Palin Spread Lies About Mayoral Opponent's Religion And Marriage

Salon:

Before Sarah Palin decided to run for the Wasilla mayor's office in 1996 against incumbent John Stein, the Palins and Steins were friends. John Stein had helped launch Palin's political career, mentoring the hockey mom during her 1994 run for City Council, along with veteran council member Nick Carney. Stein's wife, Karen Marie, went to aerobics classes with Palin.

But when she announced her candidacy for Stein's seat, vowing to overturn the city's "old boy" establishment, a different Sarah Palin emerged. "Things got very ugly," recalled Naomi Tigner, a friend of the Steins. "Sarah became very mean-spirited."

Even though Palin knew that Stein is a Protestant Christian, from a Pennsylvania Dutch background, her campaign began circulating the word that she would be "Wasilla's first Christian mayor." ...

The Palin campaign also started another vicious whisper campaign, spreading the word that Stein and his wife -- who had chosen to keep her own last name when they were married -- were not legally wed. Again, Palin knew the truth, Stein said, but chose to muddy the waters. "We actually had to produce our marriage certificate," recalled Stein, whose wife died of breast cancer in 2005 without ever reconciling with Palin.

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Comments

[Liberoservative]

Palin is that "Mean Girl" that we all have known in school.....

She gathers her power by ensuring that those around her always agree with her... we have had that in the last 8 years of the Bush Administration......

She is an empty skirt, pantsuit, beehive bun... whatever.....

Her speeches are so condescending that I can't bear to listen to her..... the valley girl twang is really annoying.....

[bonniely]

she lies about everything even the baby it is her grand baby.so she not just a lier she makes her family lie too.any thing to get to the white house she needs to have family first and then other things.but no she ain't no good mother she makes me sick to put all this and cover ups.and then no one can say any thing about her because she is a women.fair no if she wants to run with the big dogs she better get ready to take the heat because if they have to be nice and not treat her like they would a man then she needs to get her cry baby butt out because if she can dish it out then she better be able to take it..lies lies lies

[SFkid]

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[spambrando]

Thanks - went right to it to add my 2 cents

[SailFree]

Despite the attempt to pack the ballot box, Palin is still ahead.

[UrbanInterloper]

Lies and slime are the only thing she's apparently good at. I guess after McCain was subjected to disgusting trash just like this back in 2000, he decided it's better to join 'em than try to beat 'em, so he hired a slime artist of his own.

If McCain had a real record to run on, he wouldn't be so desperate as to embrace lying like this. The man simply has no moral core anymore.

[odoreida]

Oh, who cares really. Are we a bunch of fishwives that we have to be subjected to rehashes of dumb stuff like this? Find something substantive about Palin to make us dislike her. Not everybody gets her knickers in a twist of this kind of mean-spirited baloney.

[SuiginTou7]

So your lobotomy WAS successful! congrats

[LemonMeringue]

I think using a couple to get into politics - accepting their help - and not only throwing them away but actively turning against them and telling lies is as telling of her character as anything could be.

Liar, user, back-stabber, Palin.

[protagonia]

Neo Conservatism is the side of cruelty, ignorance and deceit.

If that is not obvious to you, then you would be incapable of absorbing the information given to you.

And sadly, it is true of you.

You could be useful to mankind, but your training forbids you from being of any service to mankind.

Pity.

[deliriousgod]

what will she do to you once you have done everything you can to help her and can serve no further use to her?

[HypnoToad]

The woman is swill!

[imfedup]

Two words come to mind: Scum bucket. Or is that one word?

[kevs240sx]

What a EFFING C |_| N T bltch.

[seabass]

more of the same...more "spl'ain" to do from the "No Talk Express!"

[jingles32]

What IS it with this woman's outright nastiness toward cancer victims? Barracuda is right; this woman is totally devoid of any compassion or sense of decency. Didn't she also sit there giggling when being interviewed on radio, when the DJ referred to a female political rival (a cancer victim; a fact known to Sa*rah) AS a cancer??? He also called referred to her rival as a jealous bit 0ch; again, Sar ah sat silent.

I didn't think any pol could scare me more than Bu sh/Che ney...then came McC. But I sw ear there is something so troubling about this woman, truly "scary."

[ebanks84]

She's e.v.i.l.

[ponderonit101]

Flies and Palin. The more I hear about Palin, the better I like flies.

[AmandaRuth]

So she made her opponent produce a marriage certificate? Fine, I want to see Trigs birth certificate.

[Liberal2]

While I too am suspicious of the kid's history, her first child's birth is equally interesting, There are too few days between her marriage and the birth for it to have been full term .... unless she too was knocked up.

The Palin family's morals are suspect.

[odoreida]

Why do you care whether she was already pregnant when she got married? Are you some kind of s ex maniac? Or are you a self-righteous relig ious nut?

[WFV]

Tax returns would be nice, too. Also medical records.

I have not forgotten.

[deliriousgod]

tax records? medical records? that's sounds like stuff a jew would be interested in. why don't you love America?

[ponderonit101]

I think 80% of the country would like to see that document.

[LaughingTill-I-Cry]

And speaking of religion...

http://www.jokerzinternetradio.com/phpmotion/play.php?vid=103

[Xenopus]

Not much about Sarah is truthful. She seems to have a deep seeded lying problem. Pathological.

[Liberal2]

It stems from the self-righteous entitlement found in religious wackos. Maybe that's why otherwise intelligent people become religious: their moral and ethical standards are so low that being religious allows them to redefine themselves as morally and ethically superior to liberals, atheists, Jews, Gays, etc.

[protagonia]

Modern religion is where the dull of wit and the weak of will hide.

They let a man on a stage give them instructions, telling them right from wrong because they no longer possess the capacity to determine it for themselves. Anyone can grab the controls from there, ans clearly have done so.

[ponderonit101]

I agree with you, It seems to be pretty severe.

[argent1]

Palin is no christian either -- she is a whacknut, very attractive to the McVeigh-Nugent-Liddy crowd

[rich3324]

McSame better get a food taster.

[ponderonit101]

Sarah's nickname should be "Piranha" instead of ":Barracuda".
Yes, John McCain