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Palin?

by: Victor Maldonado

Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 10:31:12 AM EDT


(Many thanks for this thumbnail on Gov. Sarah Palin's record on LGBT issues by Victor Maldonado, formerly of SLDN. She's right in line with McCain. Here's her Wikipedia entry. Is this the ticket the LCRs are ready to endorse? What must Elaine Donnelly think - she doesn't want women in the military. Palin would command the military if McCain kicked it. - promoted by Pam Spaulding)

In an August 2006 the Anchorage Daily News reported on the social policy positions of the candidates then running for governor, including GOP Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, Of particular interest are Palin's positions on gay marriage and state benefits for same-sex partners.
Victor Maldonado :: Palin?
According to reporter Kyle Hogkins, Palin has said "she's not out to judge anyone and has good friends who are gay." However Palin supported a 1998 state ballot initiative writing into the Alaskan constitution a ban on same-sex marriage. The ballot initiative passed, making Alaska one of the first states in the Union to limit the access of same-sex couples to legal recognition of their relationships.

In October 2005, the Alaska State Supreme Court ruled as unconstitutional the denial of benefits to the same-sex partners of public employees. While Palin complied with a state Supreme Court order and, as governor signed a bill providing benefits to same-sex partners of public employees into law, she reportedly supported a ballot initiative that would have forced the Alaskan government to deny benefits to same-sex couples.

Even setting aside her abysmal regord on LGBT issues, Palin is an unfortunate choice for the Republicans in a number of ways: she takes the issue of experience out of the GOP quiver; she punctuates McCain's advanced age (he turned 72 today); she raises serious questons about McCain's judgement in thinking a small town mayor and first term governor is ready to be one hearbeat away from the presidency. But most seriously, Palin opens up the campaign to the issue of ethics, and that is one conversation the Republicans should avoid.

Click here to learn more about Palin and ethical questions that surround her.
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Obama was inexperienced?!
This is the Harriet Myers of VP picks. 2 years as governor of a state smaller than most cities and before that mayor of a small town?!
OMG
She was a beauty pageant queen!

"Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" -- Iowa state motto
[ Parent ]
Watch McCain not be able to debate
in her presence because he has a hard on.  You know he's got a thing for beauty queens.  Is he ready to swap out for a fresher model?

Lurleen on Twitter
[ Parent ]
Grampy and the beauty queen
Cindy was McSame's midlife crisis, Sarah is his end of life crisis.

The WHO-factor will be very tough sell since abstintee ballots go out in 35 days, I don't see how America gets to trust her to take over the country with a 72 yo. president with cancer background.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

or Grampa Simpson and Lurleen




Claim to fame: Posted first PHB diary to be demoted
[ Parent ]
I wonder about visitation

Does the Governor of Alaska think it isn't too much to ask that I get to visit my (insert euphemism here) in the hospital when he has brain cancer?

I think hospital scrubs will become all the rage on the runways in Paris starting in 2009 no matter who wins the election.

on going ethics investigation...YIKES
"It looks like a little pesky thing like an ongoing ethics investigation isn't enough to keep her from being invited to speak on the evening in which "Reform" is the theme. (Is it possible they don't read political blogs, or newspapers, or surf the internets?) "

THIS was just when they were considering her to SPEAK at the Convention

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

To paraphrase Trent Lott...
In a few months who's going to remember Sarah Palin?
[ Parent ]
Oooooooooh BARRACUDA!
If 72 year old McCain can't finish his term, we would have 44 year old Barracuda, two year governor of Alaska and former mayor of Wasilla!



Claim to fame: Posted first PHB diary to be demoted
let there be more of these
Pic of Sarah from beauty queen era

  http://tkbb.files.wordpress.co...

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

look at these "qualifications"
http://network.nationalpost.co...

I'm not sh*tting you:

REASON #10:  PALIN'S YOUTH COMPLEMENTS McCAIN'S EXPERIENCE
For months, Obama's supporters have touted the Senator's youthfulness as one of his qualifications for office (a strategy they're apt to scale back on, given their selection of a Vice President nearly as old as McCain).  If youth is seen as a plus by voters, then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin fits the bill.  At 44, she is 3 years younger than Barack Obama, and the youngest person ever to be elected Governor of Alaska.  Palin is also the state's first Governor to have been born after Alaska achieved statehood, as well as Alaska's first female Governor.

