Bailey commented on the local news this evening that he was NOT asked by the governor to press the issue. Can't say for sure one way or another if he's just covering for her - he'll likely fall on his sword.

By the way, Trooper Wooten is a known piece of shit - I've heard of numerous instances where he abused his power.

Part of what came out in the divorce was that he used his taser on his 11 yr old son - because the kid wanted him to, not exactly an act of maturity that most of us expect from a law enforcement officer.

How convenient. Just as the legislature starts investigating, she gets the AG to parallel that investigation and "discover" the tapes and calls first, then holds a quick news conference to distance herself from them

Must've been kinda how Nixon felt when he realized investigators would eventually find the tapes. "Oh, crap...."

It seems that Alaska GOPers are a gift that keeps on giving.

Has Monica Goodling moved to Alaska?

What a f**king backwater. Sorry Alaskans, but your state capital is like Boss Hogg's family rueunion.

Well, this story shows why McCain would pick her for VP. It proves she has real GOP values.

Trying to tap into the media created riff with HRC and her female’s voters by choosing someone even more out of touch of women’s issues then John McCain. Nice job

I think this is barking up the wrong tree. There are suggestions of domestic violence here and it is not unreasonable for a new Governor, who has defeated the prior Governor from her own party, to wonder what the State Police are doing as to such questions.

That this youngster would be a heartbeat from the presidency as Vice President to a 72 year old president, is the issue.

I don't think this is real.

I think one strategy is to frame her as the President, especially since death is chasing down McFrankenstein.

Can anyone actually see her that way? It's VERY difficult.

What would she do? What do you think about this?

Be specific.

Nail her (forgive the pun).

If Clnton backers fall for this one, then they will do more to undermine their own "feminist" gains than any man could ever do.

Stop believing your own propaganda. It makes you sound so Republican - particularly when you use "feminist" as a pejorative.

Clinton's backers aren't pissed off because a woman didn't get the nomination.

They're pissed off because Obama's backers called them morons, idiots, racists, cunts, whores, assholes, and so on.

They're pissed off because of crap like that Photoshopped 1930's lynching scene showing a smiling Bill and Hilary superimposed within the white lynch mob.

They're pissed off because you short-sighted fools made it personal.

If McBush wins this thing you will have only your own nastiness to blame for it.

As for this Alaskan twit: The really good news here is that McBush is trying his damnedest to lose this election, in spite of your best efforts to hand it to him.

The Republican convention looks like it will be a real soap opera.

At the moment, I can only see this as an enormous blunder for the McCain camp. But, who knows what really lurks in Karl Rove's mind? He's the master of turning positives into negatives and negatives into positives.

The Palin pick seems to me to be based on the policy boxes that's she's managed to check during her thin tenure in office- policy positions which shore up the republican base's concerns (however misplaced) about where McCain's heart really lies. Pro-life? Check. Anti-Gay-rights? Check. Talks the NRA line? Check. Wants to open up ANWR? Check. (Which, incidentally, is why many Alaskans are pro-drilling- that cushy *check* they receive in exchange for the defilement of their state.) In other words, she's said the right things, will keep the base happy, motiviated and reassured that McCain's one of them.

I think the Obama-Biden camp's new strategy should be to emphasise the team nature of the presidency (after all, during the Bush-Cheney years, we've practically had a co-presidency.) Biden Complements Obama, Obama Compliments Biden.

Maybe McCain had some money on this one;

We all know that Intrade Political Futures got the Joe Biden pick right last week -- how well did it do with the GOP pick?

As it turns out, not so good. THEY COMPLETELY MISSED THE VEEP PICK.Not just off by a little, but off a ginormous amount.

As we have previously suggested, the political futures markets essentially follow the polls. There is very little wisdom amongst the crowd.

Here's how the Palin VP futures Traded. As of yesterday, you could have bought her VP futures for 4 cents on the dollar:

Beautiful! Cheney in drag!

She is in bed with Big Oil in a way that makes Bush/Cheney look like pikers. AND she advocates the aerial hunting of wolves. Also she has no problem using state government for personal vendettas.

Biden will eat her alive in the debates.

In the picture TPM has up on its front page, she looks uncannily like Geena Davis. Maybe this played into the decision. Tap that unconscious "presidential" image that we have from "The West Wing".

One can almost hear the gears working in the McCain brain:
Biden has an entree with women because of VAWA? I know, I'll select a VP who stood up for her sister! And she's a woman, so she'll get all those Hillary votes!

I read earlier that the VP choice was one he was making all on his own, without any input from advisors, etc. Poor man, he's just sealed his fate with this selection.

I haven't seen her debate anything, but hopefully she'll turn out to be a radical right as an attempt to offset McCain.

It will solidify McCain's base a bit, but that's not where this election is going to be won.

Hopefully she's radical enough that independents throughout the country will RUN away from her.

Appears that McCain's experience/pork barrel spending arguments just went out the window.

John McCain did not pick Palin on his own. He was told by the oil lobbyists - who own McCain - that he has to choose her. She held a position in a state government agency that dealt with oil and gas after being the Mayor of a small town and before being Governor.

