Sarah Palin calls for Begich's resignation

By GottaLaff

Shooty McMouthOff is at it again. I posted earlier about the Rushpublics screaming for Mike Begich's resignation and a new election now that Ted "InterTubes" Stevens is off the hook. Guess who's hopping on the old bandwagon, or in her case, tongue-waggin':

Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) called on Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska ) Thursday to step down from his seat and run in a special election in the wake of the Justice Department’s decision to drop corruption charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). Begich narrowly defeated Stevens in 2008, a contest overshadowed by Stevens’ October conviction.

See, Shooty, Begich already won fair and square. People voted. Stevens still would have lost, Stevens still would have been tried, and this recent turn of events in no way makes Begich's victory invalid.

In an email to POLITICO, Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton confirmed the governor’s position. “She absolutely agrees that there should be a special election,” Stapleton wrote. “Stepping down to hold the special election would be the right thing to do.”

In the statement Palin was provided, Ruedrich said that “the only reason Mark Begich won the election in November is because a few thousand Alaskans thought that Sen. Ted Stevens was guilty of seven felonies.”

He still very well may be.

“A special election will allow Alaskans to have a real, non-biased, credible process where the most qualified person could win, without the manipulation of the Department of Justice,” he added.

Begich issued a statement Thursday insisting that he will remain in his seat, despite Republican calls for his resignation. [...]

Begich spokeswoman Julie Hasquat did not directly respond to Palin’s call for the senator’s resignation, instead pointing to Begich’s statement as a clear enough indication of his reaction.

“We’re not going to respond to her,” Hasquat said.

And that was a perfectly appropriate answer to a perfectly, and typically, inappropriate Palin declaration.