REASON #9:  PALIN PUTS PRINCIPLE AND THE PEOPLE FIRST
After her initial, unsuccessful, run against him for the Governor's office, former Alaska Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of Alaska's Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.  If Murkowski figured this appointment would pressure Palin into overlooking misbehavior by her fellow Republicans, he figured wrong.  Within a year, Palin resigned in a very public protest over the ethics displayed by Alaska's Republican leadership, filing a formal complaint against Randy Ruedrich, who was not only a fellow Oil and Gas Commissioner, but also the chairman of Alaska's Republican party.

If Senator McCain wants a running mate willing to be a maverick to Party, but never to Principle, he need look no further than Sarah Palin.

REASON #8:  PALIN KNOWS HOW TO RUN, AND WIN, AGAINST TOUGH ODDS
To become Governor, Palin had to defeat both a former Democratic Governor and the incumbent Republican Governor - which she did, and won. Palin defeated Murkowski in the Republican primary, and then her Democratic opponent in the election.  She knows how to campaign successfully, against seemingly impossible odds.


PALIN'S YOUTH COMPLEMENTS McCAIN'S EXPERIENCE
so he indicates Obama's inexperienced and then chooses someone significantly less experienced the person a heartbeat away from the presidency in his administration?  How can they keep a straight face screaming that Obama's not ready to lead?
[ Parent ]
Reality's liberal bias again?
First of all, how ironic is it that someone named Palin is in the clown car?
The swamp dwellers are applauding this.  They think that we are angry and afraid.  They really can't tell when people are laughing at them, can they?  I swear that the motto over there should be "We're gullible and we vote!".  This is the crowd that was pleased with themselves over the "Obama bin Biden" bumper sticker that someone made.  If there is any fear, it's that there are way too many of these idiots out there.  They are driving cars, managing banks, governing, etc.  Yowsa!

My America includes LGBT families.
[ Parent ]
Instead of a clown car
is Grumpy McSame now gonna drive a motorcycle, with Palin in the sidecar and CindyLou on the bitchseat?? He even can get an American flag tat!!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."
[ Parent ]
PETA and the anti fur folks won't like this one
   http://tkbb.files.wordpress.co...

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small
Celebrity arguement just went south
Who's more like Paris Hilton?

  http://tkbb.files.wordpress.co...

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

wrong picture
Vogue cover

 http://tkbb.files.wordpress.co...

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

[ Parent ]
Who? (The Other Side)
Assuming this is indeed a desperation move to coat the racism that the GOP believes in but can't openly express with a cynical veneer of concern for gender equality, considering what Palin's views on bodily autonomy appear to be, who exactly among Hillary's female supporters actually would vote for a double-level, anti-choice ticket?

Kat

>^..^<

they seriously think
that most of Hillary's supporters were voting for her because she's female. Geez.
[ Parent ]
imagine if Obama made a selection like this
It's insulting to women that McCain would place someone this unqualified to be a heartbeat away. Does he think he would win over Hillary voters simply by selecting any random vagina? Why should we be surprised, considering what he's called his wife in public.

She's affiliated with Phyllis Schlafly and the Family Research Council. She's a womb control advocate.

I'm sorry. I hope the women's groups immediately address this.

Ick
This is one of those ick things.  Any way to look at this is not nice. Today will have an old guy who is a known wife cheater putting his arms around a somewhat young woman. Just the thought makes for seriously sickening theater.  When it is broadcast I can only imagine what the electors will think, and it is not nice.

He could also have picked the babe from Utah, in fact maybe he will, just to have a set of cheerleaders on staff.

Pam,
J'aime ma Peau


[ Parent ]
"Any random vagina" -- sad phrase but all too true
Does McCain actually believe the propaganda about Hillary voters defecting to him? His strategy is a Hillary surrogate?

Yes she's hot-- like in 1920 male chauvinists claimed Harding won the newly enfranchised female vote only because he was hot-- so now it's our turn to get back at guys who vote with their dicks...

This is one Hillary voter you won't get your clammy grip on, Republicans. I've joined Women for Obama. I'm driving around with a WOMEN FOR OBAMA bumper sticker. We Hillary voters are flocking to Obama en masse, actually following Hillary's lead. What a delusional strategy the Republicans have fallen into.

