Sarah Palin factoids:
1. Sarah Palin loves earmarks, and loved the bridge to nowhere (between Ketchikan and Gravina, middle of nowhere). John McCain has said he is against them.
2. Some of her fellow Republican Alaskans are troubled by McCain's decision:
State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it was a joke when someone called her at 6 a.m. to give her the news.
"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?" said Green, a Republican from Palin's hometown of Wasilla. "Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"
Green, who has feuded with Palin repeatedly over the past two years, brought up the big oil tax increase Palin pushed through last year. She also pointed to the award of a $500 million state subsidy to a Canadian firm to pursue a natural gas pipeline that is far from guaranteed.
3. Sarah Palin wanted an exit strategy from Iraq. John McCain wants perpetual war everywhere, until the rapture comes or he dies.
4. Sarah Palin is hot, and the definition of is in this case is is. She's the first Republican politician I have ever wanted to "have relations with." Cindy botoxed herself into a coma, again, when she got a good look at Sarah. John McCatch-a-nut has been known to hanky panky (as with Cindy originally). Cindy Canes must be worried.
5. Feminists are not fooled:
Palin's addition to the ticket takes Republican faux-feminism to a whole new level. As Adam Serwer pointed out on TAPPED, this is in fact a condescending move by the GOP. It plays to the assumption that disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters did not care about her politics -- only her gender. In picking Palin, Republicans are lending credence to the sexist assumption that women voters are too stupid to investigate or care about the issues, and merely want to vote for someone who looks like them. As Serwer noted, it's akin to choosing Alan Keyes in an attempt to compete with Obama for votes from black Americans.
I hope Hillary takes her apart. Hillary should be he first woman President, not a homogenized baby factory from Alaska. It is indeed insulting, to women and admirers of Hillary Clinton alike.
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