SARAH PALIN!!! WER DOOOMED!!!

[jakem]

Miss Alaska AND Miss Congeniality?!?!?

In 1984, Palin was first runner-up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college.<3><5> In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.

Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.<6><7> Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.<8>


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

[patrice]

1. She's being investigated? For trying to fix some criminal investigation for a friend?

[jakem]

3. As per wikipedia-

Commissioner dismissal

On July 11, 2008, Governor Palin dismissed Walter Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety, and instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he subsequently turned down.<44><45> Monegan allleged shortly after his dismissal that it may have been partly due to his reluctance to fire an Alaska State Trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly McCann.<46>

In 2006, before Palin was governor, Wooten was briefly suspended for ten days for threatening to kill McCann's (and Palin's) father, tasering his 11-year-old stepson, and violations of the game laws. After a union protest, the suspension was reduced to five days.<47>

Governor Palin asserts that her dismissal of Monegan was unrelated to the fact that he had not fired Wooten, and asserts that Monegan was instead dismissed for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues."<48> Palin acknowledges that a member of her administration, Frank Bailey, did contact the Department of Public Safety regarding Wooten, but both Palin and Bailey say that happened without her knowledge and was unrelated to her dismissal of Monegan.<48> Bailey was put on leave for two months for acting outside the scope of his authority as the Director of Boards and Commissions.

In response to Palin's statement that she had nothing to hide, in August 2008 the Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal, though lawmakers acknowledge that "Monegan and other commissioners serve at will, meaning they can be fired by Palin at any time."<49> The investigation is being overseen by Democratic State Senator Hollis French, who says that the Palin administration has been cooperating, and so subpoenas are unnecessary.<50> The Palin administration itself was the first to release an audiotape of Bailey making inquiries about the status of the Wooten investigation.<48><51>

Wooten and the police union alleged that the governor had improperly released his employment files in his divorce case. However, McCann's attorney released a signed waiver from Wooten demonstrating that Wooten had authorized the release of his files through normal discovery procedures.<52><53>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

[vaberella]

5. Actually she's done more. She got her brother-in-law fired apparently.

She's being checked out for that and has a big hit list. But I hear it's Romney actually. She's an unknown. You can't put Biden against an unkown and expect to win.

[billyoc]

2. She could be indicted any minute!

:rofl:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- When Sarah Palin was elected governor as a Republican outsider in 2006, she didn't just take on an incumbent from her own party. She took on Alaska's Republican establishment.

Ms. Palin vowed to clean up a long-cozy political system that had been sullied by an FBI corruption investigation. She endeared herself to Alaskans by making good on her reform promises and showing homey touches, like driving herself to work.

Associated Press
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with husband Todd Palin at her 2006 inauguration.

Now, one of the bright new stars in the Republican Party has suddenly become tarnished. The state legislature this week voted to hire an independent investigator to see whether Ms. Palin abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as an Alaska state trooper.

"This is a governor who was almost impervious to error," says Hollis French, a Democratic state senator. "Now she could face impeachment, in a worst-case scenario."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121746477267499109.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[brooklynite]

4. Meet the REAL Sarah Palin

Aides to Alaska governor accused of pressuring state police to fire her sister's ex-husband

Aides to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin pressured the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper who was divorcing her sister and fighting for custody of her nephew, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

Palin, a Republican, says there were "at least two dozen calls from her staff members" to state police officials about Trooper Mike Wooten.

The governor denied allegations that Public Safety Director Walt Monegan was removed from office because he wouldn't fire Wooten, but she acknowledged that the calls didn't look good.

USA TODAY

[Vinca]

6. Not exactly doomed -

"Alaska Senate leaders want an investigation of whether Gov. Sarah Palin pressured and then fired the public safety commissioner because he wouldn't get rid of a state trooper who had gone through a bitter divorce with Palin's sister."

http://www.adn.com/front/story/471366.html

[nomaco-10]

7. Very conservative, pro lifer and top rated by the NRA. .....

your typical republiwitch nightmare.

Oh, and pat b says she's a "good lookin' gal that eats mooseburgers."

I'm shakin' in my shoes.

[zbdent]

8. Sara who?

talk about "inexperienced" ...