Here's what I find about compromise--
don't do it if it hurts inside,
'cause either way you're screwed,
eventually you'll find
you may as well feel good;
you may as well have some pride

--Indigo Girls

[ Parent ]
Don't worry. She's less defensible than Empty Wig Dole, and that's
saying a mouthful.

NARAL and Planned Parenthood at least will be all over this.

She's got a 4 month old infant with Down's syndrome, for heaven's sake. Hubby better be a house husband and father, for that baby's sake - Down's children need plenty of attention to achieve their potential. Hubby is Inuit, btw, an oil worker (what else, in AK?).

[ Parent ]
A weak, weak heartbeat away....
...and frighteningly unqualified.  This is just like the Monica Goodling Justice Department.  Choose people not based on their qualifications, but based only on their identity as right-wing christians.  A complete and utter joke.

Putting the country first, my ass.

"Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" -- Iowa state motto

[ Parent ]
She comes near my womb
and first, I will inform the idiot that I HAVE NO "WOMB" BUT INSTEAD A UTERUS- and second- will bitchslap her on my way to get my birth control prescription.

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."
[ Parent ]
Hah

[ Parent ]
John McCain Has Slit His Own Throat
He can't be serious!  The Republican convention next week will be more like a funeral.  What independent voter is going to find this pick attractive?  He throwing the election, I'm just speechless.

Last night at Invesco Field: WOW!

Today's pick: WHO???

a noun, a verb, a fetus


What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small
Ouch
I don't know whether I should laugh or cry at that - because its too true for comfort.

Kat

>^..^<

[ Parent ]
Make that
A POW fetus.
[ Parent ]
ick ick ick
Bachmann to be featured guest at reception honoring scandal-plagued Alaska governor

Bachmann will be joined by two of her other pals from the religious right- prominent anti-gay crusader Gary Bauer and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. The Palin soiree is September 2 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel downtown St. Paul. Tickets are $95.
Governor Palin has been considered a rising star in the Republican Party. However, a recently developing political scandal could tarnish her political future. She's been accused of pressuring the state's public safety commissioner to fire a state trooper who was involved in a messy divorce with Palin's sister, and then firing the public safety commissioner when he refused to fire the trooper. A legislative investigation has been launched to look into the matter.

Perkins, who was a featured speaker at one of Bachmann's anti-gay rallies on the state capitol steps in 2005, has been linked= to the white supremacist group Council of Concerned Citizens and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.

Like Bachmann, Gary Bauer has made a career out of bashing public education and gays and trying to inject religion into every avenue of public life. He ran for president in 2000 but like so many other moralists on the Christian right, was dogged by rumors of infidelity.

A little VOMIT just came to my mouth

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

Bash on the COMPANY SHE KEEPS


What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small
[ Parent ]
she may be fine on the outside
but OH SO UGLY ON THE INSIDE

Think Coulter and Laura Ingram

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

[ Parent ]
Desperate Housewife for VEEP!
1) She is hot.  Admit it.
2) She is manipulative and willing to backstab. Look up the scandal for which she is curently being investigated: http://www.ktva.com/ci_10026165 Her sister was involved in a nasty divorce with a man who is a state trooper.  Empress Palin demanded he be fired from his job.  When the Public Safety Commissioner rightly refused to follow her illegal order, she fired HIM.  This isn't old news.  It's from just a few months ago.  Google "Michael Wooten" for more info.
3) She has five children, including a 2-year-old.

In all seriousness, the woman was mayor of a tiny (8,000 people) town in Alaska (Wasilla) and served only 18 months as governor.  When McCain croaks in office, we can get "The Thrilla from Wasilla" as the president of the United States.  That is a scary, scary, scary thought.

OMG
She's on right now.  She sounds like a Valley Girl of sorts.  Who is going to take her seriously?
[ Parent ]
Religious Right Watch: Old guard will have strong presence at Republican Convention
BLECH!!!
  http://minnesotaindependent.my...

  http://minnesotaindependent.my...

