Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens

I disagree with your assertion that Ted Stevens is Trig’s real father.

might Sarah Palin decide to appoint … Sarah Palin?

I hate to say it, but at least if she spent four years in the Senate, she’d emerge significantly less clueless. And would she be any worse than Ted Stevens was?

Why would you accuse Ted Stevens of being the real father of Trig?

Very interesting political calculus going on here. I think Sarah waits until the election results before saying anything else. If convicted felon Ted Stevens (has a nice ring to it) wins the election, aside from becoming the James Michael Curley of Alaska and the GOP, she’ll have some interesting choices to make that could only benefit her. Putting Palin first.

Ot excuse my nom de plume, but using my old name puts me into “M” land on each and every post. A from MA.

Palin is asking him to resign – apparently she said so on CNBC this morning.
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I’m not surprised. I agreed with the person who wrote to Jonathan Martin yesterday: http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/Palin_doesnt_call_on_Stevens_to_step_down.html?showall “I’m confident Senator Stevens will do what’s right for the people of Alaska,” is a pretty broad hint.

” might Sarah Palin decide to appoint … Sarah Palin?”

Worked great for Wendell Anderson in Minnesota.

If Palin is looking for work after the election we need a dog catcher in my town.

PNNTO – If she did, she’d probably need to go shopping for some new threads. Those DC cocktail parties don’tcha know.

rose – I bet she was instructed to say that, since McCain did. It’s to McCain’s advantage not to leave Sarah another appealing avenue to power.
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Karen – the adn.com article doesn’t seem to address the issue of what happens if Begich wins. Presumably there would be no special election then, since that would void this election.
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So,I wonder if this is a Republican ploy to get Steven elected so that he can resign so the Republicans can still control the seat. There are a lot of people who might not choose to vote for Stevens to stay in office, but might vote for him if it looks like there’s a path to get another Republican instead of getting Begich.

KT – I don’t want to beat a dead horse, but I hope you’ll read the comments on the last couple of threads, emanating from Joe’s posts. I think you’re the most likely to actually let us know eventually what’s going on with Swampland, and we need to know – eventually.

Well, Palin is a “whack job” according to the latest leak from the McCain plane. So why should any of this surprise you?

Not to want to play hardball with Stevens but, I would have restricted his bail to staying within the court’s juristiction which is D.C. proper.

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That way he wouldn’t try any of the shenanigans Kathy is suggesting.

Andy – How would keeping Stevens in the District alter that?
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And I’m still hoping the Personnel Board grants Palin’s request to get a report done before the election. But I think the investigator is unraveling a very large ball of string, and I bet he doesn’t finish before the election.

Boy do I hope that Sarah Palin appoints herself. That way she wont be able to hide up in Alaska and her full on crazy will be on display for the world to see on a regular basis.

The moderation is CRAZY. I think I just got flagged for writing “killed” in another thread. I will have to find more friendly words to use.

I doubt Palin would want to be a Senator. As a junior Senator everyone has contempt for she couldn’t do much in Washington. And Governors are more likely to become Presidents. She may not be smart about the Supreme Court, or the economy, or foreign policy or any other issue, but she’s smart about her career.
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BTW, what is wrong with those McCain aides who can’t resist anonymously gender trashing their own VP candidate? Don’t call her a diva. It’s appallingly sexist, as is saying that she doesn’t trust her own family: McCain is the one who has family problems. Palin doesn’t have a great relationship with her mother-in-law (the same can be said for many people, including some in my family!), but it was clear from that documentary filmed before she became the VP candidate that she is close to her kids and her husband. This was just a desperate attempt to push Palin into the sexist cliche of the of the lonely diva.
And don’t attempt to stop an impromptu press conference initiated by your VP candidate. It’s rude and disrespectful. She is the Governor of Alaska, not a Barbie doll the McCain campaign plays dress-up with only to later reveal how much money they spent in order to make her look bad.
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Tina Fey and SNL are treating her with more respect than the McCain campaign is: at least they portrayed Dubya as dumber than Palin.

