Sarah Palin? Really?
Are the Republicans stoned? They are pretending to actually LIKE John McCain's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his Vice-President. Well, conisder the fun that we get to have looking into the following fun issues the next two months. (And these are just the ones we know about in the first week).
1. Palin at least seems to like the Alaska Independence Party. There is a dispute as to whether she was actually a member, but look at her speech to them in 2008. This group wants a vote on having Alaska secede from the United States.... Didn't we fight a civl war over secession?
2. Palin is a true right winger. She is a gun nut, favors criminalizing abortion (no exceptions even for rape or incest), and wants to drill for oil in the ANWR. She is far more conservative than John McCain. Her convention speech was excessively negative, and there was essentially no discusion of what policy differences she has with the Democrats.
3. Her family is, to be polite, colorful. Her husband has a DUI, her eldest daughter is knocked up at age 17, and she had a baby while governor at age 44. Palin apparently tried to force her daughter into a quickie marraige before the pregnancy became public....
4. Palin is under investigation for improper use of power for allegedly firing the public safety commissioner for not taking stronger action her sister's ex-husband, a highway patrolman. This patrolman sounds like a real nut job himself, so I can't blame her for wanting him fired, if he truly threatened Palin's father....Weird stuff. The investifation report is supposed to be released in October...if Palin's lawyer doesn't succeed in delaying it until after the election.
5. Did Palin have an affair with her husband's best friend? That's what the National Enquirer is reporting, so it must be true....lol.
6. Palin is a typical political hypocrite. She bragged about killing the bridge to nowhere earmark project, but previously she supported it. She was well known in her efforts to secure federal earmarks for her little town of Wasilla when she was mayor. McCain actually criticized her town's projects as examples of bad earmark spending....
7. Palin has a deeply held fundamentalist Christian viewpoint. She seems to believe that God has given the U.S. a mission to send our troops to the middle east, and according to her pastor, Ed Kalnins, '... the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq were part of a "world war" over the Christian faith, one in which Jesus Christ had called upon believers to be willing to sacrifice their lives.' See THIS post for details....
8. In this interview from the time of the Alaska primary, Palin seems to almost be endorsing Ron Paul for president. Why no mention of McCain? Hmmmm.
I am sure there will be more. McCain staffers have already caught hell for not vetting Palin fully. All of the Alaska sources who knew Palin have been quoted as saying nobody asked them before she was picked....amazing. This one directly hits McCain: he had six months to pick his VP, and he had only met Palin twice, and just added her to his list of finalists a couple weeks before selecting her.
Finally, here is Bill Maher on Republican VP Pick Sarah Palin.
1. Palin at least seems to like the Alaska Independence Party. There is a dispute as to whether she was actually a member, but look at her speech to them in 2008. This group wants a vote on having Alaska secede from the United States.... Didn't we fight a civl war over secession?
2. Palin is a true right winger. She is a gun nut, favors criminalizing abortion (no exceptions even for rape or incest), and wants to drill for oil in the ANWR. She is far more conservative than John McCain. Her convention speech was excessively negative, and there was essentially no discusion of what policy differences she has with the Democrats.
3. Her family is, to be polite, colorful. Her husband has a DUI, her eldest daughter is knocked up at age 17, and she had a baby while governor at age 44. Palin apparently tried to force her daughter into a quickie marraige before the pregnancy became public....
4. Palin is under investigation for improper use of power for allegedly firing the public safety commissioner for not taking stronger action her sister's ex-husband, a highway patrolman. This patrolman sounds like a real nut job himself, so I can't blame her for wanting him fired, if he truly threatened Palin's father....Weird stuff. The investifation report is supposed to be released in October...if Palin's lawyer doesn't succeed in delaying it until after the election.
5. Did Palin have an affair with her husband's best friend? That's what the National Enquirer is reporting, so it must be true....lol.
6. Palin is a typical political hypocrite. She bragged about killing the bridge to nowhere earmark project, but previously she supported it. She was well known in her efforts to secure federal earmarks for her little town of Wasilla when she was mayor. McCain actually criticized her town's projects as examples of bad earmark spending....
7. Palin has a deeply held fundamentalist Christian viewpoint. She seems to believe that God has given the U.S. a mission to send our troops to the middle east, and according to her pastor, Ed Kalnins, '... the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq were part of a "world war" over the Christian faith, one in which Jesus Christ had called upon believers to be willing to sacrifice their lives.' See THIS post for details....
8. In this interview from the time of the Alaska primary, Palin seems to almost be endorsing Ron Paul for president. Why no mention of McCain? Hmmmm.
I am sure there will be more. McCain staffers have already caught hell for not vetting Palin fully. All of the Alaska sources who knew Palin have been quoted as saying nobody asked them before she was picked....amazing. This one directly hits McCain: he had six months to pick his VP, and he had only met Palin twice, and just added her to his list of finalists a couple weeks before selecting her.
Finally, here is Bill Maher on Republican VP Pick Sarah Palin.
posted by Mike Grayson @ 10:37 PM
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