Amen!

I was watching CNN last night,and I see that Govenor Palin has 500K in legal fees. She's going to be in trouble for a long time. But does this hurt her chances for the presidency in 2012?

I was suprised to hear that Alaska doesn't have legal counsel on staff to protect its officials from complaints and suits. Having worked closely with a state government agency, I can't imagine NOT having assigned legal counsel...government officials and bodies get an unbelievable amount of garbage thrown at them.

So,in other words..she's in serious trouble without legal counsel?

Yep, apparently in Alaska you can't benefit in any way from your office that a regular citizen couldn't and they take it to lengths that most states don't, apparently from what I was reading last night.

So although everyone paying into that fund was knowingly and voluntarily contributing to it for it to be used exactly as Palin used it, in Alaska, since it was probably people's interest in her as the Gov. that caused them to contribute, it's illegal.

I'm kind of over Palin as well, but it continues to bother me that I think this is being spun as her misappropriating public funds for illegal personal use, rather than a really tight application of Alaskan law. Personally, I'd like to see more public officials collect private, voluntary donations to pay for random crappy expenses they generate, as long as the fund was open, publicly documented and avoided quid pro quo.

Right, so she probably only faced these charges because she was governor, but she's barred from raising funds as governor to pay them off. It seems kind of crappy, and I think the investigator actually recommend the legislature use public funds to pay off the debt.

But when a politician gets into some kind of trouble...there is always some kind of cover-up or conspiracy. What's wrong with the truth these days?

What cover up or conspiracy do you see here with Palin?

I know it's not exactly the same, but I know that the Clintons pushed on with their legal battles, even though they couldn't afford to pay the fees back in 1998, because they would make more than enough in the book and speaking circuits after he was out of office. Although Sarah Palin wouldn't make nearly as much as HRC and Bill can as writers and speakers, perhaps she figured that the inevitable book deal and limited speaking engagements could pay for the lawyers?

Wait until she's officially out of office....whomever is still in her camp will say anything to prove she's innocent of the charges against her.

What? This doesn't make any sense - what has "her camp" said?

What's the cover-up? It appears the trust was constructed in plain sight.

In politics,things aren't always what they seem. But,in regard to her chances for the presidency or vice-presidency in 2012...she doesn't stand a chance, she shouldn't even waste her time.

If there is anything good and holy in this world, in the event that Palin runs for the Presidency, she will never poll higher than 15% at any time. She is completely unqualified. She ran the least populated, most subsidized state in the country and couldn't even get that right.

Besides being a MILF, what are her qualifications?

So you were addressing the possibility of future behavior?

It just seemed weird because this issue didn't seem to be about cover-ups and conspiracy theories.

You know that she's polling higher than that right now in some polls, right? http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ...ma_48_palin_42

Frankly, I'm kind of amazed by those result post-resignation, but whatever.