Now, this couldn’t have anything to do with Palin being a rising start in the GOP, not to mention that many Conservatives would be very pleased if she was picked to be McCain’s VP, could it?
When Sarah Palin was elected governor as a Republican outsider in 2006, she didn’t just take on an incumbent from her own party. She took on Alaska’s Republican establishment.
Ms. Palin vowed to clean up a long-cozy political system that had been sullied by an FBI corruption investigation. She endeared herself to Alaskans by making good on her reform promises and showing homey touches, like driving herself to work.
Now, one of the bright new stars in the Republican Party has suddenly become tarnished. The state legislature this week voted to hire an independent investigator to see whether Ms. Palin abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as an Alaska state trooper.
“This is a governor who was almost impervious to error,” says Hollis French, a Democratic state senator. “Now she could face impeachment, in a worst-case scenario.”
The probe, which has been given upwards of $100,000, is expected to last through November, which, despite are system where people are innocent till proven guilty, will more then likely take her out of any consideration to be McCain’s VP.
Ms. Palin’s supporters dismiss the so-called Troopergate incident as trouble stoked by her enemies.
“Many of those who had been in positions of power and authority have been very envious over the past year and a half, with Ms. Palin’s great popularity,” says Soldotna Mayor David Carey.
Jindal/Palin or Palin/Jindal 2012, provided McCain loses, or 2016, when he wins.
