FishingBanter - View Single Post - Lots to admire in them reformin' mavericks.....

**[email protected]** · October 12th, 2008, 04:13 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:49:51 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:26:29 -0500, rdean3REMOVE wrote:

What's to spin? She did it. She "abused her power." Every executive,
political or private business, has done it. In fact, every person with
power has likely "abused" it at some point. And so what? She got her
sister's husband, who admits he was a drunk who smacked around his wife
and kids AND acknowledges he deserved being fired, fired "outside of
channels." Was it "abuse?" Absolutely. Was it "wrong?" I'd offer
that if she weren't McCain's running mate, 90-something percent of US
adults would say no. If it had been a "non-personal" thing where she
had "abused her power" to rid the force of some unrelated wife-beating,
kid-Tasering drunk, not only would most folks not care, most would
support the "abuse of power."

HTH,
R

A little confused by facts, aren't you? Starting with, the sister's
husband wasn't the one fired.

Yeah, that should been "She was attempting to get..." IAC, the rest
remains. She "abused her power." She didn't do it for financial gain
and the reason is one that few with quarrel with if she wasn't the GOP
veep candidate. As far as firing the PSC (or whatever Mondrigan's ???
title was), that was found to be "lawful" and while the BIL's situation
was part of that firing, it wasn't the sole reason, nor, apparently, the
substantive reason. IMO, the "abuse" was the attempt at getting the BIL
fired, not the firing of the PSC. Did the replacement PSC fire the BIL?

TC,
R