Sarah Palin's supreme disqualification should be alarming, persuading people to vote against GOP.

My opponent claims that we should not be worried about Palin being VP. He claims that we can "impeach" Palin if she is elected or McCain can "Fire" her. Both of these scenarios are very improbable. McCain will not fire Palin if they win the election, there would be no need. If they win that tells McCain that people are fine with Palin. She will not be impeached because Republicans in the house will block the vote. My opponent is right that the Dems have an opportunity to win 60 seats in the senate this election cycle, 60 seats will make them filibuster proof. However, filibuster proof is not a large enough majority to be veto proof. To be Veto proof Dems need 67 seats in the senate. Dems have a good chance at best to get 60, 67 would be a miracle. So if McCain-Palin does win this election Sarah Palin will serve her full term, unless she Abuses the Powers of VP. Trooper-gate- My opponent believes that if McCain-Palin wins than she is impeachable on grounds of her "Abuse of Power" in the Trooper-gate Scandal. However this is not true. No other legal action can be taken against Palin for this violation. She can not be removed from office. The report released proves Palin did exert excess force to pressure the Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner to fire or relocate Trooper Wooten in order to satisfy a personal gain. Hence, she abused her power. The actual firing of the Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner was legal and followed all required procedures. If Palin had fired the APSC without following all procedures she could than be removed from the Governorship. The only thing that can now happen is for Palin's lawyers to dispute the claims of the investigation, and/or the APSC can sue Palin for firing him on grounds other than his conduct and his ability to perform the job. Many Republican "Spin Masters" are trying to down play the report as a Democratic "Witch-hunt". People need to be aware that Palin was the one who authorized both the investigation and the $100,000 budget for the investigation. It was only after her nomination as VP did her position on the investigation change. Also, the Panel that voted to uphold and release the findings of the report was bipartisan. In fact, the panel was composed of 10 republicans and 4 democrats. Palin's lawyers are also claiming that Branchflower had misused the Executive Office Ethics Act to wrongly accuse Palin of misconduct. The lawyers claim that the ethics act only pertains to "financial interest" and since Branchflower offered no evidence to prove that Palin was seeking financial gain his claim of misconduct is wrong and should be retracted. Here is the actual literature from the Alaskan Governments website(http://www.law.state.ak.us...): "The legislature further recognizes that in a representative democracy, the representatives are drawn from society and, therefore, cannot and should not be without personal and financial interests in the decisions and policies of government; people who serve as public officers retain their rights to interests of a personal or financial nature; each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust." Focus on the phrase, "personal and financial interest". Clearly the code of ethics does not pertain to only financial interests as the Palin-Lawyers claim. It is unlikely that her lawyers will succeed in getting this investigation retracted. Also hone in on the last part of that passage, "...each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust". Now since the infraction occurred in Alaska one could argue that this should only concern Alaskan citizens. However, Palin is running for a national office. We as voters need to use all of our available information on our nominees to make the best choice possible for this country. Not to do so would not be logical. She has been found guilty of violating public trust. She used her power to further a personal interest. She betrayed the public by perpetuating a personal agenda. She put Palin first not the citizens of Alaska. This reason alone should be sufficient enough to dissuade you from voting GOP this election cycle. You should not vote GOP for the sole purpose of preventing Palin from presiding over the #2 spot of the most powerful country in the world. Trying to belittle the office of VP is wrong. Because the VP spot may not be one of great power, but it is a position of great potential. Great Potential because the VP could one day be President. My opponent makes a good point that we can not predict the future. We do not know what will happen to McCain. But we do know the facts that are presented for us today. For this exact reason we need to use all of the available information to make the best decision we can. Not voting for McCain because of Palin is the best way to exercise your right to vote. It sends the message that we will not stand for candidates who are not only unqualified but unethical. It tells our Presidential nominees that they need to do better when choosing running mates. By voting for McCain-Palin you send the exact opposite message. It says that you condone these behaviors. It tells political strategists that our candidates do not have to be either ethical or qualified. As a result we are not furthering the our interest as the American people. We will not see candidates improve over time. We are leaving ourselves open for the failures of such candidates. Not voting GOP to prevent Palin from getting the VP spot will send a strong message to our politicians, a message that we the people demand better. Since my opponent agrees with my other topics it would not make sense to argue further. I get the feeling that my opponent does not have anything further to debate. You are more than welcome to continue, but if you forfeit than that will let me know that this is true and i will also forfeit the final round.