Palin claims that all her appointees as governor ‘absolutely’ deserved the job.
Palin claims that all her appointees as governor ‘absolutely’ deserved the job.
Yesterday during an interview with a local Louisville, KY ABC affiliate, reporter Mark Herbert asked Sarah Palin about reports that she doled out political positions to friends, family and campaign donors. When Palin said the people she hired weren’t “cronies” or “politicos,” Herbert asked, “They weren’t politicos, they were just folks who deserved the job?” “Absolutely, yes,” Palin replied. Yet a recent Los Angeles Times examination of state records has shown otherwise:
– More than 100 appointments to state posts — nearly 1 in 4 — went to campaign contributors or their relatives, sometimes without apparent regard to qualifications.
– Alaska historians say some of Palin’s appointees were less qualified than those of her Republican and Democratic predecessors.
– [Tom] Lamal, a public school teacher in Fairbanks until he retired in 2006, was hired as a right-of-way agent despite reports of internal conflicts over whether he was qualified under state law.
The New York Times also reported last month that Palin appointed a high school classmate to a top position in the State Division of Agriculture who “cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.”
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Absolutely, yes, Ma Palin runs a clean gang.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:17 pmPalin pals around with incompetents.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:17 pmMaybe I should apply for a high-level position at the Department of Agriculture.
I like a good steak once in a while, with a baked potato on the side. That should be a good enough qualification.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:20 pm“They weren’t politicos, they were just folks who deserved the job?” “Absolutely, yes,” Palin replied. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Just saying . . .
October 30th, 2008 at 9:23 pmPalin claims that all her appointees as governor ‘absolutely’ deserved the job.»
– - Deserved….Gov. Palin, I do not think this word means what you think it means.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:24 pmI rented an apartment once.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:25 pmMaybe I could be Secretary of Housing and Urban Develpoement.
They’re qualified in the same way she’s qualified to be vice president of the United States. Not at all.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:30 pmHeck of a job there tommy. You somtimes have to kill a few polar bears to get a right of way through where it’s best for an oil company pipeline.
you betcha
October 30th, 2008 at 9:36 pmThe progression of the Pentacostal Pork-barrel Princess of Wasilla:
Golden girl/Hockey mom –> Unprepared –> Diva –> Rogue –> Whack job –> Political opportunist –> Coniving, dirty b*tch –> Pit bull
It has a certain poetic symmetry about it, doesn’t it?
Please pass the lipstick.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:45 pmNo surprise here. Being so unqualified herself she isn’t equipped to judge the qualifications of others.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:50 pmOMG it’s just Bush in drag!
October 30th, 2008 at 9:53 pmHey Sarah. Why don’t you go and Goldfarb yourself.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:57 pmWell, if it isn’t FEAR & SMEAR, it’s just outright lying. The republicans have nothing to offer America, because they have stolen most everything of worth, our county’s good name, they’ve emptied our Treasury, they have spilled the blood of our youth and they have mortgaged out kids future.
After what they’ve done to our country, repuglican don’t deserve the votes of “TRUE Americans”.
BTW Sarah, when is the “shotgun” wedding planned?
All Palin will be in 2009 is a grandmother.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:03 pmOf course they deserve their jobs. They did soemthing for her, and now she’s returning the favor. It’s called quid pro quo. http://straighttalkonmccain.blogspot.com/
October 30th, 2008 at 10:12 pmADN once quipped that most Palin’s appointees can be found in her high school year book. As an exception, dhe replaced Moneghan with an Evangelical who wasn’t properly vetted and had a sexual harassment matter pending.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:16 pmPalin is so similar to Bush its uncanny
October 30th, 2008 at 10:17 pmSarah got her jobs the same way so she doesn’t see a problem.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:27 pmIsn’t it amazing how they found someone just like Bush? The scary thing is that apparently a decent chunk of the party thinks she is the future of the GOP.
It must be really interesting inside the mind of a 23%-er.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:29 pmSarah Palin (a.k.a. Winky Palin)?
October 30th, 2008 at 10:37 pmGot cronyism?
October 30th, 2008 at 10:40 pmThanks Dr. Matt, now I’m going to have nightmares.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:43 pmQualifications? We don’t need no qualifications.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:41 pmIt’s amazing to us because we don’t hang around people like that. But it looks to me like the GOP is fairly busting at the seams with ‘em.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:44 pmI love cows! Gimme a job!
October 30th, 2008 at 11:48 pmtbone Says:
Isn’t it amazing how they found someone just like Bush? The scary thing is that apparently a decent chunk of the party thinks she is the future of the GOP.
It must be really interesting inside the mind of a 23%-er.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I hear it’s very dark in there. And very, very foggy, too. And there are strange noises.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:00 amThey do business a little different up there in Alaska. Her spokesperson defended her recouping expenses for time she stayed at her own residence by referencing really corrupt Alaskan officials – there is no comparison!
I just want this nightmare to end. It’s been like being a child on Christmas Eve and tomorrow never coming.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:06 amI learn something new everyday
Who knew bananas grew as far up as Alaska?
October 31st, 2008 at 12:14 amDoes Sarah Palin even know what a “crony” or a “politico” is?
October 31st, 2008 at 12:22 amSpeaking of bananas has anyone read Koeppel’s book Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World? I have heard good things.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:25 amSure she’s qualified – she can’t tell the truth
October 31st, 2008 at 1:01 amShe didn’t appoint any college classmates because, apparently, there weren’t any.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:09 amAnyone else notice that none of these fundamentalist ‘Christians’ ever follow the Ten Commandments?
