Who is Sarah Palin?

[urbpan]

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.

 

Comments

[candent.livejournal.com]

YES! Well-said Jef.

Like all GOP politicians, Palin is amoral and utterly lacking in ethics. She will lie by omission or distort any facts to get more money into Alaska's coffers. How will she get richer if she can't attract oil companies that will bribe her to help them? Well, bribe is a harsh term, so we can call it "donations" to her campaign funds as well some nice trips to a few warm, expensive resorts to discuss the alarming growth of the polar bear population. Though her personal life and political journey to her governorship may be a compelling one, it's appalling to think that she can champion herself as a woman who is breaking through gender lines as a VP candidate. This nomination was all but handed to her with a pat on the head and a push on the back to plea for women votes.

[anais2.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear! When I hear the commentary refer to her as a "maverick" choice, I want to barf. It's pandering, pure and simple; to the sore losers from the Hillary campaign, and the religious nuts. But the votes of the two together costitute a much-needed McCain boost.
She is but marginally qualified to be on a city council. Well, maybe in a small Alaskan town.
The presidency should not be an expensive gift. We pay the bills, why don't we have better control of what we're buying?

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

So far, the only positive thing I've heard about her is that she stopped the bridge to nowhere.

[nutmeg.livejournal.com]

It angers me (and my expectations of McCain are low as it is) to my core that McCain thinks women are so simple minded that they would be swayed by such a transparent choice.

Knowing how many supreme court justices will be replaced during the next term should have women shaking in their boots at a mccain/palin white house.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the Republican strategy right now is utterly incomprehensible to me. I can't even begin to figure out where they're coming from. With the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz crowd, at least I got it, even if it infuriated me. What worries me is that I may be completely out of touch with blue collar conservative America, and that they may actually fall for this nightmare ticket. Scary, scary, scary.

Gender politics

[ndozo.livejournal.com]

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$.

[aliog.livejournal.com]

I'm with brush rat, nutmeg,a nd antarcticlust - the whole thing is un-fuhckin-believable. I amazed that they think women are so stupid as to vote from the ovaries. I know that not all women are on the same page just like I know not all lesbians are on the same page and not all people of color are on the same page. But this chikeepoo is a gun-toting, anti-choice, creationist. And I'm not...so yeah, I'm scratching my head raw at this point...

[anais2.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! And, as a Vaginic-American, I am appalled that one of us (even a batshit creationist) would allow herself to be used in such a demeaning fashion, like a duck decoy.

[lavenderjones.livejournal.com]

She's a beauty pageant runner up? Was she better spoken than this young lady?



More importantly: can she spell "potatoe" in American?

[artemii.livejournal.com]

i've read and heard that she actually supported it, and lied about trying to stop it in her acceptance speech to try to give herself anti-corruption cred.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

ElectoralVotes wrote a little mock-play about said strategy yesterday. (scroll partway down the page)

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

And let's not forget, she's also abandoning her infant with Down's Syndrome, and four other kids, to go campaigning - exactly how, again, does that fit with the "family values" (a/k/a Kinder, Kirche, Kuche) party?