney...
"NICE guys finish last!!!".. this is about palin lies and misconduct.

Gov. Palin needs to take a DNA or blood test to prove that baby trig is hers... all the evidence is supporting that the baby belongs to Bristol, her daughter.
I saw pictures and VIDEO of gov. palin when she CLAIMED to be 7 and 8 months pregnant, AND SHE DIDn't look 7 or 8 months preganant to me... I have six children by two different women so I know what a 7 and 8 month pregnant woman looks like. Palin was not pregnant with trig, bristol was.
Bristol is now pregnant a second time or her 2nd pregnancy is a hoax to force her to marry her boyfriend to cover up for gov palin scandal...... faux-lame and biased news channel and other media outlets who support the GOP are trying to cover-up the scandal... and the oabama campaign is too scared to touch the issue cause they are just scared of being called a sexist for busting palin's chops.
NEWS FLASH: A rumor is not a rumor when evidence to support the claim exist... OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE!!!!

She's a freakin' weasel.

She promised the bridge, campaigned in full support of it, and when it became a topic mocked in Washington, she canceled the bridge project... BUT KEPT THE MONEY FOR THE STATE!

That's not change we can believe in.

The details were on NPR just now. Here's a Reuters story on how people in Alaska are pissed about it all:

In the city Ketchikan, the planned site of the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," political leaders of both parties said the claim was false and a betrayal of their community, because she had supported the bridge and the earmark for it secured by Alaska's Congressional delegation during her run for governor.

The bridge, a span from the city to Gravina Island, home to only a few dozen people, secured a $223 million earmark in 2005. The pricey designation raised a furor and critics, including McCain, used the bridge as an example of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects.

When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city.

"People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said.

How smart do you intellectuals feel this morning?

At this point, she is completely the creation of the McCain campaign. Whether she is anyone in her own right we'll find out as we go along. My point is she is an unusually effective creation, both for what she does to them and what she does to us. The reaction of the pro-Obama media has been disastrous. They set the bar so low for her that she could have crawled over it. And McCain's slap down of Larry King already has Brown falling over herself to defend Palin from old boy Harry Reid. Believe it or not, at this stage, the Obama campaign is in shambles.

And believe it or not, the Republicans have already put forward their economic recovery plan. Some of us don't like it. Some of us don't like it so much we can't even hear it.

What did Axelrod forget? You can't be a populist without a rural American base.

You people dig deep and volunteer. It's what we have left.

The Obama campaign is "in shambles"? I think not. Example, they have opened 31 offices in Indiana, and are making a platy for a state which hasn't voted Democrat since forever. This is hardly a rickety organization. McCain is running ads in Red States to shore up his flanks for goodness sakes. That is why he picked Palin, to energize the base, red state America. That showed nothing but weakness.

It's the middle of the Republican Convention, if they can't get good press this week, they never will.

And are we shocked she's confident and poised? She's running to be VP, she sure as hell better be able to give a speech. This rank amateur is now the #1 surrogate for McCain, and the Republicans' chance to keep the White House, and we are supposed to be biting our nails and wringing our hands? Her mocking, condescending tone is her introduction to the nation? That went over like a lead balloon with undecided voters. Write it down. By picking her and lurching to the Right, McCain doomed his own candidacy.

If we work hard, this is over. Chicken Little need not apply. Obama and his team will roll out a series of tough, serious responses that will get the conversation off the tabloids and back on to the realities we are facing. The shelf life of the Palin drama is another week or two, at which point the Republicans will still have no plan for the country beside Taxes BAD, War GOOD.