Governor Go-go Watch

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It's been a tough couple days for the former vice-presidential candidate as

Alaska Democrats are blasting Gov. Sarah Palin's decision to travel outside the state this week as the state Legislature's session winds down.

Alaska Democratic Party chairwoman Patti Higgins says much work remains to be done and Palin's decision to leave is an abdications of her duties.

Worse, the homophobe she recently nominated as the Last Frontier's Attorney General comes off as a typical Republican cretin.

Members of a Senate committee on Monday repeatedly pressed Wayne Anthony Ross, Gov. Sarah Palin's attorney general appointee, on whether he still believes gays are "degenerates," a term he used 16 years ago in a letter to the state bar association ...

Two Democratic senators on the committee repeatedly asked Ross if he still believes gays are degenerates.

Ross replied that his job as attorney general is to represent all Alaskans, and "my personal opinions in that regard have no place and I decline to state my opinion."

I heard responses like this countless times during the Bush years, and invariably the respondents' beliefs, as much as they protested that they would "have no place" in how they carried out their duties, became very much a part of the way they conducted themselves.

Ross is a reprobate, and the person who nominated him is no better.