Why I hate Sarah Palin.

First of all, let me start by saying: Yeah. She has a pregnant 17 year old daughter. I don't care if shes sans-hymen. She's not my kid, and she's not the country's either, so it's nobody's business. Why the Palin family came to allow it to be is beyond me, and strongly lacks logic. It would have gone away faster if they didn't keep making it a point to continually justify it. I'm withholding any question on morality or parenting here because at 17, your mother doesn't come along on all your playdates anymore, and whatever Bristol Palin did was of her own volition. Teenagers are angsty and deliberately defiant. I would know. I am one.

Aside from Bristol, I do question Sarah's choice in getting in a plane and flying to Alaska while leaking amniotic fluid. I do question someone constantly campaigning while they've got a young Down's baby at home who would most likely require care atop what a normal child would. I do question someone who only has 20 something months of governing experience, and admittedly doesn't know what a Vice President does, accepting an offer to run after a ten minute discussion.

I realize her family business is none of mine. None of ours as a country. But as all this is growing to become common knowledge, its showing a void where common sense should be. This whole picture to me seems like one night, John McCain IMed Sarah Palin and they talked about it. and the conversation probably went like this:

McCandyCane08: r u there sarah?
AlazkaIsk00l: ya lol who is this?
McCandyCane08: its john mccain, duhhh
AlazkaIsk00l: omg lol how did u get maii s/n?
McCandyCane08: it was on ur facebook girlfrenn
AlazkaIsk00l: lololol omg ur rite lol sup?
McCandyCane08: n/m really chillin wit cindy lol, ne way wat r u doin on saturday?
AlazkaIsk00l: idk prolly bein govern0r of alazka unless i make planz lol waii?
McCandyCane08: i thot it would b cool if you liek wanted 2 b vice prezzy or sumthin lol
AlazkaIsk00l: omg really nowaii yea cool that sounds liek so fun


Breaking into a much deeper point here, anyone too stupid to realize they're being used (or to realize, and not care), is too stupid to sit in a major political seat. This election has become an election of gimmicks. The historical white woman versus black man element for the Democratic nomination at least played some part in getting most people to ignore the Republicans (yes, only some part, I think the fact that Bush is still alive and kicking also had an adverse effect on the word "Republican" alone) which ultimately took the focus off of John McCain.

Since the historical focus was playing up the Democrats, there was nothing that the Republicans could do for attention. McCain had to make the news somehow. It's obvious enough that a good amount of minorities are going to prefer the minority candidate. So what can McCain do? Ah! McCain can put a woman on his ticket! Yup, fellas, that one'll make the news. But it can't just be ANY woman. It has to be a woman that's going to agree with everything he says. So it has to be an impressionable, stupid woman. Neon signs point to Alaska and a choir of angels sing "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

Who better than a woman that doesn't support women's rights? Who better, than an Alaskan governor, who says "Oh yeah, put that big drill wherever you want to" (and I'm assuming she said the same to her husband, judging by all those fucking kids). McCain needed someone that would draw attention to himself that wouldn't impede on the half chubs he's calling plans. Sarah Palin is in fact, not an involved woman at all. In fact, OnTheIssues.com lists this as her voting record -

On requiring the hire of more women / minorities... NO VOTE.
On teacher-led prayer... NO VOTE
On mandatory 3 Strikes sentencing laws... NO VOTE
On drug enforcement laws... NO VOTE
On allowing churches to provide welfare services... NO VOTE
On illegal immigrants earning citizenship... NO VOTE
On support and expansion of free trade... NO VOTE
On stricter limits on political campaign funds... NO VOTE
On the Patriot Act harming civil liberties... NO VOTE
On pulling out of Iraq... NO VOTE.
On welfare and Poverty... NO STANCE YET RECORDED
On Principles and Values... NO STANCE YET RECORDED
On Jobs... NO STANCE YET RECORDED
On Immigration... NO STANCE YET RECORDED
On Government Reform... NO STANCE YET RECORDED
On Free Trade... NO STANCE YET RECORDED
On Foreign Policy... NO STANCE YET RECORDED
On Drugs... NO STANCE YET RECORDED
On Families and Children... NO STANCE YET RECORDED'

Doesn't look like she has her mind made up on much, huh? To me, that seems like a nice clean slate for McCain to work with. Seems like a perfect idea. Get the attention of adding a woman to your ticket, influence undecided female voters, and make her into what you want her to be for your own benefit. All the while, she doesn't have the logic to realize it. She'll sit there and go along with it because she likes the attention.

I'm trying to have faith in us as a country, no matter what political affiliation we are, not to be stupid enough to fall for it.