“Moderate” Jazz Shaw is shocked by Sarah Palin’s announcement that, in her view, there ought to be a special election for the seat that was lost by Ted Stevens.

Gov. Sarah Palin and the head of the Alaska Republican Party said Thursday that Sen. Mark Begich should give his Senate seat up to a special election now that prosecutors have abandoned their case against Ted Stevens. “Alaskans deserve to have a fair election not tainted by some announcement that one of the candidates was convicted fairly of seven felonies, when in fact it wasn’t a fair conviction,” Palin said in a Thursday interview with the Daily News.

The governor said she does not want to “split hairs” on whether Begich should resign or not but agrees with the Republican Party’s call for a special election.

Let’s review. An election was held in the normal course of events. One of the candidates was under investigation and put on trial for corruption charges. He was found guilty on seven felony counts. Everyone with enough room temperature brain cells to read a newspaper knew that there was an appeal process to come and several outcomes were possible. The voters decided to go with the other guy.

And now that the losing candidate has been “cleared” of the charges, Palin finds this just cause to call for the winner to step down and hold a special election?

When do we look for elected officials to step down? Typically, it’s when the office holder has done something wrong. We might also look for a new election if evidence exists of massive voter fraud. Neither is the case here.

I find the qualifier about massive election fraud especially enlightening, given what’s happened in Minnesota, where ACORN’s headquarters were, coincidentally, only 6 blocks away from the Franken Campaign Headquarters.

If “Moderate” Jazz Shaw were so ginned up with OUTRAGE over the fact that the DOJ prosecutors actually redacted exculpatory testimony from the depositions that they introduced into evidence, and that the former Senator has been gravely injured financially by the prosecution and has no recourse, I’d be a little more inclined to take his objections to Palin’s statements on the matter as offered in good faith.  Whatever Stevens may or may not have done, he was deprived of his right to due process deliberately by the prosecutors. Not being a “Moderate” myself, of course, I cannot say whether most “Moderates” are unimpressed by this fact, but Mr. Jazz seems obscurely post-pentatonic on this score, to my ear. Eric Holder is shocked, shocked! by the behavior of the prosecutors in this case, but seems to feel that it is a matter of mercy on his part not to put the Senator through a re-trial that would, in fact, include rehashing in public the extraordinary violations of due process committed by the prosecution.

Could it be that the prosecutors excluded that evidence, so tainting the trial, in hopes that its simplification would help to render a verdict more swiftly than otherwise would have been obtained? Immaterial, Your Honor!

And Mr. Smooth and Moderate Jazz adds as coda to his noodling, finding common cause with Moderate Allah Pundit:

Alaskans are well rid of Stevens in any event and even some Republicans recognize that. As Allah Pundit at Hot Air notes,

Like the boss says, Stevens was a pork-guzzling corruptocrat even if his corruption didn’t rise to the level of a criminal offense. Aren’t we better off rid of him?

I’m somewhat tempted to apply for a job as Sarah Palin’s campaign manager and political coordinator. Were I to take that position, my first standing order would be to shoot anyone who comes withing ten yards of the Governor with a microphone. She can’t open her mouth without embarassing herself and her state.

Oh, yes. Obama’s better off with another Democrat Senator, no matter how that was come by.

You know, that’s fine.  I just want to go on mentioning Lead Prosecutor Brenda Morris.  Brenda Morris, Lead Prosecutor.  Did I mention Brenda Morris?  Because I really am interested to find out what Attorney General Eric Holder is going to do to Lead Prosecutor Brenda Morris and her team.