Six Reasons Not to Vote for Sarah Palin
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#1 - She doesn't back Obama's healthcare plan.
In August 2009 she said,
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil."
Her statement is based on the writings of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm's brother, advisor to Barack Obama on health care issues, who embraces a health care policy known as the “complete lives system” in which infants, elderly and special needs patients are deliberately denied medical treatment so that others (i.e. more productive people) will always have adequate care.
#2 - She is religious.
"As chief executive of Alaska, she signed a proclamation marking Christian Heritage Week as an occasion to remind Alaskans of the role Christianity has played in the state's history. Palin also argued that public school students should engage in a "healthy debate" between evolution and creationism."
She's also been accused of being part of a religion that practices "speaking in tongues", as is her First Amendment right.
- How religion guides Palin -- chicagotribune.com
When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin promised to lead the nation with a "servant's heart," evangelical Christians immediately recognized her as one of their own. - A Neuroscientific Look at Speaking in Tongues - New York Times
Scientists have used brain images to peer into the minds of those who speak in tongues.
#3 - She was a beauty queen.
There isn't a woman alive who doesn't wish she could be called a beauty [queen]. And she doesn't need Botox.
#4 - She's had a baby late in life and she didn't kill it when she found out he was mentally impaired. And she hunts (there are over 20 million hunters in the US). But not killing her Down Syndrome baby and killing moose is an outright crime.
#5 - She quit as governor of Alaska in mid-term. She was hit by 18 ethics charges, all of which were dismissed. Fighting off these charges were costing Alaskan taxpayers 100's of thousands of dollars and all of the charges were designed to hound her.
- Ethics complaints filed against Palin: Former Gov. Sarah Palin | adn.com
Ethics complaints filed against Palin
#6 - She has a 17-year-old daughter who has had a child out of wedlock. Of course, anyone whose daughter does this must be unfit for political office, right?
Wow, she's not the messiah. She has the same problems as anybody else.
Would you vote for Sarah Palin in 2012?
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Yep, 6 reasons why she's definitely not a Liberal. Well done.
Vote for Hilary; she certainly didn't piggyback on anyone elses' success to get where she it. ;)
Six reasons, Classic!
Wow Madame x, I believe Ms. Palin has more troubles than most I heard. She can't be fit for a President, or holding any political office. Don't hurt yourself in trying to figure out what my vote was. Great Hub Madame!
Dear Madame X,
No I would not vote for Sarah Palin. She does not have what it takes, in my opinion, to lead this country and no anything isn't better than Obama. Next time we have to get it right by making sure we have real choice with highly qualified candidates.
Hmrjmr1 - you hit the nail on the head! All those over-stretched hags on the Hill really gnash their teeth over Sarah.
nicomp - Vote for Hillary? You're being facetious right? Hillary is THE REASON why Sarah is so attacked. As for piggybacking - you ever hear of an Arkincide?
Tex - yep!
sherry23 - yeah, they're on her like white on rice. She has been made deliberately controversial. Thanks for stopping by - I missed you :)
POP - I'm interested in your reasons why you don't think she is qualified. I do, at this time. But I'm keeping an open mind. Thanks for your input :)
At first, I thought you didn't like her, judging by the title of this hub. Someone should send her a link to this article to improve her morale and let her know there are people who think kindly of her.
As a mother of a few children myself, I can say that I relate to her on that level. And having a special needs child while taking on such things as politics is no easy task.
Some people don't like her, but in life, not everyone is going to like everything you do ("you can please some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time..."). So we do the best we can, based on the information we have at hand. If she has the time to dedicate to make it a job well done, let her go for it!
@Madame X: Yes, I was facetious. Hilary piggybacked on Bill's success. She should probably be in jail; if Martha Stewart committed the securities violations that Hilary (allegedly) did...
advisor - A LOT of people like Sarah, and a lot of people want to know more about her. Her new book has already reached the best seller list through advance orders alone and it's not even out yet. I also think a lot of people can relate to her because she seems to be a real person - not perfect - just like the rest of us - with her heart in the right place :) Thanks for your intelligent commentary :)
nicomp - sorry to be so credulous, I get that way sometimes :) Love your Martha comment . . . very astute :) :)
You left off a couple. She's not remotely qualified by experience, education, knowledge or temperament. And she has a habit of quitting before finishing the job whether it be school or being governor.
