So, the report finds that Palin had plenty of reasons to fire Monegan. Also, based on everything they found including testimony from Monegan, Palin never once pressured Monegan to fire Wooten and in fact never even brought it up except at the very beginning of her administration, to ask questions about the original choice to give Wooten a 5 day's suspension as the only punishment for tasering a child, etc.

What the report argues in finding 1 is that Sarah is guilty for not curtailing her husband's freedom of speech, and that her husband telling people that Wooten was a bad trooper must have been done because the Palins expected some sort of personal gain. The report never even considers the question of whether a trooper that would taser a child might actually be a bad trooper and present a bad image for recruiting.

In fact, Monegan even tried to get the Governor to autograph a picture of Wooten so that it could be made into a poster to publicize an event. HIs response was that, hey, Wooten is a trooper so why not use his picture? This shows that Monegan never took seriously the Palin family's concern over the fitness of this guy to carry a gun and pull people over late at night on deserted roads. If Monegan had an “ominous feeling” from the beginning that Palin was out to get him over Wooten, why did he ask Palin to autograph a photo of Wooten so that he could make it into a poster?

What we have is Todd Palin expressing the same opinion that any decent person would have – that a 5 day suspension for tasering a child is merely a slap on the wrist and the guy might be dangerous. And Monegan, who Palin had plenty of reasons to fire (according to the report), is just looking for an excuse to deny any responsibility and make himself look like a victim. Sour grapes!