Tuesday 2 September 2008

10 Reasons Not to vote for the McCain-Palin ticket


There are 10 very good reasons people should not vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin will only be a heartbeat away from the US Presidency and considering that John McCain has had four bouts with cancer, get to know the facts about Palin, before you vote.


1: Palin supports gunning down wolves from planes

Sarah Palin is no friend of wildlife. And let's not blame this on her being a hunter. Plenty of subsistence hunters respect animals. But Palin reportedly came out against legislation introduced by Rep. George Miller, a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, that would "end Alaska's policy of allowing people to shoot wolves from airplanes."

2: Palin doesn't believe global warming is man-made

At every campaign stop, John McCain says that human activity is the driving force behind global climate change.
According to the Washington Post, "Sarah Palin told voters there she wasn't sure climate change wasn't simply part of a natural warming cycle." Palin told the conservative Web site NewsMax, "I'm not one ... who would attribute it to being man-made."

3: Palin is the candidate of powerful far right-wing cabal; her nomination seals their support for the little-wanted McCain

Last week, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly in Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.
CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges. This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.

4: Palin staunchly opposes abortion, even in cases of rape and incest

Palin only supports abortion if the mother's health is in danger.
Rape and incest don't register with her as legitimate reasons to honor a woman's right to choose -- not even if the women is her own daughter.
In 2006, when her daughter Bristol was only 14, Palin said that she would not support choice even if her daughter were raped.

5: Palin takes unnecessary risks with the health of her own child, supports failed abstinence-only programs

Palin was in Texas delivering a speech when she allegedly began to leak amniotic fluid. Instead of immediately checking into a hospital, Palin finished her speech. She then flew to Anchorage, Alaska, where she drove to a hospital 45 minutes away to give birth.
And speaking of unsound judgment, her daughter's pregnancy demonstrates seriously poor decision making, not on the part of Bristol but by conservative politicians like Palin and McCain, who have decided that the best way to ensure kids learn about sex is by depriving them of information.

6: Palin is under investigation for allegedly abusing her power as governor to help her sister in a messy divorce

Palin has been embroiled in a bitter family feud that has drawn in the state police, the attorney general, the governor's office and the state legislature.
In fact, a bipartisan state legislative panel has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether Palin improperly brought the family fight into the governor's office.

7: Palin lied about her plans for the "Bridge to Nowhere"

It turns out that initially Palin was a big fan of the bridge, although it could be that Palin wasn't so much a fan of the bridge as she was a fan of telling Ketchikan's 14,000 residents that she was while on the campaign trail in September 2006. "She was the only candidate who was saying, 'We're going to build that bridge'", former governor Tony Knowles, a Democrat who lost to Palin in the 2006 general election, told the Washington Post. "She's taking a position now which certainly wasn't what it was when she was campaigning."

8: A so-called political reformer, Palin has big money ties to Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who has been indicted for political corruption

According to the Washington Post's The Trail, from 2003 to 2005, Palin was one of three directors of "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors.
A "527" refers to a section of the tax code governing such campaign groups.
"Palin, an anti-corruption crusader in Alaska, had called on Stevens to be open about the issues behind the investigation," the Post reported. "But she also held a joint news conference with him in July, before he was indicted, to make clear she had not abandoned him politically."
Stevens, who is running for re-election this year, was inducted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., this summer for failing to disclose sizeable gifts from a now-defunct Alaskan oil company, including assistance with renovating a vacation home.

9: Palin exploits her son's Iraq service for political gain

Taking the stage alongside John McCain last Friday, it took no time for Palin to play the 9/11 card. "On September 11th of last year," she announced, "our son enlisted in the United States Army. … And on September 11th, Track will deploy to Iraq. ... And Todd and I are so proud of him and of all the fine men and women serving this country."

As a matter of fact, the 2008 presidential race is remarkable in that three of the candidates have sons in the active duty military.
But standard practice seems to be not to discuss it publicly.

10: During her time as mayor, Palin drove a town deep into debt

According to Politico, "Palin, who portrays herself as a fiscal conservative, racked up nearly $20 million in long-term debt as mayor of the tiny town of Wasilla. That amounts to $3,000 per resident. She argues that the debt was needed to fund improvements."

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