Palin’s self-vindication goes over ZERO at home

Sarah Palin may read into the report, twist the facts, and pick out just the pieces that sounds OK, but the Anchorage Daily News thinks differently.  If the newspaper is right, after the election, should McCain/Palin go down to defeat, Palin may still have issues to face back home, as her ‘vindication’ is not seen as real vindication.

Sarah Palin’s reaction to the Legislature’s Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation.

The very first sentence of the editorial is just down right brutal toward Palin, rightfully so.  Palin can pick and choose what she wants the report to say, but the bottom line is, the report  specifically nailed Plain for ABUSE OF  POWER.

In plain English, she did something “unlawful.” She broke the state ethics law.

Perhaps Gov. Palin has been too busy to actually read the Troopergate report. Perhaps she is relying on briefings from McCain campaign spinmeisters.

Kudos to the Anchorage Daily for calling it like it is.  As Palin tries to bury the Abuse of Power findings for national purposes, the media back home are not so willing to allow Palin to wash her hands of her unethical behavior.

Palin asserted that the report found “there was no abuse of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired.”

In fact, the report concluded that “impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: to get Trooper Michael Wooten fired.”

Palin’s response is the kind of political “big lie” that George Orwell warned against. War is peace. Black is white. Up is down.

And why would that surprise anyone?  The facts about Palin’s involvement, about her record on reform, her record on the bridge to nowhere, her record as Mayor of Wassilla, her record on earmarks, it has all been a  facade of lies.  This is nothing new for Palin.  We have come to expect her to speak the opposite of the realities that surround her.  That is essentially why her favorable ratings plummeted.  The American people are smarter than the GOP thinks.  With the wide accessibility of information on the Internet, people are able to do their own research and draw their on conclusions and they have done so on Palin, as her beginning hysteria has turned to general disillusionment.

Gov. Palin and her husband felt so passionately about Wooten because the case was so personal to them. Their passion blinded them to any other considerations.

They had no sense that the power of the governor’s office carries a special responsibility not to use it to settle family scores. They had no sense that legal restrictions might prevent the troopers from firing Wooten. They had no sense that persistent queries from the governor’s office might be perceived as pressure to bend state personnel laws … But it wasn’t appropriate, especially for someone elected as an ethical reformer. And her Orwellian claims of “vindication” make this blemish on her record look even worse.

You asked us to hold you accountable, Gov. Palin. Did you mean it?

Bottom line: Gov. Palin, read the report. It says you violated the ethics law.

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