Voting Your Genitals
So yesterday I ripped into Palin’s so-called experience and qualifications, today let’s look at her policies – what small amount of them there is to look at, that is.
She wants creationism taught in public schools – that should energize the crazy base of the Republican Party but anyone who understands the concept of separation of church and state and that a big part of the founding of America was freedom of religion from an oppressive government should be rightly upset. I’ve always found the Republican contradiction fascinating, like a car accident: they want smaller government, “government that gets out of your way” they often say, including McCain and Palin, yet they think it is the role of government to tell you what religion to practice and who you can love. How can smaller government be big enough to include mind control? MKULTRA notwithstanding.
I would love to critique her foreign policy stances, but she doesn’t have any.
She claims global warming is not man-made. Think of the craziest Republican you can, even whoever you just thought of has probably acknowledged that global warming is man-made. Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan are on board, so is President Bush for God’s sake. I guess she never got around to that inconvenient truth – I guess that’s why they call it ‘inconvenient’.
She’s willing to pick up Hillary’s mantle of the cracked glass ceiling but there are a couple problems with that…
1. She disagrees with Clinton on just about everything.
2. She’s not running for President, she’s running for Vice President – they are different jobs unless she plans on having McCain whacked.
3. She said she didn’t like Hillary because she whined too much, way to strike a blow for women’s rights against misogynists, agreeing with them! That’s a unique strategy to be sure.
4. The guy she’s running with voted against equal pay for equal work, one of the hallmarks of the feminist movement.
5. She’s pro-life. If she doesn’t think a woman should be in control of her own body and her own life then why does she think one should be in control of the country?
I could go on but continuing to think about it is making me sick.
Oh, and McCain only met Palin once before getting her to join the ticket. It must’ve been one hell of a meeting.
Palin doesn’t even know what the Vice President does. Not long ago she said she didn’t want the job because it seemed do-nothing to her and she “needs to be productive”.
She has 5 kids, one is a 5-month old with Down syndrome, I’m not saying that precludes being president, I just see it as one hell of a raw deal for the kid, particularly if she ends up President in short order. They’ll have to be formally introduced when she leaves office unless she takes as much time off as Bush and hasn’t the country and world loved him for that?
Oh and she hates polar bears.
