AP shows why it is a mistake to ask someone to run for vice president with vetting. The provide examples which show that Palin was no maverick:
Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows.
When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception – and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.
She gladly accepted gifts from merchants: A free “awesome facial” she raved about in a thank-you note to a spa. The “absolutely gorgeous flowers” she received from a welding supply store. Even fresh salmon to take home.
She also stepped in to help friends or neighbors with City Hall dealings. She asked the City Council to add a friend to the list of speakers at a 2002 meeting – and then the friend got up and asked them to give his radio station advertising business…Some of her first actions after being elected mayor in 1996 raised possible ethical red flags: She cast the tie-breaking vote to propose a tax exemption on aircraft when her father-in-law owned one, and backed the city’s repeal of all taxes a year later on planes, snow machines and other personal property. She also asked the council to consider looser rules for snow machine races. Palin and her husband, Todd, a champion racer, co-owned a snow machine store at the time…
Two months before Palin’s tenure as mayor ended in 2002, she asked city planning officials to forgive zoning violations so she could sell her house. Palin had a buyer, but he wouldn’t close the deal unless she persuaded the city to waive the violations with a code variance…
It is obvious you have never lived in a small town. It is standard practice for citizens to request and have granted rezoning of property. You are carping about a rezoning, that is quite routine in small towns, flowers and salmon? Watch the following video clear to the end and then talk about ethical accountability.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EyKiOE78yU
Actually I live in a small town. What other things which you find “obvious” are also incorrect?
Interesting how you manage to rationalize an investigation which shows abuses of power on Palin’s part while believing the video you link to which is full of ridiculous right wing talking points. I imagine you also believe it is “obvious” that this video is at all honest.
This disconnect from reality on the part of Republicans is part of the reason why McCain is now in danger of a landslide loss and even further losses in Congress. In a way that is a shame. I prefer mixed government, or at least a minority party which has enough votes to hold the majority accountable, but now we are faced with a situation where the Republicans have become too out of touch with reality to trust with any power.