Palin is Big Oil's candidate. They are banking on the fact that McCain won't make it through an entire term and then their girl will be in control.

"Fire up those drills boys, we own the world, and they can't stop us now. Get those damn polar bears off my rig."

It would be a sad day for the world if the oil company had more control of the White House than it already does.

No oil(wo)men in the White House. Say no to Palin. Say no to McCain. Keep the promise and hope alive.

"I was standing at the hors d'oeuvre table, young, shy, not knowing anybody, when suddenly this awfully nice-looking Navy captain in dress whites was kind of chasing me around the table. I thought, What's going on here?"

-Cindy McCain, relating how she first met John McCain, 18 years her senior, who was then married to another woman.

This choice makes me wonder if it is somewhat related to the rumors of McCain's zipper problems. Not that he's been chasing Palin around a table, but just that he let's his male part do his "thinking" for him.

Re: Confusing "Commander in Chief" for "The West Wing" Oops. Sorry, they all blend together. :-)

Hi,

Long-time lurker, first-time poster. I am a committed Obama supporter. With that intro, I need to point out that, sadly, Sarah Palin is no Dan Quayle. Check out this link to a 2007 Charlie Rose interview:

http://www.charlierose.com/guests/sarah-palin

Unfortunately, she's smart and articulate.

"They're pissed off because Obama's backers called them morons, idiots, racists, cunts, whores, assholes, and so on."

I say anything like that, nor did I hear anything like that during the campaign. I have seen some posts around the internet which were extremely rude and nasty to people who were upset when Hillary lost.

For the most part, I have seen Obama supporters welcoming the Clinton supporters:

http://electionforchange.blogspot.com/2008/08/open-letter-to-clinton-supporters.html

But I agree with the rest of your comment.

I am watching the all media coverage of Palin. We spent all week being bombarded by repubs giving us their spun thoughts. I see very little opposing opinion from Dems being aired.

When Obama picked Biden the MSM made it their business to run McCain attack ads against Obama’s pick. I have yet to see any MSM outlet run the Obama campaign powerful response to McCain’s picked. Sometimes I expect too much

I just heard Andrea Mitchell say this totally steps on Obama’s speech from last night, it takes the attention away from last night. It’s being ignored because dolts like Mitchell are ignoring.

Palin, with two years experience as a governor? Find a random utube video of her talking, and turn the sound off.

Republican VPs have often been people whom even the republicans wouldn't want for president. The handlers often have had a handle on the VP in case he needed to be removed - look at Agnew. Bush Sr chose Dan Quayle, a laughing stock. Cheney chose himself to be VP, but it was always clear that he was the worst of two evils and would have to be impeached before Bush.

If McCain wanted a pregnant runner-up beauty queen, he would have done better to go with Shelly Marie Tambo, much more fun to watch.

that "Alaskan twit" is 44 years old to Obama's 46, was a small (approx 6000 people) town mayor to Obama's part time senator for Illinois ( constantly running for his next job!) and 2 years fulltime !! Govenor of Alaska to Obamas 3 years (partime?) 2 years of which he spent running for his next job in the US senate....again
So in my book she is a year ahead in terms of "experience".
She had the guts to speak truth to power!! She resigned in protest her job as Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and filed complaints against powerful republicans in her own party!. As her governor has job approval ratings of more than 80% in her home state! Inspite of being against Gay marriage she had the guts to use her Veto to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to the partners of gay state employees. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. Yes she is pro life but she is also for reducing abortions by providing pregnant women with support and resources so that they have a real choice when they have to make that awful awful decision.
Obama voted present, skipped votes or capitulated when asked to walk the talk and refuses to give a straight answer to straight question . (above my pay grade!?!)
his job approval...a part of the US senate!?!lets not even go there . And what precisely is Obama's foreign policy experience!?!
Do your own research rather than buy into the hate on this site .
She is not as qualified as Hillary but she is definitely as qualified as Obama.
Oh and she'd probably kick his ass in basketball as well seeing that she was Captain of her school basketball team!

She seems to fits right into the currant admin what with McSame wanting to continue right on into a 3rd McBush term, she can bring in a fresh face er scandal thats brewing & ready pop!! Ah yes, wonderful pick McShame. This aught to go well with the special investigators putting up their report at the beginning of Nov. (perfect timing)
Also, why did you just throw the best argument you had on Obama out the door. Never to return after this morning, "Experience"!! Gone, no longer viable, can't use it, nope, what you had been running your campaign on, *Experience*, this morning that talking point went *Poof*, I get the feeling McSame and the guys running his campaign are bout as fast as a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.
Seriously.

The unfettered grandiosity of Candidate John McCain: Why would anyone who is 72, whose father and grandfather died of sudden unexpected heart attacks at ages younger than him, select a Vice Presidential running mate, a potential President, who has no national or international political experience? We are at war. Is it because he has delusions of immortality? Is he willing to gamble with the future of the nation? McCain’s decision shows a lack of wisdom, judgment and awareness of his own limitations in the face of his Presidential size ego.