In his article is this:

(In an interesting sidelight, that may end up telling us a lot, Monegan says no one from the McCain campaign ever contacted him in the vetting process.)

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To follow up the question I asked at #119, I’ll ask it about this situation. What does the Republican party have to gain from thrusting this mess – this time it’s the widely known Troopergate – on the US and world stage?

If TPM was writing about it on August 13th, those that vetted Palin certainly knew about it.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi…..firing.php

They have made the point that this is a way to handle things when a child sins – and parents through the ages have children who choose to sin – and most importantly, it does not require the government to take care of anything. The parents take care of it. No embarrassment for the daughter, no shotgun wedding for the boy, and the child is raised in its birth family.

Many seem convinced that the evil KOS has made this smear up rather than looking at the Anchorage Daily News which supplied article after article expressing varying levels of surprise over the 7th (and what turned out to be the 8th) month pregnancy announcement and the 8 or up to 12 hour plane ride with leaking amniotic fluid, bypassing reputable hospitals with a NICU to get to a hospital/clinic near their small town without a NICU. (These last statements about the quality of healthcare bypassed in order to get to lesser quality healthcare without a neonatal intensive care unit are not ones I’ve personally followed up on, but I will.)

From a religious standpoint, it seems that Sarah Palin is being victimized no matter which way this turns out. The left is evil. The left is pathetic. The left has no shame. The left doesn’t understand the wisdom of working things out in the family. They would rather “suck the brains of a grandchild out, etc.”

I found this story in the Anchoage Daily News. In effect, the story found me when I went to a logical source to find out more about a complete unknown. It was their headlines, expressing the complete surprise of her own staff which I brought to your attention. Their headlines as of the moment include “Troopergate Inquiry Hangs Over Campaign” – “Palin Touts Stance on ‘Bridge to Nowhere,’ Doesn’t Note Flip-Flop” – “Evangelicals Rave Over Choice of Palin for VP”.
http://www.adn.com/

Both papers of note in Alaska are questioning Sarah Palin’s fitness to govern the United States of America.

This mess was known by whomever vetted her. This was in the NYT of Alaska. Of course we would “find” it.

So I think it is wise to ask what the Republican party has to gain from thrusting this mess onto the US and world stage. Why would they do this?

Shut down the network at your house, assuming it’s the only one your daughter’s machine can access and she’s on WiFi (if she’s using ethernet, unplug her machine from the network). Use your machine to download a copy of AVG antivirus (the free version) from Download.com onto a thumb drive and then copy that to her machine. Run it, then try reattaching the machine to the internet and then running an online antivirus like Trend Micro Housecall.

Be prepared to work at this for a while. Good luck!

Biden has to debate her as Cheney’s successor. More to the point, he has to debate Cheney, Cheney’s legacy, and the Cheney OVP.

I am now reading the thread. Part of the brilliance of the announcement was that they selected somebody who was not well known, so the news consumers would want to know all about her and the broadcasters would feel they were doing a public service. ATC made sure to mention the polar bears after their profile of her. As my dad listened, he said, “This woman is a Republican.” So it may have backfired. On paper, this woman has very little appeal to independents.
Daily papers are wonderful because ideally you do get 24 hours to reflect on each story.