The Sarah Palin Thread.

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Yeah the SNL bit was hilarious. I wonder if Obama's still going to host an episode. McCain and Gore have been on there. Obama was supposed to host last night, but canceled it due to Hurricane Ike.


@sqrl, I'm working on a big update to the OP. I'll put anything in the OP anybody requests from now on.


My issue with the Troopergate case is not that Wooten shouldn't have lost his job, but that it wasn't Palin's job to fire him, and she had no reason to be trying to get him fired for 3 years, and she seemingly had no reason to force Monegan to relocate.

I know the mother-in-law and DWI things aren't issues, but I was just putting all the threads in one place.

Regarding the vetting, I do think she was vetted poorly, because the McCain campaign keeps changing their story. One day it's "we knew Bristol was pregnant but we didn't know Palin had just hired a private lawyer with up to $95,000 of state money to defend herself in the ethics investigation 2 weeks ago" and the next day they said "we knew about the pregnancy and the lawyer, and we've known everything that has come up so far and don't think they're issues." It sounds like most of the McCain camp had their stories synchronized except for a couple people, who are either changing their story or anonymously saying the vetting wasn't much more than a Google search.

I wouldn't mind a thread crucifying Obama about the 57 states thing, or threads specific to each candidate, but everybody already knows who Obama, McCain, and Biden are. Palin's the only mysterious stranger plucked from the 47th largest state (or the largest state, depending on whether you're McCain or not) and immediately thrust into a media frenzy on both sides. So that's why I made the Palin thread. She clogged the whole front page one day, and I wanted to stop it.