s'student-
The latest reports are that they didn't check her out all that closely-I don't think it's clear yet what they knew when, but in any case, knowing of a fact and choosing anyway doesn't imply that it's a good thing.
ST. PAUL, Minn. Sarah Palin voluntarily told John McCain's campaign about her pregnant teenage daughter and her husband's 2-decade-old DUI arrest during questioning as part of the Republican's vice presidential search.
Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr., the lawyer who conducted the background review said that Palin underwent a "full and complete" background examination before McCain chose her as his running mate.
Then came the campaign's disclosure that Palin's unmarried 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. In addition, the campaign also disclosed that Todd Palin, then age 22, was arrested in 1986 in Alaska for driving under the influence of alcohol.
At several points throughout the process, McCain's team warned Palin that the scrutiny into her private life would be intense and that there was nothing she could do to prepare for it.
First, a team of some 25 people working under Culvahouse culled information from public sources for Palin and other prospective candidates without their knowledge. For all, news reports, speeches, financial and tax return disclosures, litigation, investigations, ethical charges, marriages and divorces were reviewed.
Reports, 40-some pages and single-spaced, on each candidate then were reviewed by McCain, Schmidt, campaign manager Rick Davis and top advisers Mark Salter and Charlie Black.
Among the details McCain's campaign found: Palin had once received a citation for fishing without a license.
Palin, like others on the short list, then was sent a personal data questionnaire with 70 "very intrusive" questions, Culvahouse said. She also was asked to submit a number of years of federal and state tax returns, as well as any controversial articles she had written or interviews she had done. The campaign also checked her credit.
Then, Culvahouse conducted a nearly three-hour-long interview. He said the first thing she volunteered was that her daughter was pregnant, and she also quickly disclosed her husband's DUI arrest.
"We came out of it knowing all that we could know at the time," he said.
As for the financial records review, Culvahouse said: "It was very clean. We had no issues there."
Well, hopefully that will put your mind at ease s'student and allow you to vote for your candidate (which is not BO) with all your I's crossed & your T's dotted. I know what put you off of the McCain/Palin ticket and it's nothing to be ashamed of. The citation for fishing without a license.
She is a disgusting, flagrant law flaunter who deserves to be strung up with her own monofilament and treble hooks. If it saves one sockeye... Do it for the schools... The salmon will thank you.