Palin calls for Stevens to resign
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/10/27/art.palin.10.27.jpg caption="Palin says Stevens should step aside."](CNN) - Sarah Palin said Tuesday Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens should resign his Senate seat, in a statement released hours after John McCain made a similar declaration.
The comments come a day after Palin would not say what she thought the best course of action for the recently convicted senator should be.
"After being found guilty on seven felony counts, I had hoped Senator Stevens would take the opportunity to do the statesman-like thing and erase the cloud that is covering his Senate seat," she said in the statement. "He has not done so. Alaskans are grateful for his decades of public service but the time has come for him to step aside. Even if elected on Tuesday, Senator Stevens should step aside to allow a special election to give Alaskans a real choice of who will serve them in Congress."
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i think Stevens should call for Palin to resign
Alaska must be full of idiots. Hopefully they stay up there.
Right, but the Alaskan jury that found YOU guilty of ethics violations was a partisan "witchhunt," right Sarah? Well, given her wingnut church, I guess she would know...
Any Republican who complains about Obama's "Chicago-style" politics should look to Alaska for comparison. Young, Murkowski, Stevens, and now Palin–all of them completely corrupt.
Pot, Meet Kettle.
If a felon can't vote – how can they possibly legally hold office?
why did she wait so long to make a statement?
sen. stevens' feelings and this notion of being "statesmen-like" should not be a concern of gov. palin's. the senator flat out got caught accepting bribes and should have been admonished by the mccain campaign as soon as the verdict came down.
sen. stevens is too old to get into these shananigans; dude made his bed and now can lie in it.
Well, a bi-partisan investigation proved that Palin was guilty of breaking ethics law......why doesn't she step down?? Oh that's right.....we're all supposed to act like that didn't happen. Also, she worked on Stevens PAC committee and was a big supporter. Watch out everyone......she's a backstabber. Don't think I want her working with other nations.
Lets hope so for the sake of alaskens.
Hey – she abused power – she should do the right thing and step down too. What a joke. I think someone needs to investigate all the stuff going on in Alaska. Maybe they have been left to their corrupt ways TOO LONG.
Democrats failings = Affairs and lying about them (Clinton, Mahoney, Spitzer, ect...)
Results: At most, a failed marriage, and another pissed off individual.
GOP failings = Misuse of their elected official power (W, Palin, Stevens, ect...)
Results: $300+ billion war, thousands of dead soldiers, Oil companies making record profits with $4.00+ gasoline, ect...
Whom would you rather elect?
Vote Democrat '08
Hopefully Stevens will be replaced with a Democrat, but I'm sure they'll elect TODD PALIN. lol lol lol
FOR ONCE I AGREE WITH GOV. PALIN...HE SHOULD STEP DOWN...IF CONVICTED FELONS CANNOT VOTE WHY HAVE THEM VOTING IN THE SENATE...AND ANOTHER THING I DO NOT LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE SAY OH MILITARY IS REPUBLICAN...HOW DO YOU KNOW...IN TODAYS MILITARY THERE ARE A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND GUESS WHAT WE ARE VOTING FOR OBAMA!!!!
Interesting . . . so should Palin follow her own advice and also do the statesmen-like thing and resign from her campaign for being found guilty in her abuse of power case?
I am calling for Palin to resign!
But...what about that ROAD you built to Uncle Ted's HOUSE, Mrs. Palin?
I thought he was your MENTOR?
No loyalties in politics.
Nothing like stating the obvious...
So, Sadie Putin throws another buddy under the bus.
Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. One more week and Caribou Barbie is gone, to face her own ethics problems, I hope.
Oooh... bravo Mrs. Palin. Piphhh... When you are found guilty in Troopergate, will you resign too? I sure hope so. This is leading up to THE PERFECT STORM in politics. We are going to see the GOP house of cards blewn to smitherines. Should be a fun time. Finally, we are going to have someone ethical at the helm of this ship who will turn us in the right direction. VOTE OBAMA '08/'12!!!
Palin is too sexy to step down. If she doesn't win, hopefully she'll do a playboy spread. She's got my vote either way!!!
McCain/ Palin "The Goddess" 08!!!!
What would be interesting to see is further investigation of Palin's connection to the same contractor who did the pro bono for Stevens.
Look..who is talking...You don't have any morale to talk about corruption / power abuse... Step down Troopergate Gov.Palin.
and does this mean that palin will also resign as she has been convicted of abuse of power?
I can see it now. Sen. Stevens wins on Tuesday. Sen. Obama wins. Sometime later, Sen. Stevens sees the light and resigns. The Governor of Alaska gets to select someone to fill the seat until a special election. The Governor of Alaska selects herself and off we go again.
Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment — a contract to build a pipeline from Alaska to the Lower 48 emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an AP investigation shows. Maybe you should resign for abuse of power...