When your sister has to get a domestic violence restraining order against a State Trooper, when that Trooper has a history of misconduct, when that state trooper threatens Bristol Palin at a football game, when that Trooper threatens to make Palin’s father "Eat a lead f***ing bullet" if he hires Palin’s sister a lawyer for the divorce, when the state police refuses to even question witnesses in their "investigation" of Wooten so the Palin’s had to hire a private investigator to question them and submit the reports to the state police, when the state police conclude that Wooten is guilty and only gives him a 5 day suspension, when Wooten then comes back to the Palin’s and taunts their family repeatedly that he got away with it and there is more to come….
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If I was governor Palin I would have made a big televised speech blasting this trooper as a threat to public safety and telling the public that a querk in the states ethics laws doesn’t allow you to fire him … and just let the outrage of the public deal with it.
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As far as Monegan, Palin did not even fire him, she offered him another job and he refused it. If it was a personal thing she would have fired him.
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Branchflower’s report says that the Governor abused her power by not stopping Todd Palin from trying to defend his family from this maniac. What would you do if you were in Todd Palin’s shoes? Todd Palin’s testimony says that Sarah asked him to stop looking into it. Personally, I am almost offended at the Palin’s restraint in this matter.
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Branchflower’s logic to get to connect Todd Palin with violating the states ethics laws is such a far reaching interpretation of the statute that it would not hold up in any respectable court as trial attorney Bill Dyer as explained.

Either way come on over and take a look at our analysis http://iusbvision.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/troopergate-results-branchflower-finds-sarah-palin-guilty-of-not-keeping-her-husband-todd-from-defending-his-family-from-a-maniac-state-trooper/

Neither are 100% proven, but the problem I have is McCain saying that Obama/Democrats have practically led the formation of this report for partisan purposes.  The fact that there were also Republicans on this committee seems to elude him.

"Command of what, there’s no one here
There’s only you and me —
All the rest are dead or in retreat
Or with the enemy."

/…/

"Ah but if you cannot raise your love
To a very high degree,
Then you’re just the man I’ve been thinking of —
So come and stand with me."
"Your standing days are done," I cried,
"You’ll rally me no more.
I don’t even know what side
We fought on, or what for."

"I’m on the side that’s always lost
Against the side of Heaven
I’m on the side of Snake-eyes tossed
Against the side of Seven.

And I’ve read the Bill of Human Rights
And some of it was true
But there wasn’t any burden left
So I’m laying it on you."

Now the Captain he was dying
But the Captain wasn’t hurt
The silver bars were in my hand
I pinned them to my shirt.

- Leonard Cohen

This upbeat and gallows-humoristic song is just so fitting to the current situation. McCain has nothing but Bush’s negative association and character assassination tactics. There is no real philosophy left in the man’s campaign.