What to do about Sarah Palin: Nothing

I do believe that Sarah Palin is one of the main reasons that John McCain got such a nice and comfy bounce after his/mostly her's convention. She energized the GOP base and also fired up some independents too.

However, as I told my political science professor two weeks ago, I didn't feel it would last too long.

I said that the newness of her would wear off, and after the excitement of having a hockey mom a heartbeat away from the presidency, people would begin to ask questions.

And did they ever.

There were lots of questions to be asked, and the more people (the media) asked, the less they liked to hear.

Now, the GOP base will not ever be persuaded to stop loving her, but hell, this is the base that LOVED George Bush Jr. So don't expect too much from them.

The things that were uncovered were far and wide, and it soon became clear that the McCain camp was having her tell numerous lies to the public. I don't care how dumb the American electorate is, they don't like being lied to, and they know when it happens(even if it takes a while to find out).

Trooper-gate: The possibly illegal abuse of power she wielded to fire a public official. She had ordered the Public Safety Commissioner to fire her ex-husband in-law and when he refused, he was canned himself.

The Bridge to Nowhere: In speeches she continually gives around the country, she claims that she told Congress "Thanks, but no thanks to the Bridge to Nowhere." The truth came out later however, that she had fully supported and campaigned on the accomplishment of building the Bridge to Nowhere. It wasn't until the national media made the bridge a national embarrassment and after Congress had already slashed the funds in half, did she actually start speaking out about it.
She even kept most of the money and spent it elsewhere. An obvious lie that was discovered thanks to numerous pictures, video and public records.

Library-gate: After Sarah Palin was elected mayor of Wasilla (pop: 7,000 at the time) she confronted the local librarian approximately three times to question whether the librarian would allow Palin to ban certain books. When the librarian objected, she was later fired. It wasn't until public outcry that she was reinstated a few days later.

AIP-gate: This story did not make as big as news as I had thought it would, but Sarah Palin's husband had belonged to the Alaskan Independence Party for about seven (7) years, and Gov. Palin even spoke at their convention this year. The AIP demands secession from the Union, and the founder even said that he would never be buried under the American Flag. He would instead have his followers bury his bones in Alaska after they had succeeded at seceding.

I can see Russia from my house-gate: The dubious claim by the McCain campaign that Palin has foreign relations experience because Alaska is near Russia. Top public officials in Alaska later confirmed that Palin had not direct roll as of her term (1.5 years as governor) with the Alaskan National Guard or relations with Russia.


So the newness wore off mostly and the media is digging deeply into her past, and it makes you think of John McCain's actual judgment. This was obviously just a political pander and a desperate attempt to grab Hillary voters. I am thankful that Hillary supporters have big brains too match their big loyalty.

The polls have suggested what I had guessed would happen two weeks ago, but the question still remains about what the Obama campaign will do about her popularity.


The answer: Nothing. She is not running for president. John McCain is. I am sure that they will stick to the issues and the failed policies that John McCain endorses, and allow Sarah Palin to implode on her own.

Now we just need to educate our electorate!

Girls will be girls.....Unless they take a closer look.

As you have probably read, John McCain has considerably closed the gap between women who say they will vote for him, and those who will vote for Barack Obama. This sudden closing of the gap is due in large part with his selection of Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin. Now, John McCain is still considerably behind Barack Obama when it comes to the woman vote, but he is doing a little better than G.W.B. did in 2000, but worse than he did in 2004. Still, the sudden shrinking of the gap comes at a surprise to me, a man.

Most of the women that I have talked to (if you know me, then you know that means a lot of them) are highly insulted that John McCain would think that they would vote for him just because he put a woman on his ticket. Hillary voters especially seem upset and even somewhat disgusted at the notion that Sarah Palin could steal away Billary votes.

Let's get one thing straight, Sarah Palin will never amount to the type of politician or woman that Hillary Clinton is. Yes, I have said negative things about Hillary before, but I have come to realize that she cares deeply about this country, and wants nothing but the best for it. And she also raised the bar quite a bit. She changed the discussion in politics to reflect more upon women, something we have needed to do for decades upon decades.
Sarah Palin also stands in complete contrast of what Hillary Clinton stands up for on women's issues.


Second, John McCain would not support legislation that would ensure that women are paid a fair and equal wage in the workplace.
For example, The Lilly Ledbetter Act of 2007 would have changed the law so that working women all over America could sue their employers for back pay, if they found out that their male equals were receiving higher raises, better pay and better benefits. This act was in response to the Supreme Court's ruling that Lilly Ledbetter could not sue Goodyear Tires for all of the back pay she was owed due to discriminatory pay. Men that held the same position as her, preforming the same work, were making far more than Lilly was when she was an employee at Goodyear. In wasn't until years later, as she neared retirement, that someone left a report in her locker that showed what she had made over the years as compared to her male equals.
The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and Lilly Lost because the law said that she could only sue up to 180 days after each paycheck. This meant that the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Lilly was owed, could not be recovered.

Justice Ginsburg said that this was one of the worst examples of discrimination in U.S. history, and that it was up to Congress to fix it.

In 2007 they aimed to do just that, Rep. George Miller of the House wrote the Lilly Ledbetter Act of 2007, better known as the Fair Pay Act. This act would have amended the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to define a violation to be held in the Act, EVERY TIME there is a pay discrimination. That would mean if a woman didn't find out until years or decades later that she was paid in a discriminatory manner, she could hold the company accountable for their wrong doing.


Long story short, the bill sailed through the house with bipartasin support, but was blocked in the Senate. Only two Senators didn't bother to show up to vote on this important act.

Senator John McCain and Senator Charles Hagel. It was latter said by a McCain aid that he would have voted against it anyway.

How can we vote in a president that doesn't support fair and equal pay in the workplace? A vote for McCain/Palin is a vote against women (and I'm not even going to touch Palin's radical stance on abortion).

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John McCain has poor Judgment.

It is evidently clear in his new campaign strategy to claim (and lie) that he and Gov. Palin are the true agents of change. It's insulting to the American Public who actually pay attention to their records and policies (or for Palin's case, lack-there-of).

McCain needed to do something drastic and dramatic to save his campaign, and he did so by selecting one of the most dangerous VP candidates of all time. After running his whole campaign on the whole experience needed platform, does it make sense that he would pick someone as inexperienced as her?? NO! It was merely a political ploy. Yes, she is likable. She's ambitious, successful, and looks exactly like Peggy Hill. However, that does not mean she is anything new, or better for our country. She is more of the same, and even more radically set to the right.
I can not wait for this political pander to backfire on him as soon as the public stops focusing on her "hockey mom" image, and start to see her dangerous policies and inadequate ability to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.


No more of the same!