Wow Joe - because Mr. Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party in 1994, the 3rd largest political party in Alaska from which they actually elected a governor, then it follows that Mrs. Palin must be a member in 2008. Following that logic then, if your spouse is a Republican then it follows that you are a Republican; or better yet, since Mr. Obama's father was/is a Muslim, then it follows that Mr. Obama must be a Muslim. None of that means anything but I guess that liberals will just grasp at any straws no matter how illogical. And the quote - that is not from Mrs. Palin but from a Mr. Ed Vogler.

Gloria - the following article is from the Atlanta Journal/Constitution newspaper about the brother-in-law

The story of Sarah Palin and her brother-in-law, the trooper

Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:49 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Today's Washington Post has the first extended take — at leeast in the lower 48 — of that investigation into whether Gov. Sarahh Palin, now the GOP vice presidential nominee, pressured her underlings to fire an Alaskan state trooper who was married to her sister.

Writes the Post:

The trouble between Wooten and the governor's sister broke into the open after an alleged incident in February 2005. Palin told an internal affairs investigator that she overheard on a speakerphone [trooper Michael] Wooten arguing with her sister and threatening to kill their father. Fearful for her family members’ lives, Palin said she drove to her sister’s house and watched the argument through a window.

Wooten's words were, "I will kill him. He'll eat a [expletive] lead bullet, I'll shoot him," if our father got the attorney to help Molly, Palin said in an e-mail she wrote in August 2005 to the chief of the state police. "I heard this death threat, my 16-year-old son heard it (Track Palin), Molly heard it, as did their small children. Wooten spoke with his Trooper gun on his hip in an extremely intimidating fashion, leaving no doubt he is serious about taking someone's life who disagrees with him." I would think that if any of us heard something similiar and had the ability to fire the guy, we would. Not saying it is "right" but we would fire him. Getting fired is the least of this guy's problems. As for Alaska getting the most money of any state from the Federal Government - the Governor has nothing to do with that - Pennsylvania gets more Federal dollars than the taxpayers send in to Washington - should the Governor give it back???

Don't be typical liberals - explain why your candidate is the best choice not why the other candidate is a poor choice.