Sarah Palin Scandals

For my first political blog I have chosen to write about the republican candidate for vice president, Sarah Palin. I chose to write about her because there is quite a lot of controversy that seems to follow her, "lipstick on a pig", her teenage daughter’s pregnancy and so on. It would have seemed to be a wise choice for McCain to choose a woman as his running mate, after Hilary lost for the democratic candidacy and such. McCain did choose a woman, many people however, argue that Sarah Palin is completely wrong for the job. She seems to be surrounded by controversy and scandal. In fact very shortly after she was announced to be McCain's running mate a controversy there were several reports of a scandal involving the Alaskan public safety department.
Wonkette, the blog I am currently following, sums up the affair . Basically Palin and her husband pressured the head of the public safety department to fire a state trooper named Mike Wooten, Palin’s former brother in law. Wooten has been involved in a custody battle with Palin’s sister for some time. When the head of the department refused they fired him and replaced him with someone who quit two months later. Wonkette seems to be no fan of Palin though. Just about every entry about her is cast in a not-so-flattering light. What the blog does not tell us is what Mike Wooten may have done, Palin must have had some semi valid reason for trying to get him fired right? There seems to be a bunch of odd things he is being accused of. He confesses to first to killing a moose illegally then to tasering his 11 year old. Apparently though, the taser was on the lowest setting and the child asked to be tasered, so It was more of Wooten being an idiot rather than Wooten being abusive. The moose, well, it's Alaska after all... An allegation he denies however, is that of a drinking while driving charge. So are these things enough for Palin to want to fire him so badly? Maybe so in a perfect world but in reality, if he had no connection to the Palin family there probably would have been no problem. In that case then, it becomes fairly obvious that Palin was completely abusing her power as governor.
This affair, put into the grand scheme of things, just adds to so many people’s apprehensions towards Palin. It’s not as though no other politician abuses their power, but Palin is very much under a microscope right now and so much else seems to be surrounding her. I have yet to read anything in real support of Palin, coincidentally I also have yet to read anything in republican support. To me Palin just seems to be a joke. Everything I read about her makes her look like a twit, not exactly the woman vice president women in America were looking for. In fact it seems a lot of women hate her. Mcain may have gained some support from lost Hilary voters, he certainly hasn't gained mine. It's dissapointing that Palin could be the first female vice president, almost embarrassing. Too bad McCain couldn't have chosen someone with some intellect.

Wonkette blog entry link - http://wonkette.com/402360/did-john-mccain-know-that-sarah-palin-is-in-the-middle-of-a-scandal#more-402360
Griffin, Drew, and Scott Bronstein. "Trooper in Palin probe tells his side." CNN Politics. 13 Sept. 2008
*for some reason I can't get the website for CNN to come up in my citation.