There’s been an enormous amount of speculation from all corners as the the motivation behind Sarah Palin’s resignation as Governor of Alaska. The speculation has covered the full spectrum from the leftist talking points that she can’t take political heat to her supporters declaring that she’s preparing for national office. Her detractors have pretty much stayed on message, repeating over and over again that she’s weak, can’t take the heat and is deserting her post. However today a new twist has been revealed via Obama propagandist. The new twist is that the resignation came just before a Sarah Palin federal indictment on embezzlement charges.
Can it be true? The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Max Blumenthal at The Daily Beast, and Andrea Mitchell at MSNBC have all come out with the same story at approximately the same time. One would almost think it had been sent out in a memo to the Obama media to disperse as truth for it to have been so well coordinated. I guess the ’she can’t take the heat’ argument wasn’t damning enough.
I’m sure that it goes without saying that they all cite ‘unnamed sources close to Palin’. How convenient.
The Huffington Post writer, Shannyn Moore, is calling this the ‘iceberg scandal’. It has to do with the $12.5 million sports complex built while Palin was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. The accusation is that the Palin’s inflated the cost of the complex in order to use building materials from the construction of the complex to build their own home. The proof, according to her accusers, is that both buildings have the same windows, the same wood and the same products.
Palin used Spenard Building Supplies to build the sports complex. It is assumed, though there is no proof, that she also used them to build her own home. Todd Palin had stated during the presidential campaign that he had built the house himself with the help of some contractor friends. Considering that Spenard is the largest building supply company in Alaska, it doesn’t seem out of the realm of reason that they would have worked on both structures. Its also not out of the realm of reason that a person who oversaw the building of a multi-million dollar sports complex would end up being friends with and developing a level of trust with the builders and would then hire them to help with building her own home. It happens all the time.
According to reports, federal investigators have been looking into this since October 2008. Its also being reported that charges of public corruption and embezzlement are imminent, thus explaining her resignation.
Should these rumors (because that’s all they are at this point, no one reporting it has given any proof) prove to be true, then she will be ruined politically. She’s a Republican and Republican’s don’t tolerate bad behavior on the part of their peers. She could join the democratic party and the likes of Barney Frank, William Jefferson, Ted Kennedy and any number of other politicians whose careers were only enhanced by scandals.
If she IS indicted and the rumors are not true, then she has to defend herself against more vicious rumors and legal game playing. In which case, she was right to resign as Governor. The expense and time in defending against these types of situations, especially a federal indictment, would leave her little time to do her job.
We can see what happens to anyone with the guts to defy what Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann calls ‘Obama’s Gangster Government’. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has experienced it. Although he embarrassingly gave them plenty of ammunition, knowing that they were looking for something on him. Many other Conservatives have been targeted, certainly Palin has been. They have dug into every nook and cranny of her life and the lives of anyone remotely associated with her. Now this.
So the questions are these: Are the Left’s news outlets putting out rumors, knowing they’ll become fact if repeated often enough, regardless of whether this alleged Sarah Palin federal indictment every comes to fruition? Is she guilty and will there be Palin embezzlement charges? If they are not true, and charges are brought against her with no more proof than what is being reported, will the public see through that and turn on the accusers rather than the accused?
Frankly, the public is getting increasingly angry watching the destruction that is being perpetrated on anyone who crosses Obama’s people (remember Joe the Plumber who had every federal and state record in his life paraded in the media for the world to see because he asked Obama a question about Socialism?). If these kinds of Third World despot politics continue, there will be a backlash.
Oh, by the way, who paid for the Obama’s million dollar Chicago mansion? Has anyone seen his birth certificate yet? What about his college transcripts?









July 4th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Beth Shaw said: “She’s a Republican and Republican’s don’t tolerate bad behavior on the part of their peers.”
Except for larry craig, ronald reagan, g gordon liddy, sen. david vitter, tom delay, sanford, ensign, bush, cheney, et al.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Beth Shaw is a hypocrite. She said:
“Are the Left’s news outlets putting out rumors, knowing they’ll become fact if repeated often enough, regardless of whether this alleged Sarah Palin federal indictment every comes to fruition?”
Then she said:
“Oh, by the way, who paid for the Obama’s million dollar Chicago mansion? Has anyone seen his birth certificate yet? What about his college transcripts?”
So Beth Shaw is repeating rumors just like she claims others are doing, which makes her a hypocrite.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Boy, are you an idiot.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Beth Shaw, I mean.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Except for larry craig, ronald reagan, g gordon liddy, sen. david vitter, tom delay, sanford, ensign, bush, cheney, et al.
altfreq - please name one of those who stayed in office after having been proved to have betrayed the public trust or had criminal charges brought against them? You name ppl in your list that only your fantasies are that they were bad actors. Just because the left doesn’t like someone doesn’t make them a criminal. However, there ARE democrats currently in office who have been in real scandals. And, of course, there’s the former KKK Grand poopba, Robert Byrd, hailed as a great elder statesman by the democratic party. Talk about hypocrites.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:22 am
I enjoyed reading your article, but anytime one decides to use Michelle Bachmann as a reference, Credibitity is lost.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I didn’t know about this supposed federal indictment of Palin ’til I read it here. And not to be too, you know, logical or anything, but if so many bona fide news outlets really do have the same news story it’s possible — I mean, hey, this is something to consider — the reason they’re all reporting it is because it’s … the news?
July 4th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Palin’s move puts yet more pressure on Obama to finally get some results, as the soaring rhetoric isn’t hypnotizing the plebes like it used to. This week Helen Thomas, Colin Powell, and Warren Buffet all turned on him. Polls are looking droopy for The One lately.
