He was corrupt then, he's corrupt now, so what's Palin's problem?

[Image of Ted Stevens by Lauren Victoria Burke/AP]

I don't get it.

I mean she's for him before he got into trouble. She was against him when he got into trouble because she figured he couldn't win so suggested he might want to drop out of the race. Now, that his indictment has been dismissed, she's for him again.

Makes you dizzy watching Ms. Sarah spin around!

Ted Stevens has been corrupt for years. The people of Alaska have excused that corruption and elected the old bat to Congress because he done so much good for the people of Alaska. Shore enuf!

He wasn't found not guilty, by the way; and no matter what he would like to believe, this does not clear him of the charges. The indictment was dismissed, not because he was innocent or such a nice guy, but because the prosecutor messed up big time. So old Ted gets a walk. Doesn't mean he shouldn't be in prison. Doesn't mean he's been washed clean in the blood of the lamb.



But Palin's been spinning!

Poor Ted. He probably would've been elected if it wasn't for this horrible trial. What to do? What to do?

Aha! Let's tell the guy who was elected legitimately by the people of Alaska, to get his funky ass out of Washington so Alaska can hold another election and send good, ol' corrupt Ted back to the Senate where he belongs and where he can pork-a-lot of stuff back to the people, whom he loves so much.


And that's what Randy Ruedrich (he's the chief poohbah of the Repugnican Party in Alaska) did! As reported by the Anchorage Daily News, Ruedrich "called on Sen. Mark Begich to step down from the U.S. Senate, saying that the state's voters would have re-elected former Sen. Ted Stevens had they known the U.S. Department of Jusice would abandon its prosecution of him."

Heh, heh, heh!

Palin, the prevaricator, jumped on the Ruedrich bandwagon, saying, Yes! Yes! Let's have a special election. Begich give it up and crawl back to Alaska!


Hah! Begich said, nicely, go to hell! He reminded these Repugnican morons that Stevens was in trouble long before the Senatorial race and he [Begich] was elected because the people of Alaska wanted a change from the corruption that prevails among rightwingnuts in the Repugnican Party.

Indeed, it's amazing how morally bankrupt the Republican Party really is. Palin and every other Repug in Alaska knows about Ted Stevens. But Stevens has brought more federal dollars to Alaska than there are Polar bears and wolves hiding from Sarah! So, who cares if Stevens is corrupt?

Fortunately, Begich is in place and cannot be removed by the whims of a Repugnican state chairman or a moronic Repugnican governor.

Still...

Will god and Alaska call Palin to the Senate?

This morning it appears that Senator Ted Stevens may go down in Alaska, which also means that god has closed the door on Palin heading to the Senate in the near future.

On the other hand, if Stevens should win, the Senate may very well throw him out, and then Palin could say, "God saved the day, I'll just have to appoint myself to the Senate and maybe the good folks of Alaska will elect the First Dude as guv - he's really a good guy and under my administration he's gained a ton of executive experience!"

But it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Oh darn.

Plus, she's still got almost two years to serve as guv, and she like, really loves her job!

Nevertheless, Palin like just knows the people of Alaska and like how much they love her. She like trusts them. "I will do what the people of Alaska want me to do," she says.

However...as usual, god might get involved in Palin's life again. Here's how she put it: "...if they [the people of Alaska] call an audible on me [isn't that cute?], and if they say they want me in another position, I'm going to do it. ... My life is in God's hands. If he's got doors open for me, that I believe are in our state's best interest, the nation's best interest, I'm going to go through those doors."

How do you suppose Palin knows when God opens a door or when the Devil opens a door? What criteria does she use to determine that? And notice that even if she thinks God has opened a door she ain't going through it unless SHE determines that it's in "our state's best interest, the nation's best interest." Isn't that second-guessing god herself?


And if you believe any of this phony bullshit, you should move to Alaska so you can better "love" Sarah and help her govern, until she determines god wants her in the Oval Office and she must walk through that open door!

Ted Stevens and Sarah Palin - ethically challenged

Ted Stevens, the long-time Senator from Alaska, has been convicted on all seven counts of an indictment accusing him of failing to report gifts on Senate forms.

Ted Stevens has long thought himself immune from any threat. After all, for over 30 years he has brought home cartloads of federal money for his state of Alaska. And that's probably why not a few people think that in spite of his status as a convicted felon, Alaskans will elect him to the U.S. Senate one more time.


It's fascinating to watch Republican crooks in action. After the jury in Washington, D.C. found him guilty, Stevens said they didn't.

In a debate with Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, Stevens was asked how he was going to respond to John McCain and Sarah Palin, who have both called upon him to resign. Here's what he said:

"I have not been convicted of anything."


Maybe it's the water in Alaska. Or maybe it's the cold weather.

Ted Stevens, duly indicted and then convicted by a jury of his peers, says he hasn't been convicted.

Sarah Palin, after a bipartisan investigation charges her with abuse of power, said that meant she was "vindicated."

Or maybe it's that both Stevens and Palin are unable to differentiate between what is real and what is not.

More likely, I think, is that they are both cut from the same ethically-challenged mold.

Sarah Palin should withdraw from the McCain ticket

No one represents the Republican "culture of corruption" in Alaska more than the reprehensible Senator Ted Stevens.

Sarah Palin has long been a friend and supporter of Ted Stevens.

Contrary to the portrait Palin paints of herself, she has also been very much part of Alaska's "culture of corruption." As National Affairs says, Palin "...not only owes her governorship to Stevens' throaty endorsement, but as recently as 2005 served as the director of 'Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service' 527 group.

The Anchorage Daily News has a video which includes a "last-minute 2006 campaign commercial in which Stevens passes the baton to Palin's 'new generation' of leadership, asking his fellow Alaskans to 'help Sarah become governor, which we all want to see.'"

Another later segment of the video includes Steven's saying "Hell, I don't know if you know it but when Frank Murkowski was first elected, this lady and I ... traveled around the state for two weeks. We've know each other a long time. Worked together a long time."

Further along yet, Palin says "I have great respect for the senator.... His voice, his experience, his passion needs to be heard across America. So that Alaska can contribute more. So that we can be producers. So that we can help lead the rest of the U.S. ..."


Fast-forward to late October 2008.

Palin is calling upon Stevens to resign his Senate seat. "After being found guilty on seven felony counts, I had hoped Senator Stevens would take the opportunity to do the statesmen-like thing and erase the cloud that is covering his Senate seat. He has not done so."

She went on to say that even if the voters re-elect him next week, he should "step aside to allow a special election to give Alaskans a real choice of who will serve them in Congress."


Well, now. Stevens was convicted of lying about gifts and services he received from VECO, an Alaskan oil services company. Palin had the gall to say that the company's influence "was part of the culture of corruption that I was elected to fight." Hmm. Seems to me that Palin herself, along with her cronies, have accepted money from VECO in the past.

Not only so, but Palin has just been judged to have abused her power as the governor of Alaska, and she is currently under investigation for additional, similar charges. She is known to have extended the so-called "culture of corruption" by hiring friends and cronies for state office in spite of the fact they were not qualified for the positions involved.


It is therefore obvious that, Sarah Palin, who pals around with convicted felons, and is herself convicted of abuse of power, ought to resign the McCain ticket so that Republicans, at least, will have a "real choice" as to who they want as a vice presidential candidate!