Note: This is a stub article, not yet complete profile, of Governor Sarah Palin, designed to give Op Ed News readers a tinge of insight into McCain’s stunning Vice Presidential pick. I will flesh this out into a full-blown expose´ over the next few days, illuminating Palin and dispelling any myths about her maverick status.
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As McCain continues his futile attempt at portraying himself as a maverick – and his newly anointed VP pick, Sarah Palin – a little internet research uncovers a few not-so-surprising tidbits on McCain’s own Dan Quale:
Her disdain for liberals
In a 1993 Letter to the local newspaper, the Daily News, she admonished the paper by calling it, "dangerously biased" and added, "How can you justify your restraint in slamming the Clintons, Kennedys, Marion Barrys and other philandering, chauvinistic left-wingers of the world?" Palin wrote at the time. "Your yellow, liberal rag is so obvious. I pray we will someday have a choice in newspapers again."
Class, couth and decorum, all wrapped up into one – how engaging and endearing of the now-Republican VP Candidate to use such choice language toward progressives.
No, it’s not very lady-like at all, is it?
In addition, besides a lack of equanimity, she also appears to have a low self-esteem. Answering questions to a reporter concerning a voice recording of what was believed to be her, she replied, “She sounds chipper and annoyingly nasal, so I realize now why people think she's me. Ugh."
She Supports Creationism in Schools
Palin is a “young Earth” proponent and believes “creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state's public classrooms.” During a gubernatorial debate, in 2006, she proclaimed that Creationism was “information” that provided a “healthy debate” in classrooms. Of course, this stands in stark contrast to the Supreme Court’s opinion on the matter of Biblical faith in schools, which ruled it an “unconstitutional injection of religion into public education.”
More to come…
