IS THE LIAR Costing McCain the election?

Photo Credit: Sydney Morning Herald

By l.t. Dravis

ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL – Monday, October 13, 2008 – What’s the real reason behind McCain’s drop off in the polls?

Are voters turned off by the content of his message?

Are they bummed about his tax policies?

Perhaps they don’t like his $5,000.00 dollar taxable health care credit?

Are they concerned because Senator McCain doesn’t seem to have any plan to ever get us out of Iraq?

Are voters turned off by the negative McCain ads and rhetoric?

Are voters turning away from McCain because they can’t bring themselves to vote for a guy who would 75 years old in the last year of his first term?

But wait a minute . . . maybe it’s not McCain; maybe it’s Sarah Palin.

Could it be that millions of McCain supporters and undecided voters finally got tired of the big insult?

You know . . . the insult foisted on us by John McCain when he nominated a pathological liar to be his running mate.

Huh?

What am I talking about?

I’m talking about the fact that the person John McCain selected to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the United States is a proven liar.

Don’t agree?

Okay, then, let’s talk about the fact that Governor Sarah Palin was found to have abused her power by ‘violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110 (a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act' in a report issued by a bi-partisan panel of eight Republicans and four Democrats.

Clear enough . . . right?

Maybe not . . . if you listen to Sarah Palin.

Palin, supposedly everyone’s ‘hockey mom’, cheerfully lied through her teeth when she said, “There was no abuse of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired.”

“In fact,” Palin said, “remember, Officer Wooten is still an Alaska state trooper, which is up to the commissioner and the personnel top brass in the Department of Public Safety that decides who is worthy of a badge and carrying a gun in the state of Alaska.”

Whew!

“If they think that Trooper Wooten is worthy of that” (a badge and carrying a gun), “that’s their decision. I don’t micromanage my commissioners and ask them to hire or fire anyone.

“And, thankfully” Palin lied, “the truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.”

Though Governor Palin obviously believes the American people are too stupid to know that she’s lying . . . in light of an official report that has been pasted all over the internet, printed in every newspaper and magazine, and talked about on every imaginable radio and television program . . . the truth is simple: Voters are too smart to buy that load of baloney.

Could it be that millions of prospective McCain voters agree with a piece on today’s Anchorage Daily News that said,

“Sarah Palin’s reaction to the Legislature’s ‘Troopergate’ report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation. She claims the report ‘vindicates’ her.

“She said that the investigation found ‘no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.’ Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian.

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

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

“That’s the charitable interpretation.

“Because if she had actually read it, she couldn’t claim “vindication” with a straight face.

“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.

“Governor Palin and her husband were obsessed with Wooten the way Captain Ahab was obsessed with the Great White Whale. No Wooten, no peace.

“Has Governor Palin committed an impeachable offense?

“Hardly.

“Is what she did indictable?

“No.

“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.”

Yeah, Governor Palin . . . we got tired of the big insult and understand this: We’re too smart to believe you - anymore - about anything.

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