Palin Wants Senate Race Do-Over in Alaska

Of course Palin wants to gerrymander a way for the GOP to regain a Senate seat. It’s what she does…
http://www.political-buzz.com/

The Republicans want a do over at the expense of a Democrat. It will not happen. I think that they should also be thinking about the cost of redo. The dropping of the case while vacating the conviction of Stevens does not say he did not do anything wrong. It says that the prosecutors did unethical things.

Kate: Lets be clear . . . No one has said Stevens is innocent. They said he was treated unfairly by the Prosecution. There is a big difference between a crook who is not in jail and a man who is “not guilty” because he is truly innocent! All I know is Steven’s is not in jail.

“Make every voter aware that Stevens is not guilty . . .”
Wait a moment . . . nobody has said that he isn’t guilty. The problem here is that the Bush Justice Department failed to do their job correctly. Oh, he is guilty alright. No doubt about it. Remember, he who lies will perish!
It now appears to me that anytime a Republican doesn’t like the outcome of an election they automatically blame this so-called LIBERAL media and call for a do-over. Hmmm. I guess that means we should have a do over of the 2006 Virginia US Senate race because the media unfairly covered George Allen’s “Macaca” moment.
Who is going to pay for all of these new elections the Republicans want? The taxpayer of course! It will cost millions for a new election in Alaska. Why not make Palin’ pay for it? Furthermore, the Republicans talk about tort reform, but they are the first to file lawsuits – just look at Minnesota where Al Franken will not be able to take his Senate seat because the GOP is planning on tying Franken up in legal hurdles possibly “for years.”

Good example Tom, let’s look at Minnesota.
Coleman won on election night by a margin bigger than what Franken is winning now. How can that be???
Election night, they counted EVERY vote. After Franken whined, they recounted. They are not counting 4000 ballets. Franken is now ahead.
I don’t care what side of the aisle you are on. That is a prime case of fraud, not counting them all. Of course the outcome would be the same as election night and the Franken camp can’t have that. Cheat to win.

No Angie, on election night in Minnesota they did not count every vote. None of the absentee ballots had been counted. The first time every legal vote in the state had been counted was during the mandatory hand recount that was completed with Franken ahead by more than 200 votes. Try getting your facts straight before posting your ignorance.

Kevin
Get your facts straight. You make it sound like they are counting all of them now. They are NOT. So, YOU are WRONG!!

So, should we have a presidential re-election too? Surely many voters were even more turned off by yet another Republican scandal and voted democrat because of it. Is it a technicality that Stevens is getting off on? Is anyone saying there’s proof he is innocent?

So Sarah Palin believes that if one doesn’t like the results of an election, one can simply call for a redo?? Sounds like a CRYBABY WHINER to me. Following HER logic, the 2004 Presidential campaign should be redone too…the Swiftboaters told lies about John Kerry in their commercials. Let’s redo THAT election too, shall we??

Why didn’t Republicans in Alaska go ahead and vote for Stevens despite the news of his conviction? The governor would have been in the position to APPOINT a Republican replacement if Stevens was unable to finish his term! No do-overs are neccessary …. the people have spoken. Remember when a DEAD man won an election a few years ago? Enough said.

Yeah. Only democrats would elect someone who drives drunk, murders a woman, and gets a free pass by the voters, the law and the press.

And the tax increaseS have begun. Tax on a pound of tobacco went from $1.09 to over $24 per pound on Wednesday. ‘No tax increases if you make less than $250K’. Yeah, right! Another LIE.

deanbob: This isn’t a tax on YOU. Tobacco is a drug and we all have the freedom to not use it. You may not have heard yet, but it’s bad for you and raises health care costs for all the rest of us.

Sarah, Honey…………ya’ don’t get “do overs.” If so, we could have had two Bush “do overs.” Next you’ll be asking for a “do over” for last November.
But, then, what can ya’ expect from Moose Barbie…aka Bible Spice? And this is the “best and brightest” the Republican Party has too offer.
Hey, Sarah………can ya’ still see Russia from your front porch?

Begich won the election by a few thousand votes over someone who the media and most all had deemed convicted. Now that it turns out that the charges have been dropped due to perjury and prosecutorial misconduct, the civil right of all Alaskans were violated under because the election was won based on lies and perjuries. Stevens was given a shoddy deal, and it would be good if Begich would resign due to stuff that has now come to light but it will not happen and we Alaskans will al remember that when he is up for reelection

The only election in Alaska that should be a do-over is the one for governor. I’m sure most Alaskans are fed up with this clown (palin) by now.

