Report: Firing Wooten Wouldn’t Have Made Palins SaferAs we noted last night, the Trooper-Gate report found that Sarah Palin’s claims that she feared Mike Wooten were unfounded. But the subject of Palin’s alleged concern for her own and her family’s safety deserves more attention.
The McCain-Palin campaign has argued that the Palins were acting merely to “protect their family” in going after Wooten.
But in the report, Branchflower disposes of that argument:
Assuming that Trooper Wooten was ever inclined to attack Governor Palin or a family member, logic dictates that getting him fired would accomplish nothing to eliminate the potential for harm to her or her family. On the contrary, it might just precipitate some retaliatory conduct on his part. Causing Wooten to loose (sic) his job would not have de-escalated the situation, or provided her or her family with greater security.