Okay, so Sarah Palin placed high in a beauty contest. Big deal!So she gave her children stupid names like Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig. Big deal!
So she's got an unmarried 17-year-old daughter who's knocked up by a fuck-worthy redneck. Big deal!
People are always after candidates to talk about the issues. I say if we as voters refuse to be distracted by superficialities and stick to the issues, it will force the candidates to do the same.
So here are some issues:
- As mayor of Wasilla, she asked the local librarian how she could get some books banned and threatened to fire the librarian for not "supporting the mayor." There's no reliable list of the titles she wanted gone, but this seems like misuse of political authority.
- Thought Palin's lawyer asked them to stop, the Alaska Legislature is still investigating another alleged misuse of power issue: the firing of a Public Safety Commissioner who claims the reason was his refusal to fire her ex-brother-in-law who was in a custody fight with her sister. The investigations results are due in October.
- She declares herself to be "as pro-life as any candidate can be." She supports mandatory parental consent and the abstinence-only education that has been such a rousing failure for the past seven years.
- She's opposed to same-sex marriage and supports a constitutional amendment to deny state health benefits to same-sex couples.
- She wants creationism and evolution to be taught together in public schools, talking about them as if both were equal in scientific terms.
- She's in favour of capital punishment and agrees with the NRA's interpretation of the Second Amendment: emphasize "right to bear arms," downplay the beginning part about "a well-regulated militia."
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why do you think the republicans don't want her subjected to any questions from the press ... her views on way off the charts, even for a right wing nutcase.
the bridge to no where that she claims to have told the federal gov't that she didn't need? she was for the bridge before she was against it. and she kept the hundreds of millions of dollars allocated for the bridge and used it to build an access to the bridge to no where that wasn't gong to be built.
the airplane she inferred that she sold on ebay? Not. it was sold in a private sale arranged by a member of the Alaska legislature, at a loss of $600 thousand.
the list goes on and on.
what annoys me however, is that i have yet to see any response from the democrats. if she were a democrat, the republicans would have socked her in the mouth by now. this reformer image that the republicans are creating for her needs to be confronted now, before it becomes an accepted "fact".
elections in the US are decided by that 20 percent of voters who select a president in the same way they buy laundry detergent. image is everything. substance is nothing.
sorry for the length of the comment. this election is getting me worked up into a frenzy.
AND ANOTHER THING...
she keeps talking about her "executive" experience and claims that obama doesn't have any. remember, george bush was a 2term governor of texas and was touted as the "MBA President" for the executive skills he would allegedly bring to the white house. like that worked out well. judgment, temperment and the ability to motivate people is what makes a good leader, not how long you've been a chief.
ok. i need to go find my meds...
I agree with all of that. The Republican Leadership is probably encouraging the talk about Bristol's Baby Daddy to distract from the real problems with Palin.
I just wanted to say that we should refuse to be distracted. Stick to real issues. Talk to dishonest politicians and their brain-washed followers like you're talking to over-excited children or adults deep in senility: when they wander away from the real point, don't play along; just drag the conversation back to where it should be.
And thanks for the comment: I get so few lately.
the meds have taken effect. all is peaceful. sorta.
i agree that we shouldn't be distracted. this is the old republican playbook of talking about anything and everything but issues. unfortunately, the playbook works. i just hope it doesn't work this year.
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