Obama’s porkulus program is a train wreck, all it’s done is bump interest rates and tank the dollar. We are being laughed at by bad guys like Tehran, Pyongyang, and Al Qaida who amazingly turned-down Barack’s friend-requests.
Palin could trounce him in 2012, when Americans would vote for the Gipper-in-Heels in droves- while begging for lower taxes, free enterpise, a defense posture with some backbone… an end to the radical, anti-American nightmare we’ve got now.
Go get ‘em Sarah-
July 4th, 2009 at 10:31 am
It is people like the author of this article that are eroding the foundations of this country. Beth Shaw, do your kids know you have no ethics? Is that the same way you will have them grow up?
July 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Lol - do you consider HuffPo, the KosKids, etc ‘bona fide news outlets’? Hey - who knew.
Do you understand the point though Lol? I mean, besides your efforts to spin it in your direction?
July 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
TJ - sorry you don’t like Bachmann, but apparently the people of Minnesota do … but then they just elected Al Franken as Senator so that doesn’t say much for them. Your argument speaks to Lol’s argument citing left wing rumor mills as ‘bona fide news outlets’. At least Bachmann is a bona fide Congressman.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Matthew Arkin - is that the best you can do, call names? That’s the tactic of someone who doesn’t have an argument.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:48 am
There are corrupt folks on both sides of the aisle. I’m sorry, there just seems to be too many scandals with her name on it. Sure she may believe in the right things, but as far as I’m concerned she has earned being knocked off the pedestal. Let’s keep looking for the right person for 2012.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:52 am
“Lol - do you consider HuffPo, the KosKids, etc ‘bona fide news outlets’? Hey - who knew.”
Apparently they’re bone-fide enough that you feel you have to respond to them.
Also, #6 ‘TJ’ read my thoughts about your referencing Michele (that’s one ‘L’, Beth) Bachmann, as if anything that **** says has any credibility.
Speaking of the MN idiot, as I posted on another blog after Michele’s comments about the census, though… I’d buy a ticket to watch Michele and Sarah P slug it out in nude Jell-O wrestling.
Are there any promoters in da house?
July 4th, 2009 at 10:53 am
You were holding my interest until your last paragraph. College transcripts? Who cares. Birth Certificate? Please, that story’s been debunked so many times, it’s just plain old. You’ve lost credibility just by mentioning it.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:58 am
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July 4th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Poor little Repugs, Beth and Sarah that is. The mind of the typical Repuglicon never ceases to amaze me. They can find avenues of justification for whatever their kind do, yet impugns the motives of their political opponents. Take the recent flak over the Letterman joke, and “lipstick on a pig” furor during the last campaign. Yet when something as plain as day, like this resignation, arises they try to paper over the all too visible cracks. It is precisely this type of enabling of the cracker Bush that abetted him and his oil cronies in their invasion of Iraq and the theft of that country’s resources. It looks like Palin has some legal sword hanging over her, and it’s possible that the deal is: resign and remove yourself from the scene or face possible prosecution. This is just another of the many sanctimonious Repugs whose words and deeds diverge in a very public way.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:23 am
“Michelle Bachman?”
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
How can any “legit” person mention Bachman? No offense, article is very poorly written with lots of BS. Palin is toast and the world is better for it.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:29 am
The sexism in these comments is phenomenal. Can you imagine if someone on the right called a democrat woman a ****! The outrage would be palpable. Or to suggest two prominent democratic women slug it out in nude Jell-o wrestling? Maybe Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright - okay, no one would want to see that - but you get my point.
You all should be ashamed of yourselves for your sexist remarks and complete lack of respect for women!
July 4th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Emilio - wow. You are really projecting there. Sorry, you probably don’t know what that means - look it up and then get back to me. If you don’t understand the definition of projection (from a psychological standpoint), then I’ll try to explain it to you.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:37 am
I see the leftists are making the rounds to the news outlets to discredit anything and everything Sarah Palin. You all have already accepted the rumors and innuendos of leftist blogs as fact. You have convicted with nothing more than rumors put out there from ‘unnamed sources’. Even if there’s not an indictment, you’re already spinning it so that there would have been one if she hadn’t resigned.
Do any of you actually make the slightest attempt to think for yourselves or do you just parrot what you’re told to say.
Hltler said that repeating a lie often and loudly makes it fact - that’s part of how he got control of Germany. Think about what you are doing people. This isn’t a game - its real life and there’s a lot at stake.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:51 am
I think she’s setting pretty good, lives in Alaska, a long haul for thugs from the city without transportation. Plenty of food, an abundance of fish and wild game, so when the grocery stores are looted and closed, her family will not go hungry. Alaska is sparsley populated and has much remote territory, infectious diseases will not have the impact on life as big cities. The main reason we have such poor leadership in this country now is why would any right minded individual put themselves through all the bullshit for politics, a true bloodsport. She can sit on her front porch with a shotgun, and the first nosey SOB reporter that comes along can get an a$$ full of buckshot.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Beth, you’re chastising people for speculating, but you’d have to admit that this is an extremely odd move by the governor. If she’s doing this to focus on the national spotlight, it’s very risky. She will be labeled a quitter, and not just by the left. She can’t be doing this for Alaska. That wouldn’t make sense. So what’s left? Personal reasons or a pending scandal.
July 4th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
“The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Max Blumenthal at The Daily Beast, and Andrea Mitchell at MSNBC have all come out with the same story at approximately the same time. One would almost think it had been sent out in a memo to the Obama media to disperse as truth for it to have been so well coordinated.”
What is this, 1950?? Or have you forgotten the power of the internet you yourself are using? You know, that “series of tubes….” Complaints like this show your readers nothing but your own paranoia, which is confirmed by your closing rant.
July 4th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
She said that she quit so she wouldn’t waste any more taxpayer’s money.