Of All the Reasons McCain’s Palin Pick is Awful, Evidence of Her Abuse of Power is the Worst

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Of All the Reasons McCain’s Palin Pick is Awful, Evidence of Her Abuse of Power is the Worst
by Dave Lindorff
Sat, 08/30/2008

There are many reasons why most Americans should be turned off by Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s last-minute choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate.

She’s an evangelical Christian who believes in creationism and thinks this fantasy belongs in the school science curriculum alongside evolution. She’s opposed to the right to abortion. She thinks global warming is not a proven phenomenon. She favors drilling for oil in the Arctic Refuge and damn the environmental consequences. This supposedly family-centered “hocky mom” is happy about sending her 18-year-old son off to war in Iraq, even as Iraq is trying to shoo us out of the country and even as the president is tacitly admitting that the whole thing is a bust by agreeing to a timetable for withdrawal.

But the real reason Palin, the former mayor of little Wasilla, Alaska (pop. 5000 when she was there) and two-year governor of Alaska, is a disastrous pick for the vice presidency on a ticket headed by an ailing 72-year-old presidential candidate who has suffered two bouts of melanoma and who is showing early signs of dementia, is the evidence that she has abused power as governor. . . .
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/083108Lindorff.shtml

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1. Let's Not Forget

Let's not forget, either, that Todd Palin works for an oil company, in a very soft job that pays him 6 figures and gives him summers off to pursue his "commercial fisherman" lifestyle. Some maverick/reformer Sarah Palin is: she is literally in bed with BP/Amoco.

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2. Silly, she was picked BECAUSE of her track record of abusing power.

It's a major plus on any Republican's resume.

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3. Palin-drone

Is anyone calling her "Palindrone" yet? They ought to. She's by all appearances a tool of her husband, the religious right, and the most cretinous conservative policies. What, other than eyeshadow, does she bring to the table that's any different from most of the GOP?