Grasping at Straws

Here it is, just three days after John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate and the Democrats haven't spent Labor Day Weekend at a picnic. They've been hard at work trying to dig up any dirt on Mrs. Palin that they can.

First, In tabloid tradition, it was spread all over the Internet that her 17 years-old unmarried daughter was pregnant and that Mrs. Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover for her daughter. That the baby with Downs Syndrome is really Mrs. Palin's grandchild.

Turns out that the daughter was indeed and still is pregnant, the wedding date has been set for her to marry the father and that it isn't a big secret.

Then the Dems made a big deal out of an Ethics committee investigation into Mrs. Palin back in Alaska. This is investigation was instigated by the Democrats at the state level. (Remember Mrs. Palin is a Republican who defeated both the current governor and a prior one, both of whom were "Good Ol' Boys")

The truth as usual turns out be a whole lot less interesting. When she took office, she started cleaning house, rescinding job appointments and getting rid of graft and corruption from the old regimes.

One of the people she wanted fired is a brother-in-law of the ex-Governor and was being protected by the State Public Safety Commissioner. When the Commissioner refused to fire the guy, Mrs. Palin fired him. Good on her!

So the good ol' boys take her to task by investigating her for abuse of power. Gotta protect their own.

Well, since none of that is all that damaging, the Dems have drug up two more charges against her character.

Seems that as much as 15 years ago, she was a registered member of the Alaska Independence Party for two years. Oooh! Run Away! The supposedly "bad" part is that the party has pushed for Alaskan independence several times.

Now I don't know about the rest of you. But I've changed registered parties from time to time when there was someone in the primaries that I REALLY wanted to get my vote. In the states I've lived in, I can only vote for candidates from my registered party, so I have to change parties to vote for the person I think will do best. It doesn't mean that I believe or support everything that party stands for.

The final charge (so far) is that 22 years ago, Mrs. Palin was... wait for it... ARRESTED! For DUI.

Let's see, she's 44 years old now, so that'd make her 22 when it happened. Young and stupid. The fact that she hasn't been caught DUI since means that she probably grew up and learned her lesson.

Trust me, I'm more against DUI than most people as a drunk killed my baby brother years ago. A drunk with multiple DUI convictions!

But being caught once and staying clean for more than 20 years since does not make you or Sarah Palin a bad person.

Both parties of plenty of work to do and more important things to deal with than trying to dig up whatever dirt they can on another candidate. Perhaps there's trouble in Obamanation and things aren't as good as they claim?

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