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Spinning Sarah Palin: Dick Cheney In A Dress
By letterhead | August 30, 2008
Stepping back from all the broo-ha-ha over the “experience factor” in the Palin VP pick, as well as the irony of announcing the choice at “Nutter Center,” McCain’s choice fatally punctures one of his key talking points:
It should finally put to rest the idea that McCain is a man who will “stand up to his own party,” which is a line I have heard from many moderate, sensible Republicans (with lots of money) who want to rationalize voting for him mostly on the notion that he’ll (further) lower their taxes.
Picking Sarah Palin is a clear pander to the most extreme wing of the GOP: she’s an ultra-right, creationist, gun-toting, evangelical, Big Oil Mama who does not believe global warming is man-made, subverts science when it conflicts with policy, and uses the levers of government for personal vendettas (!)… albeit in a charming, small-town, pulp-fictiony kind of way.
Take away the Bible and she’s Dick Cheney in a dress.
If you believe that’s the decision of a straight-talking centrist who can stand up to his own party, then you’re being buffaloed in the worst possible Alaskan way.
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August 30th, 2008 at 10:50 am
So, disclose your voting record and cut the spin. If you voted Democrat in the last, oh, 4 election cycles, your comments show the sheer panic of your party. If you’re a “pragmatic independent”, you go with only popular sentiment any way. Either way, your critiquing and name calling of Palin and McCain’s choice of Palin is silly and won’t work - but do keep it up (for our amusement’s sake). See you at the debates, bitches.
August 30th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Wow. Holy crap. It took only one hour for this puny, hole-in-the-wall site to get flamed on Sarah Palin. The wing-nut brigade is on the march.
My voting record is immaterial. But for the record I am a registered Independent who voted for John Anderson in my first presidential election cycle… voted against Gorge Bush in the last several cycles. I have voted for rational, sensible, Republican candidates (e.g., Bloomberg) and would do so again if the GOP wasn’t being run by a bunch of corrupt reactionary bullies like… oh I don’t know… people like you?
The facts of her record are material, and she appeals to the extreme right wing: not the choice of a centrist, independent, moderate that McCain wants us to believe he is.