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

VIAGRA TICKET
What 72yo gaffer wouldn't want beauty queen on his BIRTHDAY...it's a VIAGRA TICKET

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small
The religious right base and preacher-pundits won't like this!
A woman a heartbeat from the Presidency, and from military Commander-in-Chief? The religious right don't believe that women should have ordinary leadership positions or even belong in the military combat arena. McCain is NUTS, assuming he's not doing a Miers and just throwing her name out there as a trial balloon.
This is classic McCain
Palin is nothing but a TROPHY VEEP.  McCain passed over Republican women who were infinitely more qualified: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Christie Todd Whitman, Condoleeza Rice, etc. in favor of some scantily qualified, smokin' hottie.  It's scandalous in so many ways...

its because
Reason why those women you mentioned were not chosen is they are not anti-abortion. If any of them were anti-abortion, McCain would of considered them.
[ Parent ]
Obama & Biden
vs. McCain & M.I.L.F.

Call me psychic  but I think Obama is the next President of The United States of America!

Is the Bush/Cheney Plague finally coming to an end?  Oh I hope so.

YES WE CAN!!!

Besser ein ende mit Schrecken als ein Schrecken ohne ende

Sarah Palin = brunette Ann Coulter


What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small
No
Palin is married and has borne children.

Kat

>^..^<

[ Parent ]
SARAH book
SARAH
How a Hockey Mom
Turned Alaska's Political
Establishment Upside Down
by Kaylene Johnson

Sarah Palin, then 39, a hockey mom and former mayor of Wasilla, thought her dream of making a difference in the male-dominated realm of Alaska politics was over in 2004 when she clashed with the state chairman of her Republican party and fell out of favor with Gov. Frank Murkowski over issues related to ethics and openness in government.

Yet, the former high school basketball star and one-time TV journalist could not shake the feeling that she was destined for something bigger. Two years later, she became a long-shot candidate for governor, promising reform.

Then, fate intervened. Her populist message suddenly became front-page news when a major political scandal rocked Alaska politics. Alaskans began listening to her. And they liked what they heard.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

Let's be clear about something
One does not draft amendments taking away the hope of civil rights and equal treatment for "good friends".  Sarah Palin clearly doesn't have "good friends" who are gay.  She might know people that are gay and thinks she's better than them and her family is more important than their family, but that's not the attitude one has toward a "good friend".

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #

Maybe she knows a few LCRs
It is not as though self-loathing queer people are in such short supply that it is inconceivable that she knows a few.

Even if that's the case, though, what kind of good friend encourages self-loathing behaviour?  Nope, I guess she is a tool after all :).

[ Parent ]
I have to admit, I thought MICHAEL Palin at first......
that would have been amusing, though as a Brit, he wouldn't be eligible. Palin was a Python, and has starred in movies, including the fabulous A Fish Called Wanda.
John Cleese
would be SOOOOOOO much better!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."
[ Parent ]
Beauty and the Beast ticket
maybe she can whiten Grampy's yellow teeth

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small
Attention Hillary-ites
I just had to run an errand and I caught the top-of-the-hour news on a CBS radio affiliate.  They had a soundbite from a woman at the Dayton rally whose giggly response to the news of Palin's selection was 'Well, that's a slap in the face to Hillary, now isn't it?'

Are you listening, Hillarly-ites-who-think-that-McCain-will-be-better-for-women-than-Obama?

Kat

>^..^<

What kind of anti-choice mom is she?
Do any of you know? She's clearly made tough personal choices, has that made her more understanding of other women's difficulties, or less? Is she in the Phyllis Schlafly mode, "all women should be deferential homemakers -- except for me"? Or does she show some understanding that most women can't afford the level of paid childcare she must be getting?

Or is her husband taking care of the young ones, including the child with Down's? That's not the traditional family, methinks.

What a guy McCain is!
May be his 72nd birthday, but Obama/Biden and the Dems all got the gifts THIS time!!

OMFG.

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

And we thought Quayle was miserable
If the Repugs wanted to throw a woman in the mix, McSame should have asked HILLARY!!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."
This is the first time
out of ALL of his past attempts, that john McCain has actually been FUNNY.

Bravo, John!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

Poll @ MSNBC.COM
Out of 40,000 respondents so far, 61% think that McCain should have picked someone else.  I don't think that is a good sign.

Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes

Given her experience...
Well given that two years ago she was running a town of 6000 people, I'd say 39% approval was a pretty vast mandate.
[ Parent ]
I've been to that town... a few times
what you won't hear them say about her town is a big part of their income is from dope growing... Does that make them green??

...... Next time someone gives you a hard time for being LGBT... just ask them if they are unenlightened...or closeted
[ Parent ]
This number will go up dramatically
when the other 39% come out of their catatonic state.