Speaking of “do overs”, Sarah……….wanna a “do over” on the Turkey-Slaughtering Backdrop you used during a T.V. interview last year…..just in time for Thanksgiving? That baby is going to follow you for the rest of your life.
Sarah, Honey………pay more attention to your surroundings in the future, particularly when the cameras are rolling. You, silly goose, you.

pt–”The only election in Alaska that should be a do-over is the one for governor. I’m sure most Alaskans are fed up with this clown (palin) by now.”– actaully she has one of the highest approval ratings of any sitting govenor.

Stevens was unfairly prosecuted, but he was clearly behaving improperly. It has not been determined if he is guilty, but the facts of his receiving gifts is on the table.

Someone needs to explain to the Republicans that “party” may not mean what they think it does. This is not a party like a frat party – they need to stop thinking of themselves as a fraternity and start thinking of themselves as part of a greater whole, whose job is to represent the people, not just their platform. Every step they take lately fails to address the needs of the American people – they’re just looking to extend their own power.

Sorry to ruin your party arkie vet, but an independent organization not affiliated with either the Democrats or Republicans says so. Try reading the truth here: http://www.factcheck.org/republican-funded_group_attacks_kerrys_war_record.html
And, unless you’re trying to change history, the Republican candidate for President in 2008 (John McCain in case you’ve forgotten) slammed the ads in 2004 by responding “McCain : I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded. Many of his crew-mates have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam.”

@arkie vet:
“It’s the job of the politician to argue for and defend the views of the people who elected him or her.” – no argument about that particular approach, but that isn’t what the Republican party is doing in Congress. If they were presenting alternatives, if they were actually debating the issues rather than simply disagreeing with the Democrats and with the White House, then they would be better fulfilling that expectation. Since the election, and the loss of so many seats, the Republicans have offered almost nothing in the way of alternatives – their purpose has been very superficial and obvious, and it is to take back the power. When prominent party members band together behind Rush Limbaugh and state that they want the president’s policies – and let’s not mince words, they want the *president* – to fail, that’s not representing their constituents or presenting an alternative; in order for the president’s policies to fail, they have to be implemented – to follow their implications, they are offering no alternatives, leaving the country to twist in the wind while they gloat and place the blame, in hopes they can swoop in afterward and take back the power they once had. This is not representing anyone but themselves; instead of offering alternatives, they are abstaining from government, from the responsibilities for which they were elected, and hoping they can simply avoid being connected to anything that they disagreed with, despite the fact that they did nothing to fix it before it went wrong. It’s like saying you knew the other guy’s parachute was packed wrong, but you let him jump anyway, and once he dies, you’ll talk to the folks who packed the chute.
I agree that you may have voted for them because you believed in your party’s principles, but as has been plainly obvious, the RNC doesn’t even know what it represents any more, other than its opposition to the DNC, and its desire for power. Surely THAT is not what you voted for, is it?

Ms. Looney has spoken again. Didn’t she call for Stevens resignation while she was campaigning, uhn…being used by the “old white head men in the Republican Party”. No….he won’t resign his seat.

seems to me the only reason she is calling for his resignation is becaue she cant actually do anything about his legitimate term as a senator. This way all the team Red guys at FIXED News “Fair and Balanced” can continue to rant about injustic. meanwhile the its not going our way Members of Congress who never met a photo opp they didnot like spew rhetoric to confuse and distract. Pretty shameful..But whats new? as for the people of Alaska doing away with Palin.. get real these peple like Sexual deviants and Bimbos.. I mean didn’t they just get cable tv last year ..She’s the best thing to promote attention to the Forgotten state since the Valdez incedent .’” Dontcha know”

Despite all the rude things said about Gov Palin, I think her wisdom has shone forth yet again, lighting the way for Republicans in this dark time. When the going gets tough, the tough do not give up! They sue for a recount, lose, appeal the loss, and lose again! They demand that the winner of an election resign and prove that the voters really REALLY wanted to elect him. They refuse to swallow the silly Democratic idea that majority rule means that Republicans can actually lose an election, or that a majority of Democratic Senators can pass a bill. When the times get tough, the true leaders of our party stand up to those pesky elected Democrats and warn them that if they do not govern like Republicans, we will expose them to the voters— as… as the DEMOCRATS they are!! And if those lucky Democrats are so uppity as to think that the voters chose them precisely because they were not Republicans, well, then our tough guys know how to pull off the gloves, eh? They skip anger management class, get all red in the face, start calling Democrats “socialists,” and declare that they want the elected government of their country to fail while America fights two wars and faces the worst economic crisis in two generations. In other words– sorry friends, my admiration leads me to excess– our leaders have set the tone and example we need. We Republicans are tough enough to know that true democracy is never having elections that the other side can actually win, that America’s leaders are not necessarily our leaders, and that true patriotism is never letting the well-being of the American people matter more than the well-being of the Grand Old Party. Truly there is no better spokesperson for our point of view than the Governor of Alaska, our next nominee for President of the United States! My brothers on this page share her victorious spirit, and I am honored to be among them.