Obama is not remotely qualified and look at him, why is her education a point of contention? Do all Presidents have to be Harvard or Yale graduates? Those two schools seem to graduate a buttload of crooks and incompetents! You mean Obama served his full term in the senate?
Dear Madame X,
My feeling is that Sarah Palin lacks experience in international and economic matters. I don't believe that she is good for our country at this time. We need a very smart, seasoned leader capable of taking us through some very tough times. Believe me when I say, Obama is clearly not the man for the job either. He is taking us down the road to socialism, something clearly Sarah Palin could never be accused of. Having said that I still maintain that I would be very uncomfortable having her in the White House.
Obama quit his job in order to run for president, he never held a position of responsibility in the private sector, he won't release his college transcripts...
but he's qualified.
Any politician who quits before their term expires should be skeptically considered for any future office. She obviously didn't quit to look after her family or deal with health problems. I'm not inclined to support her bid for another elected position. Will she quit in the midst of her campaign?
I love this. I always say, you can tell who is a threat to the liberals, because they can't help but attack, attack, and attack.
I also think the liberals did not get this hub, based on the comments they left.
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann for 2012. Two conservative, pretty women. Wouldn't that just blame make the liberals pissed! I love it, I love it!!!!
Keep on hubbing!
@eovery: That ticket would give NOW apoplectic fits. MSNBC would reach critical mass. Bill Mahr would self-destruct. The Liberals demand perpetuation of victimhood status; electing two Republican women as president and vice president removes the gender card from their deck.
"Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann for 2012. Two conservative, pretty women. Wouldn't that just blame make the liberals pissed! I love it, I love it!!!!"
That would make me very happy! I hope they get the nomination. Ann Coulter also deserves consideration by the GOP. She'd be good on a ticket with Glenn Beck or Rush.
Better then anything the lying dems put up these days !I want a third party , all thes guys are theives !No matter which party .
@ breakfastpop - Sarah's international experience is uniquely developed because of Alaska's multinational placement outside of the continental US. This has given her the opportunity to have many successful interactions with Canada, Russia, Japan and other countries involved with the region. As well, she successfully negotiated one of the biggest corporate-government pipeline deals, while simultaneously presiding over the Alaska National Guard, which unlike any other State, deals directly with monitoring an intercontinental border next to potentially hostile countries. And fiscally she was notorious for cutting out waste and payoffs, angering even her own Republican Party by breaking up the good old boy fat cat network that had operated for decades up there.
In comparison, Hillary's horrifying support for the Honduran communist totalitarian who violated his constitution in an attempted takeover supported by Castro and Chavez, and her use of the State Department to punish Honduras citizens by witholding funding for following their own democratic law, is shamefully irresponsible. And now she's off telling the world that even though Pakistan can't find all it's nukes, there's nothing to worry about, while Israel is being forced prepare for war over Islamic nuclear threats to it's existence!
In comparison, Sarah Palin is literally sanity itself, versus the nightmare of Hillary's communist madness and endless incompetence.
I like Sarah, but I have to agree with POP, she's not strong enough to pull us back together, plus there is too much drama.
Ralph - Her experience is far greater than Obama'a when he took office, which the democrats don't seem to mind one bit. Over half of our presidents were Governors before they became presidents - a fact conveniently omitted by the outrageously biased media.
As for her education, she received her bachelor's degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho. However, a person's education, where they went to school and what degrees they got, etc. is not always an indicator of their capabilities. In the early days of Silicon Valley many engineers had no higher education and went on to create some of the most important breakthroughs in computing that we all make use of today. Burrell Smith, for example, was a 23 year old, self-taught engineer, without a college degree who designed the first Apple Macintosh mother board. The significance of that was that it used a lot less chips to do the same job as the IBM PC of the time, amongst other things. After Apple came out with this extraordinary design, all the other computer manufacturers followed suit.
As far as knowledge or temperament, again I disagree. I picked up the following quote from someone's blog but I don't think I could have said it better -
"Alaskans still love her, and knows that she cares about Alaska so much, that she doesn't want to spend millions of their tax dollars on defending ridiculous and frivolous lawsuits, launched against her, by Obama supporters, with the intention of bankrupting her, and her state. They know that she doesn't want to be spending their tax dollars, and receiving her salary from them, when she is traveling to lower 48 states frequently, for national level issues, which is where she is needed now, to fight against Obama's policies.
