Repug vetters didn't check Palin's hometown newspaper archives.

The McCain campaign has gone to great lengths to present the selection of Sarah Palin as one made after a careful, meticulous vetting process. But evidence continues to suggest that the Arizona Republican made his VP choice with surprising haste.

On Saturday, a Democrat tasked with opposition research contacted the Huffington Post with this piece of information: as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the Valley Frontiersman, Palin's hometown newspaper.

How does he know? The paper's (massive) archives are not online. And when he went to research past content, he was told he was the first to inquire.

"No one else had requested access before," said the source. "It's unbelievable. We were the only people to do that, which means the McCain camp didn't."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/mccain-camp-didnt-search_n_122823.html

That's why we must do it.

I think it's hilarious.

And a great opportunity.

and the reason Palin was chosen was because she reminded Vitter of Wendy Cortez, his favorite diaper changing hooker. :rofl:

in the comments, that the McCain campaign are up there vetting her now.

They exist to provide advertising space for local car dealerships, restaurants, etc.

Small town newspapers don't like to take a chance on offending anyone, so they simply ignore controversy.

I will be surprised if there is anything in those archives of interest to anyone outside of that community.

What is non controversial locally might well turn out to be in direct conflict with something else she has said as a politician.

That's why the vetting process goes through these kinds of records.

Think about it - Wasilla? Not exactly industry row! After you hit up the local pub for advertising dollars - is there any place left to go? If they didn't print all the juice, they'd have nothing else. Our local paper is filled with crap about our local politicians & "movers & shakers." It is a hotbed of just this kind of information. I'm sure they'll find all manner of gossip (which often passes for news in local rags).

I've lived in dozens of small towns in the mid-west, west, and south and I've never seen a local rag that likes to print "all the juice". They may even ignore an indictment!

That yours does is an interesting anomaly to me. But so be it.

There's a chance something will come up, but I think it's small and remote.

are an anomaly, but you'd be surprised at the information that can be gleaned from a PTA meeting, school board meeting, association meeting, etc. When two factions or even individuals disagree on something, it becomes big news. And as far as our letters to the editor - if you've got an opinion on anything, it gets printed. Moreover, I was referring to leads, not investigative reporting - big difference.

Said story in our little town about a local Mayoral candidate a week before election
sure hurt the said candidate at the polls.
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