A pitbull with her teeth pulled (Scotland on Sunday)

Published Date: 26 October 2008
By Claire Prentice

... As falls from grace go this one has been savage and sudden. After her barnstorming performance at the Republican National Convention in September, Governor Palin was hailed as a right-wing heroine. But the honeymoon period officially ended last week with a series of controversies and gaffes, leading senior conservatives to call for her to leave before the election. Palin faced problems on the national stage and in her own Alaskan backyard. A series of investigations shed doubts on the way she ran her home state as Governor. On Friday she gave a deposition to the second Troopergate investigation over whether Governor Palin pursued a family vendetta against state trooper Mike Wooten. A first investigation found that Palin abused the powers of her office by firing the state's top public safety official.

Potentially more damaging, the woman who has championed her credentials as a thrifty governor has been accused of fiddling her expenses and taking extravagant family trips at taxpayers' expense ...

Palin's problems were compounded with allegations of cronyism. On Friday a report revealed when Palin was elected Governor of Alaska she gave 100-plus jobs to friends and campaign donors, sometimes without apparent regard to qualifications ...

One party insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, "There are many people in the party who wish she would go back to Alaska. McCain picked her. If he loses, he only has himself to blame" ...

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