Sarah Palin is NOT healthy for this country
Let me start by saying I love Joe Biden. I have always liked him, but now I LOVE him. This man has done more for women than Palin (a vagina owner) has ever done. VAWA, anyone?
Palin is so anti-woman that it frightens me. The fact that she wants the VP to have MORE power than Cheney is terrifying. BTW, kudos to my man Biden for saying “Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous VP we have had in history.” Let’s think about this. We already know that Palin is anti-choice (I refuse to call it pro-life b/c it implies that pro-choice people are anti-life). If Palin had her way, women who have been raped or molested would be forced to carry and deliver her attacker’s baby. Let’s put that in perspective. I am engaged to a very loving, supportive, and all around wonderful man. If I were raped by some asshat in Palin’s world, my fiance would be forced to watch me pregnant with another man’s baby. A man who violated me and stole a large piece of my soul. When I put it in that perspective for him, my fiance said “Damn that, I’d have to kill a son of a bitch before I allowed that”. Ladies, how would your men feel? Gentlemen, how would YOU feel in that instance? OK, we also know that in Alaska, if you are raped, you are to pay for your own rape kits. Again, let’s think about this. Women who are raped report feelings of shame. Society has a tendency to blame the victim. If a woman is raped and feels shameful and blames herself for being attacked already, what is the likelihood that she would even report her rape? Compound that with having to PAY for the forensics testing. There’s a lot to the rape kits. There’s swab after swab looking for DNA. The rape kit portion is another invasion as it is, but to be forced to PAY for it?? Seems to me, the consequences to this would be even MORE underreporting of rape/incest, even MORE self-guilt, and even MORE of a license for men to violate women. The consequence to making abortion illegal is women reverting to coat hanger, back alley abortions. It will NOT, I repeat, NOT make abortion cease to exist. I personally don’t think that I could have an abortion unless I was raped or my life was in danger, but I don’t think ANYONE has the right to tell ANYONE what to do with their bodies. So Sarah Palin revering herself for making the difficult “choice” of having a special needs child grates on my nerves. If you’re anti-choice, don’t say you made the “choice”. Also, stop revering your daughter for making the choice to have her baby. She’s YOUR daughter. Do you honestly expect us to believe she ever had a choice in the first place? Oh, and by the way, abstinence only education doesn’t work. See Bristol Palin.
Fundamentalist Christians make me uncomfortable on a lot of different levels. Fundamentalist Christians are the Neo-Conservative base. Fundamentalist Christians, such as Sarah Palin, believe the Earth is 6,000 years old. They also believe that the apocolypse or rapture (depending on the camp) is happening really soon. Do you think that Sarah Palin will have any qualms nuking the planet that she thinks isn’t going to last much longer anyway? She literally thinks that people and dinosaurs were on Earth at the same time. So, the Flinstones was a documentary? Yeah, ok Sarah, keep sailing that boat. Your father was a science teacher. Science and religion can go hand in hand. By the way, I’m a progressive Christian.
Anyway, after all my ramblings, my point is this. Sarah Palin = extremist danger. You know those extreme Muslims that want a jihad? They’re scary right? Sarah Palin believes the war in Iraq is God’s plan. If I were a jihadist, I would hear that and say “Game on!” Do you want her sitting down with Putin and saying folksy things like “You betcha” and “doggone it”? There’s a time for casual conversation and a time for professionalism. What we witnessed last night was not professionalism. These candidates are basically on a job interview right now. When I was 16 and interviewed for my first job at Krystal I was more professional than Sarah Palin has been thus far. Oh, and Sarah Palin, stop calling me “Joe Six-pack”. It’s nauseating and offensive. You make it sound like middle class Americans are a bunch of ignorant rednecks. Oh, and also, stop winking at me. We’re not friends. I do not like you. Stop acting like you know me. You are from Alaska, which is NOT a microcosm of the world. You know not of my struggles. I have one house, one car, and very little discretionary income. You and your husband have 5 properties, a boat, and an airplane. We have NOTHING in common other than our gender being able to read.
McCain’s horrible temper, disrespect, and my way or the high way attitude coupled with Sarah Palin’s extreme beliefs and lack of professionalism and respect = DANGER! Warn your friends! Vote! Encourage others to vote!
