Quote Of The Day: On Attempts To Derail Palin Troopergate Investigation
Our political Quote of the Day comes from Dan Fagan, writing in Anchorage Daily News about news that GOP Vice Presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin isn’t going to cooperate with the
“Troopergate” investigation and news reports that the GOP is lawyering up to try and delay or derail the investigation totally:
Meanwhile, this Palin VP thing has Alaskans all stirred up? Much like Palin divided the Republican party, she has managed to divide the state over her national candidacy.
Clearly most Alaskans choose to ignore the facts of the Troopergate scandal. They want Palin to make it to the national stage.
Republicans scold me all the time, “You don’t want Obama to win do you? Stop criticizing Palin!”
My question to my conservative friends is simple. Does the truth still matter?
Truth is at the very heart of the conservative movement. Isn’t it true that smaller government, self empowerment, and personal responsibility are worth fighting for? Isn’t it true that promoting a culture of life and defending marriage will keep us strong as a nation?
But some Republican leaders are abandoning truth and closing ranks to help Palin cover up her scandal by attacking the investigation.
The conservative movement as nurtured by Senator Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan is effectively dead, in terms of its original concept and most passionately advocated values. It put a premium on principles and worked hard to win. The current movement puts more of a premium on winning and works hard to or explain how it is sticking to often discarded principles. MORE:
But too many in my party are not interested in the facts. They want Palin to win — at all cost.
I want McCain and Palin to win too. But with Palin’s refusal to cooperate with the independent investigator and her transparent delay tactics, Americans deserve to know what Palin is trying to hide before we vote her a heartbeat away from the leader of the free world.
My fellow conservatives, remember how frustrating it was when Bill Clinton committed perjury and liberals looked the other way.
As conservatives, we are no better unless we demand full disclosure from our governor when it comes to Troopergate.
No politician is so popular and charismatic that they should be above accountability and telling the truth. Not even Sarah Palin.
The first problem: there are signs that this is going to work. The second problem: this again underscores why a segment of Americans won’t join political parties any more. Outrage is not just selective — it is relative.
The Democrats defended Bill Clinton since he was on their sports team (you defend your team and keep on the attack against the opposing team) and charged the battle against him was all just GOP politics (some of it was and some of it indeed involved allegations of perjury). Now Republicans use all kinds of arguments to defend Palin and make sure the investigation is delayed or derailed, when they argued for full disclosure disclosure under Clinton, and they charge it’s just Democratic politics.
It doesn’t depend on what the word “is” is.
It depends on who you want win is.
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16 Responses to “Quote Of The Day: On Attempts To Derail Palin Troopergate Investigation”
It doesn't matter.
Move on to the issues.
This is a great article and analysis Joe. This is perhaps why I'm still registered as an Independent. You mention the Clinton fiasco, but their are several others; experience, change, and who said what about the housing crisis. If ever either one of these parties would be consistent I would consider joining one of them. But until then, I'll sit on the side and point out the folly they both portray.
I agree with the article–Palin needs to shine some light on this. Otherwise, and rightly so, it will dog her for the rest of the way.
I love the way the main attraction to Palin is her rep as a hockey mom who middle-class women see as “one of us”. What would happen to “one of us” if we were to refuse to cooperate with a pending investigation that we were the subject of.
More than likely, “one of us” would have been issued a subpoena to appear, and then dragged to the proceeding in handcuffs- or at least held in contempt.
Great article!
You Sir deserve the utmost respect. I may not agree with your policies, platforms, etc but you are a true Republican. I am so disgusted with “fake” Republicans who only embrace the rule of law when it doesn't interfere with their interests. We Democrats can learn a thing or two from someone of your ilk.
Hmm – As we see the race to the bottom get ever more disgusting, this takes th cake, and shows who the real fascists and slimeballs are – the Left:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/17/palins-…
The only appropriate response to AR's last post would really, really violate the comments policy. The complete and utter stupidity of brushing everyone from a particular political viewpoint with what one idiot or small group of morons do is difficult to express but AR does it over and over and over again.
Troopergate is far from through,
the Republicans don't know what to do.
Monegan's claim,
Palin's to blame,
He better never stand next to a caribou.
AR,
And everyone on the Right is a bloodthirsty murderer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_…
What about the slimeball who promised Obama a bullet?
AR- You know that all of the nuts aren't on the left— there are always the extreme elements in each party. Or does everything Pat Robertson or Anne Coulter says represent the right?
I never said all of them were from the left. I LOVE how you guys constantly want to pretend I said things I did not to justify slamming me. I don't mind being slammed (happens all the time), but do for what i say, not what you want me to have said.
This was just another example I wanted to use to show how unhinged a significant portion of the left is, and to counter the oft-repeated claim here that the right is more viscous than the left. Just trying to bring some balance to the constant right-bashing.
And to ask the old hypothetical, would you jump to the defense of the right as a whole if the situation was reversed?
I realized i am also not making clear one of my key thoughts, and why I presented it the way I did.
Whenever someone from the right does something sleezy, then this board gets inundated with posts and comments about how this is just another Rovian-type coordinated dirty trick to throw mud that cannot be attributed to the candidate directly, but really is being run from the campaign headquarters, and shows how the right will stoop to any level to win.
But when the left does the same thing, then it is just a few (or one) people, who are independent, and it is an uncoordinated attack that says nothing about the left as a whole, or the left candidate and his campaign, who are pure of heart.
Maybe because Rove, who helped GB win all of his elections as governor and president, IS primarily known for dirty tricks. The RNC thought they couldn't survive the '06 election without him, and he is still helping behind the scenes.
But for the record– I don't attribute the offer of a bullet — to the ENTIRE right in this country. I don't even know if it was someone from the right. Just as you don't know if whoever hacked into Palin's email works for Obama.
Again, where did I make an inference that whoever hacked Palin's email works for Obama? On another thread (maybe this one, too lazy to look) I specifically said I did NOT think that.
I do think they are from the left though, and I would hope you would at least concede that point.
Maybe- but without any evidence- who knows? I at least would keep an open
mind– as computer hacking goes on all the time. Would you blame the
“bullet” threat on the right?
Or on a sick individual?
The plot thickens:
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID…
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardminiter/2008/09/…
Still, I agree there is nothing yet to indicate it is anything other than one person, doing his own thing. But we can get rid of the 'maybe' about his political affiliations (as if they were ever in doubt).
Well, I would say probably- but I like to have some kind of proof-just as I
would with the bullet example. Every election these kinds of incidents
happen- its not really that new.