A *real* shame.

30 years ago, in a state like Alaska; if someone tried this; there’d be a few good old friends of the gov who would seek these guys out and proceed to get in fights with them until they left her alone.

Now, with all the legal stuff; you just have to sit there and take it.

If there was another option better, or equal to the US circa 1970; i’d be looking to move.

Whats going on now puts it to shame. Sarah is one tough lady folks. Clawing her way through that pit of vipers will only serve to toughen her up.

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Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

at the Alaska Lincoln Day Dinner. AKSteveB mentioned this part of her speech and wondered why she was going on about it. Wonder no more as anyone forced to defend themselves against false and stupid charges repeatedly would certainly be filled with resentment at the unfairness of it.

Any way that we can start digging into the lives and finances and such of the ones doing this? Perhaps they can start spending their own money defending themselves on similar nuisance suits? I have no doubt that people such as this have all kinds of shady dealings in their personal and whatever passes for professional lives.

Is there something we can do to help other than the obvious donation. Can we harrass these people with lawsuits or something?

“loser pays”?

How many problems would that fix?

All it takes to file an Ethics Act Complaint, a Whistle Blower Complaint, a lawsuit, an EEO complaint, a union grievance, and all the other stuff like that is a piece of paper and a decent vocabulary or a lawyer trying to score political points. If you’re in government and HAVEN’T had them filed against you, you must not have been doing your job, especially if you’re a Republican. I used to keep a pretty good collection of them on my office wall. I was so proud of a couple of them that I had them framed.

That said, she brought a lot of it, most of it actually, on herself. When the Moneghan/Wooten/Troopergate thing first broke, she said she was as pure as the driven snow and welcomed any inquiry. Well, that didn’t last long and before it was over she was using every strategem in the book to keep the wraps on it. None of them were illegal and I might have done some, even most, of them myself, but I wouldn’t have gotten myself into the mess to begin with. And I wouldn’t have let a governor I worked for get into it either.

She and her insiders used their Blackberries like a bunch of Ninth Grade girls and said some “indiscrete” things. When the Public Records Act requests for her email first came in, again she said she was pure as the driven snow. She wasn’t; nobody is and she even had her AG write a new (and very stupid) formal opinion trying to protect some of her emails. She’s still fighting giving that stuff up, but she’s going to lose, her AG’s Opinion is going to be over-ruled by the Courts, and it is going to once again embarrass her.

OK, she’ll get a legal defense fund and the lawyers will get paid. I know this game and how they bill stuff like this, so an amount will be discretely agreed to. Along the way, she needs to learn that anything you do as a public officer will become the public’s business and you can run but you can’t hide. Even if you’re innocent, which she mostly is, running makes you look guilty. She’s done a good job of looking guilty.

And, just for the record, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; her administration isn’t reticent to threaten people with Ethics Act charges, especially if you were in the Murkowski Administration. In 2007, I took a contract to represent a State employee group in trying to force the State to bargain some aspects of retirement benefits. The issue had nothing to do with her administration, it was a Murkowski initiative with which I disagreed but which was not in my portfolio when I was there. Since I’m well aware of who my enemies are, some of them even visit me here, I was very careful to make sure I was within the Ethics Act before I took the contract. But sure enough, the State is a one trick pony even in the Palin Administration. The very week that the Labor Board found probable cause that the State had violated the bargaining law, I got a very long, detailed and threatening letter from the Attorney General about the Ethics Act. I’m not your everyday patsy, so I responded with a very long, detailed, and threatening letter about all the Ethics Act issues I’d like to discuss under oath in a public forum. Never heard from them again but it’s par for the course that they like to dish it out but they don’t like to take it. And, frankly, I don’t care who’s governor, the State will pay for threatening me for as long as anybody associated with it is there and I can draw breath.

Are lying and cheating and stealing and violating the Constitution and every single principle that this country has stood for since its inception.

Oh, but Sarah Palin is really the screw up with her ilicit Blackberry use and cookie distribution bribes.

Can anyone see the forest for the trees here?

I’m beyond sick and tired of these vile bottom feeding maggots trying to destroy this woman and her family at ever turn. Liberals can say all they want about how tolerant and compassionate they are, it is a HUGE LIE!!!! Their actions against palin is evident. I have no problem sending in a donation to help towards her legal bills. Among her supporters, raising $500,000 shouldn’t be hard at all to do. Attacks by the vile left aren’t just attacks on Palin but on conservatives in general.

I don’t understand the bankrupt and leave them destitute idea. If the position is costing her to the point of being destitute why doesn’t she resign? Why not reisgn after it hit the point of being 1/2 her salary? She has an able bodied husband and I’m sure she could find another position easily. I don’t understand staying in a position that is costing you more than your annual salary. I can understand dealing with it for a long term career path even if someone isn’t making anything but at the bankrupt/destitue point I don’t get it why stay with it and then say it’s causing a hardship.

There is of course a strategy of pre-emption afoot, with the MSM and online media going after Palin in a substained effort, as mysterious “leaks” from nobody/false rumors, persist. If Sarah Palin is so silly and irrelevant, why the obsession?

Liberals’ double-standard sexism is appalling; she’s “dumb” because she’s a happy and attractive Christian, who enjoys being a mother? Real feminists need to be angry, wear combat boots, no make-up, short hair, and live alone in a studio apartment in the East Village? She’s not the right kind of example because she doesn’t support affirmative action… but instead went out there and just kicked butt?