And most of the time, they do not even know what they are.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:13 amSarah, I hear Jesus has returned. You’d better high-tail it out of here.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:16 amThis is off-topic, but since Palin is a climate change denier, it is still somewhat relevant:
Scientists think they have uncovered conclusive proof that human activity is responsible for rising temperatures in both polar regions.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:25 amResearch carried out at the Climatic Research Unit at the UK’s University of East Anglia (UEA) demonstrates for the first time that anthropogenic climate change is responsible for warming at the Arctic and Antarctic.
[...]
The Antarctic data is of particular interest given that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 notes that anthropogenic climate change had been detected in every continent except Antarctica.
Data pins polar warming blame on humans
too funny to let pass:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/10/wheres_charlton_heston_when_yo.php
fundies worshiping a golden bull.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:05 amBREAKING NEWS…
Tony Blair rats out Bush, and other criminals.
See report by Christopher Story, editor of International Currency Review:
http://worldreports.org/news/179_blair_has_rolled_over_to_avoid_arrest_and_jail
October 31st, 2008 at 2:09 amAlaska is a rogue state, headed by secessionist.
The WH is giving AK money willy-nilly. Alaska citizens don’t pay taxes so why are we giving them money?
moosey is a racist, delusional, scary and stupid as hell.
She filled her cabinet like all repugs do, with idiots, asskisser and lardbutts.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:53 amPoll after poll keep coming out decrying Palin as a disaster to the McCain campaign, the republican party and to humanity as a whole. They are all wrong. Yes, she is divisive and representative of everything that is wrong with politics in America, but that is exactly where her greatness lies. Palin may indeed bring change to Washington, but only if she is NOT elected.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:19 amCorruption, greed, gridlock all can come crumbling down, but only when the two party system changes. Palin can do that. The republican party has been hijacked in the last 2 decades by the religious conservatives. While this base has been solidifying, it has never gone so fringe with its national public figures to drive away so many moderate republicans. Palin represents the tipping point.
With a McCain/Palin loss and the already building momentum for Palin 2012, the Republican Party will begin to fracture. Many supporters who are now holding the company line and supporting the two of them will begin to stray from a party that left them. At the same time, the democratic party will not be a better option. These influential and powerful moderate republicans will have no option but to create a third political institution. This new party will embrace moderation and it will pull members from the democratic establishment as well.
When the dust settles, the political landscape will have 3 legitimate and substantial parties. The Palinites will have a religious base with figure heads like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee. It will be socially conservative, but will mirror the fiscal spending of the Bush years. It will push for social programs like welfare will be cut while initiatives to teach creationism in schools will be well funded.
The Repubrocrats will have a base of the fiscal conservative, but socially liberal Americans that left the two existing parties. It will be made up of the forgotten middle. The invisibles, the independents, the others. It will reduce spending on mandates and regulation and increase spending on social services and options for those in need.
The Democrats will remain mostly in tact. It will lose the middle to the more fiscally disciplined Repubrocrats while pushing for a vast spectrum of programs and initiatives. Government programs and intervention will still be the answer to the Democrat loyalists.
It will indeed be through Palin’s mavericky maverickness that change will come to Washington, and she is right that Obama cannot do it. Only her. And only by not electing her.
Nevar Says: #6
I went to the courthouse today. Now I’m qualified to be a judge!
October 31st, 2008 at 3:24 amCB_Brooklyn Says:
BREAKING NEWS…
Tony Blair rats out Bush,
Interesting reading…can’t wait to see if this is true.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:44 am#25 and #39–those were some damn funny pics!!!
October 31st, 2008 at 3:45 amFound one place Blinky is leading ;D
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_fe_st/odd_cat_box_vote;_ylt=AkUKHc366zllBlAr1StRKJrtiBIF
October 31st, 2008 at 3:53 amMain qualification for being a Repub: brain lesions.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:47 am“Palin claims that all her appointees as governor ‘absolutely’ deserved the job.”
October 31st, 2008 at 6:51 amJust like Brownie huh?!
From the CBS/NY Times poll:
All told, 59 percent of voters surveyed said that Ms. Palin was NOT PREPARED for the job, up 9 percentage points since the beginning of the month. Nearly a third of voters polled said that the vice-presidential selection would be a MAJOR FACTOR influencing their vote for president, and those voters broadly favored Senator Barack Obama.
In a possible indication that the choice of Ms. Palin has HURT Mr. McCain’s image, voters said that they had much more confidence in Mr. Obama to PICK QUALIFIED PEOPLE to serve in his administration than they did in Mr. McCain.
I think it is very Important for the future of our country, that Sen. Obama not just Win…but Win BIG.
To that End, I wish to aknowlege my Gratitude to Gov. Palin, for all that she has done in this Campaign.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:06 amRoket Says: Got cronyism?
Ya betchya!
October 31st, 2008 at 8:27 amI am from Louisville and Mark Hebert is a pretty good journalist.
It is sad that the only person to bring up Palin’s record in Alaska is a mid-market reporter.
It’s a travesty what the McCain/Palin campaign has done to the press.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:50 am1Watt Says:
“too funny to let pass:
http://scienceblogs.com/ pharyngula/ 2008/ 10/ wheres_charlton_heston_when_yo.php
fundies worshiping a golden bull.”
Proof there is no god.
If there was a god, that bull would have answered their prayers with a load of shit of biblical proportions. Those unfortunate enough to be at the wrong end of the bull would have been buried under tons of holy shit.
I’d pay to money to see that!
October 31st, 2008 at 11:44 amYes they deserve it, They paid for it. Don’t you think you should get what you paid for ?
October 31st, 2008 at 3:14 pm