Ok, I was wrong. Apparently you were too, as was everyone. Apparently she had no clue she'd be picked either, as they had to call her in the middle of the night and get her on a plane. Not only that, but WHERE has she been the past few months. Stumping for McCain? Nope. Dealing with her ethics scandal that might get her impeached? Yup. Single-handedly populating sparse areas of Alaska with her Christo-fascist spawn? Perhaps. But the point is, she ain't been around. You know that has to rankle his main female water-carrier of the past few months...Carly Fiorina, the woman who nearly drove HP into the ground. She's been defending the indefensible for months, and McCain picks up a runner-up beauty queen with a penchant for making babies and praying for the end times. Wow.
This is clearly a pick borne out of fear for the McCain camp. Attempting to peel off a few of the mythical PUMA's. The non-existing "Hillary" supporter's who'd pick McCain for some unknown reason. Sure, vote against the guy that agrees with Hillary on, oh, EVERYTHING, and choose the guy who's anti-choice, anti-equality, pro-war, makes jokes about gorillas raping woman, and calls his wife the c-word. Notice that when they interview a PUMA they makes some unintentionally revealing comment? Usually something about "Obama is a moslim" or some shit no self-respecting Democrat (or sane person) would say. They're plants, they don't exist, and McCain fell for his own party's bullshit. Loser.
This is SOOO a sacrificial campaign now. They listened to Obama's speech, said "oh shit", and told Pawlenty or Mittens to hold off til 2012, called crazy girl in the middle of the night and told her to get on a plane. And they had to GIVE away tickets to people to come to this "announcement". Sad. Don't fall for the right wing spin. This is desperation, this is not smart, this will not work, and this is weakness.
But where does Palin stand on the issues? Good question. Won't find it here...
Literally, there's like one fucking line on about 1/3 of the issues. Compare it to Obama's site here. For Obama, there's line after line of a RECORD and POSITIONS and VOTES on EACH and EVERY issue. For Palin, virtually NOTHING. You wanna talk about an experience gap? How can the right wingers claim that she has more or equivalent or anywhere fucking close to the amount of experience Obama has? Oh, that's right...because the right wing is full of fucking liars. Sorry, I forgot, won't happen again.
But the right wingers LOVE her already. What do they care about most? Foreign policy....Palin's stance is "No issue stance yet recorded". Immigration.....Palin's stance is "No issue stance yet recorded". Here's one they care about...Homeland Security...."Promote from within, in Alaska's National Guard. (Nov 2006)" Wow, what a principled stance!!
UPDATE 9/5/08: Checked out the "on the issues" page and it has been updated. Much has been learned about this woman in the past week, not much of it good. Some interesting additions:
Teach creationism alongside evolution in schools. (Aug 2008)
Supports teaching intelligent design in public schools. (Aug 2008)
"K, so she's a flat earther...strike one."
Opposed protections for salmon from mining contamination. (Aug 2008)
Sue US government to stop listing polar bear as endangered. (Aug 2008)
We must encourage timber, mining, drilling, & fishing. (Jan 2008)
Provide stability in regulations for developers. (Jan 2007)
Convince the rest of the nation to open ANWR. (Jan 2007)
Fish platform: "Resource First" philosophy. (Nov 2006)
Rail provides critical link for business development. (Nov 2006)
Supports "Roads to Resources": subsidized access to mines. (Oct 2006)
Don't duplicate effort in monitoring cruise ship emissions. (Oct 2006)
Don't amend AK constitution for rural subsistence fishing. (Oct 2006)
"K, so she is AGAINST the environment....strike two."
17-year-old unmarried daughter is 5 months pregnant. (Sep 2008)
Opposes explicit sex-education programs. (Jul 2006)
"Hmm, you think if she'd let her daughter have a condom or learn how to put one on a cucumber, lil Bristol and Levi might have been spared the embarrassment this week?...that'd be strike three."
Oh, and still nothing on foreign policy...although she's right next door to Russia (snark). You know, I went to the BVI's once, so I'm, like, an expert on British Colonialism now.
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