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."
[ Parent ]
OMG, she's Tina Fey!!
THAT? That mess could potentially speak to the UN or G-8???

Someone check Gramps' meds; they are SO out of whack!!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

That's what I thought
Tina's going to have to make an appearance on SNL.

Also, I just read a comment on AOL that made me laugh.  It said something like:

Now that McCain has made his pick, just one question Sen. McCain.  Will you submit to a test to determine your mental capabilities?

[ Parent ]
I DEMAND
RANDOM URINE DRUG SCREENING TESTS ON GRAMPA!!!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."
[ Parent ]
He has condos and ties
older than her!!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."
wow... when did women learn to do more than make toast & breed?
she MUST be patriotic... flag pin w/rhinestones... special

...... Next time someone gives you a hard time for being LGBT... just ask them if they are unenlightened...or closeted
Ugh!
She's a horrible speaker and boring as hell.

Here she is at a meeting in Fairbanks last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

"Uh, blah blah blah, er, blah blah blah."

McCain needed someone dynamic and interesting.


When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

Depends commercial
Sarah knows her way around Pampers, which will be handy with McCain's Depends, although David Vitter is PEA GREEN with ENVY.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small
Speaking of
I imagine Vitter needs a changeout, after this news broke.

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."
[ Parent ]
Knowing John McCain
She'll have to dodge a couple of c**t bombs from that angry little man.

This is just sooooooo reactive. A stunt. Stunts don't cut it over the long run...Idiots.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still boloney.

LCRs
Sarah knows her way around Pampers, which will be handy with McCain's Depends, although David Vitter is PEA GREEN with ENVY.

I think Palin drives away pro-choice and LGBT independants and republicans

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

oops wrong text on my clipboard
if you cowardly Log Cabin slugs endorse McCain with this HOMOBIGOT, just shut the f*ck up about "changing your party from within"

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small
[ Parent ]
Very Good Choice
There are many people in this country who will find this choice very appealing.

There are many young, evangelical Christian women of the prosperity-gospel variety who will now become enthusiastic McCain supporters.

I suspect this will work out very well for McCain.

Oh yes
I totally agree, candidates are always courting the "evangelical christian women of the prosperity-gospel variety".  Talk about a key election demographic!  Seriously, did you and Johnny Mac fall into the same vat of gin this morning?

Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes

[ Parent ]
Their husbands and pastors won't approve
a woman being a heartbeat away from being Commander in Chief. Not to mention, having her househusband, no doubt an ordinary bloke - first First Peoples VP spouse, he's Inuit - but if he had any sense he'd put down his foot and say, no way! 5 kids, one 18 and the rest dependent, including the 4 month old with Downs' - I am waiting to hear from the "motherhood is the most important job for a woman" folks.
[ Parent ]
Is it just me...
or does mccain keep falling asleep??

...... Next time someone gives you a hard time for being LGBT... just ask them if they are unenlightened...or closeted
Fargo
Did you watch the acceptance speech?  She sounds like a character from Fargo and has a husband who apparently is a "world class snowmobiler"!!!
Its a parody of itself
When she delivered the "world class snowmobiler" my thought was Stewart and Colbert couldn't have come up with anything better than the "truth." Geesh!
[ Parent ]
SNL Will Have A Field Day
Tina Fey has 3 months of great material ahead of her :-)

But did you notice the similarities to another TV show -- Commander and Chief (the Gina Davis vehicle that went no where).  A decent and attractive female governmor from Somewhere, USA is cynically added to the ticket for gender parity.  After being elected she suddenly finds her pushed into the White House by the untimly death of the man who chose her as a token running-mate.

The show never really cought on with the American public....this real-life rehash will suffer the same fate.

[ Parent ]
She is short and looks like Karen Walker

They had to cast the roll of the VP short otherwise McSame looks like Rumpelstiltskin, an angry old fuck.

I bet that McSames staff would have cum all over themselves if Romney had been in a wheel chair.

But the short answer is, because we live in a visual world, she was picked because she is short.

The rest is derivative justification.

Yep, she's short enough to be VP.  

