ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott also writes non-satirical columns periodically at Townhall.com. Below is an excerpt of his latest and a link to read more.
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by Scott Ott for Townhall.com
The so-called Troopergate investigation report, released Friday by a panel in Alaska, is the best thing to happen to the McCain-Palin campaign since the Arizona maverick chose the Alaskan hockey Mom as his running mate.
Republicans should embrace it as a way of telling the story of why government must be reformed. It is the perfect picture of how government bureaucracies shield the incompetent and immoral among them, and waste taxpayer dollars trying to nail concerned citizens who cry ‘foul’.
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1 US President 2008 » Blog Archive » ScrappleFace Story: Troopergate: The Best Thing to Happen to McCain-Palin ( http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=3153 ) // Oct 12, 2008 at 8:04 am
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2 Darthmeister // Oct 12, 2008 at 8:59 am
Isn’t it interesting how the “report” does conclude Governor Palin broke no laws … yet she supposedly violated Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) which reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust?
The operative principle of this statute is any politician who “personally or financially benefits”. The way the “commission” misapplied this statute to Governor Palin’s action would make every politician guilty throughout America. Hang ‘em all! How did Governor Palin “personally benefit” or receive “financial benefits” by firing Monegan who serves at the Governor’s good pleasure? She can fire those who serve in such capacity if she doesn’t like the smell of their cologne, but watch how the left will rally to Obamessiah when he fires all the federal attorneys and installs his own cronies in hopes of calling off all the watchdogs hot on the trail of his precious ACORN and other Democrat voter frauds.
You can drive a Mac truck through that statute. Surely it doesn’t apply to mere personal satisfaction for firing an insubordinate hack or an out of control officer who beats his wife and tasers his stepson, does it? And most assuredly she wasn’t receiving a “personal benefit” in having her political career advanced or getting a sweetheart deal on a house from a financial crook due to her firing of Trooper Wooten (who also threatened bodily harm to Sarah’s father) and subsequently Walt Monegan, eh?
Andy McCarthy gets it right about The One:
Ayers’s prior terrorism, while highly relevant, is not the essential point. The real issue is Ayers’s revolutionary leftism (at around the time Ayers and Obama began working on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, by the way, Ayers described himself as “a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist”).
Obama is clearly lying when he claims ignorance about Ayers’s terrorism, but even if you wanted to pretend otherwise, it is impossible that he was in the dark about Ayers’s revolutionary leftism: Ayers has never made a secret of it and can’t seem to help himself from mentioning it about every 30 seconds. Obama not only knew about Ayers’s views in this regard; he obviously subscribed to them: was a member of the Chicago New Party begun by the Democratic Socialists of America; he worked closely with Ayers on “education reform” for years, he approved of Ayers’s similarly fringe-Left views of the criminal justice system’s treatment of juvenile crime, and, we are learning, he was tightly aligned with ACORN, which he and Ayers funded and whose practices fit comfortably with the Ayers view of “participatory democracy.”
3 Darthmeister // Oct 12, 2008 at 9:00 am
… The Alaskan “commission” ate my post.
4 Libby Gone // Oct 12, 2008 at 10:42 am
This is indicative of the abuses left to fester in Correction Departments and Law Enforcement bureaus all over the country. I’ve seen it displayed here in Mitch Chee Gon. Former family members are proud of their ability to skate under the laws they thrust down the throats of others…………
5 gafisher // Oct 12, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Maybe Taserboy will get a job in the Obama Administration training Truth Squad goons.
6 gafisher // Oct 12, 2008 at 1:42 pm
The Trooper at the center of the controversy was suspended prior to Sarah Palin’s becoming Governor, under the administration of the Governor she opposed and beat. The suspension letter can be found here.
7 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 12, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Caught on [duct] tape: While the massive, God-fearing and enthusiastically patriotic throngs attending McCain/Palin events continually chant, “USA! USA! USA!” the marionettes at BO/Biden gatherings shake their fists and scream “Hate! Hate! Hate!”
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By the way, I resent the way the Democrat party is using race in this race.
8 mindknumbed kid // Oct 12, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Ayers - Hates America, wants to destroy capitalism.
Dohrn - No different than Ayers.
Wright - Hates whites, God d**n America (must hate America too).
Cone - Wright’s mentor, anti-God if God dares to disagree with him.
But these things are insignificant to most Americans? If there is anything there can we just accept Barack’s cool dismissive answers and let it lie there?
We aren’t talking about people that are just on the wrong side of the law at one time in their lives. They openly hate this country, at least two of them are at war with us. So we elect someone who is friendly with them to be our President?
The media is in the tank for him and whenever sensible people get angry over this potential fraud, they are treated like they are the enemy. This isn’t the America we used to know, not by a long shot.
