Now, I know a lot of you are sick and tired of hearing about the Palin trainwreck, so I gave fair warning.
Honestly, I'm sick and tired of her and her tabloid family also, too, but this is very worth reading about IMHO, plus it's hilarious.
It would appear that, as we thought, Sarah hasn't got a flipping clue about the American Constitution.
As a Brit, I'm almost clueless myself about it, but then again I didn't run for high office in the US.
I am almost certain that Palin and her merry band have just trampled a couple of amendments into the ground. Maybe you could confirm this for me in the comments, if I get any.
Follow me over the fold for the latest 'Palin Saga/Eff up'...........
This particular fracas started life on Facebook (of course) when Sarah was in dispute with Politifact about the economy (LOL).
She put this at the end of one of her famous FB posts on Friday.........
(By the way, the Left sure gets wee-wee’d up when they’re called on something like this, eh? And here I am, thousands of miles away from DC out on a commercial fishing boat, working my butt off for my own business, merely asking the Democrat politicos and their liberal friends in the media: "What’s the plan, man?", and they seem to feel threatened by my question. So, I’ll go back to setting my hooks and watching the halibut take the bait, and when I come back into the boat’s cabin in a few hours, I’ll log back on here to read their reply. I’ll have succeeded if they’re forced to finally reveal to Americans how they plan to increase taxes, and what they intend to do with our money. In the meantime, I’m catching fish.)
- Sarah Palin, in Homer, Alaska
http://www.facebook.com/...
From where I'm sitting, she may have wished she'd stayed well away from Homer, because we now have 'Sara Palin's Homer D'oh Moment..
Risking accusations of being all "Wee-Wee’d Up", one Homer woman made a sign in her shed. She then took the 30 foot by 3 foot banner out to the boat harbor. It said "WORST GOVERNOR EVER". Kathleen Gustafson is a teacher married to a local commercial fisherman. She felt like Sarah Palin had let the state down by becoming a dollar-chasing celebrity and ignoring the oath of office she’d sworn on a Bible.
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She couldn’t just walk by. Only a few fishermen and tourists would have seen the banner, but Sarah had to stop and protest. I spoke with Kathleen. She said she wanted Palin to know how she felt, but never dreamed she’d get the chance to say to her face, "You’re not a leader, you’re a climber!" Early in the conversation, Sarah actually winked at Kathleen in what seemed to be a case of eyelid Tourette Syndrome
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What the Palin folks don’t seem to understand is simple; if Fred Phelps gets to hold his hateful signs up at military funerals, Billy should be able to put Kathleen’s "WORST GOVERNOR EVER" banner on his building and not have a Palin goon tear it down.
Apparently, one of Palin's entourage tore down Kathleen's sign, to much applause from the Palin crowd.
http://www.themudflats.net/...
That's as much as I can link from there, so more of the story from the inestimable Shannyn Moore of Keith Olbermann fame.
On the public dock, private security patted down private citizens. The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure from their government. Private security searching private citizens in a public place, doesn’t fall under that category. It’s a bit more hinky.
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Maybe it wasn’t about guns. Maybe it was about cameras. In that case, it’s a First Amendment issue. Whether Palin had a problem with the First Amendment, the Second Amendment or the Fourth Amendment, she contradicted her entourage’s actions at the Homer dock.
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Helpfully, some kind soul taped most of the incident and put it on Youtube...........
I even have a transcript..............
Palin: like how? What’s up?
Kathleen: You swore on your precious Bible that you would uphold the interests of this state, and then when cash was waved in front of your face, you quit.
Palin: OH, you WANTED me to be your governor! I’m honored! Thank you!
Kathleen: I wanted you to honor your responsibilities. That is what I wanted. I wanted you to be part of the political process instead of becoming a celebrity so that you could (inaudible). And if that’s the best you could do, then good for you. If that’s the best you could do.
Palin: Here’s the deal. Here’s the deal. (inaudible) That’s what I’m out there fightin’ for Americans to be able to have a Constitution protected so that we can have free speech...And ALSO there...
Kathleen: In what way are you fighting for that?
Palin: Oh my goodness!
Kathleen: In what way?
Palin: To elect candidates who understand the Constitution, to protect our military interests so that we can keep on fightin’ for our constitution that will protect some of the freedoms that evidently are important to you too.
Kathleen: By using your celebrity status, certainly not by political status.
Palin Daughter: How is she a celebrity? That’s my question.
Palin: I’m honored! No, she thinks I’m a celebrity!
Palin Daughter: That’s funny that you think she is.
Kathleen: Well, you’re certainly not representing the state of Alaska any longer...even though...
Palin Daughter: She’s representing United States?
Kathleen: Yes, I know. You belong to America now, and that suits me just fine. Yeah.
Palin: What do you do here?
Kathleen: I’m a teacher
Palin: Oh. (Eye roll and protracted grimace)
Palin Daughter: Oh.
Kathleen: I also have a few other jobs. I’m married to a commercial fisherman. And so I fish.
Palin: Oh that’s cool. So am I! I married to-we probably have a lot in common!
Kathleen: Yeah. You know, I think that we do.
Palin: Hi! (waves to camera) Are we on video?
Kathleen: Too bad. I’m more of a still camera girl myself. (inaudible) I am, I am...I will tell you I’m very pleased to meet you.
Palin: I’m honored to meet you, I really am. And, no we both agree on the freedom of speech and the-
Kathleen: Yes we do.
Palin: you know – the protection of that. So, um, no I and, you know... best of everything to you too and Yeah.
Kathleen: Thank you for coming over.
Palin: Well, okay. It’s nice to meet you anyway.
Of course, the Palin fan club obviously had prior warning that this story was about to emerge, and went in to full damage limitation mode.......
Shannyn appears to be referring to an incident that occurred today in Homer. Our sources tell us that some people were standing near the location where the governor and Todd Palin were filming for the TLC series. These people were protesting and holding a large sign criticizing Governor Palin. She went over in an attempt to politely talk to them and perhaps reach some understanding. They refused to even shake her hand or listen to her explanation for why her resignation was necessary and the best thing for Alaska. Instead, they just kept yelling "quitter." Ironically, when the governor asked them, "So does that mean you wanted me as your governor?", they said, "No!" (Just the sort of logic we've come to expect from the Left.) Finally the governor just walked away. There is no reasoning with hateful people who have never been "in the arena" themselves or have had to put it all on the line in public office. As the governor would say, it's so much easier to tear down than to build up.
I'm not a constitutional scholar but I don't think what the governor did is in any way a violation of anyone's First Amendment rights (or "1st Ammendment Rights" if we go with Shannyn's version). In fact, it would seem that Governor Palin was just exercising her own First Amendment rights. She's a private citizen, you know. She has the right to counter-protest.
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/...
Link only offered for verification in this case.