Democrats are plenty afraid of Palin coming-back at them in 2012 with a dynamic and complementary VP like Bobby Jindal… or visa versa. And they have plenty of reason to fear her. Palin is the most popular governor in the country… are all those people idiots? Alaska was a pretty corrupt system until she stepped in. Her reforms took on entrenched politicians (inc. Republicans), a mafioso-style union boss, and Big Oil.

Wouldn’t it have been nice if Obama had been principled and brave enough to confront the corrupt Chicago Democratic Machine? Or shady political operators like Tony Rezko? Racist preachers? Instead of doing business with every last one of them?

So, the DNC’s friends will be discrediting Palin and claiming condescendingly that she is a “joke” for the next couple years- precisely because they know the opposite to be true. She has been highly successful in life while ignoring the left-wing feminist model… this helps to explain the extra dose of venom in the attacks.

Go get em, Sarah- and don’t mind the press, nobody will be listening to them anymore after the pending Obamamania implosion.

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Anyone filing a false accusation whether or not it is administrative you are allowed to sue them for harassment. At least in those States, territories, and possession that are based on the English common law system.

What I am surprised is how she allows herself to be a punching bag. Sue some of these people have them come off the North Slope and do depositions instead of working and making money and this will come to a halt.

Hit the bastards hard and watch them bleed and the bullies go away.

With Republicans saying things like “Sarah Sycophants” it’s a miracle that John McCain didn’t lose every state.

The current state of Republicans in America is pathetic. Especially Alaskan Republicans who are probably as corrupt as they come.

I’d prefer to see Obama and the Dems destroy this country–at least I’ll be able to say that it was them and not “us”.

I don’t get it.

America is a litigious society. Every politician has to plan on getting sued. If nothing else, people will sue solely for the purpose of harassing you.

I find it hard to believe that there aren’t mechanisms in place to deal with these costs. Doesn’t the state defend her, in some way/shape/form? Or, is it “accepted” that an elected official’s supporters will quietly gather the money to cover these costs.

Have I somehow missed the fact that most American governors owe millions in personal debt due to being sued while in office. Because I have to believe that Palin is not the only governor to have drawn partisan ire in the past. Surely this has happened many, many times before.

This country, this party, our ideals have a thousand packs of wolves all clawing and tearing at the flesh.

We can’t fight them all, we only need to fight one.

How the hell are we so damn stupid that we can’t see the lesson we have been beat over the head with day after day after day for the last 8 years?

There should not be a Republican ever in front of a microphone who doesn’t say at least 3 bad things about 0, not one.

But here we are, running from one little brush fire to another . . .

…I would be delighted to see Ms Palin running as VP or Pres. in 2012. Absolutely delighted!

Payback’s a B$%^&!
Look if this kind of crap goes on in politics, fine.
It’s BS, but if that’s life then there MUST be some effective form of a response.

Now other commenter’s have suggested a legal defense fund, which Sarah would raise plenty. Could the same be said from the shmucks who are making the trouble? I think not.

So good RedStaters from the great State of Alaska, do what ya gotta do.
The names of these characters who so proudly harass Governor Palin
Andree McLeod, Zane Henning, Linda Kellen Biegel, etc. are for ALL to see.

Use your imagination, be nice, be LEGAL, but lets see how deep their pockets are.

and most of unproductive,other than to reassure the left that the Republican party is in chaos with infighting, and over what? The “star” of our party? Sad. she deserves support even if she was naive to think her email was with those she could trust. There’s a word …trust.

Gov. Palin for her faults at being human ,trusting,forward, popular and Conservative,is a target for those very reasons. She will not be the last in the next 3/12 years. If people who supported her throw her under the bus who’s next? Any Jindal bashers here? Pence haters? Demint scoffers? Get a grip and stop yelling over each other.

The left and some in our party do want Conservatives anywhere near the nomination in 2012. We should be more vigilant,and not so quick to fuel someone else’s fire.

I’ve been watching upthread the argument taking place and I have a proposal that might help all of you.

Achance doesn’t like Palin and it appears he has his reasons and he has listed them more than once. Others like her a lot and appear to have their reasons, too, and have listed their reasons more than once.

Reagan was a Democrat before he became the conservative standard. Everybody is entitled to be human. Palin is human. We are not Democrats to place our politicians on pedestals reaching into the stratosphere. Instead, we expect them to screw up because they all have their strengths and weaknesses.

She was inexperienced as governor when tapped for VP, although what she had done record-wise seemed impressive. The behind the scenes stuff is what Achance knows and it has colored his picture of much of the rest of the country’s conservative hope.

Obsessing over Palin or any other potential candidate at this point is a futile endeavor. We have several possibilities up and coming in the GOP. I’m not wedded to any particular person at the moment. Why not focus on what they’re doing now and how those doings play out instead of wrangling over every little perceived misstep?

Just a month ago, people were talking about how bad Jindal came off in response to Obama’s first press conference. Last night, there was a second look at Jindal and he was very impressive indeed.

Guess what? They’re all human.

Can’t we, please, stop wrangling over whether Palin is a Goddess or a Lilith? Right now, we need to focus on the empty suit of a president we have, not one we want for 2012 considering it’s a long way off yet.

Let’s take care of now and when the time is right, we’ll get the candidate we need or deserve… or both, if we’re lucky. We have to deserve good conservative leaders as much they have to deserve the role of good conservative leader.