more on Sarah Palin as potential VP

[liveonearth]

PALIN
--is anti-choice
--is a religious conservative
--denies global warming
--until 1.5 years ago was mayor of a town of 9,000 people (Wasilla)
--is a hunter and fisherwoman
--was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago
--has no foreign policy experience (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin)
--opposes abortion even in the case of rape or incest (http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17515&id=13661-3248945-cjrpX7x&t=1)
--supported Pat Buchanan for president in 2000 (http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17736&id=13661-3248945-cjrpX7x&t=2)
--thinks creationism should be taught in public schools (http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17737&id=13661-3248945-cjrpX7x&t=3)
--doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change (http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17517&id=13661-3248945-cjrpX7x&t=4)
--is in line with McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy
--has pushed for more oil drilling (including in ANWAR)
--says renewables won't be ready for years
--sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species (bcs it could interfere with oil drilling) (http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17518&id=13661-3248945-cjrpX7x&t=5)
--had met McCain once before last Sunday, when he called her about being VP and offered the job
(http://www.moveon.org/r?r=21119&id=13661-3248945-cjrpX7x&t=8)
--is awfully inexperienced to serve as backup president, and McCain turned 72 on 8/29/08

Comments

[rinku.livejournal.com]

It depends on the issue. Supporting drilling rights is saying that government should not decide on the issue, that it's up to the land owners and the corporations to work out. In general, not restricting something can be looked at as allowing it, so if you don't expressly restrict, say, the teaching of creationism in schools, pretty much every school in the south would start teaching creationism. So I'm not sure Palin is significantly different from RP or vice versa, or rather RP is just a more extreme and principled version of Palin, and Palin is a more watered-down RP with some pragmatic tendencies.

"What about the Kyoto Accords, the international agreement that aims to solve the supposed problem of global warming?"

"Environmentalists go back and forth, from warning about a coming ice age to arguing the grave dangers of global warming."

from http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/search/search.php?q=%22global+warming%22

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the quotes, and for your always-interesting opinion!