Smart as a fruitfly?

Sarah Does Science: What a busy day for Sarah Palin. Besides giving a deposition on her role in troopergate (see: ethics, abuse of power), and dropping a hockey puck in St. Louis, she also managed to screw up her first policy speech. Via Think Progress:

MORE 10/27/08: Sarah Palin's latest swat at science
Fruit fly research is helping a booming new food industry in America -- vice presidential candidate is unaware of it.

Sarah Palin, the mother of all VP debate and Triggy Bear

What has happened in the world of hockey moms?

I am baffled and bamboozled by the Palin's mixed message express... yes, she is cute and sexy, that's it. She's spawned a fertile lively family, but who can seriously get beyond her mothering stories, especially her special needs pregnancy ....
judgement? [Sarah is Trigs birth mother or grandmother?] She runs from answering most questions and John McCain leaves Vice Presidential vetting up to The National Enquirer. I agree with Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who is not a Dr.! Sarah Palin is the worst of role models [the fake Dr. Laura would know because she is also the worst of role models]. The fake Dr. Laura doesn't care that much about role modeling because she will vote for the bad role model mother ticket.

"I will still vote for Senator McCain" Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
warmonger and charlatan

"since Sarah Palin was selected for the vice-presidential nomination, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has given more press conferences than she has."

Triggy Bear in Mercede [Sadie] Johnston's MySpace. May 2008. Triggy Bear, Levi Johnston [brother], Bristol and Sarah Palin.
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The Mommy Wars rage on...

Sarah Palin: CBS 11 doing a live interview as the legislative session comes to an end.

the baby body....

"Proof" uploaded August 31, 2008. Crazy date problems.

Sarah Palin announced her pregnancy on March 6, 2008. Trig Van Palin was born April 18, 2006.
John McCain announced her VP candidacy August 29, 2008

Anchorage Daily News March 14, 2008
Alaska governor Sarah Palin March 14, 2008

"Sarah Palin hid her pregnancy until the seventh month because she did not want it to interfere with the business of being Governor. She gave a speech about Alaska oil drilling as her amniotic fluid was leaking out. She gave birth one month early, to a Special Needs child, and returned to work three days later."

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"No wonder her supposedly abstaining teenage daugther Bristol got pregnant, there are no parents in the house to truly guide her."

VIDEO: Hike with "pregnant" Governor Sarah Palin [about 4 min in]

"Why does this interview dated April 5, 2008 show her NOT PREGNANT,
walking in the snow in Alaska?"

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Palin embraces another tried and true political tactic. The coverup

What drove McCain over the edge?

Here it is…what we in Alaska call “TrooperGate”....
Lovely Downtown Wasilla, Alaska

"Sarah Palin’s sister Molly married a guy named Mike Wooten who is an Alaska State Trooper. Mike and Molly had a rocky marriage. When the marriage broke up, there was a bitter custody fight that is still ongoing. During the custody investigation, all sorts of things were brought up about Wooten including the fact that he had illegally shot a moose (yes folks this is Alaska), driven drunk, and used a taser (on the test setting, he reminds us) on his 11-year old stepson, who supposedly had asked to see what it felt like. While Wooten has turned out to be a less than stellar figure, the fact that Palin’s father accompanied him on the infamous moose hunt, and that many of the dozens of charges brought up by the Palin family happened long before they were ever reported smacked of desperate custody fight. Wooten’s story is that he was basically stalked by the family.

After all this, Wooten was investigated and disciplined on two counts and allowed to kept his position with the troopers. Enter Walt Monegan, Palin’s appointed new chief of the Department of Public Safety and head of the troopers. Monegan was beloved by the troopers, did a bang-up job with minimal funding and suddenly got axed. Palin was out of town and Monegan got “offered another job” (aka fired) with no explanation to Alaskans. Pressure was put on the governor to give details, because rumors started to swirl around the fact that the highly respected Monegan was fired because he refused to fire the aforementioned Mike Wooten. Palin vehemently denied ever talking to Monegan or pressuring Monegan in any way to fire Wooten, or that anyone on her staff did. Over the weeks it has come out that not only was pressure applied, there were literally dozens of conversations in which pressure was applied to fire him. Monegan has testified to this fact, spurring an ongoing investigation by the Alaska state legislature. But, before this investigation got underway, Palin sent the Alaska State Attorney General out to do some investigative work of his own so she could find out in advance what the real investigation was going to find. (No, I’m not making this up). The AG interviewed several people, unbeknownst to the actual appointed investigator or the Legislature! Palin’s investigation of herself uncovered a recorded phone call retained by the Alaska State Troopers from Frank Bailey, a Palin underling, putting pressure on a trooper about the Wooten non-firing. Todd Palin (governor’s husband) even talked to Monegan himself in Palin’s office while she was away. Bailey is now on paid administrative leave.

As if this weren’t enough, Monegan’s appointed replacement Chuck Kopp, turns out to have been the center of his own little scandal. He received a letter of reprimand and was reassigned after sexual harrassment allegations by a former coworker who didn’t like all the unwanted kissing and hugging in the office. Was he vetted? Obviously not. When he was questioned about all this, his comment was that no one had asked him and he thought they all knew. Kopp, defiant, still claimed to have done nothing wrong and said to the press that there was no way he was stepping down from his new position. Twenty four hours later, he stepped down. Later it was uncovered that he received a $10,000 severance package for his two weeks on the job from Palin. Monegan got nothing.
After extensive news coverage about all this nasty behind-the-scenes scandal, which is definitely NOT squeaky clean, Palin’s approval ratings fell to 67%, still high, but a far cry from the 90% number that’s being thrown around so glibly by the Republicans today. Alaskans are quickly becoming disillusioned once again."