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

[oandjoe08]

Enough of her already!!!!

[quasar]

I bet she can see Manhcuria from Alaska too.

[PioneerKing]

There is only one manchurian candidate in the race and that is McCain - haven't you noticed the melt down the strange outbursts of temper the anger and irrational rantings McCain is coming unglued

[markusmarkus]

Naah! Let's send her on a "fact finding trip" to Manchuria in the middle of winter and see what happens.

Obama/Biden08

[MajorKong]

She sounds like just another Mayberry Machiavelli.

[markusmarkus]

I think it's more "Wasilla Witchcraft­."

[Bluejay00234]

No surprise she's a liar.

[PlantGod72]

Palin is the WORST kind of "Christian"!

Intolerant, hypocritical, power-hungry, dishonest and two-faced.

Evangelicals need to DISAVOW this woman NOW!

[DebbieinPhx]

I really want all this ugliness to BECOME the debate on Sara Palin. And I'm with you, I want Evangelicals EVERYWHERE to look at this nastiness and then I like to here them avow that SHE represents THEIR values. She is sickening!!

[RaraAvis17]

Hey DebbieinPhx! Would you talk to my family since you are there? Ha! They won't listen to me and I am in Portland!! I don't know how you deal with the Arizona being such a RED state! My mom thinks Pa lin is cute! UGH!

[stateretiree]

Oh I can see that happening. Truth be known most evangelicals are just like her. A true Christian does not feel the need to go around telling everyone they are a Christian.

[BlueBaltMD]

Evangelicals will NEVER disavow her.
She is part of their plan.

They need one more seat to control the Supreme Court.

Chances are good that at least one seat will open up during the next administration.

If Palin/McCain are in power, we will be well on our way to becoming a Theocracy

http://www.theocracywatch.org/

[deliriousgod]

I don't know if her 'christianity' is even part of the american evangelical movement. That witch-hunting, speaking-in-tongues stuff sounds more like Snake-handling occultism that most evangelicals wouldn't even recognise

[darker]

McMoose PALIN IS CORRUPT.

Republicans PROVED THEY CANNOT GOVERN. they lie, cheat, steal, etc.
Their attitude and administration of gov't is a disaster!

People must use COMMON SENSE and vote against those who PUT AMERICA LAST--REPUBLICANS.

NO MORE YEARS for corrupt Republican LIARS, THIEVES, PROFITEERING DEREGULATORS.

Vote for COMMON SENSE, quality leadership: Obama-Biden.

[observer007]

"My friend the witch doctor he told me what to say:
My friend the witch doctor he told me what to do -
He said that you'll be mine if I said this to you -
OO EEE OO AH AH
TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG
OO EEE OO AH AH
TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG"

Sara in a nutshell -

[SouthpawSass]

Oh great. Now I"ve got that song in my head. Thanks.


;)

[whit4brains]

LOL! :)

[OhioJan]

Funny!!! Thanks for the "brain worm" - I'm going to be hearing THIS one all day now!!!!! :)

[helonias]

Gosh who knew the anti christ was going to be a women

[iPolitics]

That's what you have to do when your daughter get knocked up at 17

[jlc0426]

You can tell she's the kind of person that will be your best friend until she gets everything that she needs from you. And then sticks a knife in your back when she's through with you.

[blaqntelligence]

Someone need to alert the old guy, The Figurehead, running for president.

[SmootyBooty]

he'll find out when he feels the knife...

[CeeCee]

Palin is no Christian. The very term Christian means living according to the teachings of Christ. When you hate, fear-monger, lie, cheat, and all that, you are going squarely against Christ's teachings! WHY is it so hard for people to see that??? True Christians would know better. Oh, wait, maybe there aren't any left.

And I'm not even a practising Christian. But I do have a brain! and I know right from wrong. Maybe that's the big difference.

[slpmom]

Has anyone thought about how she and the religious (?) right will find a way to make McSame resign over some past corruption skeleton hanging in his closet & then...she­'s in the Oval Office.

[ivillage]

Bloggingheads: Sarah Palin the Polarizer?
http://www.sefermpost.com/sefermpost/2008/09/bloggingheads-s.html

[obamadeus]

Is this the same woman Palin mocked and laughed at when a radio talk show host called her "a cancer"?

[morefromLA]

No, that's the Republican head of the state senate who's also from Wasilla. She was on the Rachel Maddow show last night and had nothing good to say about Wasilla the Hun. Telling, since she was once a friend/supporter.

[RobinSeattle]

Salient quote:

"According to some political observers in Alaska, this pattern -- exploiting "old-boy" mentors and then turning against them for her own advantage -- defines Sarah Palin's rise to power. Again and again, Palin has charmed powerful political patrons, and then rejected them when it suited her purposes. She has crafted a public image as a clean politics reformer, but in truth, she has only blown the whistle on political corruption when it was expedient for her to do so."

How presidential of her.