McCain, Culvahouse and the Iran/Contra Gang - The Man Who Vetted Palin

[Emillereid]

By PAM MARTENS

The bold type headlines on newsstands last week with their titillating pronouncements of “dark secrets,” “scandal” and “lies,” have missed the real story by 23 years. And the insatiable pondering of how a proper vetting process of VP hopeful Sarah Palin could have overlooked an animal rights train wreck, an ongoing ethics investigation, a coziness with a secessionist group, and a potential foray into censoring library books in small town America also misses the mark.

The vetting process worked exactly as it was supposed to work: it delivered a Republican candidate with a heaping plate of character flaws and serial judgment lapses who thus wouldn’t wince at reading fiction from a TelePrompTer to 37 million Americans. (What’s the difference between George W. Bush and Sarah Palin? Lipstick.)

The real dark secret is that our country has been held hostage to this democracy-gutting strategy since the Reagan administration allowed money launderers, gun runners and their criminal defense lawyers to seize power in what is still inadequately called Iran-Contra. (Had much of the record not been classified or shredded, the public would have seen a personal profiteering operation as well as an illicit arms network involving the U.S., Israel, Iran and Central America. And until the complete record is expunged and all the players are dead, it matters greatly to the Iran-Contra gang who runs the country and has access to what’s left of that classified material.)

The man assigned to vet Sarah Palin is Arthur B. Culvahouse, currently Chairman of the giant corporate law firm, O’Melveny & Myers LLP. Could a man with the following credentials fail to sleuth out Palin’s character issues when most are readily available in newspaper and internet archives and the public domain? Mr. Culvahouse was a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Nuclear Failsafe and Risk Reduction; the Counterintelligence Advisory Panel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1989-1990); the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) and the President's Intelligence Oversight Board.

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I'm think this writer is on to something - they didn't give a damn about all of Failin's flaws - just needed her stupidity!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Yup. n/t

[Emillereid]

2. I wonder too, if they sought a woman with so many flaws so they could use her

as a distraction while playing to poor Sarah Palin - your 'just like you everwoman' that the liberal media are picking on. She certainly has been able to change the campaign into an ongoing soap opera - yes, that is probably her real purpose.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. It took me a couple of days to figure it out, but I'm sure that those are

the real reasons behind this walking talking lipstick wearing disaster.

[Emillereid]

4. Yep, and we're falling for it. I can now see why Obama and Biden are

holding their tongues regarding Failin and trying to stick to the issues.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. It's a hard balancing act . On the one hand What'sHerName

is running around yapping trying to get us to bite. If she's totally ignored i guess the thinking goes that she scores points w/ her attacks. On the other hand one can run the risk of giving that zero more credibility than she deserves which is also bad.

[blogslut]

5. K&R

n/t

[crickets]

6. K&R