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hey _dux! Palin is repulsive in her "mission" to set women's reproductive rights in the US back fifty years. I consider her a radical fringe political operative of a fascist ilk. I think she was appointed as chum in the water in the process of McCain's fishing for the votes of people who identify with Palin's 19th century POV..... they are either so ignorant in their misguided zealotry...or worse....they don't give a shit that the results of their influence falls hardest where it always does....on the least of us....the ones who the courts were intended to protect from the majority and those with outsized power and influence..... 87 percent of US counties have no abortion services...and these monsters never let up for a minute on the poor, rural, resource impaired, while the wealthy are never deterred or even affected.
At the top of the "non-partisan" Feminists for Life - Women Deserve Better is:
FFL Member Nominated for Vice President of the United States - Feminists for Life of America
FFL Member Sarah Palin Nominated for Vice President of the United States |
host...I agree with all of this, including "attacking" her on her membership in the FFL and her extremists positions on women's rights.
She should be "attacked" on her supposed earmark reform credentials. She supported the federal pork funding for the "bridge to nowhere" when campaigning and only ended the project when Congress refused to provide additional funding.
She should be "attacked" on her alleged abuse of power by firing the Police Commissioner who refused to fire her former brother-in-law in a bitter divorce dispute with her sister.
These are policy issues or issues of professional integrity...neither one is rumor mongering .
There is nothing to be gained by resorting to gutter politics like questioning the birth of her last child.
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It is also fair to question her readiness for the job when the two top state Republican elected officials have questions:
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State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it was a joke when someone called her at 6 a.m. to give her the news.
“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Green, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”
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State House Speaker John Harris, a Republican from Valdez, was astonished at the news. He didn’t want to get into the issue of her qualifications.
“She’s old enough,” Harris said. “She’s a U.S. citizen.”
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One guy who is probably smiling somewhere is Dan Quayle. He is no longer the VP nominee considered by the American voters to be the least qualified person of any nominee of either party in recent campaigns.