Good thing Sarah Palin is a lifelong member of the NRA and a good shot.  She will need those skills to get her daughter’s baby daddy to tie the knot.  Levi Johnson (referred to as sex on skates ), had put on the MySpace page he did not want children, and described himself as a "fucking redneck".  TMZ wrote:

Who knew there were rednecks in Alaska?

Apparently there are, according to Levi Johnston, the guy who impregnated the daughter of GOP veep nominee Sarah Palin. He says so himself, on his MySpace page (which is now offline): "I’m a f***in’ redneck," he wrote. "I live to play hockey … I’ll kick ass." Somewhat more troubling for 17-year-old Bristol Palin is the following: "I don’t want kids." (Of course, what 18 year old really does?)

 The MySpace page has since been removed and Johnston’s family phone number has been disconnected.  Johnston is a varsity hockey player at Wasilla High School. 

The McCain camp failed to propertly vet this woman.  Turns out that the Alasaka Independence Party claims her as a previous member in the 90’s.  This from ABC news:

 
Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States.

And while McCain’s motto — as seen in a new TV ad — is "Country First," the AIP’s motto is the exact opposite — "Alaska First — Alaska Always."

Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, tells ABC News that Palin and her husband Todd were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time.

She was born in the Untied States, but is she loyal to the Republican Party? Can she be loyal to the United States?

Today on CNN reporter Campbell Brown asked McCain campaign spokesman, Tucker Bounds, to name one decision Palin has made as Commander in Chief of the Alaskan National Guard.  His first response was that Palin had the good fortune of being on the ticket with John McCain who has more experience than Obama.  Not satisfied with that answer, Brown asked again, adding that "you are not holding your VP pick to your own standards".  Bounds again did not have a satisfactory answer.

Along with Bounds on CNN was David Gergen, who actually empathized with Bounds on having to play that role as spokesman and answer questions like that one, but agreed with Brown that this kind of questions does need to be answered.  The Vice President is a heartbeat away from the ruling the free world, and if that person has never even been out of Alaska, how well can she lead.

See the interview here.

Today the McCain Camp announced that Sarah Palin’s 17-year old daughter, Bristol, is "about" 5 months pregnant.  Baby Trig, allegedly Sarah’s babygate son,  was born April 18, 2008 -  exactly 4 and 1/2 months ago.  If you believe the math (and the McCain Camp), Trig belongs to Sarah. If you believe the pictures circulating the Internet, and that Trig is Bristol’s child, Bristol may only be "about" 2 months pregnant.  Either way it will be a countdown to the birth of this baby to know for sure. 

Regardless of who’s child is who’s, you have to ask if this is the best McCain can do for a VP pick.  It has been barely 3 days and the scandal surrounding this outback Alaskan woman is growing.  Perhaps hurricane Gustav can provide a diversion for this scandal.

The soap opera lifestyle of Alaskan and vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, just seems to get better and better.  While Palin was the mayor of a town of 6,500, her sister Molly was married to a man named Wooten, a highway patrolman.  In 2006 Molly formally accused Wooten of threatening to kill Molly and Sarah’s father, drinking beer in his squad car, and tasering his 11 year old son. Walter Monegan, Alaska’s public safety director, suspended Wooten for 5 days.

After Sarah Palin is elected governor of Alaska, she becomes Monegan’s boss.  In July of 2008 she fires Monegan.  Monegan says it is for not firing Wooten. The excuse Palin gives is that Monegan was not recruiting enough, failed to address alcohol abuse among troopers, resulting in poor job performance by Monegan.  Monegan responded stating the two most recent trooper graduating classes had the highest number of recruits in years.

Palin appointed Chuck Kopp to replace Monegan.  Unbeknownst to Palin, Kopp had received a letter of reprimand addressing a sexual harassment charge.  After this was released, Kopp resigned and took a $10,000 severance check.  Monegan received no severence payment. 

Since the behavior of Wooten took place before Palin was governor, and the firing of Monegan took place after Palin was governor, the Alaska legislature voted 12-0 in July of 2008 to hire an independent investigator to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal.  

More to come as the investigation continues. 

According to this source and this source, Sarah Palin’s 5th child is not actually her’s, but belongs to her 16 year-old daughter, Bristol.   In March of 2008 Sarah Palin announced she was 7 months pregnant.  There have been no pictures found of Sarah that show she is obviously pregnant.  There have been pictures of Bristol that show she may be carrying a child. 

When Sarah Palin supposedly went into labor, she took an 8 hour flight from Texas to Alaska to give birth (something not recommended for very pregnant women).  Also there are reports that daughter Bristol was taken out of school for nearly 5 months, during what was her last trimester of pregnancy.  The excuse given was that Bristol had a case of mono.

What else will Sarah Palin cover up?  Oh yes, TrooperGate. 

McCain made a wild last-minute decision last week, naming Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, as his vice presidential running mate.  The gun-toting, pro-lifer, nymph, Palin has been the governor of Alaska for 20 months, previously Mayor of a Wasilla, AK, population 8,500.

Randy Sheunemann, McCain’s Chief Foreign Policy Advisor, was recently a foreign lobbyist for countries including Georgia .  According to the Associated Press:

April 17, a month and a half after Scheunemann stopped working for Georgia, his partner signed a $200,000 agreement with the Georgian government. The deal added to an arrangement that brought in more than $800,000 to the two-man firm from 2004 to mid-2007. For the duration of the campaign, Scheunemann is taking a leave of absence from the firm.

Today we are all Georgians.

 

Is this coming from the head or the pocketbook?  That is the questions that lingers among all Republicans.  The latter seems to prevail. 

John McCain gave a speech Monday challenging Russia about the crisis in Georgia in which he plagiarized several items from the Wikipedia entry on Georgia.  Sadly, the McCain speech writers for the potential leader of the free world can’t think of anything to say about Georgia unless they Googles it.  McCain has admitted he can’t google.  This shows he doesn’t know anything unless his staff tells him (Sound familiar?). 

An internal memo from the McCain camp was released to rebut the accusations, but it does nothing more than seal the deal. 

On top of this he cannot correctly pronounce the name of the president of Georgia.  His name is Mikhail Saakashvili, not Sashkavili.  On Iraqi foreign policy, McCain does not know the difference between the Sunnis and Shiites.  Perhaps if he were reading Wikipedia about Czechoslovakia a few months ago, he wouldn’t look so obtuse today.

 The only country John McCain is fit to lead is Czechoslovakia.

In another brief moment of clarity, Bush cited the reason, in his mind anywoay, for the mortgage debacle.  He blames Wall Street. The NYTimes reports:

 “Wall Street got drunk — that’s one reason I asked you to turn off your TV cameras,” the president said at the fund-raiser, held at a private home on Friday to benefit Pete Olson, the Republican who is challenging Representative Nick Lampson. “It got drunk, and now it’s got a hangover. The question is, How long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments?”

 Bush was at a political fundraiser for held at a private home on Friday to benefit Pete Olson, the Republican who is challenging Representative Nick Lampson.  The video tape "surfaced" from a amature video, then onto the local station in Houston (an ABC affiliate).  BBC World news broadcast it tonight, thus reinforcing the redneck nature of our current leadership.