Is this guilt by association again?

Depends how the media covers it.  On the one hand both are from Alaska, Stevens endorsed in her in her run for Gov and cut a commercial for / with her.

On the other hand she primaried a corrupt Republican Murkawski (spelling?) who was Steven's buddy and Stevens paid her back by waiting until the last minute to endorse her.   She also called on Stevens to address the rumors when the allegations against Steven's surfaced a while back.  Some in Republican circles thought she was polishing her reformer creds at the GOP's and Steven's expense.

So it hard to say.  You can find all the ammo you want on either side.   We need to tie her to Stevens and hopefully the corporate media goes with that narrative.

But I think I may have been mistaken. I don't think she was vetted much, if at all. There may be gigantic frozen skeletons in that closet.

Meanwhile, Ted Stevens is in his lair cursing the fact he couldn't plug up all the tubes before that leaked out.

Can the Alaska state house initiate impeachment proceedings against Governor Palin because of the scandal involving the firing of a state trooper?

In her speech today she claimed when Washington offered to build a bridge to nowhere she said no thanks if we need a bridge we will build it ourselves - to great applause.  Is there any evidence of this or was this something just hastily written by the McCain camp without any knowledge that could backfire on them?

Here's what happened...

McCain picked Palin out of desperation. John McCain knee-jerked so hard he just broke his hip.

That's what happened.

Hi John--

(Yup, it's me.)

There's a lot for people to like about Palin: she's smart and poised and articulate; she's got a great family story; she took on Murkowski's personal machine and won; she blew the whistle on corruption in the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

But wait.  That last one is weird.  What's an Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and why was she on it?

I don't think most Americans understand how Oil runs Alaska and its Republican party.  Like Wyoming and some other energy producing states, Alaska skim a little off the top when they export their oil and gas, and the wealth generated funds their government and its patronage system.

Alaskans don't pay income tax to their government.  Their government pays out "royalties" to them to the tune of more than $1500 each every year.

That makes people like Palin think they're great fiscal geniuses who can balance budgets.  In fact, like most good Republicans, all they're doing is taking credit for the work of others.  We gasoline-buyers are the ones who balance the Alaska budgets.

Alaskans just sit back and let the money roll in, and their government leaders spend it however they want in their little planned economy.

Republicans hate socialism, except when they get to run it.

There's got to be a simple way to boil this down for voters and explain why Palin's not such a big deal.

That, and all the right-wing Christian conservative stuff...