Just ask Newt Gingrich...
If you’d really like to get a true sense of Sarah Palin’s viability as Vice President, just ask her supporters.
In today’s Washington Post, Newt Gingrich said...
Gov. Sarah Palin is exactly the right choice for John McCain's running mate. The contrast with Sen. Joe Biden is extraordinary. Biden came to the Senate in 1973; Sarah Palin was 9. Biden has spent all those years in Washington; Sarah Palin spent them in the American West. She is for drilling for more American oil, and Biden is against more American oil. Every reformer and every Hillary Clinton supporter should take note -- they have an opportunity to reject a disappointing betrayal of their hopes and vote for real reform and real opportunity for women.
See how Newt breaks it down in simple terms that all Newties can understand.
Biden has been in the Senate 38 years. Palin spent her time in the American West. Not just the west, mind you. The American West. Not like that European Senate of Biden’s in the American East where Newt served as Speaker.
"Palin is for drilling for more American oil, and Biden is against more American oil." Here’s where we get to play "Find The Missing Words That Newt Forgot To Use To Explain What He Actually Meant." Oh, there they are. They were hidden in those sneaky parenthesis all the time.
Palin is for drilling for more American oil (in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before we drill for oil in the places oil companies have already be give the right to drill). Biden is against more American oil (drilling in protected areas while he is whole hog for letting the oil companies drill where they’ve already have the right to drill but to this point have decided against it).
But here’s what the feminism in Newt overflows with true understanding of women and why voters aligned themselves with Hillary.
"Every reformer and every Hillary Clinton supporter should take note -- they have an opportunity to reject a disappointing betrayal of their hopes and vote for real reform and real opportunity for women."
I’ll just let that one lie in your craw for a while.
Did you throw up in your mouth, just a little?
Palin, is for drilling in ANWR, said that "climate models that predict continued loss of sea ice, the main habitat of polar bears, during summers are unreliable," is against stem cell research, believes Creationism should to be taught in public schools, supported a constitutional amendment to bar health benefits for same-sex partners and wants Supreme Court judges who will overturn Roe vs Wade.
I can just see the deluge of anti-science, anti-woman's right to choose, anti-gay, anti-environmental Hillary supporters lining up for this one.
So, there it is. Laid out clearly by the Professor Gingrich.
Palin and Hillary...
Couldn’t tell them apart.
Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young, is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" www.greatfailure.com) and blogs at the appropriately named steveyoungonpolitics.com