God Save the Queen

As the election battle begins its escalation, the right-wing nutballs are now vehemently attacking the left-wing bloggers for their scrutiny of Sarah Palin. Obama has already said the Palin's family is off limits (of course that never stopped right-wing attacks of Chelsea Clinton), but surley Palin would have expected this level of invasion, just look at what Obama went through because of something his preacher said. Her family life would be a non-issue, except that not everything adds up, and given her holier-than-though moral stance, one would expect her family to adhere to these "high" limits, otherwise she is an inconsistency in herself. But, the right-wing radio scumbags are happy to give her a pass while they attack any democrat for anything they can find.

The media is constantly comparing her experience to that of Obama, but this is absurd. They should be comparing her to Biden. Being mayor of a town of five thousand and 20 months of being governor of an out-of-the-way state (really when was the last time Alaska played a big part in national decisions, plus this is the state that gave us Ted Stevens!) doesn't really equal 35 years in national politics. I have more confidence in a Congressional member, who might have some knowledge of national conditions and geo-political situations, than someone from an isolated and very independent state.

But the real problem with Palin is not her experience, but her outlook towards politics. She's already played a dirty game of invoking religion and denouncing her rival's own religious view (which happened to be Christian Lutheran.) as well as suggesting banning books at the local library (which resulted in firing the librarian). There is also the matter of an ethics investigation and the question of lobbying for earmarks (even though McCain says she didn't.) So, we have a candidate that isn't nearly as clean as the nutballs would have you think, and we have another Republican that has an agenda of ramming their religion into everyone's life.

Here's something to read about her (thanks to Leo Laporte for the link)