Remember when Sarah Palin infamously (and incorrectly) quoted her Starbucks cup?
"I'm reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, okay? The quote of the day... It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. ... Now she said it, I didn't. She said, 'There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women.'"
That's not what the Starbucks cup actually said, and it's not what Madeleine Albright said, but we all know that Sarah never let facts get in her way.
However, given Sarah's insistence that women who don't support other women have a one-way ticket to hell, it's rather interesting that "Team Sarah" is now trying to stop the appointment of Kathleen Sebelius for the secretary post at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Why is Sarah Palin risking eternal damnation to stop Kathleen Sebelius?
According to the Team Sarah website:
Governor Kathleen Sebelius is NOT FIT to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services
Yes, it's hilarious that Palin (or her webmaster, anyway) has the audacity to question the fitness of anyone to serve in any position. Perhaps if Sebelius could see a hospital from her house...?
But no, the reasons, apparently, that Sebelius is so unfit are, not surprisingly, because Sebelius is not Palin's kind of feminist:
• She is the most radical and rabidly pro-abortion governor in the United States!
• She blocked common-sense legislation and neglected to protect women and their babies!
• She is an advocate for government-run healthcare!
• She has a longstanding relationship with the late-term abortionist George Tiller!
According to Palin, Sebelius is rabidly pro-abortion and apparently pals around with abortionists. And we all know that while Sarah and her daughter both deserve endless praise for their "choice" to have their babies, anyone else who dares to talk about choice is "rabid" and extreme.
And as for government-run healthcare...We all know the redistributing the wealth, or relying on government for anything, is simply unacceptable -- unless, of course, it benefits Alaskans.
And Alaska—we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs. ... It’s to maximize benefits for Alaskans, not an individual company, not some multinational somewhere, but for Alaskans.
Despite that rugged self-reliance of which Alaskans, including Palin, like to boast, we all know that Alaska is, in fact, anything but self-reliant:
Federal spending supports a third of all Alaskan jobs, according to the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska in Anchorage...A proposed $229m "Bridge to Nowhere", connecting the town of Ketchikan to an airport on an island with a population of 50, is the most notorious boondoggle. But the state is paved with pork—from its half-empty high-speed ferries to the $500,000 that the federally-funded Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board gave to Alaska Airlines to paint a giant king salmon on one of its aeroplanes. Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog, calculates that Alaska guzzles more pork per head than any other state.
So while Sarah and her angry army team don't like that Sebelius favors government assistance to other non-Alaskan Americans, and while she doesn't like that Sebelius favors reproductive choices for other non-Palin Americans, the real question for Sarah Palin is this:
Would you like a window or aisle seat on your direct flight to hell?