(cross posted at kickin it with cg)
Matt – one of the reasons I started my site is because I know so many on the so-called left who secretly admire Sarah Palin for various reasons but can’t reconcile it politically or acknowledge it publicly.
There are a LOT of us.
I think there is a way to do both – critique her whackadoodle aspects and enjoy other things about her, the diva/pretty tomboy notwithstanding.
She is something totally new down here. I’d rather deal with it than try and repress it away, because we know where repression lands us.
Plus, she’s just flat out totally sexy. Just because I say so doesn’t mean I’m ever going to vote for her lol
Well – that pretty much sums up how I felt about Sarah Palin up until about 5 minutes ago. True that I often cringed with the winking, Clinton references and the strange phrasings – but usually it was with a smile. I despised the sexism Palin was a subject to and was saddened to see my fellow progressives go so far astray from their values when it came to ‘Bible Spice’ and ‘Caribou Barbie.’
But it would appear that I was dead wrong about this horrible person.
Wayne Anthony Ross, her choice for attorney general, has an alleged fondness for rape jokes and doesn’t like homosexuals.
Ross, who once described gay people as “immoral degenerates,” was quizzed this week about how he would view cases involving homosexuality as the state’s top legislator.
“Let me give you an analogy – I hate lima beans,” Ross told a legislative hearing into his nomination.
“I’ve never liked lima beans. But if I was hired to represent the United Vegetable Growers, would you ask me if I liked lima beans? No. If I disliked lima beans? No. Because my job is to represent the United Vegetable Growers.”
A letter from Leah Burton, a lobbyist on children’s issues and domestic violence, has caused an uproar, hogging headlines and infuriating some of Alaska’s most outspoken bloggers, who play a critical role in reporting politics in the remote and far-flung state.
Burton alleges that in 1991, she heard Ross say at public meeting that domestic violence “wouldn’t be an issue if women would learn to keep their mouth shut.”
At the hearing, Ross denied making that statement, and also denied making the suggestion in the same conversation that it was acceptable for a man to rape his wife.
For the sake of Alaskans I only hope that she is out of office soon enough. To my fellow progressives – I apologize for the folly of my ways.
