I hate Sarah Palin!

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Sqrl said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:

Sqrl said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
@Sqrl, well then, if the guy is a drunk who drinks in his squad car and tazered her nephew and whatnot, then why didn't he get fired before the divorce?

Did you bother to read what I wrote?  Read it again, then respond.  I quite clearly called them allegations and pointed out the need for more information. Jumping to conclusions about what I've wrote and then asking me to defend them is not a platform for a reasoned debate.

Perhaps with a timeline of events as they are alleged, and an understanding of what went on behind the scenes of any possible charges or IA investigations into those charges I could answer that question.  But without those things I would be taking a stab in the dark, as would you.

Yes I  read what you wrote.

Okay, I read it again.  Nothing changed.

Oh crap, the post I'm quoting just doubled in size within the time I was reading your last post and hit Quote.

 

I said "if" and was asking a hypothetical.  If somebody's drunk on the job, you fire them before there's family drama.  If they're not drunk on the job, you don't make up a bunch of crap after there's family drama.  I don't know what happened, but the other guy they fired says they called him 24 times to pressure him to fire Wooten, and Palin's husband has already admitted to pressuring the guy to fire Wooten.  I'll just leave it at this: "It's fishy as hell."  I'll reserve judgment beyond how fishy it is until October, unless there's a big break in the case and more shit hits the fan.

And since McCain didn't vet her at all, he didn't know she had a private lawyer to defend her during the investigation.

The investigation is due to file their report on October 31st.  It's like McCain picked the candidate based on the biggest surprise right before we vote.  Or it's like he said, he just had a gut feeling that she was his soul mate.

 

The very essence of my point was that we should not fall into the trap you are falling into...and this isn't the first time you've done that..but I won't bring up old threads.

In this case we have even less information and yet you still want to press forward to a conclusion for some reason.  Fine, then please find the following information (note that we will need all of it):  when the divorce happened, when the tazer incident happened, when the drinking in the squad car happened, when the death threat happened, when the first attempt at firing happened, when any and all subsequent attempts at firing happened, phone records and emails regarding those firing related correspondance, when she fired the PSC,  what the circumstance of the divorce were, some corroboration on the issue of whether she even tried to get the cop fired to begin with (it is only an allegation at this point), etc...etc...etc...

Once you get that information (and probably even more than that) we can draw a valid conclusion, before then its all a political game to demonize first and worry about the damage later. 

PS - I like you a lot more outside of politics.

I did a little research, and it's very interesting, and I think every person involved on both sides of the investigation is totally nuts.  It's great stuff.  But all I have to say is this part, which is hilarious:

They filed for the divorce in April 2005 and started trying to get Wooten fired in August, over a year before she became governor, and the divorce went to trial in October 2005.  The judge was confused as to why they wanted Wooten to lose his job, because then he wouldn't make any money and wouldn't be able to pay child support.  The judge said:

"It appears for the world that Ms. McCann and her family have decided to take off for the guy's livelihood -- that the bitterness of whatever who did what to whom has overridden good judgment.  Aesop told us not to slay the goose who lays the golden egg. For whatever reason, people are trying to slay the goose here and it tends to diminish his earning capacity."

They suspended Wooten for 5 days, but they kept battling until Palin became governor and then potential veep and everybody got 10x crazier.

 

P.S. I like myself a lot more outside of politics too!  I'm glad this only happens every 2 years, and only half of them make me this crazy.