Sarah Palin is arguable the most unqualified candidate to run for the vice presidential race in US history, which is only to affirm our suspicion that John McCain is a desperate, deeply disconnected man resorting to desperate measures. Palin is not only an ultra social conservative, she vetoed the bill denying benefits to gays as unconstitutional on Aug 2008, deemed it acceptable to deny benefits to homosexual couples in Aug 2006, and in July 2006, she was against spousal benefits for same-sex couples.
Even more egregious is her perspective and policy on women’s rights. While most conservatives are pro-life except in cases where the victim was raped and involved in incestual relations. They make wider exceptions iin situations where the woman was victimized in some way or form.
Palin advocates the illegality of abortion for women who are victims of rape or incest. To put it in pictures, if your are a 15 year old daughter was gang raped, she cannot abort the fetus. If she was raped by a family member, she cannot abort the baby. In an interview with Katie Couric on this matter, Couris asked Palin how she would respond to the scenarios above, and her reply was “I will counsel her to consider life.” What Palin neglected to mention is that her policy would make it illegal for the 15 year old to have an abortion.
As a social conservative, Palin claims she respects her 17 year old daughter’s “decision” to get pregnant while unmarried when in reality Palin has a record of slashing funds for programs to support teen mother.
Moreover, Palin hates fellow Americans beyond the Alaska border. Why else would she be a part of an organization that supports Alaskan secession from the US. Rosa Brooks from The Los Angeles Times reported:
Over the years, Palin has actively courted the Alaska Independence Party, or AIP, an organization that supports Alaskan secession from the U.S. To be clear, we’re not necessarily talking about friendly secession either: As the AIP’s founder, Joe Vogler, told an interviewer in 1991: “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. … And I won’t be buried under their damn flag.”
The Washington Post claimed that the selectin of Sarah Palin smacks of desperation and fraught with peril for the Republican nominee.
CNN commentator, Paul Begala, said that in choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, he is not thinking “outside the box,” as some have said. More like out of his mind.
Begala continues:
Palin, a first-term governor of a state with more reindeer than people, will have to put on a few pounds just to be a lightweight. Her personal story is impressive: former fisherman, mother of five. But that hardly qualifies her to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
For a man who is 72 years old and has had four bouts with cancer to have chosen someone so completely unqualified to become president is shockingly irresponsible. Suddenly, McCain’s age and health become central issues in the campaign, as does his judgment.
Irresponsible and a complete mockery to women everywhere, that we are so disenfranchised and intellectually inept that we would vote for a candidate that is against our own rights. The Republicans must be desperate.
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