Let's accept that AB Culvahouse, John McCain's veepstakes vetter, did a careful legal vet of every jot, tittle and parking ticket of Sarah Palin's. Her health, her family, her life.
A political vet -- one done by political researchers -- is entirely separate and equally as important. Political attacks often hurt as much, if not more than, long-ago put-to-bed legal troubles.
And it looks as if one major part of the political vet -- the hometown newspaper archive search -- did not take place.
Update:
Reader P writes:
The story you quoted from Huffington Post in your latest post is inaccurate. The basis for the claim is that the paper doesn't have an online archive. That's demonstrably false, with archives stretching back to the 90's through Advanced Search.Reader J writes:
Your Reader P is the one who has it wrong in the 31 Aug 2008 08:41 pm post titled "There's A Lawyer Vet, Then There's A Political Vet." Those online archive for the Valley Frontiersman are extremely incomplete and even what they do have only goes back to 1998, from which they have a single article available (there's only 3 articles available for all of 2000 that mention Palin, for that matter). However, Palin became mayor in 1996 and served on the city council from 1992 to 1996. That's especially important because a lot of the potentially interesting things happened immediately or soon after she assumed office as mayor (ie, demanding the resignation of various city officials, etc). I don't see how there's any way Google can make up for an actual trip to the archives here.
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