crossposted at Mydd.com by nextgen
McCain/Palin need to be more careful when pandering to special interest groups.
Just now, 9:35 am on CNN, in discussion with a McCain representative and Palin preparer.
Not quote but representation ...
SO- Last night your candidate Gov. Palin discussed her special needs child.
Surrogate- Yes, if Gov. Palin is elected they will have an advocate in the White House.
SO- Well, that's interesting, I received numerous e-mails from special needs advocates in Alaska and they say. Sarah Palin, is not advocate for special needs families, she cut the special needs budget in Alaska by 62%
Surrogate- Well she will be an advocate for them.
SO- So she will do the opposite of her record as Govener?
Surrogate- No one should doubt her word, if she says she will be an advocate for special needs families.
almost journalism Soledad... No follow up from her.
Also LATimes is on a roll today:
Palin's secession flirtation
For years she has courted the Alaska Independence Party, which wants to split the state from the U.S.
It's untrue that Palin has no foreign policy experience, anyway. In fact, she appears to have seriously flirted with the idea of trying to turn Alaska into a foreign country. How many vice presidential candidates can put that on their resumes?
and GLORIA STEINEM writes
Palin: wrong woman, wrong message
Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only" programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children.
This could be huge.