While you burnish your peace buttons in anticipation of the McCain Shit-talking Express visit to Colorado Springs, check out Mark Lewis’ links on John McCain’s adopted pit-bull Sarah Palin. For example:
McCain camp announces Palin will do no interviews before election, only scripted speeches. See you tomorrow morning!
– Video of Palin pronouncement of a jihadist “holy war” against Muslims
– Entire video of sermon to church: Palin asks them to pray for $30 Billion gas pipeline
– History of her rise to power in Wasilla with her husband, father in law, mother in law, and state GOP
– Tried to fire librarian four days after she refused to remove books Palin didn’t like from library
– Letter from her main opponent at Wasilla city council on her lies and corruption
– Wants independent “TrooperGate” investigation called off and decided by state personnel board, 3 of which she appointed
– Top cop, fired for not firing sister’s ex, releases emails including from Todd Palin wanting him fired
– Staffer sent to get trooper fired delays investigation by not giving deposition and claiming legislature has no power
– State Trooper union says she and staff got into personnel files to dig for dirt on him
– Her personal lawyer is also on state payroll, so can make salary AND charge state $95,000 for her defense
– Family of 7, like hers, will get $22,400 in oil rebates this year from windfall profits tax like Obama proposed
– got $13,000 from Big Oil lobbyists for campaigns (above the table)
– asked for $197 million in earmarks, more, per capita, than any other state
– got $27 million in earmarks for Wasilla (pop: 6,700) using a lobbying firm tied to Jack abramoff
– supported “Bridge to Nowhere” pork, then turned against it and used the money for other projects
– 3 times McCain criticized earmarks from Alaskan Governor, Palin
– campaigned for Ted Stevens (7 felony indictments) before betraying him
– undeclared car wash business and one called “Rouge Cou” (Red Neck) found, and car wash ran afoul of the law
– Claims foreign policy experience in trip to Ireland, which was just a stop over at the airport
– Claims she visited the troops a year before Obama, but actually 1.5 years after Obama
– Alaska National Guard top leader complained to Palin about “crises” of “missions at risk” from lack of recruits
– Palin “commander in chief” experience consists of never issuing an order to the National Guard
– Conservative pundits, noonan and murphy, caught by mic left on, saying “it’s over” “not gonna work”, “political bullshit”
– Compendium of news reports of illegal, corrupt, unethical behavior in office and in campaigns
– Compendium of news reports: Palin’s history in Alaskan politics
– Fact check of Palin / McCain’s bullshit in speeches at the convention
– From another source, on bullshit and lies in Palin’s speech