Trying to add her position on things. Please feel free to add posts containing her position on things, or commentary on them (pro/con/whatever). I can't believe anyone would pick her. I simply cannot believe it. Here goes.
-Well she doesn't believe in global warming
-Doesn't believe humans are changing the environment
-Wants to take the dwindling, drowning polar bear off the protected/endangered list
-Believes in teaching Creationism - Alaska does
I wish someone would show her a fossil of things older than 6,000 years and see her response.
---Believes in teaching Abstinence only - Alaska does
---Has a 17 year old pregnant daughter (see the connection?) -dangerous, dangerous policy (some say she might only be 16)
---before people knock this aspect, it's true, her daughter's pregnancy is a product of an abstinence only education, which
palin and the repubs have on their platform
---Palin herself paraded her daughter on stage with a big pregnant belly
---Palin's camp is releasing info herself about her daughter, including, she plans to marry the father, and 18 year old. Not that they will, or whether HE wants to, but SHE PLANS to. Pretty easy way to be non-committal but have it sound good in case the guy ditches her. Which I hope isn't the case, but happens when you're young and get pregnant. That's why you use...contraception. Sad that we are teaching kids they don't work...so they foster the attitude...well if they don't work, why use them? Thank you Gov. Palin.
-Palin also shows horrible judgment on her own baby issues
When in labor, IN LABOR, leaking seminal fluid, she decides to fly.yep FLY. Not a phx to tucson trip. But from Dallas, to Seattle, Seattle to Anchorage, Anchorage to her hometown one. Endangering herself, the baby, everyone on board those planes if it had to make an emergency landing (and whatever they were doing, maybe scrubbing a job interview, or a big business contract, and potentially the airlines bottom line). Shows POOR judgment, horrible judgment. Shows arrogance, shows she puts herself above all others.
Realistically has 5 children, one premature with down syndrome, and a child who is having a child. But now she needs to learn everything about everything outside Alaska by Bush's, err
McCain's (bush's) lobbyists...err advisors (lobbyists), AND be a mother? Guess what human beings will suffer?
Now I'm not privvy to what happens when one has a disabled child, but my guess is the first couple of years the parents, especially the mother (with which every baby forms a special bond with), needs to be around those children a ton. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but my common sense tells me she needs to be there for her baby more than for McCain.
Is nothing like Hillary Clinton, stands for NOTHING that Clinton stands for. Is a slap in the face to Clinton, and her supporters.
Anyone that compares her to Clinton is loony.
-Was elected gov, in 2006. Her first budget...HER FIRST, isn't even complete yet, since almost the first year of her term was under the budget of the previous governor. Let's not forget of 650,000 people. Her mayoral budget was 12 million dollars that oversaw 6000 people.
-Wants to drill for oil in anwar. (which will basically do nothing except muck up the environment, and give a little more money to the oil companies)...which also shows lack of judgement
-Is a woman on a witch hunt. Yep, we have Ms. Salem witch trials running for VP. Her M.O. is to be a part of something, than witch hunt everyone else around her so she can move up the ladder. She went around looking for any little thing to bust her peers so she could move up. She did, and then became the leader. How sad. Guess what will happen if she's VP? She'll find a way to witch hunt America. Anyone want that type of craziness one heartbeat away from the presidency?
-Her education policy? Fully fund K-12. That's it. Which of course we know most school funding is from the state level, not the federal. So obviously she has no VP education policy, that was her policy as governor, and it's pretty weak that that is it.
-Hates gays, and obviously their god given rights, which also makes her a bigot
-Against stem cell research
-Against equal pay for equal work
-Is a liar
Said she wasn't for the 'bridge to nowhere', even saying she said to congress 'thanks, but no thanks'. Which ofc are the words that were said over and over again by her competition, which makes her using those words kinda lame. But she really WAS for the 'bridge to nowhere'. There are even quotes where she basically says that it will be good for the prosperity of those people. But her ambition, and the fact that people caught onto the bridge, caused her to flip-flop, and go against it. Now she tells the story like she led the charge against it. B.S.
