It's Like a Train Wreck

I know I shouldn't spend any more time on Gov. Palin (although she wracks my nightmares--every morning I wake up in a cold sweat with visions of her overturning Roe v. Wade as she chews on a mooseburger while shooting at wolves from a helicopter), but let me throw in two (more) cents.

If progressives are going to really critique her (and there is so much to critique), we have to do so on valid grounds. The fact that she has five children, the youngest of whom has special needs, is NOT a legitimate critique. While McCain was going from port to port, the Lord only knows who he has spawned. Even our own dear Senator Obama has two young daughters that deserve active parenting from him and Michelle, and I haven't heard a thing about him being a bad dad. So let's not get all sexist and imply (or outright say) that Palin is incompetent because she's got a gaggle of children. And as tempting as it is to point out that abstinence-only education did not work in her family, that poor Bristol Palin has enough to deal with.

The fact of the matter is that Palin is so wretchedly incompetent and such a reprehensible and shockingly immoral choice, we don't have to mention anything about her motherhood, pit bull in a skirt status (makes me wonder if she has paw prints tatted on her chest--sorry Eve), or religious extremism (okay, we probably should consider that). Let me cite the short list of concerns.

1. Her level and caliber of "experience" makes Barack Obama look like he's been in the senate since Jesus was in high school.
2. She has a horrendous record on LGBT rights. Now, Obama is not a LGBT savior, but he ain't the devil either. She, quite possibly, however...
3. She shoots wolves from helicopters. That's just barbaric.
4. She describes herself as a pit bull and yet she is not a rapper from Philly
5. She doesn't know what a community organizer is. (Check out illdoctrine's take on her janky RNC speech, aka the Republican Hater's Ball)
6. She doesn't believe in global warming. Like I tell my students, whether or not you believe in something or like something (for example, the mid-term that will occur) does not stop that thing from existing and happening frequently.

Shall I continue? I feel like electing McCain is just asking for President Sarah Palin. I'm all for a woman in the White House, but not just any old body they pull in off the street. She is no Hillary Clinton.