NEWSWEEK
Palin Is Ready? Please.
McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, that is simply not true.
Published Sep 27, 2008

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palin Stretches The Truth
Oct. 7, 2008
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells audiences the election is about the “truthfulness and judgment” needed to be president. But the Alaska governor often stretches the truth herself.

Washington Post
Election 2008: Conservative Concerns About Palin
Kathleen Parker
Monday, October 6, 2008; 10:00 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/03/DI2008100302812_pf.html

She may not know which Supreme Court cases she disagrees with, but she knows what “Ordinary Americans” want to hear—and she delivers. “They” are elite terrorist pals and “we” are patriotic Americans who want to win. She’s now laughing off that silly interview with Katie Couric and making a joke that she was just working for Tina Fey’s job security. Defuse, baby, defuse.

Judging from my mailbag, McCain has lost a lot of support among moderate voters. Hundreds have written to say that they were on the fence until the Palin pick. They will vote for Obama. Whether these self-selecting e-mailers represent a statistically significant voting bloc I can’t say, but generally it seems that Palin has strengthened the base and weakened the middle that McCain needed to grab. Also, all those women voters who initially left Obama for McCain in the immediate aftermath of the GOP convention have returned to Obama in even greater numbers.

The winking was beyond annoying. I haven’t talked to any women who weren’t deeply offended by her flirting for votes. But she clearly was told to do it. Her coaches said “go for it, honey—flyover America will love it.“ We’ll see if they were right.

No, it was girly, silly, unserious and obnoxious. One of the great lessons of the Bible, with which surely Gov. Palin is familiar, is that there is a time and place for all things. For serious people, winking gotchas during a vice presidential debate is absurd and insulting.

TIME
What the Troopergate Report Really Says
Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008
Did Governor Sarah Palin abuse the power of her office in trying to get her former brother-in-law, State Trooper Mike Wooten, fired? Yes.
Is the Palin administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly so.
But even though she won’t likely face any legal repercussions, the amateurism and cronyism of her brief administration hardly leaves Palin sitting pretty. Troopergate’s final verdict may be even more damaging than a rebuke: her administration was, at least this regard, just as self-motivated as the Washington fat cats and lobbyists she hopes to unseat.

as someone stated in another post “great informational post”
See what the Anchorage Daily News has to say
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/552393.html

What she did in troopergate was to put it simply, unethical. No one was expecting her to be impeached from this. However its another example of her ignorance. She not only made a mistake, she showed poor judgement. You simply can’t gloss over that. You can’t ignore her ruthlessness, or inexperience.

She has already cost taxpayers money with this investigation, and during an economic crisis no less.

We need to keep such obvious scandel out of the White House.

Thank you.

Judge orders Palin to preserve e-mails
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060903/D8JTM8V80.html

The state of Alaska is still showing support for McCain and Palin by the electoral map.  Guess the “bad publicity” is not hurting their numbers. Or could it be that the people of Alaska know what is actually going on?

The poll showing that Palin’s rating tumble was taken 28 days ago and before Troopergate finding of guilty to abuse of power.  Her approval rating is also plunging in the lower 48 plus her disapproval rating is rapidly going up

McClatchy: Palin’s Approval Ratings Tumble—In Alaska
By E&P;Staff

Published: October 01, 2008

NEW YORK Since she was picked for the Veep spot, the press has often noted that Sarah Palin has “80%“ approval ratings in Alaska. Just yesterday, John McCain told the Des Moines Register editorial board that she is “the most popular governor in the United States.“ But that may be outdated.

McClatchy reports today that her approval rating in her home state has tumbled to 68%—still high but surely not the country’s best. The poll by a local firm that works for both parties was taken Sept. 20-22. McClatchy writes: “Palin’s popularity has swooned as new information about the local abuse-of-power investigation known as Troopergate has trickled out, and as national and local media pick over her track record as a governor and small-town mayor.

“Palin still has overwhelming support among Alaska Republicans. But many Democrats and independents, who gave her positive marks just a month ago, have changed their views….

“Brad Coker, managing director of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., said an approval rating in the 60s for a governor is good. His recent polling in six western states found two governors with approval ratings in the low-80s, two in the 60s and one in the 50s.“

Also, contrary to McCain’s statement that Palin is “overwhelmingly popular” with Americans, in a new survey Pew finds that 51% of Americans now believe that Palin is unqualified, up from 37% after her announcement.