The Republicans may have dispatched their mouthpieces to the networks and newspapers to extoll the wisdom of McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running-mate, but the fact is, a fact that is surely sinking right now within the core of the Republican Party, McCain made an embarrassing and dangerous choice for his ticket: Palin is embroiled in a scandal that, when the press and the national bloggers begin to examine it, will blow wide open. [as I wrote this, Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo does his own take on this story, one that TPM had been reporting on for quite a while]
That scandal is called “Troopergate” by the Alaskan press and blogger corp and it only takes a cursory reading of the story to smell the chum in the water that will draw them into this story further.
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