I can see Karen Waker...
but I think she looks more like Tina Fey. Hmmm, Tina would make a good SNL guest host the Saturday after the Veep debate for a perfect doppelgänger for Palin.
[ Parent ]
LCR statement on Palin
Speaking of sniveling LCRs here's their statement
"Statement of Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon about Gov. Sarah Palin

"Alaska Governor Sarah Palin can help Sen. McCain win this election by appealing to independent and young voters.  She's a mainstream Republican who will unite the Party and serve John McCain well as Vice President.  Gov. Palin is an inclusive Republican who will help Sen. McCain appeal to gay and lesbian voters."

OH HELL NO!

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

Now THAT'S Funny
"Gov. Palin is an inclusive Republican who will help Sen. McCain appeal to gay and lesbian voters."

Inclusive - like ENDA 3685 is trans-inclusive.

Supposedly Palin has admitted to puffing a bit of weed back in the day.  Is Sammon doing similarly right now?

Kat

>^..^<

[ Parent ]
LCR statement - OMG
Now I know these guys have lost it. Jesus H. Christ - they are ensuring the death knell of the organization by pimping this ticket.
[ Parent ]
I thought the independent voters were McCain's strength
Now he needs to bring in a scandal-wracked governor from a state with 3 electoral votes in order to secure it?  Will the Republican White House in Exile be in Alaska?  

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to win a bunch of the 3-vote states this year--MT, ND, SD, VT, WY--but hell, someone from Idaho (a mighty 4-vote state, and don't they have some woman somewhere in elected office to pick?) would make more sense, since the 50-state strategy is now in full effect for the Democrats.

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #

[ Parent ]
Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle in heels


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~Heather Small
NO FREAKIN' WAY!
This is a serious VP candidate?

http://thumbsnap.com/images/OE...

Do a Google image search and laugh your ass off.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

candidate McCain sold out to the Christian Reich
Who trashed his family in 2000

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~Heather Small
Palin As Spokeswoman
Click here to read more about Palin, Alaska, the GOP and the sweet stink of corruption that clings to all three.

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/...

-Victor Maldonado

Mccain already had Alaska so she gives no regional benefit
I think Ridge being overlooked won't help in PA.

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~Heather Small
Sarah Palin = the prettier Harriet Miers
Sarah Palin = the straight white Condi

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~Heather Small
ethics
But Palin also comes with her own ethics complaint. She has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.


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~Heather Small
Good move
Saves time & trouble getting the inevitable ethics issue out in front at the start.



Claim to fame: Posted first PHB diary to be demoted
[ Parent ]
Good move
Saves time & trouble getting the inevitable ethics issue out in front at the start.



Claim to fame: Posted first PHB diary to be demoted
[ Parent ]
The trooper in question
not only TASERED his 11-year-old stepson, he threatened to kill his father-in-law.  And got a ten-day suspension, whittled down to five after the union got involved.  I think the bigger scandal is the trooper is still on the job after using a service weapon on a child.

Plus the allegation Palin got involved is being made by a disgruntled former appointee.  The person who actually pushed for the trooper to be fired denies that Palin was involved, so I don't see this hurting her much if at all.

Obviously I'm not voting for McCain, but I think she's actually probably a good pick for him.  Her positions on the issues are wrong IMO, but I think she seems to have a lot more personal integrity than most small-state pols, who treat the state coffers as their personal piggy banks.

[ Parent ]
ethics and TEMPERAMENT
JUNEAU -- State legislators voted to spend up to $100,000 to investigate Gov. Sarah Palin's controversial firing of former state Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. The decision came from the Legislative Council, a bipartisan panel of state senators and representatives. The investigation will look at whether Palin, her family or members of her administration pressured Monegan to fire an Alaska state trooper involved in a rough divorce from Palin's sister.
 http://www.adn.com/news/alaska...

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~Heather Small
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Twin Cities queers
here's where LCRs will be next week
ONLY RNC media allowed
Photograph every one entering this luncheon

What: Luncheon featuring Log Cabin congressional allies & nationally prominent speakers
When: Tuesday, Sept. 2, 12 noon - 2 pm
Where: The University Club of St. Paul - Downtown,
340 Cedar St., St. Paul, MN  *Invitation Only
Media Contact: (The Big Tent Event and all of Log Cabin's public events are open to RNC-credentialed media only.)

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~Heather Small

Mike Signorile should camp out there
He's credentialed as media because of his radio show and there's nothing the LCRs can do about it.

Let's go to the video tape...go Mike!

[ Parent ]
"Big Tent" and "Invitation only"?
Really?  Maybe someone should describe contradiction of terms to some people.

