TPM: Todd Palin is a Real Piece of Work

[dkf]

In his statement to the legislative inquiry (which was supposed to remain confidential but promptly released to the press by the McCain campaign) Todd Palin admits that he'd been trying to get his trooper brother-in-law fired for years. But he insists, improbably, that that didn't have anything to do with the subsequent dismissal of the guy he and Gov. Palin were pressuring to fire him. That, and he too says, Walt Monegan, the Commissioner of Public Safety at the center of the story, was not fired but rather resigned.

In one of the odder parts of the deposition, he seems to have implied that two reasons Monegan was actually fired were for emailing the governor reports that she'd driven with her newborn son without a car seat and that he didn't have a state plane available enough for her trips.

For those of you keeping score, the Palins' purported rationales for firing Monegan are tellingly similar to those originally put forward for firing those US Attorneys -- vague and barely consequential complaints that no one ever seems to have mentioned before the press started asking questions, peppered with occasional defenses of the reasons for the firing which they claim aren't even the real reasons.

And oh yeah, he wasn't fired. He was reassigned but decided to quit.

With any luck the voters will spare the country from this intemperate, thuggish man.

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[Wetzelbill]

1. From 2 intemperate, thuggish men, and one woman who fits that bill too

[TwilightGardener]

2. Taahhhd reminds me of most of the men in my rural small town--

overgrown rednecky high-school boys who spend their weekends with their boats, Jetskis, video games, trampolines, Husker football, goin' huntin'/trappin', paintball, etc. He seems like the kind of guy who LOVES his wife making shitloads of money, not because he isn't sexist, but because then he can have more free time snowmobile racing and hanging around the state capital pretending to be important-by-marriage.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Make that kind of guy mad, and one morning you come out of your

house and find all your tires slashed.

My very first impression of him. And he's done nothing since to change that impression.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Exactly--they retain that high-school level of maturity all through adulthood.

I am surrounded by that type out here.

[ShortnFiery]

6. Agree with all BUT don't be dis'ing The Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Living in Nebraska as a child, I lived for weekends and going to home Husker Games in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Many good people love the mighty Cornhuskers.

GO BIG RED! :loveya:

That is all. ;)

[sandnsea]

10. as well as boats, jetskis, video games... n/t

[rurallib]

5. considering that was probably written by a battery of lawyers

it was an incredibly crap job. Even they couldn't cover up the thuggery.

[Raschel]

7. Their poor kids. An idiot mother and a bad-tempered dad. n/t

[iceman66]

8. Imagine if they win and McCain keels over

this asshole would be the 'shadow president'!

[nini]

9. Why is HE involved in ANY government decision?

WTF?

[JitterbugPerfume]

11. Hilary took a s@@tload of crap

for wanting to be "co-President" and Theresa Heinz Kerry was brutally critisised for being to "strong". Todd Palin deserves the same amount of scrutiny.