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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Except it wouldn't have been "Damn right I...", it would have been "Yer darn tootin' I..."
It's political inexperience, plain and simple. Anybody who's been around a while would know how to spin it and come out clean--there are successful politicians who we currently think well of who have weathered MUCH worse.
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You're right about the lingo.
But again this was mostly done after the McCain people (many of whom have mas experience with this kind of thing) why didn't they spin this the other way? It's like the McCain camp can't figure out how to do even the most basic political move. They currently seem to be trying to move in several different direction at once. The GOP used to the guys you count on to all get on the same page and spew the same answers to ever question.
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Originally Posted by flstf
I haven't followed this story closely but I guess it is because most people are supposed to be considered innocent until proven otherwise. Divorces can get ugly and family members sometimes pick sides. After they investigated him wasn't he only suspended for shooting a moose using a permit that someone else gave him while hunting with Palin's father? Also I thought I read that his son wanted to see what a taser felt like and he used it at the lowest setting.
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Again I haven't really followed the facts either. I don't know what actual facts are, the trooper could be completely clean here. My guess is the public will never actual know what happened and the facts are likely somewhere in the middle. I do know it damn near impossible to get a public employee fire in some states. Where I used to work we had a city officer pulled over by another officer for DUI. Think he blew a .18 at around noon. The union got involved and he was sent to treatment.
My main point isn't what did or didn't happen. My main point was why wouldn't they spin this so the average working family would be more likely to see someone trying to protect her family and the public at large against a bad cop. The way they did it more people, IMO, are going to see this as someone abusing their power and then trying to cover it up