OK, so I subjected myself to Palin's RNC address. She spoke well (unlike McBush), rallied the base, was occasionally clever, loaded with nasty barbs, and railed about her ticket's experience, yet evidenced NO IDEAS OR ANSWERS, NONE, ZERO. She was all attack dog and clever quips, with no counterpoint in substance.
With the GOP in recent years, it’s ENTIRELY about chess moves and getting your way at any cost Honest reason and reality based caring simply do not apply. With poker face screwed on, Palin (and Giuliani) were knowingly and calculatingly dishonest, and at times flatly lied. Palin is weak on experience, so she makes a case that the only experience that counts, is the one she happens to have. Community organizers are the BACKBONE of this country, yet she irresponsibly mocks and trashes them for every nickle of political mileage she can eek out. And yes, senators legislate more than they govern, and in a way, being a governor is a microcosm of being a president. And for this reason, senators have traditionally been a harder sell for the office of president. But this is a rediculous argument for Palin, because McSame too, is obviously a SENATOR. Before Palin, McBush harped on Barack’s “dangerous lack of experience”. Now that his VP has even less experience, she must ergo, be VERY DANGEROUS. Yet the GOP lavish praise on her, and spin like a top. Simply vile, and claustrophobically corrupt and dishonest. Palin lied about her pork barrel spending, to the tune of $27 million dollars in earmarks, and lied about the “Bridge To Nowhere”. which she had once ardently supported. The GOP become apopleptic when any Dem falters in the squeaky clean “American family values” department. Yet Palins unwed daughter who became pregnant at 16 by a foul-mouthed mud-runnin dude of 18, is somehow a “beautiful thing”. Do you not feel pain evidencing such bold-faced dishonesty, devoid of any sense of ethics and integrity.
Let's look at what's known, what's fact, what's real.
1) She's been governor of 600,000 Alaskans for about a year and a half.
2) Before that, she was mayor of Wasilla Alaska, population 5,500, where she personally requested $27 million dollars in earmarks (something she rails against now). Her office building looked like a small deli.
3) She supported the "Bridge To Nowhere" (which she now rails against).
4) Oil-wise, she supports offshore drilling, drilling in Anwar wildlife refuge, and really, drilling and pipelines anywhere. Further, she wants to take endangered species off the list (like Polar Bears).
5) She's been a member of the Alaska Independence Party that wants to secede from the union.
6) As a member of the Jews For Jesus faith, she said that the Iraq war was an act of God.
7) At the time Barack was a community organizer, Palin's resume consisted of runner-up in a Miss Alaska beauty contest. PS, she & Giuliani know exactly how critically valuable real Community organizers are. So they blatantly deceived.
8) The WHOLE "Troopergate" story. Sarah Palin's sister Molly was in a bitter divorce and custody battle with her state trooper husband Michael Wooten. The Palin sisters pressed a judge to take Wooten's job to deprive him of his livelihood. The judge balked and refused. Upon becoming governor, Palin appointed Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, and pressed him get Wooten fired. 14 members of Palins administration made 20 calls to persuade Monegan, and Palin's husband Todd (who's had a DUI conviction by the way) made 24 calls to persuade him. Monegan refused the requests, and said the calls were "discoverable" and illegal. Palin then fired him. Palin denied all of her lobbying publicly, until the evidence became overwhelming.
9) Palin supports "abstinance only" sex education. And Palin slashed funding for teen mothers. She's voiced strong opposition to "explicit sex ed". She now knows first-hand that an abstinance only plan is a total farce.
And YES, I agree with Barack that a candidates children should be off limits. However, now the McCain camp is parading unwed Bristol Palin and father Levi as poster children for political gain at their convention, and in front of the media. Kinda takes their privacy off the table. So OK, Bristol got pregnant at 16 by Levi Johnson who was 17 or 18.
Until his Myspace page got yanked, you could read Levi describe himself as a "f--kin redneck" who likes to play hockey, snowboard and ride dirt bikes, but "I don't want kids. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some sh-t and just f--ckin chillin I guess. Ya f--k with me I'll kick ass."
And McSame (who committed adultery, and nastily ditched his first wife when she became inconvenient) publicly greeted these kids. Jeez, maybe he should have met their friends and signed her Facebook. Where are all the Republican "Family Values" screamers?
I think, because of the embarrasement, and judgement questions that would arise (that would surely sink his bid. You think the Dems are having fun now?), McSame will ride it out, put on a good poker face, and swear that Palin is aces. He calculated he could steal Hillary's woman voters, but it turns out, all he did was insult them.
AMERICA, WE CAN DO BETTER!
YES WE CAN!
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