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Alaska Paper Calls Out Palin for Allowing McCain to Take Over TrooperGate

By Jeralyn

The editorial today in the Anchorage Daily News is Abidcation by Palin, criticizing her for allowing John McCain and his operatives speak for her on TrooperGate.

The governor who said, "Hold me accountable," is hiding behind the hired guns of the McCain campaign to avoid accountability. Is it too much to ask that Alaska's governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska's governor?

....Is the McCain campaign telling Alaskans that Alaska's governor can't handle her own defense in front of her own Alaska constituents?

The calls the takeover "offensive": [More...]

Alaskans have to sit back and listen to John McCain's campaign operatives handling inquiries about what Alaska's governor did while governing Alaska. Residents of any state would be offended to see their governor cede such a fundamental, day-to-day governmental responsibility to a partisan politician from another state. It's especially offensive to Alaskans.

As to the McCain operatives' claims that the investigation has become partisan:

That's the kind of dizzying spin that Washington has perfected. It is the McCain-Palin campaign that has worked overtime to politicize the entire matter in a transparent attempt to justify the stonewalling.

The paper calls on Palin to stand up for herself:

Futile as the request may be, we encourage Gov. Palin to stand up to McCain's handlers and be personally accountable for her dministration's response to Troopergate. She is the governor of Alaska, not John McCain or Ed O'Callaghan.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 20, 2008 (boomark / email).