Who is Sarah Palin?

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This Alaskan blog has good information about McCain's bizarre pick for successor (if elected, and the inevitable happens sometime in the next four years).  Radically conservative for even the incredibly conservative state of Alaska, anti-women's right to choose, anti-gay (anti-gay existance, never mind 'rights') and creationist, embroiled in a scandal that dropped her Alaskan approval rating 23 percentage points, younger and more inexperienced than the opponent who Republicans claim is too inexperienced to be elected.  She's worse in almost every way than Dan Quayle, but probably better spoken, considering her background as a sportscaster and beauty pageant runner-up.  A bizarre cynical choice by a bizarre cynical man who has changed all his "maverick" positions to fall in line with the Party Faithful, and allied himself with those he used to condemn as the "agents of intolerance."    I hope that it's the gift to the Democrats that it appears to be.

The Republican platform includes a plank to amend the Bill of Rights with an article denying certain rights to a minority group.  What is this, Mississippi in the 50's?  I wouldn't vote for the Republicans if they dug up Lincoln and ran him as a candidate.  They are unredeemably corrupt, hateful, cynical, and backward, and care only for consolidating wealth in the hands of their oligarchy, and will take any step to do so, including waging pointless war, reverse the progress of the last century of civil rights, and deny the truths that science has revealed.  They are doing no less than ruining civilisation and the ability for the planet to sustain life, for the short term pleasure of a chosen few.

 

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Gender politics

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It's all about the ovaries. I lol'd when I heard about Palin. Those Rove repubs are cynical and brilliant. They have a deep understanding of the simplest patriot's mind and they are eager to exploit every hot button issue that there is. That said, I don't think they want to win, they just want to fuck everything up as much as possible, plow their toxic salt into the already parched fields of democracy, before they all go home to count their billion$.