# Duty, duty -- honor is, is --
Honor, Creideiki -- alertly
# Shared, is -- Honor #

[ Parent ]
POST these pics in EVERY gay bar...as UNF*CKABLES


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~Heather Small
[ Parent ]
urp
 Her husband, Todd Palin, is part native Eskimo and a champion snowmobiler; he's known in Alaska as the First Dude.  

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~Heather Small
Speaking of foreign policy...
Does anyone know if Palin has ever even been out of the country?  Is the State Department going to rush order her a passport in the unlikely event this ticket wins?

Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes

Well...
She went to school in Idaho, so I'm guessing she didn't fly from there to Alaska every time she's travelled, meaning she has probably set foot on Canadian soil at least once or twice.

But her background doesn't scream anything remotely related to foreign relations other than (presumably) interviewing foriegn hockey players when she was a sports reporter.

Anyone who has a bet down that McCain could find someone less experienced than Dubya was going into the 2000 elections wins!

The country, meanwhile, loses.

Kat

>^..^<

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Evangelicals THRILLED
Evangelical and conservative leaders, including several former foes of John McCain, are heralding his selection today of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate. "An absolutely brilliant choice," said Mat Staver, the chairman of the Liberty Counsel, and an organizer for the failed campaign of Mike Huckabee. "He could not have got a better choice than Gov. Palin. She's a conservative. She's a mom."

Dr. James Dobson, a longtime McCain foe who runs Focus on the Family, is expected to give interviews on the choice later today.  

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~Heather Small

really?
why, are they expecting her to step down to let a man become president if McCain dies on the job?
[ Parent ]
God won't let McCain die
and have a woman take office



Claim to fame: Posted first PHB diary to be demoted
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The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain
Linda Bergthold
"I think we will look back at today as the day when the Republicans most certainly lost the Presidency. In choosing Sarah Palin of Alaska for Vice President, the Republicans have made a cynical but clever choice. At least they think it is clever. She is a woman, young (44 years old), a Governor (only two years), a mother (five children), pro-life, and pro-gun. But what is she not? She is NOT pro-choice. She has NO national experience. She has never been under the intense scrutiny of a national campaign. She is under investigation for some incident in Alaska that is messy and personal. She has no international experience. Her experience governing is in a very small state, famous for its "Bridge to Nowhere" kind of political graft. Her Republican colleague in that state, Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted for corruption.
"
from HuffPo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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~Heather Small

F*CK the Polar bears
 by Sarah Palin
"This is unfortunate, because polar bears are magnificent animals, not cartoon characters. They are worthy of our utmost efforts to protect them and their Arctic habitat. But adding polar bears to the nation's list of endangered species, as some are now proposing, should not be part of those efforts. "
 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01...

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~Heather Small
"Clean" McCain Taps Vindictive Two-Bit Hack for VP
Eric Schmeltzer

"Enter Sarah Palin. Senator McCain really, REALLY has no problem with putting someone on the ticket who is under an investigation for coming down on law enforcement officials, using her official office, to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from his job as a state trooper, after he divorced Palin's sister? And not only that, but when the Public Safety Commissioner wouldn't do her hackery, she fired him?

Goodness. Sounds like she's someone who was part-time Mayor of a 6000 person town a few years ago, and got handed the keys to the Governor's office, and promptly became drunk with power that she was all too eager to abuse. Oh wait, it sounds like that, because it IS like that.

You think Dick Cheney abused his power? Just think of what Sarah Palin will do when she is handed they keys from "Darth Vader."

All of this severely undercuts the image of McCain as a maverick reformer. As much as the Republicans talk about Palin being some kind of reformer, she's anything but. She's a two-bit hack who felt drunk with power, with the little power she had as Governor as Alaska. And now you're going to put her a heartbeat away from controlling the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department?

Richard Nixon, somewhere, is smiling.

Yes, this pick seals it for McCain. He's McClean no more."

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~Heather Small

IMAGINE Sarah with Dick Cheney's bloated POWERS


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~Heather Small
Several Questions
popped into my head when I heard of McSame's choice.
1. Has she ever even been to Washington?
2.Is McSame going to call her a slut and a c*** when they disagree?
3. How will she handle it when he does? (which we all know he eventually will)
NO exception for RAPE or INCEST on abortions
Scott Swenson

"Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood of America said, "According to an article in the Alaska Journal (3/16/08), when Palin was running for lieutenant governor in 2002, she sent an e-mail to the Alaska Right to Life board saying she was as "pro-life as any candidate can be." She is also on the record stating that she is opposed to abortion even in the case of rape or incest."

