Sarah Palin is No Hillary Substitute

[Dayna1975]

When president Palin is given the oath of office after president McCain passes, we all had better get used to wearing pink triangles on our coats.

Crystalnacht and the night of the long knives is just a start.  But, just remember, that it's all in the name of Jesus...

-Sandy

Scary thought, but I could see that happening.  Europe is looking better every day.

[RebeccaFog]

except for the part referred to as "France"

[tekla]

Great articles on Sara

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power.

Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV -and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.

From Rolling Stone, but reprinted
http://www.alternet.org/election08/100551/mad_dog_palin_/

And this one about her views on religion.

"To understand Sarah Palin, you have to realize that she is a religious fundamentalist," said Howard Bess, a retired liberal Baptist minister living in Palmer. "The structure of her understanding of life is no different from a Muslim fundamentalist."

http://www.alternet.org/election08/100707/sarah_palin%2C_21st_century_theocrat/

[RebeccaFog]

whoa.

I read 2 points of view on why she wouldn't fund rape kits for rape victims. One is because she doesn't want to hand out morning after pills, and the other because she believes there is no such thing as rape (of a woman) because women are on earth to serve men.

I'm not saying these are really true, but it is creepy.

This fits with her taking a governor position then having her husband make many of the decisions.

I liked those vicious articles.

[The Bri Girl]

OK, I'm in a frightening quandary here. 
     I admit I love the ideals of my nation, freedom of thought and religion, pursuit of Shalom and all that jazz.  I also believe that America has been voting to turn itself into a Fascist dictatorship at lightspeed.  I can't conscience running to Canada without a fight, but I also admit, that being in Alaska, it's hard not to eye that border a hop skip and jump away.   I just wonder when they'll rename us Amerika and build a wall to keep us in.  Maybe that's an exaggerated fear, but I want to put up a good fight before I flee.  It's just that the Stupid around here in Alaska is so thick you could cut it with a rubber spoon.

[RebeccaFog]

well now. I'm just going to have to tell everyone in Alaska that you said that.

You'll be lucky if they don't use a spoon on you!     

[NicholeW.]

OK, I'm in a frightening quandary here. 
     I admit I love the ideals of my nation, freedom of thought and religion, pursuit of Shalom and all that jazz.  I also believe that America has been voting to turn itself into a Fascist dictatorship at lightspeed.  I can't conscience running to Canada without a fight, but I also admit, that being in Alaska, it's hard not to eye that border a hop skip and jump away.   I just wonder when they'll rename us Amerika and build a wall to keep us in.  Maybe that's an exaggerated fear, but I want to put up a good fight before I flee.  It's just that the Stupid around here in Alaska is so thick you could cut it with a rubber spoon.

Well, you guys seemed to move at least part of the 'stupid" down to the lower 48 with the Palin nomination. Please don't hope she gets elected just to get rid of her there though. You 6-700 K folks should take one for the rest of us!!

Nichole

[The Bri Girl]

I heard a funny today.

     An old farmer came in one day to see the Doctor.  He'd hurt his hand stringing fences.  The Doc sewed him up, and while they were there, they got to talking.
Says the Doctor; "Well whaddy think about that Governor Palin?
"Welp" says the Farmer.  I reckon she's a Post Turtle.
The Doctor, puzzled, asked "What's a Post Turtle?"
The Old Timer kinda grinned, splitting the creases on his sunbaked face, "Ever been down a dirt road, and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top?", "That's a Post Turtle".

The Doc looked a bit nonplussed;
     So the farmer went on" You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and ya just wonder what kind of dumb A** put her up there to begin with."

If you've heard this before, I apologize.
Bri

[RebeccaFog]

hopefully you alaskans won't keep her as your governor if she runs again after losing the VP. 

I mean. Without just insulting her (which I find easy). While she's running for VP, she seems to be having McCant people handling her job. Shouldn't that fall to alaskans?  That right there is an insult.  Plus, the first dud factor.  somebody voted for her, not her husband.

This is the 'married with children election'. We have Al and Peg Bundy running for VP and the presidential candidate goes to a biker rally where there's nudity and drugs.

Goodbye America, I hardly knew ye.

[lisagurl]

Well if cuteness was the only measure.

[tekla]

Well if cuteness was the only measure.

Then Mary Lou Retton would be President today.