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1: Palin Tried to Ban Books From Local Library
2: Palin Apparently Doesn't Put "Country First" (she is/was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a sessionist movement.)
3: Palin's Love Affair With Earmarks
4: Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms
5: Crazy Reverend, Crazy Church (Ed Kalinins preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven)
6: McCain Picking Palin Reeks of Sexism... I will grant this is purely subjective but I also feel that it is fundamentally true.
7: She can't run a car wash (State records show the business ran into trouble with Alaska's division of corporations business and professional licensing after Palin became governor of the state in 2006. it had "not filed its biennial report and/or paid its biennial fees," which were more than a year overdue.April 3, 2007, the state went further and issued a "certificate of involuntary dissolution" because of the car wash's failure to file its report and pay state licensing fees.)
8: She lied about foreign travel (In an attempt to inflate her nonexistent foreign policy credentials, Palin's spokespeople stated shortly after her nomination that she had traveled to Germany, Kuwait and Ireland: you know, the three countries most likely to give rise to catastrophic national security emergencies in the next four years.But not only is Palin's travel history unimpressive, it was also being blatantly misrepresented. According Jim Aravosis, an Irish blogger has just revealed that Palin was in Ireland for a brief refueling layover.)
Originally posted by grover
reply to post by theblunttruth
I have read his book and he does not endorse Wright's views in it.
6: McCain Picking Palin Reeks of Sexism... I will grant this is purely subjective but I also feel that it is fundamentally true.
The most interesting thing about McCain choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate is this:
He chose a relatively inexperienced state politician who happens to be very pretty. And that is I think, the reason he chose her was her looks... young, pretty and feminine. More proof as if there isn't enough already that McCain just does not get it no matter what it is... in this case the appeal to women voters.
The reason I say this is that if he wanted to chose a conservative woman VP there are plenty out there with far more knowledge than Ms. Palin, Kay Bailey Hutchinson comes immediately to mind for one. I disagree with her on just about everything but that she has considerable experience is undeniable.
Olympia Snowe of Maine is another, though she is far more moderate than the right wing extremists who have hijacked the Republican party like... and then there is Elizabeth Dole.
Each of those three choices would say to women voters that McCain was taking them far more seriously than the Palin pick
Originally posted by grover
I stand by that statement... If he really wanted to attract women voters he would have chosen someone of substance
Sarah Palin's abrupt appearance on the national stage sparked an enormous array of questions, one of which is: Has she ever traveled abroad?
I asked her new spokeswoman, Maria Comella, who noted that Palin visited Germany and Kuwait in 2007 to visit Alaska National Guard troops.
Comella said she'd also visited one other country: Ireland.
Source.
Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.
"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God," she exhorted the congregants.