{"id":361,"date":"2008-09-03T06:16:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-09-04T06:13:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T11:13:01","slug":"16-more-reasons-not-to-vote-for-mccainpalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2008\/09\/03\/16-more-reasons-not-to-vote-for-mccainpalin\/","title":{"rendered":"13 reasons I won&#8217;t vote for McCain\/Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And they all stem from the same source: Caribou Barbie, she&#8217;s insane. These 13 reasons were summarized by who-sucks.com.\u00a0 The original list was 16 but I narrowed it down to the reasons that legitimately concern me the most:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>A poor record<\/strong>: Her only political experience has been a few years as mayor of a small town in Alaska and less than two years as governor of that state. Her record wasn\u2019t so great: the small town she left behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/8\/29\/1223\/87119\/35\/578632\" target=\"_blank\">is now in financial ruin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>She has no experience with national level politics<\/strong>.  At the time of this posting, many of her views on national policy issues were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheissues.org\/Sarah_Palin.htm\" target=\"_blank\">unknown<\/a> simply because she is so inexperienced that she hasn\u2019t even made public statements about them. Presidential history scholars believe she may be \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0808\/13001.html\">the most inexperienced person on a major party ticket in modern history<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>She has no foreign policy experience<\/strong>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/belowthebeltway.com\/2008\/08\/29\/most-absurd-comment-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">None<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>She is a creationist<\/strong>, and she <a href=\"http:\/\/dwb.adn.com\/news\/politics\/elections\/story\/8347904p-8243554c.html\" target=\"_blank\">wants \u201ccreation science\u201d to be taught in public schools<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>She <a href=\"http:\/\/achangeinthewind.typepad.com\/achangeinthewind\/2008\/08\/sarah-palin-glo.html\" target=\"_blank\">doesn\u2019t believe<\/a> in man-made global warming<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Palin has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1837523_1837531_1837509,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">accused of abusing her power<\/a><\/strong> as Alaska governor to try to get her ex-brother-in-law fired as a state trooper.  An investigation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1837523_1837531_1837522,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">underway<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>She has messed up views on wildlife protection<\/strong>.  Environmentalists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenders.org\/newsroom\/press_releases_folder\/2007\/03_27_2007_judge_asked_to_shut_down_wolf_bounty_program.php\" target=\"_blank\">are appalled<\/a> by her support of a $150-per-wolf bounty program.  She\u2019s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grizzlybay.org\/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm\" target=\"_blank\">supported the use of government money<\/a> to educate people about how great it is to shoot bears and wolves, and she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1837523_1837531_1837539,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">doesn\u2019t want the polar bear to make it onto the endangered species list<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>One nation, under stupidity<\/strong>: When defending the phrase \u201cone nation under God\u201d in the Pledge of Allegiance, Palin said, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/8\/31\/174153\/834\/246\/581480\">If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I\u2019ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance<\/a>.\u201d  <em>Reality check<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pledge_of_allegiance\">The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892<\/a>, long after the founding fathers died.  The phrase \u201cone nation under God\u201d was added in 1954\u2026.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anti-birth control nutcase<\/strong>&#8211; Not only does Palin oppose abortion in all cases, she also <a href=\"http:\/\/messageboards.aol.com\/aol\/en_us\/articles.php?boardId=528628&amp;articleId=1809690&amp;func=5&amp;channel=Member+Guided+News\">opposes the use of birth control in all cases<\/a>.  That includes married couples that want to use condoms or the pill!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Politicizing non-political jobs<\/strong>:  When she was mayor of small town in Alaska, Palin abused her authority by <a href=\"http:\/\/cliffschecter.firedoglake.com\/2008\/08\/31\/palin-fired-city-employees-for-not-supporting-her-reelection\/\">firing city employees that did not fully support her reelection campaign<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>She can\u2019t even manage her own family<\/strong> &#8211; rumors have given way to an admission from Palin that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/us\/international-usa-politics-palin.html?_r=2&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">her teenage daughter is pregnant<\/a>, and will be having a shotgun marriage to the guy that knocked her up.  That\u2019s what abstinence-only education gets you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ninja editing<\/strong>:  Her Wikipedia entry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=94118849\" target=\"_blank\">needed to be cleaned up<\/a> before the public announcement that she was McCain\u2019s VP pick.<\/li>\n<li>She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UtilB1teksc\" target=\"_blank\">has no clue<\/a> about the role of the Vice President.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they all stem from the same source: Caribou Barbie, she&#8217;s insane. These 13 reasons were summarized by who-sucks.com.\u00a0 The original list was 16 but I narrowed it down to the reasons that legitimately concern me the most: A poor record: Her only political experience has been a few years as mayor of a small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2008\/09\/03\/16-more-reasons-not-to-vote-for-mccainpalin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">13 reasons I won&#8217;t vote for McCain\/Palin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}