By vick

October 15, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

“Ms. Palin’s favorability rating is now 32 percent, down 8 points from last month, and her unfavorable rating climbed nine percentage points to 41 percent. Mr. Obama’s favorability rating, by contrast, is now at 50 percent, the highest recorded for him thus far by The Times and CBS News.” (The New York Times-Oct. 15, 2008)

By vick

October 13, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Blowfly, William F. Buckley, who passed away earlier this year was the epitome of an intellectual conservative. His son Christopher is also a conservative. Christopher Buckley just came out for Obama…

By Blowfly

October 13, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

David Brooks, conservative NYT’s columnist, calls Palin a “fatal cancer.” How fast can you desert a sinking ship? He does put his finger on a big problem for the republicans, their anti-elitism has turned from anti-intellectualism to anti-ideaism. The current disdain for anything intellectual is really troubling. Palin is the poster-child for this syndrome. It’s sort of like when Pol Pot rounded up everyone that wore glasses under the theory that they must be able to read and if they read they must be belong to the educated class. There used to be such a thing as republican intellectuals, and ideas. Which has been reduced to one idea, get the government out of the way. The government got out of the way of Wall Street, how’s that going for you? That idea has now been replaced with the mother of all bailouts. As for the comparisons to Nixon, at least he understood the power of his office and abused it to rig an election. Palin abused her power to get her ex-brother in-law fired, that tells you where her head is at. I guess she’s really is a small-town girl at heart.

By vick

October 13, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

And Sarah Palin has made it clear that she would love to wield the grand powers that our current Veep has been wielding…

By Alice

October 13, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Abuse of power? It reminds me of a certain current Vice President…

By vick

October 13, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Good points, Mike. The bottom line is plain as day: “Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda.”

By Mike

October 13, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

The bottom line is this. An investigation launched by a bipartisan Republican-controlled legislature concluded the following…..Palin “knowingly permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor’s office and the resources of the Governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired. Her conduct violated AS 39.52.110(a) of the Ethics Act…” Governor Sarah Palin Abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act … Compliance with the code of ethics is not optional… “The evidence supports the conclusion that Governor Palin, at the least, engaged in ‘official action’ by her inaction if not her active participation or assistance to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired [and there is evidence of her active participation.] She knowingly, as that term is defined in the above cited statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor’s office and the resources of the Governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired. Her conduct violated AS 39.52.110(a) of the Ethics Act… “Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda.”……So regardless of attempts in the comments here to somehow steer the subject here toward some imaginary Democratic march toward socialism or panning the DDN editorial slant or even the arguments trying to conflate these events with Nixonian history; the facts are right there in the report. In black and white. She abused her power. Plain and simple. So much for her meme about being a fresh faced hockey mom from outside-the-beltway who will shake up the status quo. Funny, I thought with Republicans it was always about the all important “rule of law”???

By Raoul

October 12, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Vic, the Republicans are not my ‘beloved’. I agree they have played a role in the move towards socialism. But the Demcocrats own the whole concept, from pandering for votes among the very people they keep pinned down by food stamps and mortgages they can’t afford, to the redistribution of wealth. At least I know what the GOP stands for on issue after issue. Other than opposing the Republicans on everything at the expense of never solving any problems, try to figure out what the Democrats stand for….besides pandering for votes.

By vick

October 11, 2008 11:42 PM | Link to this

“A spokesman for McCain denied he and Palin had fallen out over her aggressive attacks. “Vice-presidential candidates are typically the tip of the spear and further out in front than the candidate for president. This is pretty standard fare,” he said. However, Palin is no longer helping to attract women and independent voters to the Republican ticket. A poll for Fox News last week showed that while 47% of voters regard the Alaska governor favourably, 42% now have an unfavourable opinion of her. Palin remains far more popular than McCain with the Republican party base. He regularly has to endure the spectacle of members of the audience leaving for their cars when it is his turn to speak at joint rallies.” (Times OnLine UK)

By vick

October 11, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Thanks, Rick. What a SUPER idea!

By Rick

October 11, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Face it Vick, this blog is not the book nook, but Vick’s political blog.

By vick

October 11, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

Bob, check out the newspapers. Are you saying that all these newspapers, even in other countries, are run by the Democratic Party? Raoul, in regard to Nixon-he was and still is my favorite president. Look it up. I have blogged about my affection for that Tricky on a number of occasions. How ironic that this “socialism” you fear is being forced upon America by your own beloved Republicans. Thanks, as always folks, for your observations and comments.

By Raoul

October 11, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

So what, Vic, if Sarah Palin had done nothing about this trooper, she would be accused of being weak and innefective? Give us a break, any one would have done the same thing. From what I have gleaned from all the DDN staff, Sarah Palin will never get impartial treatment, and if she and McCain win, I shudder to think of the mud and slime she will be dragged through. Republican VP’s seem to be favorite targets for our media. Remember the DDN headline during the ‘04’ campaign? It read “Cheney Visit Snarls Traffic”. And let Richard Nixon go; he was a good president once you allow yourself to free your mind from the ‘60’s hubris.

By Author, Author

October 11, 2008 7:49 AM | Link to this

Really Vic, I agree with TRS. This has about as much relevancy with “Tricky Dicky” as you have with trying to be a Political Editor. And as for all those headlines - I don’t think you’d know an original headline if it jumped up and smacked you in your liberal left cheek.She caught the guy dirty and fired him. He and his liberal cronies set out to cause as much trouble as they could and this was their best shot. He even called Palin’s sister-in-law and told her, “you’re goin’down.” Well, he took his shot and ended up firing blanks. With any luck at all, the new REPUBLICAN administration will give him a job as a garbage truck driver in Fairbanks.

By Dave

October 11, 2008 1:57 AM | Link to this

TRS, if you remember your history, Nixon’s VP was Spiro Agnew, who had been Governor of Maryland. Agnew was the only VP to have to resign due to his criminal charges.

By AL SHARPTON

October 11, 2008 1:11 AM | Link to this

Stealing elections by John Fund is a great book. A.C.O.R.N will steal the election for OBAMA. 3ooo headlines around the world. What do you expect with 80% of the news media in the U.S.A controlled by the democratic party.

By vick

October 11, 2008 12:34 AM | Link to this

I know, Nixon was never a governor. He lost when he ran for governor of California. Nixon did abuse his power, right? I did not write any of the 3000+ headlines from all over the world that mention Sarah Palin’s abuse of power. Do we need to elect her VP to see what she can really do?

By TRS

October 10, 2008 11:49 PM | Link to this

Come on Vic - whats this got to do with Nixon? This was an attempt at a political lynching. If someone tasered your 10 year old step son, wouldn’t you have been ticked? Wouldn’t you wonder why he’s still on the books as a law enforcement officer? The crime? She didn’t stop her husband from making calls about this? Get real!