Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens

I disagree with your assertion that Ted Stevens is Trig's real father.

might Sarah Palin decide to appoint ... Sarah Palin?

I hate to say it, but at least if she spent four years in the Senate, she'd emerge significantly less clueless. And would she be any worse than Ted Stevens was?

Why would you accuse Ted Stevens of being the real father of Trig?

Very interesting political calculus going on here. I think Sarah waits until the election results before saying anything else. If convicted felon Ted Stevens (has a nice ring to it) wins the election, aside from becoming the James Michael Curley of Alaska and the GOP, she'll have some interesting choices to make that could only benefit her. Putting Palin first.

Ot excuse my nom de plume, but using my old name puts me into "M" land on each and every post. A from MA.

Palin is asking him to resign - apparently she said so on CNBC this morning.
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I'm not surprised. I agreed with the person who wrote to Jonathan Martin yesterday: http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/Palin_doesnt_call_on_Stevens_to_step_down.html?showall "I'm confident Senator Stevens will do what's right for the people of Alaska," is a pretty broad hint.

" might Sarah Palin decide to appoint ... Sarah Palin?"

Worked great for Wendell Anderson in Minnesota.

If Palin is looking for work after the election we need a dog catcher in my town.

PNNTO - If she did, she'd probably need to go shopping for some new threads. Those DC cocktail parties don'tcha know.

rose - I bet she was instructed to say that, since McCain did. It's to McCain's advantage not to leave Sarah another appealing avenue to power.
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Karen - the adn.com article doesn't seem to address the issue of what happens if Begich wins. Presumably there would be no special election then, since that would void this election.
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So,I wonder if this is a Republican ploy to get Steven elected so that he can resign so the Republicans can still control the seat. There are a lot of people who might not choose to vote for Stevens to stay in office, but might vote for him if it looks like there's a path to get another Republican instead of getting Begich.

KT - I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I hope you'll read the comments on the last couple of threads, emanating from Joe's posts. I think you're the most likely to actually let us know eventually what's going on with Swampland, and we need to know - eventually.

Well, Palin is a "whack job" according to the latest leak from the McCain plane. So why should any of this surprise you?

Not to want to play hardball with Stevens but, I would have restricted his bail to staying within the court's juristiction which is D.C. proper.

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That way he wouldn't try any of the shenanigans Kathy is suggesting.

Andy - How would keeping Stevens in the District alter that?
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And I'm still hoping the Personnel Board grants Palin's request to get a report done before the election. But I think the investigator is unraveling a very large ball of string, and I bet he doesn't finish before the election.

Boy do I hope that Sarah Palin appoints herself. That way she wont be able to hide up in Alaska and her full on crazy will be on display for the world to see on a regular basis.

The moderation is CRAZY. I think I just got flagged for writing "killed" in another thread. I will have to find more friendly words to use.

I doubt Palin would want to be a Senator. As a junior Senator everyone has contempt for she couldn't do much in Washington. And Governors are more likely to become Presidents. She may not be smart about the Supreme Court, or the economy, or foreign policy or any other issue, but she's smart about her career.
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BTW, what is wrong with those McCain aides who can't resist anonymously gender trashing their own VP candidate? Don't call her a diva. It's appallingly sexist, as is saying that she doesn't trust her own family: McCain is the one who has family problems. Palin doesn't have a great relationship with her mother-in-law (the same can be said for many people, including some in my family!), but it was clear from that documentary filmed before she became the VP candidate that she is close to her kids and her husband. This was just a desperate attempt to push Palin into the sexist cliche of the of the lonely diva.
And don't attempt to stop an impromptu press conference initiated by your VP candidate. It's rude and disrespectful. She is the Governor of Alaska, not a Barbie doll the McCain campaign plays dress-up with only to later reveal how much money they spent in order to make her look bad.
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Tina Fey and SNL are treating her with more respect than the McCain campaign is: at least they portrayed Dubya as dumber than Palin.

I just heard on Diane Rheem that Alaska law requires a special election. The Governor doesn't have the power to appoint a successor to Stevens.

KT

I was just discussing with ivb on another thread how the thought came to be watching a McCain rally this morning that there is a story that is germaine to this election that nobody is really talking about anymore. Drill baby Drill was being chanted today after taking a brief sojourn from the campaign trail and I noticed this weekend that gas prices have dropped over a dollar nation wide. This without any new drilling and in fact OPEC just voted to cut productions. It seems that there has never been any more conclusive emperical evidence that oil and gas prices are based more on the lax regulation of commodities than on true supply and demand isues. The finanical crisis exposed the truth that no matter how much more drilling we do, if the traders of commodities are not reigned in we will still be paying exhorbitant unreasonable prices for the forseeable future.
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I brought this up here because of Sarah Palin's advocacy of drilling in ANWR which would have no effect either

I thought the same thing last night when I heard the news of Steven's conviction and his decision not to drop out. I would hope that even Alaska law would prohibit the governor from appointing himself (or herself) without at least getting approval from the legislature. Then again it is Alaska the only state in the Union that legally buys votes (oil royalties) so I guess nothing would surprise me.

IF Stevens promised to resign if reelected, then - and only then - would he have a chance to be reelected (and subsequently replaced by another Republican appointed by Palin). As a loyal Republican that is what he should do, but I think he is too stubborn and/or too selfish.

Kathy, keeping Stevens in the district would prevent him from openly campaign within the state. The convicted felon (love how that sounds) wouldn't be able to deal with his network of party hack up there.
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Besides, if you or I were convicted of fraud, we wouldn't be allowed to leave the juristiction while out on bail. the might even ask for our passports. Maybe there's a criminal JD in the house who might offer up an opinion.

Kathy, keeping Stevens in the district would prevent him from openly campaign within the state. Besides, if you or I were convicted of fraud, we wouldn't be allowed to leave the juristiction while out on bail. the might even ask for our passports. Maybe there's a criminal JD in the house who might offer up an opinion.
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Ooh, think of the possibilities, instead of wasting Alaskan taxpayers' money she on her kids travel, she could waste America's taxpayers' money, and of course by America, I mean China and Japan.

Actually that scenario is very plausible.
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Palin wanted the senate seat Murkowski gave to his daughter - she may be looking for a way to keep herself on the public stage.
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ugh, the horror

I just want Fox News to give her a talk show when this is over. It k!lls (let's try to get that one through moderation) me to think of her possessing political power.