I invite you to copy/paste the following into your own emails or Rightist friends, relatives or colleagues; or do Comments or Diaries this in your own local blogs; or make something YouTubish out of this; or write a good, old-fashion Letter to the Editor. I'm going to suppose that after tonight, there will be even more fodder.
When I email such things to Republicans, or post these things on where a Far Rightist will see it (anybody here have Red State status?), I usually put them in the form of questions, all Socratic-like.
Anything to sow confusion among, or otherwise flummox, or demoralize, the Far Rightists is a good thing.
And, yes, yes, I get the whole thing about cognitive dissonance and not for one second do I believe any of the following will cause a Far Rightist to change their mind about Palin. But any confusion sewn, any, would be a good thing.
Below the fold is the stuff.
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I. Palin: what IS her stand on abortion?
From Salon, today:
COURIC: But ideally, you think it should be illegal for a girl who is raped or the victim of incest to get an abortion?
PALIN: I'm saying that personally I would counsel that person to choose life despite horrific, horrific circumstances that this person would find themselves in. And if you're asking, though, kind of foundationally here, should anybody end up in jail for having had an abortion? Absolutely not. That's -- that's nothing that I would ever support.
Well, that might be news to Palin's most ardent supporters. If abortion is criminalized, then committing the crime would mean jail (unless, of course, the criminal was a member of the Bush Administration). In fact, if abortion is murder, then the murderer(s) (the woman and her doctor) should go to jail and, indeed, by Far Rightist standards, be executed.
So, what IS Governor Palin's view on abortion, really?
She says that she would never support any measure to criminalize abortion to the point that jail time was in the offing for one of the "murderers". Would she support jail time for the doctor? Why the doctor and not the woman?
And, of course, the overturning of Roe v. Wade would not "criminalize" abortion, it would just throw the issue back to the state legislatures to do with the issue what they will. It would go back to the "pre-Roe days", where women-of-means in states where the procedure's criminalized would "go away for the weekend" to New York or some other such state. The poorer women would either get a dangerous and illegal "back alley abortion", or carry the pregnancy to term. Money would be the deciding factor.
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II. (now an "oldie", but bears repeating) Palin Loves Pork.
"When Palin served as mayor of her hometown of Wasilla, outside Anchorage, she obtained about $27 million in federal "earmarks" during her last four years in office, according to the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense."
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And, of course, there's this:
"While running for governor in 2006, though, Palin backed federal funding for the infamous bridge, which McCain helped make a symbol of pork barrel excess. . .
"'We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge, and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that's so negative,' Palin said in August 2006, according to the Ketchikan Daily News."
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Look, it's fine if the Far Rightists and Palin like "pork" when it's their pork. What I want to know is why did Palin lied about being against the Bridge and all the pork that went along with it? Don't Far Rightists want a consistency of conviction?
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III. WWWD?
What Would Wingnuts Do?
Let's just play the Imagine Game. What if Barack Obama (or Joe Biden) had a teenage daughter who was (A) unwed, and (B) pregnant?
What would Hannity be saying about that? What would Limbaugh be saying about that? What would O'Reilly be saying about that? What would Coulter be saying about that? What would Levin be saying about that? What would Ingraham be saying about that? What would Beck be saying about that? What would Boortz be saying about that?
What would their listeners -- Limbaugh's, O'Reilly's, Ingraham's, Boortz's, Hannity's, et mal -- be thinking and saying about the hypothetical, unwedded teenage pregnancy in the Obama or Biden family?
Would it be fair to ask those people to think and say more-or-less the same thing about Candidate Palin and her family?
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IV. Why are Republican Americans satisfied with "Low Expectations"?
It's common knowledge, it's the meme of the Far Rightists, in fact, that Palin should not be held to Biden's level/standard of debate -- or most any other politician's, for that matter. The Media Narrative (embraced by Republicans) is that the expectations are so low that Palin just needs to show up to win."
A few examples from Free Republic (I won't do the link, thankyouverymuch):
"Palin just has to survive, Biden has to shine, if he doesn’t he loses."
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"Palin just needs to show up, look stunning, respond with assertiveness and calm, and she’ll be fine."
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"(S)he doesn’t need to shine, she only needs to perform. If the 'redneck' doesn’t get her butt handed to her by this 'old statesman' the old statesman loses."
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Of course, several said that Palin was going to "BBQ Biden's ass". That's how they talk.
The bottom line: if the Far Rightists believe that they have the Best Person for the Job, VP-wise, then how in the world can they be satisfied with knowing that the McCain camp itself is setting "low expectations" for Palin?
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Those are just four examples. Think of your own. Don't argue with the Far Rightists, just ask the questions.
Now, add your own. And get it going around your corner of the country, or world.
BenGoshi
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