Folks, I feel this is the most important diary I will ever write. Please calm down and think. So will I.
First, understand that we have to think of campaign mechanics NOW and apply ourselves to this because there isn't much time.
Right NOW in the first week, we have to neutralize what the MSM is calling a "game-changer" and change the game AGAIN.
- McCain threw the red meat and the worst Republican dead-enders went for it since they have nothing to lose.
- Understand, this is the last hurrah of the right's ugly identity politics: Mr. P.O.W. and Ms. Special Needs Mom.
- Selling you the neglect of our fighting force and veterans, and the destruction of women's rights.
- Do you see the mechanics?
- Please, I implore you, read the most detailed local account of Troopergate/Wootengate and repost and link it everywhere.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/
- Please note this part especially
During the custody investigation, all sorts of things were brought up about Wooten including the fact that he had illegally shot a moose (yes folks this is Alaska), driven drunk, and used a taser (on the test setting, he reminds us) on his 11-year old stepson, who supposedly had asked to see what it felt like. While Wooten has turned out to be a less than stellar figure, the fact that Palin’s father accompanied him on the infamous moose hunt, and that many of the dozens of charges brought up by the Palin family happened long before they were ever reported smacked of desperate custody fight. Wooten’s story is that he was basically stalked by the family.
After all this, Wooten was investigated and disciplined on two counts and allowed to kept his position with the troopers. Enter Walt Monegan, Palin’s appointed new chief of the Department of Public Safety and head of the troopers. Monegan was beloved by the troopers, did a bang-up job with minimal funding and suddenly got axed. Palin was out of town and Monegan got "offered another job" (aka fired) with no explanation to Alaskans. Pressure was put on the governor to give details, because rumors started to swirl around the fact that the highly respected Monegan was fired because he refused to fire the aforementioned Mike Wooten. Palin vehemently denied ever talking to Monegan or pressuring Monegan in any way to fire Wooten, or that anyone on her staff did. Over the weeks it has come out that not only was pressure applied, there were literally dozens of conversations in which pressure was applied to fire him. Monegan has testified to this fact, spurring an ongoing investigation by the Alaska state legislature. Bailey is now on paid administrative leave.
7.Please note THIS PART especially
But, before this investigation got underway, Palin sent the Alaska State Attorney General out to do some investigative work of his own so she could find out in advance what the real investigation was going to find. (No, I’m not making this up). The AG interviewed several people, unbeknownst to the actual appointed investigator or the Legislature! Palin’s investigation of herself uncovered a recorded phone call retained by the Alaska State Troopers from Frank Bailey, a Palin underling, putting pressure on a trooper about the Wooten non-firing. Todd Palin (governor’s husband) even talked to Monegan himself in Palin’s office while she was away.
- Understand the MECHANICS at work here: McCain kicked the ball and the media followed.
- We must kick the ball AGAIN for the media to follow, and put them on the trail of a petty local politician who has LIES repeatedly in a corruption scandal that shows how even her HUSBAND has insinuated himself in government as her goon.
- Ms. Special Needs Soccer Mom? No, Ms. Corrupt Petty Local Politician and LIAR. ALREADY PROVEN A LIAR. Soon to be deposed in her corruption case.
- Please, and this is the most important: Let's google and organize the RECORD of city and state debt wreckage she left behind. The RECORD and TIMELINE of her Monica Goodling/Dick Cheney-like lawlessness in petty local government. Please post every local account and I will come back and organize ONE forwardable page of facts.
- There isn't much time for us to kick the ball and truly IDENTIFY who the dangerous and lawless Sarah Palin is, and RESTATE how reckless and dangerous John McCain is.