Palin: The Most Extremist Candidate Since Goldwater

[Leo 9]

Miles Mogulescu

Palin: The Most Extremist Candidate Since Goldwater

Posted September 5, 2008 | 06:48 PM (EST)

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Sarah Palin is the most extremist major party candidate since Barry Goldwater, aligned with the most far right wing elements in American politics on issues ranging from denying that human activity has helped bring about global warming, to seeking to block protection of endangered species, to advocating the teaching of creationism in the public schools, to opposing abortion even in the case of rape and incest, to preventing teenagers from learning about contraception in school, to advocating drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve, to flirting with Alaska voting to secede from the Union, to proclaiming our troops in Iraq are on a mission from God.

Moderates, centrists and independents need to be made aware of these positions and consider whether they want to elect someone with such extremist views to the second highest political office in the land, a heartbeat away from the Presidency of a 72 year old cancer survivor.

Moreover, they should questions John McCain's judgment and claims to be a moderate and a maverick within the Republican Party when he caved in to pressure from the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party to choose someone with the thin resume and extremist views of Sarah Palin to stand second in line to the Presidency.

Palin's nomination marks a decision by McCain to try to turn the election from one about the economy to a replay of past elections about cultural issues and about which candidate represents real Americans. If Republicans can make the election about cultural imagery and who is more of a "real American"--focusing voters minds on the war hero and the hockey mom--they may well win. But when it comes to the specific issues of the culture wars, the religious right represents a minority of voters and their positions scare many moderates and independents. Democrats need to focus on Palin's extremism on the issues and McCain's endorsement of such extremism by choosing Palin to stand a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

Here are some examples of of Palin's extremist ideology which the McCain campaign wants to hide and Democrats must expose:

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/let-swing-voters-know-tha_b_124384.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Goldwater is starting to look like a moderate next to this wacko.

[Leo 9]

3. It's an insult to Goldwater to be compared with Palin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. The rabid right loves her because when McInsane goes, she's

gonna be their wet dream come true.

[goodgd_yall]

4. And you know what

Compared to Republicans since the 1980s, Goldwater was a moderate. But Sarah Palin is an extremist.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

5. I disagree. She is more extreme than Goldwater.