The Goods on Sarah Palin

Mother Talkers:

Palin has been Governor for 1 1/2 years. Before her election as Governor, she was the part-time mayor of a village of 6,000 people.

She's also worked as a commercial fisherman, as a sports reporter, and was a championship basketball player in high school. She paid her way through the University of Idaho (degrees in journalism and politics) by coming in second in the Miss Alaska Beauty Pageant.

Mitt Romney describes her as a "Washington outsider." That has to be the understatement of the year.

What experience does she have that qualifies her to lead this nation?
She was Miss Alaska, and has been a governor for less than two years.
I guess that means there will be no more attacks on Obama's experience, which were already nearly played out.

Trapper John:

After his selection in 1988, Dan Quayle was rightly lambasted as a dim, inexperienced lightweight with no real pertinent experience who was named by George H. W. Bush as a gimmick - a case of an old, out-of touch candidate trying to appear relevant by teaming up with a much younger pol. Now, Palin's not Quayle - by all accounts, she's quite bright. But she's fantastically inexperienced, far more so than Quayle was when he was tapped. And she possesses an attribute far worse than Quayle's stupidity - she's a big corrupt wheel in Alaska's big corrupt Republican Party, arguably the most corrupt political apparatus in the United States.

McCain pandering to the far right, picks creationist:

"My dad did talk a lot about his theories of evolution," she said. "He would show us fossils and say, 'How old do you think these are?' "

Asked for her personal views on evolution, Palin said, "I believe we have a creator."

Extremely anti-abortion Palin:

“Alaskans know I am pro-life and have never wavered in my belief in the sanctity of every human life.”

“I am pro-life…”

[Referring to her and her husband] “We’ve both been very vocal about being pro-life. We understand that every innocent life has wonderful potential.”

From the great ladies at Feministing:

First up, she's super anti-choice. The forced-pregnancy crowd is thrilled today! (She recently had her fifth child, who has Down's syndrome.) She's against marriage equality and supports a federal gay-marriage ban, but has made sure to note that she "has gay friends." Though she has signed on to same-sex partner benefits. She believes schools should teach creationism. She's also pretty terrible on environmental issues, and is a huge advocate of drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Plus, she's embroiled in a scandal.

and:

Republicans are more open to a certain type of woman -- one who is strongly against things like equal pay, universal health care, and reproductive freedom. In other words, the party is pro-woman-candidates, as long as they enact anti-woman policies.

One can't get much more right wing than Sarah Palin.
Lord, sweet jeebus, help us defeat this evil dynamic duo.