Sarah Palin wants us to leave her family out of the presidential campaign. At the same time, she advocates a strict abstinence-only pregnancy prevention program for all our public schools. It begs the question, how well did that work with your own daughter? Because clearly, it didn’t. There can’t be a more appropriate indication of what a foolish idea such a policy is. Obviously, Sarah Palin’s daughter chose to have sex. Perhaps, if she’d been taught about birth control methods other than abstinence, she would not be getting married and becoming a mother at such a young age. She’s fortunate, though. Sarah Palin’s daughter has a powerfully connected mother, and is unlikely to face the crushing poverty that affects most single mothers.
Abstinence only programs DON’T WORK. That’s not the only problem with them. The reason Sarah Palin wants to teach abstinence only, despite the fact that many studies have shown it is one of the worst things you can do, is that she wants to enforce her own religious ideals on the entire country. She is presuming to tell everyone how they should raise their children, even when it is clear that her own ideals don’t work within her own family.
I’m sure that I’ll be accused of being mean and partisan because I’m “picking on her family,” but I’m not, actually. I’m not making any judgments about Ms. Palin’s daughter or husband. I’m talking about a political issue, her stand on that issue, and the fact that she can’t admit that she’s wrong, even in the face of the evidence in her own family.
John McCain is an old man. He’s been fighting cancer off and on for years. He is far more likely to die in office than anyone we’ve had in that office during my lifetime. That means, that if McCain is elected, it’s quite likely we’ll get to have Sarah Palin as our president for at least some part of his term. While John McCain clearly has the experience needed to be our president, you can’t convince me that governing Alaska gives Palin what’s needed to do the job. It is possible that she’d be a fine president, but so far, I don’t see any reason to come to that conclusion. It appears the RNC have used the same criteria to select her that they’ve been using to pick judges: who cares if they can do the job, just make sure they pass the political litmus tests and aren’t well known enough that anyone can dig up stuff to make them look bad.
We can’t afford another four years of this foolishness. Who would have thunk that “Compassionate Conservatism” actually meant: invade Iraq, ignore Bin Ladin, torture prisoners, and illegally spy on your own citizens. If only we’d had that definition before we allowed the Supreme Court to appoint him King — ummm, I mean President. We need to know what we’re actually going to get, this time around, and McCain has guaranteed that by electing him, we’re trusting the Republican Party to have made a wise choice in selecting a Vice President. Do I really need to go over their track record on that one?
I’m very sad that McCain made this selection. I’m sure there are well-qualified women in the Republican party, women who wouldn’t have represented a painfully transparent attempt to appeal to unhappy Clinton supporters. McCain should have picked the best man or woman for the job, and told the pollsters what they could do with their polls. It was his independence that made him attractive in the first place, but ever since he ran out of money, he’s been pandering to the worst of the conservative special interests. Here’s a man, who when presented with the problem of Global Warming, thinks it’s a good idea to drill for more oil.
If John McCain were elected without any special interest money backing him, I think he might make a good, but not great, president. Unfortunately, he’s made lots of deals with special interests in order to get the money he needed in order to continue his campaign. We wouldn’t get a John McCain who was free to do as his conscience dictated, we’d get a John McCain who is owned by the oil companies and the defense contractors. If he dies in office, we’d wind up with Palin, and we don’t know much at all about her, except she passed the vetting process of the RNC, the kind of process that gave us the kind of people who’ve put us in the mess we’re in.
John McCain could have done better. We, as a country can do better than McCain and Palin.
I admire Sarah Palin because she had also done a lot in the area of Politics specially in Alaska where she was a governor.
Take a closer look at what she did in Alaska. She didn’t even finish her term as Governor, most of which she spent running for Vice President. She neglected her duties during that time, then when she got beaten, she started campaigning for President for the 2012 election. When people criticized her for that, she resigned, claiming she wanted to spend more time with her family, but instead she has been working as the GOP attack dog, saying all the politically nasty things that none of the Republican leadership wants to have pinned on them. She seems to believe she’ll be rewarded for this by being given the GOP nomination in 2012.
I’d be delighted if Palin was the nominee in 2012, because it would be a virtual guarantee that Obama would be reelected.
I hope that Ms. Palin finds wisdom instead, and that she decides to really spend some time with her family. Perhaps she’ll find there what she seems to be seeking by running after TV cameras and demonstrating there is nothing she won’t do in the pursuit of power.
Actually, the first comment above is spam. I’ve had the same comment come from all kinds of different places, all with exactly the same wording. There are also a bunch of other comments being plastered all over the web.
Now, what is interesting, is that someone is paying to do this, and they people they are paying are hackers who have taken over thousands of computers and use them to spam. As I understand it, many of these spamming operations are now controlled by organized crime syndicates both here in the U.S. and in Russia. So, either the mob loves Sarah Palin, or she is so foolish that she doesn’t even understand who she’s hiring to do her political grunt work.
It’s too bad. I used to have a lot of respect for the Republican party, even though I usually disagreed with them. Now, not so much.
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