Buy Or Don’t Buy

Ever since John McCain announced Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate on Friday, I’ve been going crazy trying to find as much information about her as possible.  The public has very little knowledge of her, and if things stay that way, it could actually be a boon to the Repubs.  Right now she appears to be a cute, down-to-earth “hockey mom” who knows her way around an ice-fishing hole.

In actuality she is probably the WORST person McCain could have chosen for his running mate, and that’s including Mike Huckabee.  Here are some reasons why.

• She sued the Bush administration for putting polar bears on the endangered species list, claiming that it will slow development in Alaska.  That means that she is less eco-friendly than GEORGE W. BUSH.  I didn’t think that was possible.  And Michelle Malkin, an Asian-American woman who wrote a book DEFENDING WW2 JAPANESE INTERNMENT, loves her.
• That whole, uh, ethics violation investigation she’s got going on up there.  Basically, her sister is in a really bad divorce/custody fight with a state trooper.  Palin’s aides, husband and Palin herself made multiple attempts at pressuring his boss, the public safety commissioner, to fire him.  The commissioner resisted and was himself subsequently fired, it seems because he refused to fire the state trooper.  Palin first tried to lie about it, saying that none of this happened, but then recorded evidence was provided that proves her aides, at the very least, were doing this.  So now she’s just lying about her own involvement.
• She is against legal abortions even in the case of rape or incest, which is terrifying at a time when pretty much half of the Supreme Court is about to drop over dead.
• She thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.  That’s enough for another post altogether.
• She’s also got some sketchy ties to Christian Dominionists, and might actually be one herself, although I’m willing to withhold judgment on that for now.  In case you’re wondering, those are pentecostals who believe we should overthrow the Constitution and write a new one based on the Bible.  Yep.
• She named two of her kids “Track” and “Trig.”  See?  Poor judgment.  
• Her own mother-in-law probably won’t vote for her.  Faye Palin: “I’m not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she’s a woman and a conservative.”  Thanks, Mom!
• Oh, and the fact that she has neither national nor international experience; she said that her eldest son shipping off to Iraq was what “really opened [her] eyes to international events and how war impacts everyday Americans” (really?  THAT’S what it took for you open your eyes to international events?); and she’s only been governor of Alaska for less than TWO YEARS.