Barack Obama needs to be vetted, as of now he is a pig in a poke who from all indications is unwilling to allow voters to know who he is and what he stands for (outside of change).
If not, we could very well have a fraudulent candidate, fraudulent voters, and a fraudulent nation. May God help every one of us in the opposition movement to be wrong, if he is elected.
9 mindknumbed kid // Oct 12, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Expect to see Trooper Wooten as the newest poster boy for the left. Abuse of the lack of power is more like it.
Maybe the Palins should become TV evangelists and see if they could free the people of Alaska of this bad apple by attempting to cast out the devil. Might have some real power that way, but obviously not as governor.
10 Darthmeister // Oct 12, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Yes, there is insane rage by a political party, but the lamestream media has refused to report about it for the last seven years!
Another example of the liberal media’s palpable double-standards and being in the tank for the Donks.
11 mindknumbed kid // Oct 12, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Anybody seen that certified birth certificate from Hawaii yet? The folks over on the American Thinker blog are commenting up a storm, some are pathetically stupid. The bottom line is that Berg is a genuine democrat and that all Barry-O needs to do is produce the real deal, and then prove also that he is still qualified if his citizenship was truly renounced while in Indonesia. I can’t imagine why they are trying to get it dismissed instead of simply complying with the reasonable demands of the lawsuit. Perhaps they are trying to hold out in order to politically discredit the people bringing the suit? Seems petty to me if that is the case, but it may help shield him from other areas that he doesn’t want revealed. That doesn’t say much for his character either does it? More kool aid for the demakooks please, just don’t expect them to put forth an honest candidate.
12 mindknumbed kid // Oct 12, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Still looking for an Obamaton to convince me that I am wrong about him. Prove that he doesn’t agree with many of his corrupt associates, don’t just impugn it as silly willy guilt be association charges.
13 mindknumbed kid // Oct 12, 2008 at 6:59 pm
or even, guilt by association…
14 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 12, 2008 at 7:27 pm
As I watch the Democrat party lurch from mania to hysteria and back again with an insatiable lust for more, I am observing a phenomenon I will call Evil Devouring a Soul from the Inside Out.
Personally, I don’t think a TV Evangelist or Itinerant Evangelist or [even a] Generic Evangelist or Pastor or Priest or Rabbi is more qualified than the Holy Spirit to “cast out the devil.” No “attempting” involved. No “might” have “some real power” either. I am certain the Palin’s would agree and would never be so presumptuous as to suggest that they are, somehow, elite among Christians.
I say, “Play the Almighty God Card.” Make it a steady drumbeat of corporate prayer. Save us from the precipice, Lord, even so, Marana Tha!
15 onlineanalyst // Oct 12, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Trooper Wooten threatened the life of Sarah Palin’s father, too.
16 gafisher // Oct 12, 2008 at 8:22 pm
mkk Re#7:
.. .. .. “I’m Barack Obama, and I’ve approved these messages.”
17 mindknumbed kid // Oct 12, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Exodus 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
I am seeing reports that might just be the beginning of judgment, the scripture is not vague about using the LORD fraudulently.
I am still distressed to live in among a people so ignorant about truth.
2 Corinthians 4:3
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
So simple, so readily available, yet they cannot see it.
18 Hawkeye // Oct 13, 2008 at 8:06 am
Excellent post Sir Scott. “the foundations of our Constitutional Republic” are indeed being undermined. And if you think it’s bad now, wait ’til Obamalama gets in office (God forbid).
19 Hawkeye // Oct 13, 2008 at 8:28 am
“for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.” -Luke 6:44
The Obama “orchard”:
-Jeremiah Wright
-James Cone
-Louis Farrakhan
-Bill Ayers
-Bernardine Dohrn
-Tony Rezko
-George Soros
-Frank Marshall Davis
-Saul Alinsky
-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
-Kim Jong Il
-Muammar Ghadafy
-Fidel Castro
-Hugo Chavez
-Hamas
-Jim Johnson
-Franklin Raines
-Nancy Pelosi
-Harry Reid
-David Axelrod
-Howard Dean
-ACORN
-MoveOn.org
Lunch anyone?
20 wildhowd // Oct 13, 2008 at 9:55 am
Re# 19
sounds like the guest list for Obummers coronation, I mean swearing in ceremony.
21 NeaL // Oct 13, 2008 at 9:59 am
…And I would like to add that if Governor Palin and her family had done nothing, the media would have dug this up and asked, “If she won’t even go after a bad cop, how can we expect her to protect us from terrorists?”
22 gafisher // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Hawkeye Re#19: “Lunch anyone?
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Bitter fruit indeed.
23 Hawkeye // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:47 pm
NeaL, Correctomundo!
gafisher, the “Grapes of wrath”?
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