There have been dozens and dozens of diaries on Troopergate and Palin and McCain and his judgment and so forth. Today marks an important milestone as the Alaskan legislative body conducting an investigation releases its report.
Regardless of what the report contains, Troopergate should still sink the Palin/McCain ticket. "Why," might you ask? Well, this diary, containing a video of Palin lying about her reasons for dismissing Monegan, and this AP story illustrate.
You see, the Palin/McCain campaign today released its own report, before the Alaska investigation's report was released, that (surprise) clears Palin of all wrongdoing. However the preemptive exoneration just further torpedoes Palin's credibility (and McCain's judgment).
The kossack's diary contains a video showing Palin extolling Monegan's virtues and abilities in tackling Alaska's problems with alcohol (such as bootlegging in the rural areas). The same video contains a clip of Palin about 2-3 weeks later claiming she fired him because she was miffed that Monegan was handling some issues incompetently--rural alcohol issues.
That alone is pretty damning, obviously, because it hints that some other motive for the firing is in fact the true motive. Combined, however, with the Palin/McCain's campaign "exoneration", it's incredibly damning. The Palin/McCain campaign's report claims that Palin fired Monegan because "of his insubordination and budgetary clashes with Governor Palin and her administration" and further claims some document will prove this.
But this document, for obvious reasons, would be yet one more contradiction in Troopergate. Palin wanted to give Monegan a position conducting Alaska's alcohol problems. No, wait, she wanted him fired because he's not doing a good enough job on alcohol issues in his current position. No, wait, that's not it; he's got a problem with insubordination and requesting funds for programs publicly, "over" Palin's head.
In essence, the Palin/McCain defense for Palin's firing of Monegan is as erratic and out of focus as McCain's judgment and actions regarding economic policy, foreign policy, and every other policy of the United States.
Coupled with the Palin/McCain campaign's recent campaign "strategy," which seems to consist of indirectly supporting violence, or even perhaps an assassination attempt, against Obama and his family and supporters, it's pretty clear that their ticket is the dangerous one for America. McCain lacks the judgment, temperament, honesty, and dignity to be a human being, much less the President. His would-be second-in-command is no better.