Bobby, just wondering which one of the members of the Palin household you were referring to as the family idiot that is supposed to be focused upon? I have my guess, but there are so many possibilities.

Begich has more brains and savy than Palin does. Palin is a Barbie doll – all fluff, no brains! President Obama made it to Washington with intelligence and hard work. The community organization skills Palin so made fun of, really came in handy in Europe. Too bad the Republican Party has no leadership, ideas, no vision. All they can do is say “NO!” You have no leaders in your party so you rely on Rush, Billo, Hannity, and Beck to lead you futher down the slippery slope. So sad, so pathetic.

Why wait to send her money, she could probably use your help now to begin to pay off the more then half a million dollars she owes lawyers for their work on her various abuse of office charges. Ought to be interesting since Newt Gingrech is threatening to divide the party and he has significantly more following and clout in the republican party then Gov. Palin will ever command.

Sarah is RIGHT! There should be a special election! Let the people speak once and for all! You liberal democrats are just afraid that you might lose a senate seat!

Prosecutorial misconduct does not mean that Stevens did not break many laws. Setting aside the verdict does not mean he is innocent, just not found guilty…YET! Why would republicans want to put a lawbreaker up for election even when they know he did wrong? Everyone knows what Stevens did. He does not get a free pass just because a prosecutor didn’t follow the rules. Punish the prosecutor and retry Stevens. The republicans just continue to make fools of themselves. When people finally get tired of the Republicans obstructing every Obama move to fix the problems, the congress will have a bunch of democratic replacements to help our president do the work that is needed. My message to Republican senators, “You are there to support your constituents, not your buddies. Support your president or you will be watching from the sidelines very soon!”

The prosecutors should be investigated. If they acted unethically, illegally or politically motivated they should be fired and the people of Alaska should decide if they want a new election.

A “do-over”? John McCain would like a “do-over” so he could pick a different Vice President running mate. Every day there seems to be another story confirming why Sarah Palin should never be allowed anywhere near Washington DC.

Levy Johnston did a few do overs according to his interview on Tara Banks. Perhaps Ms. Palin should focus on raising her children because they are out of control.

Al Gore didn’t get a do over why should Stevens get one. His charges were drop based on a technicality. That like saying the police didn’t read Ted Bundy his rights therefore he is innocent. It is because Eric Holder is a attorney general who adheres to the constitution.

deanbob—Obama was talking about income tax and unless you are utterly clueless you know this very well. sorry tobacco taxes are going up for you. hopefully you can quit smoking which will not only leave you untaxed but healthy as well.

hey chris…
If we who voted for Barack Obama (and a majority of Democrat lawmakers on local, state and federal levels)…
are to be called “leftist liberal commies”…
cool.
There is nothing in a name but a bunch of letters.
It must be very tough for the fading members of the opposing viewpoint to face a very BIG fact: the majority of people under 30 are with us.

Is there no commonsense left in this country? Stevens is still guilty of every charge against him and he knows it. He WAS found guilty. This means that had the prosecution not been stupid in their proceedings and the EXACT same evidence was presented correctly..he would STILL have been convicted. Get it?

BlameAmericaLast…
So, YOU are speaking for ALL Democrats?
Regardless… your comment is not only wrong, it’s nutty. Having the current senator step down is not any kind of sure fire way to get the guy-you-want into office. There would be a little thing called an election…… which could go either way. Dang — do you even have a secondary, much less an original thought in your head?
All this predicting that those who didn’t get their way in the last national (and a LOT of local and state) election is so ridiculous.
We have what we have, we are where we are… no wishing and hoping and predicting otherwise will change that.
Be a SupportAmericaFirst person and get behind the government the majority of the people elected (as per the CONSTITUTION)….
thanks, good night

Kevin: If believing that there is only one God and that there is no other incites hatred then so be it, hate me! There is only one God! He is the Lord God Jehovah, the creator of this universe! I don’t blindly follow what people tell me what faith should mean either! I read the Bible, the King James Version only, and base my faith on what I read myself and my Bible tells me that there is only one God! It also tells me very plainly how I should live my life and how I should not live it. The Bible is very plain about what sin is and what is not sin.
I do attend church regularly and I do have a pastor whom I respect as a friend and the leader of my church and mostly I do agree with what he teaches. However, there are times when I do disagree with him but not often. I know the Bible well enough that I know when he is teaching something that doesn’t agree with my interpretation of the Bible. I then pray and search the Bible. If I find that he is right then I change my interpretation. If not, then I pray that God will change my pastor’s interpretation. I don’t, though, dispute my pastor. I simply accept what he teaches or I don’t.
I also don’t aspire to be a superior individual, just a blessed one. It matters very little to me what others think of me. It matters more to me what God thinks of me. I know that if I live according to the principles and rules set for us in the Bible and put God first in all things then I will be blessed by God. That is what matters most to me.
And about my ancestors, if by religious intolerance you mean preaching the word of God to the native Americans, then yes, according to you, they were intolerant! However, Jesus told his disciples to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. My ancestors would not have been doing their job as Christians if they hadn’t preached the gospel to the native Americans.
However I deny that my ancestors took part in any genocide. After they arrived in the New World (now America) they sometimes had to defend themselves from attacks from the indians but they never took part in any genocide. In fact at least two of my ancestors are thought to have married indians but it’s never been proven. Several of my ancestors were Revolutionary war and War of 1812 veterans and killed more British on the battlefield than indians!

