Don’t Mess With Our Librarians!

The text reads:

Does John McCain’s choice for Vice President share your family’s values?

Sarah Palin opposes the use of birth control pills and condoms—even among married people.
Source: Political Wire, 8/30/2008

Sarah Palin opposed sex education in Alaska schools.
Source: The Politico, 9/1/2008

She even opposes abortion even in cases of rape.
Source: The Huffington Post, 9/1/2008

Are these your family values?

But Palin is worse. She’s the chosen candidate of a group who is open about wanting to convert the United States into a theocracy. The Margaret Atwood references others have made are quite apt. Our Constitution is in dire peril, and we have, I believe, THIS election to restore both it and our continued existence as the country we have been in the world prior to 2000.

I’m voting against the Right Wing revolution more than I’m voting for Obama. He was not even my third choice (nor was Hillary), but what he lacks in experience and actual insight (not the rhetorical kind) is made up by advisers who are not bat-shit crazy End-Timers. He’s a politician, not so much a leader, but a politician is sufficient to stop our decline while we wait for an FDR or Harriet Tubman.

And Shado, I know it looks suspicious, the overlapping pregnancies, but there are photos of Palin very pregnant. It does sound nutty for her to risk her baby on a long plane flight in order to have it born in Alaska, but it’s her particular bent to be that reckless, it’s not a cover-up for her daughter’s pregnancy. I wish all those children well.

I think my main concern about Palin as a candidate is that she presumably believes she is prepared for the job of president should McCain become unable to complete the job, which seems to speak volumes about her ego. She is as weak in foreign affairs as Obama, having dealt with foreign government agencies and investors only as governor of a single state, and in times like these it’s hard to see how she could perform well. Plus she is as gaffe-prone as Truman and Ford.

Meanwhile, back in London I’ve re-joined the Green Party!

My inner BS clock is thinking this pregnancy story is just cover for the other pregnancy story; in any other circumstance, I wouldn’t care about any of it, except for Palin’s views on birth control, etc. I too, am offended by McCain and frankly, other male commentators who think Hilary’s supporters only cared about her gender—I mean come on!

On another note, doesn’t she look like a cross between Will & Grace’s Karen Walker and Tina Fey? I’m writing the Saturday Night Live sketch in my head right now….

(1) She is cloud-cuckoo-land Religious Right crazy. They are ECSTATIC at this choice, and have reversed their move away from McSame now to raising money hand over fist for th RNC. She is far more to the right than Reagan, Quayle or Dubya himself in terms of religious fanaticism. Like, she may be part of that small subgroup of fundie who believe the Earth is flat (because the Bible doesn’t say it’s round — we have a member of the Texas House of Reps who has attempted to stop schools from teaching “round earth theory” — I’m not making this up.) Therefore, he took his orders from Dobson via Cheney.

(2) Tim “We don’t need no stinkin’ bridge inspections” Pawlenty, Mitt “Magic Underwear” Romney, and Joe “Slip Me Some Tongue Dubya” Lieberman all said no to McSame because after the Democratic National Convention, it was clear he was going to lose.

(3) He succumbed to his need to be surrounded by beauty queens on all fronts, and he thought it would make him look better standing next to her.

(4) He thought those who had supported Hillary would vote for any vagina at all.

(5) It’s a brilliant Roveian plot to draw out the massive lefti woman-hating and rural-bashing rhetoric that was exhibited on far too many blogs during our own nominees campaign, disgusting women (especially working class women) and those who identify with rural values (not necessarily those who live in rural areas) to such an extent that they will swing to McCain for the election. I have to admit, some so called “liberal” males out there are already proving this one right, they just cannot pass up the read meat of attacking a woman on gender terms.

I personally think it’s mostly #1, with maybe some or all of the others playing a role. What seems definite is that she would not have been the first choice of his advisers/handlers, and it’s 50/50 at this point whether she’ll stay the nominee. Especially with the news that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant — which I think is nobody’s business but theirs EXCEPT for her vicious stance against birth control, against teaching real sex education in schools, and against abortion even in the case of rape and incest. This calls HER values as a leader into question, but I don’t fucking want to hear anyone bashing her kid.

It has also come out that when Palin’s water broke with the last pregnancy, she got on a plane for an 8-hour trip to Alaska rather than check into a big hospital in Texas. With a high-risk pregnancy which they already knew was Downs’, this is extremely irresponsible. Interestingly, for the seven months prior to that birth, her other teenaged daughter had been absent from school and public view with mono. Currently that baby, now five months old, is in the care of that teenaged daughter. Again, the only decent thing to do is congratulate them on pulling together as a family and stick to the issues, which center around making birth control, family planning, and special needs care available for all those who don’t share her religious views.

Other Palin pluses, by the way, as a nominee include:
–Alaska as a state is completely wedded to Big Oil. (But it’s not counted as a large state, except geographically — it has less than half a million in population, so no electoral votes to speak of.)
–She comes off as “spunky” and “regular folks” (as opposed to intellectual elite) to those who aren’t especially progressive.
–Her beauty pageant background makes her very adept at media handling and presentation.
–She is disposable, should the need arise, without pissing off anybody except Alaska and the Jebus fanatics — and the latter can be appeased if she is “driven” from her candidacy by the evil liberals making a big issue about her as a woman or her private life.

http://www.mahalo.com/Sarah_Palin_Pregnancy_Rumors

Perhaps Big Mac should’ve taken a wee bit more time vetting his veep…