Political Bloviation

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not there own facts:

The Washington Monthly
PALIN BECOMES DELUSIONAL; FEELS VINDICATED…. The news on
Friday night was fairly devastating for Sarah Palin: an independent investigation launched by the Alaskan legislature found that the governor had, in fact, violated the public trust in her Troopergate scandal. She abused the powers of her office, violated state ethics rules, and lied about it. This is pretty tough to spin.

In response, Palin, who is now apparently bordering on delusional, has decided to play make-believe.

“Sarah Palin told Alaska reporters Saturday that she had been ‘cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of unethical activity’ in the investigative report released the day before that explored her actions in dismissing a state official who refused to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police.

‘Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there,’ Palin said on a Saturday conference call with reporters from the Anchorage Daily News, KTVA-Channel 11 and KTUU-Channel 2. ‘Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.’”

I’d suggest reading the findings of the Branchflower report. Here’s the findings page (click for a larger image):

Branchflower Report Findings

She WAS gulity of abusing her power in violation of Alaska state law and falied to cooperate with the investigation. To assert otherwise is a flat out lie. This is the face of the future of the Republican party? This nation needs a conservative, right-center party that can counter balance and critique the Democratic party. This requires a measure of believability and at least a bit of intelluctual honesty that seems to be absent in the present day GOP. Come election day, their losses will be directly atributtable to this failure of honesty and belief in propaganda.

Update:

Andrew Sullivan’s take on this:

Palin’s lies are not like most political lies. They are not spin or vagueness or misdirection or clever use of words. They are simply statements that what has been empirically shown to be true is false, or vice-versa. They are denials of basic reality. They are a function of some kind of psychological detachment from reality. She either has a serious psychiatric problem or her mindset makes Bush’s funamentalist psyche seem positively flexible. In either case, her presence on the ticket simply makes a vote for McCain unacceptable. She should be a deal-breaker for any rational person.

Just so.

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