At this moment a flock of Republican lawyers has been sent to Alaska to dismantle the so-called “Troopergate” episode, she isn’t allowed to answer questions from the audience at her pep rallies, she’s been scantily interviewed and has only been presented with soft-ball questions, and we are being distracted and mislead at every turn when anyone asks a solid question of Sarah Palin or asks for accountability or the Republican party’s reasoning for their reckless and dangerous candidate selection.

We are in a national and global upheaval that will require express experience in economic and foreign affairs, among other things, and it is painfully clear that Sarah Palin has little or no experience in either of those areas but somehow she is apparently encased in Republican bubble wrap.

This is simply “Bush in a Skirt” fakery, a flimsy shotgun candidate brought onto the Republican ticket to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people just to win the White House. This isn’t country first and this shouldn’t be “aw, just give her a chance.” This is not the point in history where political parties should be shoving their VPs headlong to the fore with training wheels.

Why is Sarah Palin getting a free ride? Why do the Republicans have her locked up in a virtual makeup bag surrounded by clouds of face powder? Why can’t we have the so-called “straight talk” here? What keeps us so lock-stepped in the complacent flock-of-sheep mentality, voiceless and flaccid?

Bloggers need to go a step further! Rather than continue to feel helpless, we need to start writing!

US House of Representatives:

https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

US Congress:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Also, PBS is running a poll of potential voters asking whether the country thinks that Sarah Palin is ready and qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States. My vote was a resounding NO!!

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

But with all due respect, Carl – “support” leaves some room for ambiguity, doesn’t it? How did her support manifest itself?

Interesting factoids indeed about the plane’s intended purpose. (I assume you mean Frank Murakowski.) Still, as progressive “political spinners,” I think we need to make sure our spin leaves no open holes.

Thanks for your comment. Please check what I wrote, I didn’t say Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party, I wrote that she “supported the fringe Alaska Independence Party.”

My article does not say that Governor Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party. What is factual is what I wrote, i.e., “Governor Palin supported the fringe Alaska Independence Party.” Sometimes political spinners refute a fact my introducing a seemingly irrelevant contradictory fact” i.e., voter registration forms. Governor Palin only mentions the first part of the jet/Ebay. As she wants to appear to be anti-government waste. Please check the original reason for purchasing the jet which was to transport Alaska’s excess prison population to Arizona instead of using commercial transportation. Please check how Republican Governor Murkaskey began such heavy usage of the plane that the original purpose was abandoned.

Also not on this list: they continue to insist she sold the governor’s private jet on eBay for a profit. She did *list* the plane on eBay. It didn’t sell. It was eventually sold through a plane broker, for a loss of several hundred thousand dollars.

If the American press had any backbone they would EXPOSE this FARCE to win the DUMB VOTE.

She calls herself a “Pitbull” ——
Pitbuls are “dogs” ——
She is a “female” —–
Therefore she is a “female dog”, right ?
A female dog is more commonly known as a — [ fill-in the blank ].

Her words , not mine (although by her words and deeds, I agree with her self-description).

During Palin’s first campaign for mayor of that cosmopolitan metropolis, Wasilla, she proclaimed that she would be “the first Christian mayor” of that town. The incumbent whom she ran against’s last name? Stein. Never mind that he was raised a Lutheran. She was making a play for the anti-Semitic vote.

As Stein told The New York Times:

“I thought: ‘Holy cow, what’s happening here? Does that mean she thinks I’m Jewish or Islamic?’ ”

Add to that Palin’s past support of Buchanan.

And the fact that just two weeks ago, she attended a church service at which the leader of “Jews for Jesus” spoke, and her minister (Rev. Wright, anyone?) lavished praise on the organization.

Every American Jew — and every opponent of anti-Semitism and bigotry — ought to confront John McCain NOW on his appalling choice of a running mate.