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http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/02/the-palins-are-we-all-hypocrites-now.html

This is a difficult story on Todd and Sarah Palin to react to. The Left making hay from it certainly has no ground to stand on in pushing it. They never had an issue with Hillary's involvement in Bill's official actions, both behind the scenes and eventually out in front on health care. But then, what does someone from the Right who mocked a Clinton co-presidency do? The only morally consistent position is to criticize neither, or both. I wonder, can one even be involved in politics today and remain morally consistent? And are there gender issues in play for some, who might criticize a wife playing a significant role behind the scenes, but not a husband?

Sad that while many might agree that idealism is what's most required in politics today, there's so little room for it, don't you think? Perhaps politics has never really been an idealist's game and we all just have to make the best of the reality as it unfolds.

The still-secret e-mails between Todd Palin and senior officials reach into countless areas of state government and politics: potential board appointees, constituent complaints, use of the state jet, oil and gas production, marine regulation, gas pipeline bids, postsecondary education, wildfires, native Alaskan issues, the state effort to save the Matanuska Maid dairy, budget planning, potential budget vetoes, oil shale leasing, "strategy for responding to media allegations," staffing at the mansion, pier diem payments to the governor for travel, "strategy for responding to questions about pregnancy," potential cuts to the governor's staff, "confidentiality issues," Bureau of Land Management land transfers and trespass issues and requests to the U.S. transportation secretary.

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I don't get this one:

"strategy for responding to questions about pregnancy,"

Why would you need a "strategy" for something as straightforward as that?



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The democrats are jumping in on this "treasure trove" as they see it.

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Husband and wife communicating with each other is not a problem. So, if the email is between the two of them, fine.

But if it goes beyond that, and if Todd is communicating via email with others, that would not be kosher.

At this time, we do not know which case this is.

Now, if he was openly given a mantle to lead and do some public service work, that would be ok also. e.g., lead the cause of education or the high rate of rapes in Alaska. There were any number of social issues that could have been given to his charge for social work.  That's what Bill Clinton did to engage his very capable spouse when he was in Arkansas; it was widely in the open.  Rest of the consultation between the Clintons was in private and between the two of them, and that is normal in any family.

-- Edited by Sanders on Saturday 6th of February 2010 10:36:55 AM

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That's what drives me nuts.  Republicans will oppose something done by a Democrat then defend it when a Republican does the same thing and vice versa.  If its wrong for one person its wrong for anyone who engages in this sort of behavior.

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