I’ve commented many times here on the anti-liberal views of many Clinton supporters, so their support for McCain/Palin is not really a surprise to me.

The rumors are that Palin’s last child is really the child of her teenage daughter (who missed school for seven months due to mono.) At this time I don’t think there is much to this story, but we will see what happens as people look further into this.

Nevermind that Palin is a radical, rightwing, religious conservative who is 100% anti-choice and says no woman should have access to abortion, even in the case of rape or if the woman’s life is threatened. If you’re preggers — you will carry the child to term and deliver it.

Palin is also vehemently antigay despite the fact her own uncle is gay and has lived with his partner for more than 20 years.

The questions around the last child, the one born with Downs Syndrome is the story that has the blogosphere in Alaska buzzing the most over. How can it be that no one, and I mean absolutely no one in Palin’s office, new she was with child? Palin just breezed in on Monday and announced to everyone she’d given birth over the weekend.

Very strange behavior if you’ve ever worked in an office and a colleague or co-worker became pregnant. This is always grounds for a party, pizza, cards and gifts. I’ve worked for large corporations and non-profits and it’s the same everywhere.

Not in the governor’s office in Juneau. Very odd.

This last point might just cause McCain to retract his choice.  From Palin’s earlier comments about the issue, one could conclude that she had nothing to do with it.  Since then – just recently – more information including taped phone calls from her staff have come out, and in the above piece, the fired official puts Palin in the center of it. At one point he had to warn her that she should not be discussing the issue (of firing her ex-brother-in-law) with him.  If true, this could be a big hit.
Palin strikes me as a zealot.  And zealots have many blind spots that get them in trouble.  They don’t listen to reason and don’t compromise, even when it’s in everyone’s best interest to do so.  And they can easily rationalize their own lapses as necessary and acceptable.
Of course, if this does blow up into a full-scale scandal, the right-wing base will claim that she’s being attacked unfairly, which will solidify the base even more.  Fortunately, the extreme right-wing base is smaller than most people realize.

I read population 9000 in one article and went with that but cannot be certain of the accuracy. It is possible that the population was higher as opposed to lower when she was mayor as small towns often have a problem of the young moving away as they graduate and others also leaving due to lack of jobs. 

Regardless of whether it was closer to 6000 or 9000, Palin’s experience in Wasilla hardly compares to Obama’s experience before running for the Senate.  Of course the PUMA kooks who think that Hillary Clinton was also more experienced than Obama due are likely to parrot the right wing kooks who question Obama’s experience. (PUMA kooks, right wing kooks–there I go becoming redundant again.)

Posted by: Scott | August 30, 2008 1:11 AM

Not only all that, but Ms Palin has had virtually no contact with Jewish people in America. In fact, most Alaskans still use the term “to jew someone down” as part of their every day vocabulary when speaking about bargaining at the store….so I guess Ms Palin has a huge storehouse of inherited antiSemitic fixations based not on hatred but on ignorance. Ask her what she thinks of Jewish people someone? I am sure she only knows about 3.

Candidate A thought long and hard, and chose a human being who would be able to carry on America’s legacy of greatness and hope, and leave people to say, Candidate A was a great man, and left the USA in solid hands.

Candidate B consulted with the highest paid spin doctors, abandoned common sense, and threw down a political gambit based on the arrogance of self-immortality, selecting an election partner who provoked an initial reaction of wtf, and if sworn into the highest office, would make America cry “what have we done, again?”

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