Girls Against Sarah Palin

Hiding

Sarah’s “Witness Protection” Program Expands
TALKING POINTS MEMO, By  John Nail - September 21, 2008, 1:34PM
John McCain exhibited his  executive judgment in picking Sarah Palin and telling America she is qualified to be VP and step in as President if need be and far more experienced than Obama or Biden due to her “executive experience“. How did he do?
Well, for a woman who introduced herself to us so feistily all as a “pitbull with lipstick” the cone of silence is like a federal witness protection program and special rules she needs to be the first Republican female VP are getting silly, but are nonetheless quite disturbing.
First we got the “Human Kid Shield” after she throws her daughter under the bus for her pregnancy at the convention and then procedes to trot the kids, including her Downs Syndrome baby around St.Paul. If she and McCain had simply been honest about this in the first place no one would have cared.
Second she couldn’t give interviews or answer either media or voter questions except now we have:
We got Charlie Gibson’s interview where she can see Russia and embarassed herself or spouted catchwords and catchphrases.
Then Hannity’s absurd palavering and drooling all over her and more lies coming out and the same 6 or 8 words repeated dozens of times with no information coming out just platitudes and  lies like the Bridge etc.

Third she goes home to get her life ready to go on the road and send her son off to Iraq and she is all by herself on home turf and what happens?
In her speech sending him off she invokes the old Cheney belief that we are fighting the people in Iraq who attacked the US on 9/11 and that the war is “God’s will” for the US.  The Pentagon had warned her in advance to not politicize the event.
Fourth  McCain discovers from 2 & 3 that she can’t really be out on her own AND without her no one come to see him alone and what happens?  Finally on the stump with McCain as training wheels she answered, or tried to, a couple of voter questions in controlled situations with McCain and we got “Stump the candidate” avoidance line and an answer on energy and “fungible” resources (from the foremost expert in the US on energy) that was unintelligible.
Fifth after not fully vetting Palin and making a rash last minute call on her McCain’s team quickly realized that they had a number of serious issues to deal with, the biggest of which is Troopergate. What do they do? Parachute in a legal SWAT team headed by a “Rambo” - the former counter terror chief from the US Attorney’s office in NY. The team now runs all aspects of this probe that was created in July by the Republican AK legislature.
All the witnesses who were called have refused to testify including her husband and McCain’s team have essentially usurped Palin’s responsibilities as Governor to try and hide the apparently damning facts about Palin’s abuse of power and her husband’s shadow role in the state until after the election.
All inquiries related to Palin on AK issues run thru the McCain SWAT team. The McCain campaign is essentially running a large part of the business of AK. Is this America??

Alaskans know she’s hiding the truth, and they’re pissed:

Sixth we now see that the McCain campaign is concerned that Palin is not ready to debate and negotiates a set of rules to protect her. Hmmm, I wonder how world leaders would feel meeting her with “rules” in their talks with her? is this reverse sex discrimination that Caribou Barbie isn’t ready to go toe to toe in public with her Democratic counterpart.  McCain advisers said they had been concerned that a loose format could leave Ms. Palin, a relatively inexperienced debater, at a disadvantage and largely on the defensive.”
In fact in her 2006 gubernatorial debates she tried to have a  stand-in appear for her.

Everyone is trying to be polite to this national newcomer but enough of this bullsh*t!
Special rules for a “woman”?? The big bad world she wants to “reform” doesn’t work that way.
The problem is that McCain has no clue as to women, women’s issues or respect for them. He just hastily chose this poorly vetted and clueless,  incompetent small town mayor and poorly educated Governor to try and win an election.
Now in order to try and shatter the glass ceiling, he has to put her first on training wheels, then in a bubble, and then add special rules to protect her to try and limp to the election.
This entire selection and nonsense is an insult to every person in America, Alaska and particularly to qualified women like Hillary whose supporters McCain was trying to peel off.   Even Peggy Noonan called it - “It’s Over”.
Let’s call this what it is - lipstick on pitbullsh*t!