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August 30, 2008
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This doesn't have to be a long article.
She claims global warming is a hoax.
She opposes abortion even in the cases of rape or incest. She
wants Creationism to be taught in schools. She supported Pat
Buchanan for president in 2000 - someone even further right than
George W. Bush.
For anyone anywhere near the middle who
thought about considering McCain because they didn't feel they knew
Barack Obama well enough, McCain has taken himself off of the table.
Forget her readiness or lack thereof, the issue is that Palin is a
religious extremist, someone who, just like George W., cares more
about faith than fact, who will take no action to deal with Global
Warming, who thinks a natural gas pipeline is a real answer to our
energy problems.
Palin's complete lack of qualification
to be President is her saving grace. Is she were a qualified,
reasonable candidate, the Democrats would be free to tear her apart
as exactly more of the same religious right-dominated, anti-science
destructiveness that has brought America from first to crumbling.
As for her appeal to women, every single
woman I spoke with today greeted me with the exact same thing coming
first out of their mouths: Does he think women are that
stupid? Does he think because she has a vagina and tits that
we will say, "Oh, that makes her a woman, so I have to vote for
her?" The universal sentiment I came across today was that
John McCain today insulted women by trotting out Palin and having
her plainly try to claim the mantle that Hillary Clinton carried.
As it was put to a similar lightweight
in a previous Vice Presidential debate: "Sarah, I knew Hillary
Clinton. Hillary was a friend of mine. Ms. Palin, you
are no Hillary Clinton."
She is a Hasselback, though. I
personally think the GOP is very smart in preferring women who are
more feminine, pretty, and charismatic, as opposed to the Democratic
breed of blustery and brainy.
However, this election, Hillary is not
the only other front-and-center woman in play. The more
relevant comparison is not between Palin and Clinton but between
Palin and Michelle Obama. And, honestly, I would sooner have
Michelle Obama in the Oval Office than Sarah Palin - as would anyone
who saw Mrs. Obama's speech, and then heard Palin squeak out her
schpeel today, presenting herself awkwardly, repeatedly clapping for
herself, not having even the basic presence or knowledge to
understand that when she is the one speaking, she can let others do
the clapping for her.
"Yay me!"
Ah, Sarah Bush Palin. You make it
clear: McCain wasn't actually all that Bushish after all.
No, you take the mantle of the faith over fact inexperienced
destructivism that your kin-in-kind W. has graced the nation with
for 8 wonderful years.
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