" With this decision John McCain can reliably lock-up the approximately ten parcent of voters who want to see Roe v. Wade overturned, but does nothing to reach out to Americans who may differ on the question of abortion, but prefer to implement comprehensive sexuality education and the prevention of unintended pregnancies"
  http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/...

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~Heather Small

Creationist AND abstinence ONLY..... too
"Sarah Palin is anti-choice. Sarah Palin 'believes' in creationism. Alaska is currently considering re-upping for Title V funds for abstinence-only sex 'education.' And Palin supports federal anti-gay marriage legislation."
  http://americansexuality.blogs...

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~Heather Small
Make a commercial with that stupid pageant contestant with MAPS


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~Heather Small
USA Americans
here's the link
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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~Heather Small
[ Parent ]
That too.
I also thought that making one with McCain's frantic fight to keep MLK's birthday from being a holiday in Arizona would also be good, although that could be seen as "playing the race card" (quotations because of the way the pundits spin that).

My America includes LGBT families.
[ Parent ]
This unfolding is such gift....priceless I would say.

Sarah Palin a VP worthy of the Sturgis Miss Buffalo Chip contest


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~Heather Small
Maybe they'll
mud wrestle for Grampa's amusement!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."
[ Parent ]
One heartbeat away - President Laura Roslin.
Only without the education and brains.
Palin and McCain = Lady and the Tramp


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~Heather Small
McCain picked Sarah Palin…Michelle and Hillary would comment, but they haven't stopped laughing yet.


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~Heather Small
I think a funny commercial would be a sarah look a like
in a group of queers in suits, and she shrieks who STOLE MY G*D DAMN TIARRA?

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~Heather Small
tiara...ooops


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~Heather Small
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Palin became a Buchanan youth AFTER his Culture Warrior speech..OMG!
Sarah Palin = Michelle Malkin the Japanese don't hate...yet

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~Heather Small
get the Buchanan culture warrior video, and a young girl watching her TV in an ad


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~Heather Small
[ Parent ]
Buchanan culture warrior speech in 3 parts
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

This scared the F*CK out of EVEN republicans.

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~Heather Small

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wearing Buchanan button
SARAH PALIN, BUCHANAN SUPPORTER.

Chris Hayes has a great find:

Very quickly. Remember when Pat Buchanan ran a number of hard-right, fringe campaigns for president in the late 1980s, 1990s and 2000? Well, guess who was supporting him:
From an AP report in 1999:

"Pat Buchanan brought his conservative message of a smaller government and an America First foreign policy to Fairbanks and Wasilla on Friday as he continued a campaign swing through Alaska. Buchanan's strong message championing states rights resonated with the roughly 85 people gathered for an Interior Republican luncheon in Fairbanks. ... Among those sporting Buchanan buttons were Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin and state Sen. Jerry Ward, R-Anchorage."

Keep in mind, Buchanan ran a third-party campaign attack the Republican party (mostly) from the right:

Buchanan proposed U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations and expelling the U.N. out of New York, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Housing and Urban Development, taxes on inheritance and capital gains, and affirmative action programs.
And all that in just one speech! Plus, Buchanan had and has an extreme aversion to the sort of imperial adventures McCain is so fond of. It's starting to seem like Palin wasn't vetted all that carefully.

--Sam Boyd
  http://www.prospect.org/csnc/b...

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~Heather Small

[ Parent ]
His choice was interesting, how I learned about it is even more,
  As many of you know, I am a Customer service representative at the Denver Airport.  While most people who were departing today were carrying and/or wearing Obama stuff, I did have my share of Republican customers.  Most didn't know who she is.  And as I learned a bit more as customers talked, I would share the info.  By the end of the day,  the republican customers where getting perplexed.  

 As one customer explained to me, she has no expierence in Washington DC, very little time as Governor, and a Mayor of a small town.  Completely no foriegn policy knowledge what so ever.  Her only strength besides being good looking (Expect her of faux news for many interviews) is she does know a bit about energy policies.  Basically it is over for the Republican party hopes for 2008.

 And I couldn't agree more.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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