-Only talked with McCain 3 times, before being chosen, only ONCE before being put on the list. One of those 3 times, at least, was over the phone.
Wasn't elected to be vp, was selected by ONE MAN. She has not been put through the ringers, and now when we should be getting down to business, people expect that we should be vetting her for it. Lame. Also since people mostly vote for the top of a ticket, she never needs to be vetted, since she was selected by ONE man.
Not the 18 million that voted for Obama. Not the fact that he was a state senator for 8 years before running for Senator. Also was put through the ringer for almost 2 years as a candidate. His positions on record, and on camera, and you KNOW his position on event like Iraq have been longstanding, and enduring. Not that he was RIGHT on the Iraq war BEFORE it started. Showing good judgment there.
-Palin even now, with the benefit of hindsight, is still blind as a bat. Saying we did the right thing. Yada, Yada. Good thing her son is going on....Sept 11, to Iraq. Good. About time we don't have a chicken hawk running from the repubs. (sans McCain ofc)
So this is the women that McCain wants to be VP, and thinks is READY to be president. A heartbeat away from the presidency for a 72 year old candidate who has already had multiple bouts of cancer. Is pandering to the woman vote and the religious right vote. (yep she's a religous right fanatic). She not a reformer, she a performer. She performs her act at changing things to be religous right, and then says that makes her a reformer. No, denying rights and going backwards, IS NOT a reformer.
This was McCain's first decision as a potential president. He obviously shows NO JUDGMENT, and has NO RESPECT for the VP position. How can you do this after basing your campaign off you being experienced, and Obama isn't...this girl lives in her Alaskan fantasy world. Oblivious to the outside world, yet she's ready to be commander-in-chief? She can stare down Bin laden, or putin, or Iran's pres? Please.
She'll be told what she does as a puppet of the Bush guys. She'll be told what to think on foreign policy, basically what to think on everything. Sad, very sad.
Oh yeah, and if she battles corruption, why does she try to hide the truth so much? Why does she try to use her power to fire the head of DPS because that person won't fire her brother-in-law?
She's full of everything. She crazy right wing, crazy religious, crazy with power, Crazy on witch hunts, and will be told what to do by outside people. What a lame choice for VP. She pushes back the female agenda, because she is such a horrible, unqualified, choice.
Also shows you how bad of judgement McCain has. I love the 'you'll love her the more you get to know her comment'...How can anyone say that if you've only spoken to her THREE fricken times?? McCain is clueless, his lobbyists are running his campaign. It shows you how much thought he'll put into his decisions as president....not much at all. To be honest, as bad as I think bush is, I think at this point, a McCain/Palin ticket would stand to be worse. Seriously.
This is basically a running list, post more if you have them. I know I'm forgetting stuff.
I'm trying to think of a good thing to say about her....she's a good speaker, aside from the tone of voice.
McCain thinks he's going to get millions of these women who voted for Hillary. But I doubt it. It's a small possibility. But I say more like 18,000-180,000 would. Which is 1/10 of a percent to 1 percent of who voted for Hillary. But what they forget is that they are the party of racist, bigot, sexists, macho guys. Not saying they are all ofc, but if you are a racist, you can be in the GOP, you can be a bigot and be in the GOP, can be a sexist and be in GOP, act all macho tough as being cool and be in the GOP. My guess is those type of people won't vote or find a very hard time voting for a woman on the ticket. So in my estimation, whatever women he gains from Hillary, he'll lose 3x that from his base. She will solidify the religious crazies, but so would a number of other candidates he could have chosen.
If you want a good laugh, watch the right wing pundits trying to defend her. It really, really is hilarious. Last night Tarrantos on MSNBC made me laugh really hard trying to put lipstick on this pig. Gotta love how NOW McCain is sending people up to alaska to vet her. They hadn't even checked the newspapers up there about her, lol. Surprise!
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