Palin’s Unethical Conduct

When the weather man on NBC said on Thursday the weekend will be dry, I was excited.

October 11 was Homecoming at Kent State University. There was talk during the entire week about the activities especially the football game. I am not a football fun though but I always want the Golden Flashes to do well. But to the disappointment of most students, they always loose. And they lost.

Troopergate Probe closes on Friday.

It wasn’t just the Homecoming that I was excited about, but also the Troopergate Probe will come to an end on Friday. I was interested in the outcome. Did Sarah Palin violate any ethical codes or guidelines?

Much to my disappointment she did. The Branchflower report indicated that she violated Alaska’s statute 39.52.110(a). Was she wrong in firing Walt Monegan? This is what the statute states:

The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.

Palin did her job but…

I will agree with Allahpundit that Palin did her job by firing Monegan but she abused her power as governor. It makes me wonder what she will do when she is VP. The violation of trust in the Troopergate issue is an Alaskan issue but the American people have the right now to mistrust her.

This is clearly a bad week for the McCain campaign. In such crisis situation how is the strategist handling it? Both the Democratic and Republican campaigns have intensified their negative campaigns after the conventions. Check out Austin’s post on negative campaign.

What can be done?

I have 3 major suggestions on how the strategist can possibly handle this situation.

• Give Sarah Palin more media training: she appears distracted often by the media.

• Anticipate tough questions from the media: The media always asks the most dreadful questions so it will pay to know them.
• Find answers to the tough questions and shelf them: You’ll need them for a rainy day.

If these make sense to you, pass them to Steve Schmidt. I’ll be sure it will be used in the campaign strategy.

Meanwhile, let’s all watch out for the polls this week. I suspect a continuous nose dive. Let’s also watch out for Obama. Will he make a case out of Palin’s unethical behavior?