Sarah Plain and TallPalin and Small-minded

Since Sarah Palin hit the big stage, almost everyday seems to reveal new information about her and her far right-wing social conservative ideology and overall unfitness to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

God, Guns and Gays
Palin is an extreme religious conservative. I believe that a person's religious beliefs should not be a barrier to office, under the ONE CONDITION that he/she does not desire to impose his/her religious beliefs one others through the government. Even as mayor of her tiny town, ran on a campaign based on her religion, and once on office Palin attempted to ban books and fire the town librarian. She cannot be trusted to separate Church and State, which is what supporters like Dobson are counting upon.
When she ran for mayor against the former mayor, John Stein, she campaign with "We will have our first Christian mayor.". Stein was a Lutheran, so Palin clearly brought Antisemitism into her campaign strategy. (I wonder if Joe Lieberman is aware of this?)

She has stated her believe that the Iraq War is part of God's plan. She also claims that God wants a $30 billion gas pipeline in Alaska.

She is a lifelong N.R.A. member and aligned with their dangerous agenda. She likes shooting wolves using aerial hunting, too.

She sought to deny health benefits to same-sex-couple state workers. "Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.". It not hard to realize that if elected she will fight to continue the ban on gays in the military.

War on Science
Like most ideologues, Palin rejected established science in favor of her ideology in forming public policy. She refuses to accept that global warming has a man-made component. She refuses to recognize the need to put polar bears on the endangered species list. She wants Creationism taught in the schools next to evolution, as though the two were equivalent theories.

Sarah Palin: Repairing the Cracks in the Glass Ceiling

Over the long weekend, I've been trying to understand McCain's choice of Sarah Palin, and it becomes more mysterious with each revelation about her. I've come to several conclusions, which I may still revamp if the drip-drip-drip continues.

Obviously, Palin was a surrender by McCain to the radical, regressive, social conservatives and purveyors of Medieval science. She's a gun-toting, pro-life, Creationist that doesn't believe in protecting bears, global warming or teaching sex education. She seems like Mike Huckabee on estrogen as McCain appears to have found Jame Dobson's G-spot.

The Romney and Pawlenty supporters are rightly angry, and one can only wonder what sacrifices McCain will have to make at their altars.

However, the choice is so disastrous that I'm left with several possibilities:

1) That McCain was much more pissed at Bush and the Republican Party than anyone realized when he flirted with a run as Kerry's VP in 2004. McCain appears to be running a campaign that will not only lead to Obama's victory and the undoing of the Bush legacy, but to the complete evisceration of the Republican Party. The GOP seems to be on the verge of self-destruction.

2) McCain's too old-school to believe a woman should ever be Commander in Chief, and Hillary's candidacy got too close for comfort. By introducing Palin as the peak of feminine political achievement, he either intended to make Hillary's head explode (eliminating her), or to repair the cracks in the glass ceiling while adding a layer of shatterproof Plexiglas.


3) McCain wanted to demonstrate his support for the 2nd Amendment by shooting himself in the foot.