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Palin's problem is that Troopergate is far from an isolated affair. As a sharp-elbowed high school basketball player, she acquired the nickname Barracuda and she has been displaying a ruthless streak ever since.
"At the first sign of disloyalty, she'll throw you under the bus," said Halcro. "Once you cross her, you're off the list for ever," warned Hollis French, a Democratic state senator.
As the newly elected 32-year-old mayor of Wasilla in 1996, Palin lost no time in dumping city employees who had supported her opponent. She fired the public works director, the city planner, the museum director and the chief of police, Irl Stambaugh, who filed a lawsuit claiming wrongful dismissal.
There was another row over her treatment of Mary Ellen Emmons, the town librarian, who reacted scornfully when Palin raised the possibility that certain unnamed books should be banned from the library. Emmons was sacked but reinstated after protests.
I understand the objection, but I saw these ads as making fun of Repubs, with the behavior of the residents being considered perfectly fine (except in Republican eyes).