corruption

NEW YORK — Sarah Palin has picked a collaborator for her memoir. A spokeswoman for SarahPAC, the Alaska governor’s political action committee, says that Palin has selected Lynn Vincent, an author and features editor for World magazine, a conservative Christian publication. Palin’s book, currently untitled, is scheduled for release next year by HarperCollins.

BFF = Best Felon Friend?
WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted of seven corruption charges Monday in a trial that tainted the 40-year Senate career of Alaska’s political patriarch.
The verdict, coming just days before Election Day, adds further uncertainty to a closely watched Senate race. Democrats hope to seize the once reliably Republican seat as part of their bid for a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

It’s been a miserable week for the John McCain and Sarah Palin, From McCain being booed by his own supporters to Palin getting booed at a Hockey game (not to mention the Troopergate verdict).

David Talbot, of Salon.com, has written a piece on Sarah Palin and her ways of using the “old boys” - and then dropping them when they become inconvenient. Among the quotes in the article, Nick Carney, a veteran council member in Wasilla who was mentored along with Sarah by John Stein, who she went on to “overturn”, is this beauty: “I called Sarah’s campaign for mayor the end of the age of innocence in Wasilla.”