Raw Story:Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is not under investigation by the FBI, the federal agency's Alaska spokesperson has said.
“There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her,” Special Agent Eric Gonzalez told the Los Angeles Times Saturday. “It's just not true.”
On Saturday, Palin's lawyers came out fighting against allegations that her resignation was prompted by a brewing scandal. On Friday, bloggers including Shannyn Moore and Brad Friedman suggested that Palin is under federal investigation over her activities in the development of the Wasilla Sports Complex, a multi-million dollar facility in Palin's home town built while she was mayor of the town.
Whether this is just the FBI trying to keep an investigation under wraps until it's completed or whether there actually is nothing there is something only time will tell. But if Palin didn't resign because of a dawning scandal, the question still remains; what's the deal? Is this just Sarah Palin being flighty and weird? Without a scandal to flee, resigning from office at a moment's notice like this is a pretty odd thing to do. Then again, it is Sarah Palin we're talking about -- she's a pretty odd thing herself.
Members of her own party are also wondering what's up. "You don’t call a press conference that creates questions. You call one to resolve them," MIke Huckabee told Fox’s Chris Wallace.
"If she wanted to escape the ethics investigations and save the taxpayers’ money, she’s done that," says Karl Rove, adding that "it sort of sends the signal that if you do something like this to a sitting governor, you can drive them out of office." Karl says she's trying to have her cake and eat it too.
"She's not going to be able to escape media attention," he said. "If she thinks somehow she's going to be able to protect her family... and seek a role of leadership for effective change for our country, she's not going to be able to do it."
Whatever the reason -- or non-reason -- for all of this, Sarah's probably done. She's extremely popular among the talk-radio/right wing blogosphere crowd, but there really aren't a lot of those people. Everyone else -- average Republican voter included -- will see instability here.
4 comments:
She'll always have Bill Kristol.
Please, please, please Uncle Sam...take this psycho bitch down for something, so we don't have to deal with her verbal pollution anymore. Good grief we have enough of that already!
If she wasn't such a moron, I might feel sorry for her.
As disappointing that is that the FBI will not pursue possible justice in this case, in the expedient long run it is probably better that she work her way around the belly of the body politic like ground glass.
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