she's going to be 'Failin' Palin' for sure:
Palin can’t seem to admit she erred
DAN FAGAN
Last Modified: August 17th, 2008 03:20 AM
Gov. Palin is revealing her ugly side during this, her toughest political battle to date. As she continues to dig a deeper hole for herself day by day in the so-called Troopergate scandal, the more desperate she appears. Sarah Palin is not handling the pressure well.
On Thursday Gov. Palin kept digging at Walt Monegan for lying for saying he felt pressured by her administration to fire her former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten.
If Monegan felt pressured to ax the trooper, he would have said so, she said. “I’m sure Monegan would have come to me and said, ‘Call off the dogs, I’m feeling pressure,’ ” Palin said.
Translation: If Walt didn’t like my husband and several members of my administration hounding him relentlessly about firing my ex-brother-in-law, he should have said something. What was he worried about? Was he afraid if he didn’t fire Wooten, I would fire him? What a crazy idea that is.
The governor should really just stop talking when it comes to Troopergate.
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Palin contradicted Monegan when asked by Channel 2’s Jason Moore if she or anyone in her administration pressured the commissioner to fire Wooten. “No, no, absolutely not. No — I’ve never,” she said.
But then last week she changed her story, admitting members of her administration and/or Todd placed at least two dozen calls regarding Wooten, one of them caught on tape.
You would have thought at the press conference vindicating Monegan she would have publicly apologized to him. But instead she continues to criticize him.
And then, just when you thought she couldn’t dig herself in any deeper, she said this about Alaska state troopers who felt pressured by her never-ending campaign to fire her ex-brother-in-law.
“If that’s pressure, then (after) years in law enforcement, how do they do their job if that’s perceived as pressure?”
Yeah, that’s a good idea. Portray the brave men and women of the Alaska State Troopers as weak because they are afraid of losing their jobs and their ability to feed their families. What’s wrong with these guys?
The governor seems to be saying: Hey, troopers who felt pressured, man up, help me break the state’s personnel rules and stop your bellyaching.
Remember all the complaints the Palin family filed against Wooten have been investigated and punishment was rendered. The governor might not have liked the outcome, but it was taken before Monegan was commissioner. Demanding further action of Monegan is a clear violation of the state’s personnel rules and something Monegan simply could not do.
But there is something in Sarah Palin’s personality that prohibits her from saying, “I screwed up.” She seems to obsess on something and will do almost anything to get her way.
The sad part of it is if she would at any point just come clean, Alaskans would forgive her. They love her.
But nobody likes someone who cannot admit when they are wrong.
Sarah Palin is a classic example of that.
From the tricityherald.com
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