It seems that Sarah Palin has a newsworthy scandalette for every holiday. For Thanksgiving she was preening in front of a turkey slaughter; for Christmas, she is smack dab in the middle of a felony controlled substances investigation. The New York Times reports on the investigation of Sherry Johnston, the mother of Bristol Palin’s supposed fiance:
Johnston is the mother of 18-year-old Levi Johnston. Gov. Sarah Palin announced in September that her 18-year-old daughter Bristol was pregnant and Johnston was the father.
Authorities say the case began in the second week of September – a couple of weeks into Palin’s campaign as
Republican vice presidential candidate – when drug investigators intercepted a package containing 179 Oxycontin pills. That led to the arrest of the suspects, who agreed to be informants.
According to the affidavit, Johnston sent a text message to one informant Oct. 1, writing: ”Hey, my phones are tapped and reporters and god knows who else is always following me and the family so no privacy. I will let u no when I can go for cof.”
Ten days after Johnston said there wasn’t enough privacy for a drug sale, she texted again to set up a meeting at a store, according to the affidavit. The document says the informant received $800 to make a purchase, meeting investigators later with 10 pills of 80-milligram Oxycontin.
A second purchase was made the following day, authorities said. This time the informant wore a hidden camera and a microphone.Interesting. This little sting was percolating the entire post convention portion of the election. Sounds like they had Johnston cold from the first controlled sale, which if the article is correct, appears to have been made on October 11, and certainly by the following day when they made the second controlled transaction. A skeptic might think that it was ripe for arrest during the election, like say anytime after October 12; and might wonder why it was extended into late December for arrest. Well, gee whiz, lookee here! From the Washington Post:
The trooper’s affidavit indicates that Sarah Palin’s candidacy factored into the investigation, with state officials delaying execution of a search warrant until this month, when Johnston was "no longer under the protection or surveillance of the Secret Service."Who could have ever predicted this? I wonder what role John McCain and Sarah Palin played in this admitted political delay? What role did the Secret Service play, if any; or is that blame shifting? What role did the Brooks Brothers suited RNC goon squad that was up in Alaska during the election play? There are a lot of questions regarding this little obstruction.
I wonder if anybody is asking them?
This is nothing but one huge piece of drivel. First of all, a scandal for every holiday? The turkey thing was just one huge non-issue on a slow news day and now this? Because Bristol Palin banged the wrong guy, somehow it’s a Gov Palin “scandal”?? LOL!
Watergate, in itself, was not especially scandalous. After all, what’s a little B&E among friends or political rivals. What became scandal was the deception, cover-up and malfeasance of power when the white house plumbers got caught with their pants down and couldn’t get the story flushed (as it were). Deception, outright lies, cover-up and stonewalling were the scandal part of Watergate and Troopergate too for that matter. Noone gives a tinkers damn about Bristol Palin, her juvenile daddy-to-be or his strung out junkie momma….noone – anywhere save perhaps Entertainment Tonight. As our favorite psychoanalyst blogger has stated on a few occasions, past behavior is the very best predictor of future behavior and the Governor of Alaska’s patterns of deception, whether its firing troopers, taking credit for selling jet planes, axing a bridge, or suppressing inconvenient family news is newsworthy given the degree to which she not only has current influence on the common weal of the people of Alaska well beyond her native capabilities to manage, but may also harbor ambitions to wangle her way to a position of even greater influence on the general national public.