So McCain has chosen his running mate! The oh so qualified Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin! Over the last couple of weeks, there has been an unbelievable amount of media coverage on Governor Palin, both right and left wing. Many people are amazed and concerned with McCain’s choice based on her experience. Republicans love her because of what she represents: Family, religion, and conservative views. She is someone the average American can relate to, especially conservative women who, in the past, weren’t a big voting group. But one thing that I feel has gotten lost in the shuffle are her political views. Right now, due to her current family situation, her political positions have been semi-swept under the rug, while everyone insists on talking about her knocked-up teenage daughter. So lets just take a little look at exactly what Mrs. Palins views are, shall we?
-The Predator Control Policy: In 2007, Palin supported the Alaskan Dept. of Fish and Game policy allowing the hunting of wolves from helicopters as part of a predator control program intended to increase moose populations. In March 2007, Palin's office announced that a bounty of $150 per wolf would be paid to the 180 volunteer pilots and gunners, to offset fuel costs. Wildlife activists sued the state, and a state judge declared the bounty illegal on the basis that a bounty would have to be offered by the Board of Game and not by the Department of Fish and Game.
(I'm not even going to get into why this pisses me off....)
-Palin is a social conservative and a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association (NRA)
(Sweet! Its Ted Nugent and Charlton Heston mixed together but with breasts!)
-She supports capital punishment
-Palin supports allowing the discussion of creationism in public schools.
-Palin opposes same-sex marriage and supported a non-binding referendum for an Alaskan constitutional amendment to deny state health benefits to same-sex couples.
(This makes me so upset because it continues this messed up way of thinking that gay people aren't human beings like everybody else and don't deserve the same 'god' given rights as each one of us are entitled to. This whole "Every man should be treated equal," something that our country was founded upon, only applies to the conservative norm. It makes me sick.)
-Palin has called herself "as pro-life as any candidate can be" and has called abortion an "atrocity." Palin supports a constitutional amendment to make abortion illegal in all cases, including rape and incest.
(So when your 12 year old daughter is raped and gets pregnant, she can thank Mrs. Palin for making her live with that traumatic pain for the rest of her life. I think that we, as females, have worked so hard to protect our rights as women, and Palin is on the path of destroying everything all the women of past generations have spent their lives working towards. Keeping abortion legal isn't about liking abortion, Sarah, it's about trusting women to make decisions that are right for themselves and their families--much like you trusted your own daughter to do that. That trust is at the core of women supporting and representing each other. Pregnancy, whether planned or not, is something families struggle with on a daily basis, and she had the right to choose what to do in her family situation, and so should every other woman.)
-She is a member of Feminists for Life. She supports sex education that promotes abstinence and that also discusses birth control.
(Looks like your a little late on that birth control talk huh?)
-Palin has promoted oil and natural gas resource exploration in Alaska, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and initiated a lawsuit over the federal listing of the polar bear and Cook Inlet beluga whale as endangered species. Palin has stated in the past that she does not believe that global warming is human-caused.
(Its makes me very sad and scared to think that there might be a day when I have children of my own and they have to ask the question, "what did a polar bear look like?" Or am I even going to have the opprotunity of having children or are we going to destroy our planet before then?)
-She supports NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, and affirms that if Russia invaded a NATO treaty member the United States would meet its treaty obligations and go to war with Russia.
-Regarding foreign policy, Palin supports preemptive military action in the face of an imminent threat, supports US military operations in Pakistan.
Sarah Palin does not possess the experience needed to lead this country, nor does she
uphold the issues that are important to me as a female voter. Feminism is not simply about achieving the power and status typically held by men. It's about protecting and supporting the rights of women of all classes, races, cultures, and beliefs. Palin's record and beliefs do not align with this. She was chosen by John McCain specifically because he believes that American women will vote for any female candidate regardless of their qualifications. He is wrong.
By selecting someone as inexperienced, incompetent, and intolerant as Sarah Palin, John McCain shows that he has no true concern for his nation or its citizens. He’s older and not in the best health, yet he doesn’t care if his choice means that America stands a good chance of being governed by such an inappropriate and flatly frightening person. Ladies, gentlemen: We’re not voting for someone like ourselves, who drives to soccer games or likes a beer with the guys. We’re voting for the most intelligent, able person we can find. Those people are not John McCain or Sarah Palin.
I believe the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate is pandering to the lowest common denominator of the American voting public .Domestically her stance on issues of choice, stem cell research, sex education and science, risks setting the advances that women have worked so hard for back by decades. Based on what I have heard from her so far, Sarah Palin is so utterly uninformed, sophomoric and insular in her world view that it is simply unbelievable to me that she would be considered a reasonable choice as Vice President of the United States of America in anyone’s universe. The United States is truly at a “tipping point” in terms of our political, economic, and military influence on the world stage. The consequences of voting for a ticket so dramatically weakened by the choice of Sarah Palin is frightening.
Its funny how people from both parties don't want another 4 years of Bush, yet if you really think about it, Palin is pretty much just Bush in drag:)
Friday, September 19, 2008
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