Troopergate: No testifying for Alaska's First Dud

By Michael J.W. Stickings

CNN: "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband won't comply with a subpoena issued by state lawmakers investigating her firing of Alaska's public safety commissioner, the McCain-Palin campaign said Thursday." (The "argument" being made by the campaign is that "Alaska state law bars ethics investigations of people running for elected office." But, of course -- small problem -- Todd Palin isn't actually running for elected office.)

Note what's going on here:

The McCain-Palin campaign is actively trying to block an investigation initiated by the Alaska state legislature, claiming that the investigation is partisan (when it is in fact bipartisan). It is actively trying to thwart justice.

Clearly, though, Todd Palin had something, and perhaps a lot, to do with the whole sordid affair: "Todd Palin was a 'principal critic' of Wooten and had 'many contacts' with Department of Public Safety officials about his status, Stephen Branchflower, the former prosecutor hired by the state Legislature to investigate the firing [of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan], told lawmakers last week."

But he won't testify, and nor will his wife, and nor will state employees, who have basically been told to keep quiet, "to choose where their loyalties lie."

And so it goes... with Palin and McCain wanting nothing to do with the truth.

Which is pretty much the story of their entire campaign.