They know that she is not like Barack Obama, who started running for President, just 4 months after he was elected for Senate, and received thousands as salary from Illinois tax payers, for months, without actually doing any work for them, and instead was running around the country, for his career. They know that, the amount of work she did for Alaska in just one term, is almost equal to the amount of work that other Governor's of the state had taken two terms to do." -Raj
POP - To understand her political moves one must understand the dynamics of power. Sarah was basically told to "shut up and take it" regarding the flak she was taking with ethics charges, slowly going bankrupt, unable to defend herself by being stuck in Alaska, and building up ill will with her base in Alaska by using taxpayer dollars to defend herself as governor, all while being blasted by the biased media.
Her brilliant response was to kick over the table. The one thing no one thought she would do - resign as governor - she did. And they're still reeling from it. So now, of course, "she's a quitter". No, it took an in-depth understanding of how politics works really works in this country to do what she did. And it took enormous courage. My hat is off to her on this one!
nicomp - she has no intention of quitting in the middle. It was a shrewd calculated move. And to your next post - yeah, I would just love to see NOW in an apoplectic fit :) Especially because the holier-than-thou dems couldn't use the gender card for themselves. They hated it when Condi Rice was SoS too :)
eovery - yup. Attack, attack, attack. Sarah scares the livin' crap outta them :)
tony - the two parties are so entrenched that a third is unlikely - but we can all hope . . . after all, isn't that what our president said we should do . . .
talisker - You've said it very well. I think your points are the main reason the dems have put Hillary in the SoS position- so she can claim "foreign policy experience" when she runs again for president. I would add-
"Above all, Palin has proved to be a shrewd political operator who slyly fought her way upstream through her state's cutthroat politics, someone more formidable than her image might suggest — and more than some in her own party are willing to acknowledge." -Time
jib - I guess this is one area where we disagree. I see her as so strong that the established body politic is so terrified that they do nothing but attack. It's not just the dems that are afraid, unfortunely. Some repubs don't want to upset the status quo either, and therefore lose their power base. Palin is genuinely the embodiment of hope and change, not just the rhetoric of it.
As for the drama, it's de rigor for a dem president. When the Clintons were in office a week didn't go by that we didn't have to focus on some crap they were pulling. And now it's the same with Obama - "focus on me, focus on me" is his (and the dems) constant cry. When all we want to do is live our lives. Sarah is vicitmized by this phenomena, although she's not a victim. Which is a very important distinction.
Tex - didn't mean to leave you out - all pertinent points you made there - but the media is pushing a different meme . . .
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Thanks jib- I'll take a look.
Oh Ralphy, you make me laugh!
Like Obama is really working out great. Maybe Bill Eyers can ghost write his autobiography. Oh yeah, he only met Bill Eyers the Terrorist, murderer once, yeah. He ghost wrote Obamas book.
Keep on Hubbing!
eovery - ooooh- is that why I can't tell them apart?
:)
definitely need someone down to earth, and fiscally conservative
vrajavala - Yeah - and smart too. I don't care what anybody says about her -I know what I see. Maybe we can "hope" for this "change" :) Thanks for stopping by.
Love this hub and to think I almost didn't check it out because of the title!
Go Palin in 2012, By the way:
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY THAT OBAMA CAN'T MAKE WORSE!!!!
resspenser - HA HA! Love the quote - how true. Glad you came by - thanks for commenting :)
Madame X, You got me with the title of your hub "Six Reasons Not to Vote for Sarah Palin". I get it now. I'm a sucker... I'm not sure if I would vote for her in 2012. She has the leftist media nipping at her heals, and that is a good sign, but who knows what will happen from now till then. Today, I would. 2012, we will see.
Snarky - Sarah Palin is the best thing to happen to this country in 20 years! The fact that they (all politicians, right and left, AND the media) hate her is the best sign in the world. Keep your eye on her, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised as things play out. Thanks for reading the hub anyway, even though I lured you in through underhanded subterfuge :)
Hmrjmr1 says:
2 months ago
Never underestimate the power of a beautiful and smart woman. Good Hub!