I just heard on Diane Rheem that Alaska law requires a special election. The Governor doesn’t have the power to appoint a successor to Stevens.

KT

I was just discussing with ivb on another thread how the thought came to be watching a McCain rally this morning that there is a story that is germaine to this election that nobody is really talking about anymore. Drill baby Drill was being chanted today after taking a brief sojourn from the campaign trail and I noticed this weekend that gas prices have dropped over a dollar nation wide. This without any new drilling and in fact OPEC just voted to cut productions. It seems that there has never been any more conclusive emperical evidence that oil and gas prices are based more on the lax regulation of commodities than on true supply and demand isues. The finanical crisis exposed the truth that no matter how much more drilling we do, if the traders of commodities are not reigned in we will still be paying exhorbitant unreasonable prices for the forseeable future.
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I brought this up here because of Sarah Palin’s advocacy of drilling in ANWR which would have no effect either

I thought the same thing last night when I heard the news of Steven’s conviction and his decision not to drop out. I would hope that even Alaska law would prohibit the governor from appointing himself (or herself) without at least getting approval from the legislature. Then again it is Alaska the only state in the Union that legally buys votes (oil royalties) so I guess nothing would surprise me.

IF Stevens promised to resign if reelected, then – and only then – would he have a chance to be reelected (and subsequently replaced by another Republican appointed by Palin). As a loyal Republican that is what he should do, but I think he is too stubborn and/or too selfish.

Kathy, keeping Stevens in the district would prevent him from openly campaign within the state. The convicted felon (love how that sounds) wouldn’t be able to deal with his network of party hack up there.
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Besides, if you or I were convicted of fraud, we wouldn’t be allowed to leave the juristiction while out on bail. the might even ask for our passports. Maybe there’s a criminal JD in the house who might offer up an opinion.

Kathy, keeping Stevens in the district would prevent him from openly campaign within the state. Besides, if you or I were convicted of fraud, we wouldn’t be allowed to leave the juristiction while out on bail. the might even ask for our passports. Maybe there’s a criminal JD in the house who might offer up an opinion.
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Ooh, think of the possibilities, instead of wasting Alaskan taxpayers’ money she on her kids travel, she could waste America’s taxpayers’ money, and of course by America, I mean China and Japan.

Actually that scenario is very plausible.
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Palin wanted the senate seat Murkowski gave to his daughter – she may be looking for a way to keep herself on the public stage.
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ugh, the horror

I just want Fox News to give her a talk show when this is over. It k!lls (let’s try to get that one through moderation) me to think of her possessing political power.

rmg2683

Putting Palin first? I’m shocked, shocked to think that might happen. Not in Real America?

Mike Allen at Politico says this: In convo with Playbook, a top McCain adviser one-ups the priceless “diva” description, calling her “a whack job
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Isn’t it astonishing these guys are working so hard to try to elect a “whack job?”

That’s pretty stunning, Kathy. Disturbing, actually. I wish we could get more details.

Mike Allen at Politico says this: In convo with Playbook, a top McCain adviser one-ups the priceless “diva” description, calling her “a whack job
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That’s strange: I must have forgotten all those times Bush operatives anonymously trashed their boss for basing his foreign policy on discussions with God.
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The McCain campaign was so sexist they apparently never considered that Palin would be looking out for her own future, and now they’re so clueless that even their anonymous attacks are sexist, which will allow Palin to blame the ticket’s defeat on the campaign’s “old boys network” atmosphere that is out of step with America. They are caricaturing themselves.

Jayackroyd,
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Notice how many “unnamed McCain aides” are throwing Sarah Palin under the bus? Remember when I told you that McCain is an old hand at burying his enemies? I think you are gonna owe me that steak dinner.

