Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Alaska'a Beauty Queen Veep

ALASKA’S BEAUTY QUEEN VEEP

Count on one thing from Beauty Queens: they have often gotten ahead through their looks. The world owes them something. They expected to be catered to and they are.

As Mayor of Wasilla, (population 6,715) she fired the Police Chief and Library Director for not supporting her in her 1996 race for Mayor. She was nearly recalled.

At her first press conference she bragged on rejecting the Bridge to Nowhere funding.. Actually, the record shows that she sought the same federal funding a number of times. While presenting herself as a fiscal conservation, did McCain know as mayor she went to Washington to ask for earmarks?

She is being investigated by a bipartisan committee for abuse of power as Governor, firing the Public Safety Commissioner when he wouldn't fire her ex-brother-in-law, lied about pressuring the guy to do so, and then showed keen judgment by replacing him with someone who had to resign in two weeks because of sexual harassment problems.

Yes, she did ask her Attorney General to open an independent investigation, but the legislature had already started investigating her on ethics charges, still to be completed.

Yes, she did cut property taxes as Mayor which she boasted about at her first press conference, but she also raised the sales tax.

On the basis of a single 15 minute interview with her, McCain said he felt like he had a “soul-mate.” Yes, Bush looks into the eyes of Putin and feels reassured.

“Country First” McCain has put this lightweight a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Conservatives love her. He has sold his soul for political expediency. Talk about cynical calculation? What about judgment worthy of our highest office?

Bernard Baute
Lexington, KY

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