Republicans say Black is White, Re-create Reality Once Again: Palin is Bush with Lipstick and Heels

McCain’s running mate, unlawfully abused her power as Alaska’s governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, according to an ethics investigation released last night. It deals a significant blow to an already embattled Republican ticket just over three weeks until Election Day.

The report, released after a two month investigation, found that Mrs Palin was motivated in part by a personal grudge when she fired Walt Monegan, the police chief, after he failed to dismiss her brother-in-law, who had been involved in an ugly divorce from her sister.

Mrs Palin has always maintained that she dismissed Mr Monegan over budget disputes, but the investigator hired by a 14-member bipartisan panel of the Alaskan state legislature concluded that a personal grudge influenced her decision - although it was not the sole reason for her motive to fire him.

Mr Monegan triggered the enquiry this summer when he alleged he had been fired by Mrs Palin, the Governor of Alaska, because he refused to bow to pressure by her, her husband Todd, and members of her staff to sack Mike Wooten, Mrs Palin’s former brother-in-law.

“I feel vindicated,,“ Mr Monegan said. “It sounds like they've validated my belief and opinions. And that tells me I'm not totally out in left field.”

Stephen Blanchflower, the investigator hired by the legislative committee to conduct the investigation, said he found Mrs Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain. He said she violated a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

“Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: To get Trooper Michael Wooten fired," he said.

of course, the McCain-Palin campaign responded by saying that black is white and night is day, in their best Animal Farm doublespeak.

Even though. On Friday, the bipartisan Alaskan Legislative Council(ten Republicans, four Democrats) voted unanimously to release the findings of its “Troopergate” investigation, McCain-Palin called it "partisan."

The report stated unequivocally that “Sarah Palin abused her power” by violating a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. As the report emphasized, “Compliance with the code of ethics is not optional.”

But the amazingly dishonest McCain campaign has decided to simply turn the finding on its head. On Fox News Sunday, campaign manager Rick (Fannie Mae PR man) Davis claimed the investigation absolved Palin of any wrongdoing:

DAVIS: Let me tell you, this whole thing has been a kangaroo court form day one. … The reality is there was absolutely no wrongdoing found in the report. 1,000 pages, an enormous waste of time and the best that they could come up with was no violation of any laws or ethics rules, but –

WALLACE: Wait wait. It said she violated the state ethics board.

DAVIS: But that she acted within her power and scope of authority as governor to do exactly as she did. … It was a great public circus.

Davis’s claim that the investigation was a partisan hit job is laughable. The investigation was originally authorized by a unanimous, bipartisan vote of the Legislative Council; a bipartisan majority voted to subpoena key witnesses, including Todd Palin; and its findings were released Friday under unanimous, bipartisan agreement.

Yesterday, Palin similarly reversed the report’s findings, telling Alaskan reporters yesterday she was “very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing,” or “any hint of any kind of unethical activity there”:

KTVA Reporter: Governor, finding No.1 on the report was that you abused your power by violating state law. Do you think you did anything wrong at all in this Troopergate case?

PALIN: Not at all and I’ll tell you, it, I think that you’re always going to ruffle feathers as you do what you believe is in the best interest of the people whom you are serving.

Perhaps Palin’s complete misunderstanding of the report’s findings is rooted in the fact that she apparently still hasn’t actually read it:

KTVA Reporter: Have you read the whole report? (No response; sPalin aide invites question from

KTVA reporter).

The Ostrich-lemmings of the Republican party do not care. They are too scared of Obama's skin color and different kind of name and think he is Muslim terrorist because of the MCacain ads.

But I pray that the thinking Americans ( I still hope we are a majority) will not put this unqualified, deceitful woman a heartbeat away from the presidency. She really is not a pit bull, but rather she is George Bush with lipstick and heels.