Sarah Palin, The Right To Choose, And The Rotten State Of American Poltics (LAist)

[struggle4progress]

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

... During weeks of intense media speculation that can only be described as .. "barely interesting", McCain played coy, leading on a number of would-be veeps, apparently even seriously considered choosing his BFF, Droopy Dog Palpatine himself, before waiting literally until the last minute to choose a 1 term governor he’d met exactly twice before, and about whom next to nothing was known ... Palin, poor thing, went from being a virtual unknown to having all of her laundry, the majority of which apparently hasn't been washed in 10 years, flung out for all the world to see ...

She has extremely close ties to the AIP, a bizarre political party whose stated goal is for Alaska to secede from the union ... If Obama were revealed to have been a member of a separatist organization, or at least, to be married to someone who was, the royal shitstorm kicked up by the right wingers would make the dust bowl look like a messy living room ...

See, last weekend, even before the ink dried on McCain's invitiation to Palin, rumors started circulating that the baby Palin gave birth to earlier this year was, in fact, actually her daughter's. In this scenario, Palin covered up the embarrassment of a fanatically anti abortion, anti sex politician having a wayward daughter, by faking her own pregnancy (something a lot easier to do when you home-school your kid.) To counter the admittedly far-fetched-but-incredibly-tractable rumor, Palin went ahead and announced that her daughter couldn't have been pregnant earlier this year, because she's 5 months along now and, by the way, she's decided to keep the baby and marry the father. So there ...

How else can they expect to win when the most most important Republican demographic are the people who believe:

--Globs of cellular tissue are more important than an adult woman's health.
--Global Warming is a myth.
--Your ability to process biblical information uncritically is more important than knowing how US Government Functions.
--The Earth is our bitch and we should treat it like the dirty whore it is.
--That the correct pronunciation of the word "nuclear" (Noo-klee-er) is evidence of communist sympathies.

So now at least we know how conservatives are going to go about fighting this thing. I'm impressed. I really am. I just wish I wasn't so terrified ...

http://laist.com/2008/09/03/in_a_stunning_twist_of.php

[lob1]

1. I admit that she gave a good speech to stir up the base, but it's a false

victory. She told so many provable lies that the press will be all over her, if they're ever allowed to ask her a question. Even if they plan to shield her from the press, as they've done so far, the questions will be out there, and it will become more and more obvious that she's hiding. I think maybe the star we saw tonight will be the dust of tomorrow.