She’s no Dan Quayle
By now you know that Sarah Palin is an anti-science, anti-abortion Buchananite. She denies that humans cause global warming, which makes her even more ignorant than George W. Bush. None of that should be surprising. John McCain’s choice for Vice President is supposed to be red meat for the Religious Right, and Sarah Palin will serve that purpose nicely.
I don’t understand the feminists who are insulted by this choice. Of course McCain thinks Clinton supporters are stupid enough to vote for him because he’s got a woman on the ticket. Republicans think we’re all stupid enough to let a Republican administration start two illegal wars, fund them forever, and give away our constitutional rights, because we did. And Hilary Clinton, who actively helped the Republicans do all that, not only didn’t get repudiated by most feminists, she damn near got elected President. Apparently McCain’s strategists know how to keep their eyes open better than a lot of Democrats.
And while we’re on the subject, how does Nancy “Impeachment Is Off the Table” Pelosi get to keep identifying herself as a feminist, without being roundly denounced by actual feminists? Were the last two years of Bush/Cheney not injurious to women?
If you’re a feminist, as I am, then the Republican Party is your enemy, and so are all the Bush collaborators inside the Democratic Party. Maybe anti-woman woman Sarah Palin will make that suddenly clear for some people.