Sarah Palin: Wrong choice for America
I absolutely understand why the Republican base (i.e. the extremist religious right wing of the part) are absolutely crazy over Sarah Palin. Not only is she attractive with a lot of charisma. Not only has she accomplished a lot in the political world for a “soccer parent”. She is one of them, an extremist conservative who would ban abortions in the case of rape (even for her own daughter), rejects science, and supports abstinence only education.
Palin is a hypocrite. She (and others) keep saying that her family should be off limits. I agree that the issues regarding her family should be left out of the election. The only relevant point that can be made about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is that obviously Sarah’s “abstinence only” approach to sex ed did not work with her own daughter. Why does she think it would work with other people? However, as she protests about the media treatment of her family, she parades them around for all to see. If you don’t want your children to be front and center in the campaign, don’t put them there! And even if she didn’t parade them around on stage at the Republican Convention, she had to have known that her family would be put under the microscope (just like Chelsea Clinton, Jenna and Barbara Bush, and all other families of politicians that get treated the same way). If she didn’t realize what would happen, she would be proven to be an idiot.
Palin and her supporters are crying sexism in the media and the blogosphere. I personally could care less what set of private parts she has. What bothers me personally is her issues and ideas for America. And while some criticisms (like how can she be VP with 5 kids) are ignorant and irrelevant, other comments made about her are not sexist at all.
For example, some have called her a ”cheerleader” for McCain. That is not sexist. Males are cheerleaders as well. Look at our current President. He was a cheerleader as well. Since men can be cheerleaders, calling Sarah Palin one is not sexist at all.
And again, Palin and her supporters show their hypocrisy. If Palin doesn’t want people to make any judgements on her based on the fact that she is a woman, then she needs to not campaign as if being a woman is at all relevant to her running for this position. She should be calling herself a “soccer parent” and not a “soccer mom”. She should not be saying that the only difference between her and a pit bull is lipstick. I was listening to XM on the way home from Shreveport and I heard the most absurd comment by a bunch of Republican supporters of Sarah Palin who happened to be women. They kept complaining about Democrats and how they are supposedly being sexist over Sarah Palin. They tried to say how Palin is an accomplished woman and that these sexist remarks expose some hypocrisy in the Democratic Party. The final speaker then quoted Margaret Thatcher by saying:
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Excuse me? How can you whine and complain about people being sexist against your candidate and then make a sexist comment yourself and expect people to take you seriously? So again, Palin supporters reveal their hypocrisy.
People believe that Palin on the ticket will bring over Hillary supporters, especially women who wanted to make history with the first female President and will settle for the first female Vice President. Now this is just plain silly. As it has been said, by me and others, Sarah Palin does not support the issues that Hillary Clinton voters support. So any Hillary supporter who would vote for McCain because he picked a woman would be a prime example of someone cutting off their nose to spite their face. It would just be absolute stupidity. And if you are a supporter of womens rights and you are voting for Palin to “make history”, don’t be surprised when the rights your cherish “BECOME HISTORY” when McCain appoints anywhere from 1 to 4 activist conservative Supreme Court justices.
And then there is always her jabs at community organizers. We get it Sarah, you don’t think that being a community organizer is a worthwhile goal. We get that you don’t understand why a person would give up an opportunity to make millions on Wall St. and instead go to Chicago and try and help out poor people who are unemployed. We get that while Democrats look at people who are poor and see limitless potential who just need a hand up, that you and other Republicans look at the poor as a huge burden, a strain on your personal wealth and that the only good poor people are those who blindly follow your fear tactics and rhetoric. We get it!
The McCain/Palin ticket criticizes Obama for wanting change and then they embrace the idea of “change” themselves. However, McCain/Palin brings us no change at all, just a continuance of the failed policies of the Bush Administration and the Republican Party. McCain/Palin says “country first”. Well, in order to be a true leader of our country you have to fight for each and every citizen in our country. Since McCain/Palin rejects equal rights for people who are homosexual, they prove that they would be unwilling to fight for each and every citizen and prove that they are not qualified to lead our country. I say, put every individual citizen of this country first and elect Obama/Biden in 2008!