McCain’s Bad Judgment: How In The Hell Could He Miss All Of This?!?
Posted in: 2008 Election, John McCain
New revelations are crawling out of the tundra at every turn.
Thus far, we’ve discovered Sarah "Reform" Palin is actually L’il Miss Pork, having hired folks with deep ties to Don Young and Ted Stevens to hoover in $27 million dollars in federal earmarks for her town of 6,700 residents during her tenure as mayor:
Palin has also railed against earmarks, touting her opposition to a $223 million bridge in the state as a prime credential for the vice presidential nomination. "As governor, I’ve stood up to the old politics-as-usual, to the special interests, to the lobbyists, the big oil companies, and the good-ol’-boy network," she said Friday.
Except when she rakes in it by the bucket load to boost her political career using that very same good ole boy network. She conveniently left that part out. Hypocrisy, much?
But wait, there’s more. Rick Davis lied to the WaPo about putting Palin through an FBI background check – the FBI says that did not happen. As emptywheel notes, they are omitting whole swaths of problems from public discussion.
And to top it off, Sarah Palin wasn’t Miss Congeniality in the Miss Wasilla pageant. Sure, that’s trivial compared to lying about an FBI background check, but honestly, who in the hell needs to lie about an ages-old, beauty pageant award? Could you get more trivial and shallow?
What else is the McCain campaign fudging around the edges — aren’t you asking yourself that?
Further, Palin just hired counsel in the "troopergate" investigation, even though it’s been ongoing for weeks. Not to go all litigation counsel on you, but if you are the governor of Alaska and you didn’t bother to obtain counsel in an investigation of abuse of office and public corruption you aren’t just putting your own rear end at risk — you put the State of Alaska at risk as well.
Especially where the allegations involve not just you, but also several members of your staff and your spouse who may allegedly have been involved in a scheme together.
One of my law professors once told me that only a fool tries to represent himself in a legal matter, because your emotions and your judgment are impaired when your client is you. For obvious reasons.
In this case, I seriously question McCain’s judgment.
He selected a running mate who didn’t have the common sense to have counsel from the start to protect not just her own interests but also those of the state of Alaska for which she is chief executive. That is a serious breach of fiduciary obligation, let alone just plain dumb. What a stupid, reckless gamble.
And to top it off, her new counsel is now being evasive about whether Palin will live up to her deposition obligations. So much for cooperation and transparency.
The "she lives next to Russia so she’s foreign policy savvy" argument went down the tubes in one fell question yesterday. We also ascertained that she was a member of an Alaska secessionist party? Yep, that’s who you want on the Republican ticket, someone who doesn’t actually want to be an American. Jed Report has more.
Maybe they should have booked her a room at a Holiday Inn Express?
No idea what McCain was thinking…except that he clearly wasn’t bothering to think at all. ABB said a Tennesee Williams play broke out at the Republican convention. Dang it if that isn’t the most apt descriptor I’ve read to date…
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