Well, in one week the formal election to determine who is the senator from alaska for 2009-onwards will be held.
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If Stevens resigns, a special election would have to be held to fill in his position for the remaining period of time–all 3-4 weeks of it (until the senate adjourns for the year).
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It’s far more likely that in the event stevens loses, he will not resign and just go quietly into that good night. If he wins, the pressure on him to resign will be enourmous–and if he doesn’t he might be the first senator to be expelled in years. A special election would be inevitable at that point, and begich might very well win that one.
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If he DOES resign after he loses, given the extreme short period of time remaining in the senate session I think the seat will just remain vacant. A resignation before he loses (like that would happen) would just basically cede the election to Begich.

” … the culture of corruption that I was elected to fight, and that fight must always move forward ..” – Sarah Palin, Oct 27, 2008.
Stevens accused of accepting ‘gifts’. Sarah calls that “corruption”.
Could Stevens have made an argument that the ‘gifts’ were on loan or for ‘temporary use’ only – and he meant to pay for the same in case he decided to keep them?
['Explanations' don't have to be good. McCain's robo-calls are credible to some people, aren't they?]

Sarah accused of accepting ‘gifts’ bought using campaign donations not meant for such use. Sarah calls the ‘gifts’ mere ‘loan’.
Sarah says the ‘gifts’ will be donated to charity or, as ‘props’ for the convention, they will be given back to the RNC for the next for use by future GOP candidates at the conventions.
What?
[Are we are to understand that clothes bought for her toddler were to be given back too? And those in which her fishy, secessionist dud strutted around feeling, oh, so potent?
Are we also to understand that Sarah "I was for it before I was against it" McPalin would fail to find a reason to keep the 'gifts' - just like she kept the federal funds for the 'bridge to nowhere'?]

Don’t forget that Palin Manor was also built by Todd and “a couple of his contractor buddies.”

Wonder who they contracted for…

Yeah cfukara, but Steven’s crime was not reporting it. Sarah’s gifts have been reported ad infinitum.

An interesting read
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http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/

I’d bet on Todd getting the nod.

Wonder who they contracted for…

Hammerlock, as I understand it was the contractor who built that sports arena in Wasilla that left the city in deep debt.

Yeah cfukara, but Steven’s crime was not reporting it. Sarah’s gifts have been reported ad infinitum.
Didi Sarah report them – before the media got interested?
And we didn’t know – and the RNC did not specify it as such (as far as we know) – that Sarah’s ‘gifts’ were to be returned – even if she had to defrock a kid with Down’s Syndrome and her dear fishy dud, who had finally shopped with the celebrities, has to go back to wearing the clothes his wife shot.
Note to all ye congressmen: ‘Corruption’ that is reported is no corruption at all.
Note to all ye Americans: ‘Crime’ that is reported is no crime at all.

Thus sayeth Sarah “I speak in tongues” Palin.
No. It wouldn’t work.

Shouldn’t we expect that a citizen of the USA embraces our values and virtues with regard to corruption, cronyism, fraud, personal integrity etc – what we call ‘good citizenship’?
Shouldn’t we expect that a candidate – especially one who has participated in campaigns before – knows and adheres to the rules and regulations that apply?
Has the media closely vetted Sarah Palin’s previous campaigns to expose any anti-American campaign shenanigans? [Call this the Michelle Buchanan approach]
Shouldn’t we expect that our POTUS knows and obeys our laws and regulations – including those that relate to campaigns and corruption?

Gosh, shouldn’t a candidate for POTUS know more about our constitution and what a VP does – than what an immigrant has to know for the citizenship test?

What kind of state do we have up there in Alaska?

Did people read Robert Draper’s blog post on GQ.com? McCain is giving Palin the silent treatment on the campaign bus! He’s shunning her!

These morons can’t even get along during some not so tough times in 2 months of campaigning. Imagine if they’re faced with a life or death situation. They are freakin’ nuts.

The Draper piece is rather insightfully hilarious. The word “ignoramus” is used.

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