Rick_VT: You are wrong! It is Sarah Palin who needed a better running mate! I am a republican and I voted for McCain because I thought, (and still do), that he was best of the two candidates. However, I wasn’t too happy with either of the candidates. I didn’t like any part of Obama’s platform and, although I agreed with most of what McCain stood for, he ran what I call a half-hearted campaign. He didn’t want the presidency badly enough to fight for it and he refused to use all of the tools that were available to him to win. He also should have been much more decisive and forceful in the debates. Instead his answers were very vague and no one really knew what his platform was. He also seemed like a sick old man in the debates. People looked at him and then looked at the younger, healthier Obama and they chose the younger, healthier man. Also McCain’s campaign was failing until the conventions. He needed a running mate who would bolster his campaign. Sarah Palin did do that! Some people think she hurt his campaign. I disagree! She worked tirelessly for over two months to get him elected and John McCain wouldn’t have received nearly as many votes as he did if it had not been for Sarah Palin. John McCain lost because of one person – John McCain!

Well, DM, then you are not only egotistical in your belief that only your higher being can be the correct one, but you’re also delusional in your attempt to rewrite the history of the nation. The actions of the people landing on the shores of the US from Europe are written in the history books, and the slaughter of the native people for their lands is a well-documented event. Whether your relatives actually pulled the trigger isn’t the debate. It’s the actions as a whole of the people “spreading their faith to the savages” that exterminated entire tribes of people. Having a closed mind towards the beliefs of others will continue to cause bloodshed and death around the world, it’s time to wake up and realize that just because you have an opinion doesn’t mean it’s the correct or only one. It’s the same blindness of surroundings that led to people believing the earth was flat, evolution doesn’t exist, or that we’re the only intelligent beings in the universe. More than two thirds of the six billion people on the planet follow a different spiritual being (or none at all) than your choice, but I’m sure in your opinion they just haven’t been enlightened to your one and only correct choice yet.

Same old tired rhetoric, only my beliefs can be the correct ones. The more than 4 billion people that think differently must be enlightened to my way of thinking at all costs. There’s a word for a group of people that band together and refuse to acknowledge the existence of reality, it’s a cult. Do you really think your maniacal rants have any impact other than people wondering which asylum may be getting a new resident soon? When the time comes for your so-called eternal reckoning, prove that it won’t be Mara and his forces instead of your adversary Satan. Or it could be one of the dozens of religious demonic forces from beliefs around the world. Or, it could be that when a person dies nothing beyond decomposing in the ground occurs. You be sure to enjoy tithing your 15% every week to make sure that the churches have enough money in the kitty to continue paying off the frequent multi-million dollar child molestation charges and I’ll make sure to keep enjoying the spectacle of the sheep following these “spiritual leaders”.

So now you have that gall to assume that everyone that believes differently than you do is going to regret that choice and change their mind at the last minute. Oh, my beliefs in either a unseen being or the lack of an unseen being have been wrong all these years, if only I’d listened to DM on the internet blog all would be right with the world. Get over yourself, reality says that somewhere in the neighborhood of 70% of the worlds’ population disagrees with you, and you don’t have the facts or the right to call their choice incorrect. Each and every year the percentage of people claiming Christianity as their faith decreases as a part of the world’s total population and that trend will continue. Increasing numbers doesn’t equal increasing influence.
The one thing that you are right on, I have no clue how much the standard tithe is because I believe that any amount over 0% is a waste of money. I have 100% knowledge of what will happen after my death. Doctors will harvest whatever organs are usable, and then the carcass will be thrown in an oven and turned to broil. End of story.
You might as well try spreading your message in a supermarket parking lot, you’d have better luck there than your feeble attempts to convince me that your beliefs are the only ones that have a right to exist. The various cultures of the world have every right to their own beliefs, many of which are much older with greater numbers of followers than the 2000 years of your faith.

hey sarah
how about a redo of the
2000 presidential election?
d m r