Palin Calls Troopergate Investigation Biased

[sabra]

Source: WMUR

Vice Presidential Candidate Rejects Claims That Campaign Is Negative


DOVER, N.H. -- Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday that an investigation into the dismissal of an Alaskan state official that found she violated ethical rules was biased.

In an exclusive interview with News 9, Palin addressed the recent report on the so-called Troopergate scandal, in which the Alaska commissioner for public safety was dismissed. The commissioner said that his dismissal might have been related to his reluctance to fire Mike Wooten, an Alaska state trooper who is also Palin's ex-brother-in-law.

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"Obviously, it's a political goat rope, what occurred up there," she said. "With partisans who have never been really thrilled with anything I've done as governor."

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Palin also rejected criticisms that the campaign has been negative with less than three weeks before Election Day. She said that she and Sen. John McCain have been criticizing Sen. Barack Obama's record and not making negative attacks.

"I do not think it's negative or mean-spirited at all, not whatsoever, when you call someone out on their record," Palin said.

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[saigon68]

1. In the spirit of equal non gender criticism

"Obviously, it's a political goat rope," she said


She is an ass-wipe

[amdezurik]

2. Sarah dear, you are the goat

and you married a dope and you really need to go back to your masion and keep out of the biz of real people.

[JonLP24]

3. From what I understand

This investigation isn't like Senate or House investigations where bias dominates the investigation. I'm going to use Palin tactics if I ever get in a legal bind and see how I end up.

[LynnTheDem]

9. 10 of the 14 panel members were...REPUBLICANS.

But never mind that FACT; they were all "partisan" against poor wittle palin'.

[JonLP24]

11. The McCain spin is

They don't like her very much for taking on her own party.

[LynnTheDem]

16. I'd like to hear Palin' spin how that's "partisan" when it's her own party.

I'm pretty sure that'd be great for a lot of laughs.

We can use all the laughs we can get, nowadays.

[GinaMaria]

17. Perhaps she thinks Repubs are partisan against her because

she is really a RINO. Her true party is AIP, is it not?

[elias7]

4. one minute, the investigation exonerated her, the next, it's biased. Huh?

[JonLP24]

7. If McCain and Palin wins

I'm moving to Canada if possible. I'm fed up of 8 years of Rovian speak, avoiding press conferences, lying, etc. I don't think I can take it any more. It boggles my mind why people vote for someone that has surrogates spins the truth, misleads their own supporters, relentless false attacks that gain media attention. Ex. "Gore invented the internet"

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. It's the "Some of the People all the Time" strategy

Her end-of-world base will believe ANYTHING she says. These people are planning to inherit the wreckage of the GOP after they run it aground.

[fascisthunter]

6. as Biased as your effort to fire someone for personal reasons?

what a phony clown

[LynnTheDem]

8. Yeah, DAMN that REPUBLICAN MAJORITY!

TEN (10) out of the 14 were REPUBLICANS...how "PARTISAN" and "BIASED"...against REPUBLICAN palin'.

And the freepingly stupid rightwingnuts will believe every lyin' word of palin's.

[CitizenPatriot]

10. so sarah, the pukes hate you and so do the dems?

who is not a partisan in your book then? would that be the Alaksan Indpendence Party? Yeah, I thought so. Palin hates Democracy and America-- calls both parties partisan but adores the AIPers. Her door is always open to them. Hmm.... Did you think, in all of your infinite wisdom, sarah, that Pastor Wuthie was unbiased when he declared who was a witch and who wasn't?

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. The old lag's normal response: " I'm innocent, guvner; It weren't me!

I wuz fitted up."

Except that this time, it's the Governor who claiming, I'm innocent I tellya, they "fitted me up". Recidivists! Bah! they're all the same.

[bermudat]

13. 'goat rope'?

I don't get it. What's that supposed to mean?

[Sabriel]

15. Goat Rope def

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goat-rop...

Goat-rope
"US military (specifically Air Force military transport) jargon ca. 1970s-1980s, referring to an operation or undertaking involving an unnecessarily large number of people, most of them contributing nothing or actually impeding progress. Typically used to refer to flightline operations where military brass felt it necessary to make their presence felt and impede the normal duties/operations of the aircrew, offering "advice" or "assistance" that was neither requested nor needed."

It also can mean "a total disaster, f-up."

(GIYF)

[Vickers]

14. If by "partisan" you mean "my own party thinks I fucked up" then by all means

it is definitely partisan.

[ck4829]

18. This coming from the woman whose campaign put out their own report

Like that was unbiased.