http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/palins_troubling_trooper_gate.htmlPalin's Troubling Trooper Gate
By Clarence Page
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McCain's campaign last week announced that Palin similarly was "unlikely" to cooperate with the Troopergate investigation. Her husband, Todd Palin, announced that he would refuse to honor his subpoena to testify. The matter appears to be headed for a court fight that will push it well past Election Day. That's a break for the McCain campaign, which fears a self-inflicted October-surprise wound. But it leaves the rest of us in the dark.
As the Anchorage Daily News editorialized about Palin, "Whatever happened to the 'open and transparent' administration she promised Alaskans?" Similarly we in the lower 49 states might ask what this sudden stonewalling tells us about the reform-minded, house cleaning "mavericks" that the McCain-Palin team vows to bring to Washington?
Yes, campaign 2008 needs to be about McCain versus his Democratic opponent Barack Obama, not their running mates. That means these questions about Palin are really questions about McCain and his judgment. Either way, McCain's campaign is not answering the questions.
We can only wonder what the McCain campaign would be saying if Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, were ignoring subpoenas in either of their home states.
Or how much more Republicans would want to know about Obama's wife if she was as deeply involved in his decision-making as Governor Palin's "First Dude" Todd is involved with hers.
For those of us who live outside Alaska, the Troopergate saga is less about the scandal than about what appears to be a convenient cover-up by the McCain-Palin campaign. It makes me wonder what kind of "change" we can expect from a candidate whose campaign is offering us so much of what's wrong with Washington now.
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