"Todd and Sarah [Palin]

. . . are scratching their heads wondering, why on earth hasn't [Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan] -- why is this guy still representing the department?"

I refer of course to the attempt to fire the man who would not fire Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten.

My question is: Why does anyone care what Todd thinks, why Todd is scratching his head, UNLESS the matter was a personal one?

Megan Holland, Anchorage Daily News, July 19th:

Monegan said phone calls and questions from the Palin administration and the governor's husband, Todd Palin, about trooper Mike Wooten started shortly after Monegan was hired and continued up to one or two months ago.

The governor herself also had a brief conversation with him about Wooten in February, Monegan said.

The new assertions from Monegan, who has been mostly silent on his abrupt firing July 11, conflict with what the Republican governor said earlier in the week. She said she never put pressure on the commissioner to fire her sister's ex-husband and no one from her office had complained about Wooten. She has also said replacing Monegan with Kenai Police Chief Chuck Kopp had nothing to do with Wooten. She has offered little explanation for the dismissal.

So we pretty much can deduce via Todd's involvement off the Idioterod course that it was a personal issue.  So the issue is, watch while the GOP basically says, It doesn't matter.  So what. You can't stop us cuz of that.  She was right.  It don't matter.  The rule of law is less important than looking good and having a Mom on the ticket.  Screw you if you don't like it.  We found a Republican woman who is very pretty and thin, who has lots of babies and hates abortion, and she wants to save the polar bear her own way, and she . . . she . . . ugh . . .