bigshotprof
09-04-2008, 07:40 PM
Out in the Midwest during the "contract with America" there was a conscious orchestrated and well funded drive for evangelicals to take over politics from the ground up. I saw it in school board elections, alcohol and beverage commission meetings, and of course city council and local mayoral elections. These people were clean and shiny and well-spoken, and they would cut your eyes out with a spoon if they could get away with it. I would say that they were rich with hypocrisy, but I honestly think they were so deluded by the righteousness of their cause that they couldn't see the double standard on which their whole platform was built.
Sara Palin is the prime (and I think primal) example of that cause. Funded from outside by the very "special interests" she claims to deride, she went into a nice friendly Mayberry of a town and scorched the earth with Right to Life wedge charges and character assassination. The first time I heard her talk I said to myself "I'll bet one of her first official visits was to the local library." Here is an excerpt from September 3, New York Times:
Ms. Palin brought up the idea of banning some books at one meeting. “They were somehow morally or socially objectionable to her,” Ms. Kilkenny said. The librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, pledged to “resist all efforts at censorship,” Ms. Kilkenny recalled. Ms. Palin fired Ms. Emmons shortly after taking office but changed course after residents made a strong show of support."
Palin is not just a pitbull, and that red on her lips isn't gloss. She is a rabid pitbull in sheep's clothing. She and her people do NOT belong in the White House.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?ref=politics
Sara Palin is the prime (and I think primal) example of that cause. Funded from outside by the very "special interests" she claims to deride, she went into a nice friendly Mayberry of a town and scorched the earth with Right to Life wedge charges and character assassination. The first time I heard her talk I said to myself "I'll bet one of her first official visits was to the local library." Here is an excerpt from September 3, New York Times:
Ms. Palin brought up the idea of banning some books at one meeting. “They were somehow morally or socially objectionable to her,” Ms. Kilkenny said. The librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, pledged to “resist all efforts at censorship,” Ms. Kilkenny recalled. Ms. Palin fired Ms. Emmons shortly after taking office but changed course after residents made a strong show of support."
Palin is not just a pitbull, and that red on her lips isn't gloss. She is a rabid pitbull in sheep's clothing. She and her people do NOT belong in the White House.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?ref=politics