I got an email from my very conservative (and bitter) cousin today.  He wrote, “In the interest of fairness and openness I forward the following.  But this election is a fraud.  This country is a corporate dictatorship.  Both candidates are lying to the extent that they are helping to facilitate the deception.”   What he forwarded was an email about Sarah Palin written by a woman who lives in Wasilla, AK, named Anne Kilkenny.  

A post here I read earlier today by aboyer made reference to an item on Palin, and one of the comments, by kgb999, found the source at http://thepoliticalcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/09/alaskans-speak-in-frightened-whisper.html.  This man, Charley James, noted that the information he was reprinting was confirmed by The Nation (at http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/354444/the_word_from_wasilla).  The Nation had reprinted the same email my cousin had sent me.

I don’t like to accept something as fact, just because it fits with what I believe—or would like to believe—is true.  So I went to Mudflats, a lovely little Website by an unnamed Alaskan, which he subtitles “Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics” [http://mudflats.wordpress.com/].  I found this (like many other people) after Palin’s nomination was announced.

It was through Mudflats that I found the document it’s amazing the McCain campaign didn’t find:  It’s a 63-page 2006 PDF compiled by the Alaskan Democratic Party from government documents and newspaper sources.  It confirms everything Anne Kilkenny asserted about Palin, but it does it in, what is to me, a much more sobering fashion.

There’s barely any commentary in the PDF, which doesn’t even have a title page but just comes up with the title tab “palin-2006-vetting.”  

This is something than anyone who does not want McCain and Palin elected needs to read and distribute.  Go to Mudflats at http://mudflats.wordpress.com/ and scroll down to “Palin Vetting Documents from 2006. For Hard Core Palin Addicts Only.”

Everything you’ve never wanted to know but now need to know about Palin is in the PDF.  I was left feeling queasy—and also worried that Palin could stand toe to toe with Cheney in a ruthlessness contest.  I’m not sure she wouldn’t win.