Sarah Palin Has A Posse? Lies To Women Voters, Funds Radical Groups, and Pisses Off Madeline Albright

Women everywhere are becoming disenchanted with Palin's degrading, offensive, irrelevant tirades of late. Particularly upon discovering that her work for women and children is found in FACT to be nothing more than fabricated political posturing aimed at duping and diverting the public from her actual track record. Surprisingly, her lack of popularity seems to be no less in her own home state of Alaska (proven by her signed budget cuts to the very same causes she "claims to espouse"). The consensus: what a crock of crap Sarah Palin is proving herself to be. 

Sarah Palin Misquotes Albright:

Sarah Palin gets on the campaign trail recently, takes a quote from a Starbucks Coffee cup (what?), intentionally slants it by outright lying to the public using her own words, and then telling them that Madeline Albright said it. The jist was the grave warning to us all that "there's a special place in hell for women that don't..." vote Sarah Palin. In short.

Well, Madeline Albright DID NOT say this and publicly commented about Palin's deliberate misquoting. Here's what Madeline Albright actually said in response:
 

Albright responded to Palin's remarks in a statement to the Huffington Post on Sunday. "Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women.

From the Los Angeles Times - Is This Palin-tology?:

The Democrats will tell you to pay attention to party platforms and their endless fiscal policy and intelligence reform plans. Don't you believe those hectoring elitists! You just stick to thinking how sweet it is that Sarah totally stands behind daughter Bristol's "decision" to get pregnant, marry and have a baby at 17. Don't trouble yourself with attending to tedious details, such as Sarah's record of slashing funds for programs to support teen mothers -- or her opposition to abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.

It's untrue that Palin has no foreign policy experience, anyway. In fact, she appears to have seriously flirted with the idea of trying to turn Alaska into a foreign country. How many vice presidential candidates can put that on their resumes?

Over the years, Palin has actively courted the Alaska Independence Party, or AIP, an organization that supports Alaskan secession from the U.S. To be clear, we're not necessarily talking about friendly secession either: As the AIP's founder, Joe Vogler, told an interviewer in 1991: "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. ... And I won't be buried under their damn flag." The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. could learn from this man.

Palin Palls Around With Radicals Sarah Palin's 2008 Endorsements? Hmm... how come the McCain campaign failed to mention this - since they seem to want to divert the public's attention.

Sarah Palin, by her OWN standard by the way, is definitely GUILTY of Guilt By Association if she wants to start throwing stones elsewhere. On video:

And in Alaska what about Sarah Palin's Big Darfur Lie?

PALIN LIED. On December 5th, 2007, Alaskans for Darfur screened the film, "The Devil Came on Horseback" at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. There was a postcard campaign that night to encourage the legislature and Governor Palin to divest Alaska's money of blood. The program announcement said, "We will also be there to help attendees write their legislators to ask for divestment of Alaska funds from companies that assist the Sudanese Government in its genocide campaign and to write Governor Palin to ask her to reject Sinopec's bid to build the Alaska Gas Pipeline..." ...yet Sarah Palin OPPOSED divestment.

And as to her "lily white virginal" portrayal to the world, perhaps the biggest lie yet is the fact that she reneged on funding the very solutions and resources for "pregnant women" she want's us unwitting women voters to believe she is "fighting for".  (Since obviously, the 'God of Sarah Palin' has determined all other women in the whole of the United States are far too stupid and anti-spiritual to make our own freaking choice  - yes there is sarcasm intended.)

...the personal choices Palin has made at home has obscured her record at work in the Alaska statehouse. Palin proudly advertises her membership in the national pro-life group Feminists for Life, which discourages abortion by addressing "the root causes that drive women to abortion—primarily lack of practical resources and support.".... Meanwhile, both this year and last year, she has used her line-item veto to slash state funds for programs providing precisely the kinds of resources Feminists for Life supports for at-risk mothers on the fence about abortion. She cut by 20 percent the funding for Covenant House Alaska, a state-supported program that includes a transitional home where new teenage mothers can spend up to 18 months learning money management and parenting skills...Palin has also voided funds for two other similar projects during her tenure as governor. One, a provider of the WIC (Women, Infants, Children) Program, would have provided additional breastfeeding and nutrition support to low-income rural women, for a total cost of $15,840. Another, the Cook Inlet Housing Authority's student housing and daycare facility project, would have built a childcare facility and family-style housing units for students pursuing vocational education in Anchorage, most of whom come from rural areas.

On the lighter side, some Palin supporters have made aggressive threats against the Sarah Palin Has A Posse! website. And with a credo such as "The fan club is now run almost completely on Palin Power thus reducing the inpact on the environment!" and a biography that unconvincingly reads, "The life story of Sarah Palin is the American dream.  The legend of "Sarah Barracuda" was born on the basketball court where she led her team as a point guard to the state championship.  The self described "hockey mom" took her first stab at public service on her local PTA.  Eventually she would be elected to the city council and then mayor.  After a spirited run for state wide office that she lost many took notice of this vibrant personality and her message of reform.  ....Her wild popularity and outstanding record of reform and conservatism has led to her becoming the first woman on a republican presidential ticket."

I guess I had a hard time reconciling that there were actually people in the world that would look at this with any legitimacy whatsoever. Perhaps that's more hilarious than anything else. 

Comments

[ybonesy]

Fortunately some moderate conservatives are also seeing the truth and speaking out. My best friend is most disturbed by Palin's sport of aerial hunting. The wolf is one of the most beautiful animals in the world, and a pack animal. A mother stays with her family. To think of a wolf being picked off by a helicopter overhead, and to think that someone can see that as honest-to-goodness sport (my grandfather was a hunter, and my father a reluctant one who eventually gave it up)---well, cowardice is what it is. (And if someone were to try to justify that by saying that liberals are pro-abortion, well, there is no such thing as being pro-abortion. People who value life---as I do---value every kind of life.)

[sib]

Hi Ybonesy--- I just saw yesterday several including some in government that condemn the practice of shooting wolfes as sport-- I didn't know about it until they addressed it --- most if not all were doing so under animal rights concerns and ecological concerns - not in terms of the election but the fact that Palin endorses that behavior obviously doesn't go favorably towards her campaign.

I too feel there is no such thing as you mentioned- but in my estimation it appears to be no such thing as "pro-life" --- because when my brothers and nephews can go die in Iraq, then I have a hard time justifying that as a "pro life" act - because the government justifies it- it seems an illogical conclusion. II personally feel valuing life has nothing to do with religious views, judgment and bias or cultures--- the very fact of "living" is beyond all such definitions and constraints. I agree with what you said - and just as you said it --- "value of life" -- period -end of sentence" and no "agenda" on it (war or otherwise). Thanks for your insights - they are always inspiring and thoughtful.