GOP strategist: Palin is ‘ridiculous’ for blaming Obama for Secret Service scandal

[Playinghardball]

Republican strategist Matthew Dowd lashed out Sunday morning on ABC at those who criticized President Barack Obama for the Secret Service prostitution scandal, especially former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

In his usual participation on This Week‘s roundtable, Dowd was tired of some blaming Obama for the ongoing scandal.

“The hair trigger reaction all of sudden to any scandal, any hint of anything, all of a sudden Sarah Palin blames it on Barack Obama, he’s not a competent leader, I just think is totally ridiculous,” he said. “The idea that some lower level Secret Service guys perform very badly, and did something very bad, doesn’t really say anything to me about the president. You can blame the president for a lot of things, I think that you can’t blame him for.”

WATCH: Video from ABC, from April 22, 2012. (Highlighted clip from 3:58 to 4:20)

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/22/gop-strategist-palin-is-ridiculous-for-blaming-obama-for-secret-service-scandal/

[shimonitanegi]

1. It's her job to attack president Obama.

That's where her job comes from.

[IamK]

2. who do you blame? n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

3. The agents

obviously.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. The chain of command and the secret service culture

I know that the buck stops here goes to POTUS, but believe it or not, POTUS has nothing to say about how that security is run... and in an emergency if they say GO... he GOES.

Why Bush at a certain school during 911 raises all kinds of alarms. No, not the reading material... the these guys treated this as if it was NOT a major emergency...

[Raine]

4. Hey Sarah when the SS guy was "checking" your ass out BOTH McCain & Obama & even YOU were running

for office. What don't you understand about it -Obama was NOT president- ... Bush was!

[Jamaal510]

6. Bush who?

2000-2008 never happened. The country came into existence on January 20, 2009.
*sarcasm*

[Permanut]

7. Note to Dowd;

check the talking points from Rove, Hannity, Limbaugh, et al before speaking.

[Ship of Fools]

8. How about: "Palin is ridiculous." Yep, that's all the

strategist had to say -- "Palin is ridiculous."

[mainer]

9. Who is "Shailey Tripp"? Todd had a prostitute?

In one of the comments under the rawstory article is someone mentioning a woman named "Shailey Tripp", who has written a book about how Todd procured her to show some secret service agents a good time, and is now being threatened by Todd. This is the first I've heard of it. Apparently it also turned up in the National Enquirer...

http://www.examiner.com/article/shailey-tripp-photo-national-enquirer-picture-of-todd-palin-alleged-mistress

[PearliePoo2]

10. Oh yes....the Shailey Tripp story is percolating nicely.

She (Tripp) was arrested in Alaska for prostitution... the charge eventually was dismissed.

When she didn't get her computer and cell phones returned from Anchorage PD (despite a judge ordering it) she started writing a book about the injustice. "Boys Will Be Boys: Media, Morality and the Cover-up of the Todd Palin Shailey Tripp Sex Scandal" http://www.amazon.com/Boys-Will-Be-Morality-Coverup/dp/147009102X

Seems old "First Dude" Todd is right in the middle of it all and she has all the documentation and e-mails to prove it.
(she also describes some physical peculiarities of his "private parts" that only his doctor and Sarah should know about)
In her book she reveals how he initially was a "massage" customer. Later, he started bringing his pals and acquaintances to her for a massage with a "happy ending".
One of these guys was a Secret Service agent in Alaska assigned to Sarah Palin....David Chaney.

Todd's a pimp??? Who would have guessed!


The plot indeed thickens...
K&R



(BTW...Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston named their son "Tripp"...interesting, eh?)

[cbdo2007]

11. Actually it's Palin's fault.....

if she wasnt' such an idiot and sank John McCain's Presidential ticket, he would have won and President Obama would not have been in office. All things in the universe come back to Palin somehow.

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R