"I think she is the most inexperienced person on a major party ticket in modern history," said presidential historian Matthew Dallek in an interview with Politico.com today in reference to John McCain's dubious selection of Alaska governor Sarah Palin.The liberal activist group Moveon.org revealed that Palin supported Pat Buchanan for president in 2000, and she sued the current Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species to assist her oil-drilling industry pals.
Palin is also a member of the extremist pro-life group Feminists for Life, and she opposes abortion even in the case of rape and incest. And, she moved to have creationism taught in Alaska's schools. (Hence, the reason why I've chosen Dana Carvey's Church Lady character as a photo image for this story).
She is no maverick, and neither is McCain.
In fact, conservatives who know they can't go on Fox News and defend this infamous decision are saying what they really feel confidentially. One such 'deep throat' said the following to Dan Balz of "The Washington Post:"
"I would rather be arguing with conservatives about abortion (had McCain picked a pro-choice politician like Tom Ridge for veep) than with Democrats about a lack of experience on our ticket."
Pictured: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the first hockey mom to run for vice president.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Ca.) told "The Washington Post" that McCain had other options to go after women voters, including seasoned senators like Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tx). Boxer went on to call Palin a 'dangerous choice.'
The move was also not a welcome one to Mitt Romney supporters, who thought the former Massachusetts governor, known for his flip-flops, was a better choice.
Utah Republican Party chair Stan Lockhart said told the "Dessert Morning-News" in Salt Lake City that he was stunned by McCain's choice: "I know about as much about Republican politics as anyone in our state and up until the vice-presidential choice was announced, I thought it was Mitt Romney."
Lockhart's counterpart Utah Democratic chairman Wayne Hollard told the same newspaper that the Republican decision could actually assist Democratic candidates in Utah, a state which does actually have a Democratic congressman, suggesting that this would make voters aware of the religious intolerance and bigotry in the right-wing of the Republican Party.
The announcement also makes the words of Bill Kristol, a leader in the infamous neocon movement responsible for the War in Iraq, quite prophetic. He wrote the following in his column for "The New York Times," according to "Washington Post" columnist Howard Kurtz:
"It's awfully tempting for the McCain camp to revisit the possibility of tapping Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice, or Alaska Governor Sarah Palin," Kristol wrote. "But, the first two have never run for office, and Palin has been governor for less than two years."
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