thepoliticalhub.com — As Sarah Palin is a largely unknown figure in national politics, we have gathered and compiled information from various news sources about her political career in Alaska. The picture painted by Alaska residents and others is hardly the flattering one being spun by the Republican Party with scandals, controversies, failures and more.
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ridgeliner7Sep 5, 2008
"The hypocrisy was breathtaking. Only nanoseconds before the choice of Mrs. Palin as VP put her a geriatric heartbeat away from the presidency, a woman?s right to have a career and children was a shibboleth of feminism. One always knew that women with views that opposed those of official feminism were to be treated as nonwomen. To see it now out in the open was the real shocker.The fact that this mom had been governor of a state was dismissed because it was a ?small state,? as was the city of which she had been mayor. Her acceptance speech, which knowledgeable left-wing critics feared would be effective, was dismissed before being delivered. She would be reading from a teleprompter. The speech would be good, no doubt, but written for her.Had she been a man with similar political views, the left?s opposition would have been strong but less personally vicious: It would have focused neither on a daughter?s pregnancy, nor on the candidate?s inability to be a good parent if the job was landed. In its panic, the left was indicating that to be a female running for office these days is no hindrance but an advantage, and admitting that there is indeed a difference between mothers and fathers that cannot necessarily be resolved by having daddy doing the diaper run.Sarah Palin has put the flim-flam nature of American feminism sharply into focus, revealing the not-so-secret hypocrisy of its code and, whatever her future, this alone is an accomplishment. As she emerged into the nation?s consciousness, a shudder went through the feminist left?a political movement not restricted to females. She is a mother refusing to stay at home (good) who had made a success out in the workplace (excellent) whose marriage nevertheless is a rip-roaring success and whose views are unspeakable?those of a red-blooded, right-wing principled pragmatist."<a class="user" href="http://ridgeliner7.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/what-mrs-palin-could-learn-from-mrs-thatcher/">http://ridgeliner7.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/what-m ...</a>
jasonyapSep 5, 2008Submitter
I don't know about anyone else, but my views of McCain's choice for VP are the same whether she is a woman or not. That I think she is unfit to be VP. And this list focuses on specific issues that have nothing to do with gender, and so I don't think it warrants a generic, cookie cutter response. The fact is many people including from her own party think she is not qualified. If you are campaigning for the second most powerful position in the world, you should expect to be vetted. John McCain has. Barack Obama has. Joe Biden has. All three have been on the National scene for awhile and vetted. Palin has not. So it is her turn. It has nothing to do with her gender.I think the size of your city and state is applicable. I could easily be mayor of a city of 5000 if I wanted to. I do not, however, think I could be a senator of a large state or a mayor of a large city. I will give her experience as Governor but that is less than 2 years. So my viewpoint is someone with less than 2 years of real, credible experience is not ready. McCain, Obama and Biden all have much stronger credentials.
bobgoodson44Sep 27, 2010
dangerous and unfit