McCain has made the right choice for VP - the right choice to demonstrate once and for all that he has lost his "bear"-ings (see below) and lacks the judgment to be President of the United States. In his first executive decision, he has not turned to any of the experienced, wise Republican women (Olympia Snowe, etc), some of whom might just have attracted Hillary voters. No, in a move that should look very familiar, he turned his attention to a younger, prettier face - a trophy VP in the same mode as his choice of second wife, Cynthia.
Palin is a trophy VP in another sense, as well. After the fold, more info on Sarah Palin's support for hunting wolves and bears, and delisting the polar bear as an endangered species.
Hey, perhaps she and Cheney ought to take a little hunting trip before the election and visit her buddies here...
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She instituted a $150 per head bounty on wolves (subsequently overturned by the court):
"Permittees will be paid $150 when they bring in the left forelegs of wolves taken from any of several designated control areas."
http://www.defenders.org/...
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She supports aerial shooting of wolves and land-and-shoot, no bag limit hunting of bears, and gave $400,000 to an "educate" the public on the benefits of this practice in advance of a vote on whether to continue the practice in what Defenders of Wildlife calls a "propaganda campaign to justify the state's barbaric wolf slaughter from the skies."
http://dwb.adn.com/...
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Why does she support this? Not for ecological reasons - more than 150 wildlife biologists wrote to her last year about the dangers of removing large predators in this way. Instead, she wants to increase the numbers of moose and caribou, for rich out-of-state hunters (and herself!) to bag.
http://209.85.173.104/...
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She also wants to overturn the listing of polar bears as endangered, maintaining a state of denial that most Republicans have abandoned and arguing that global warming hasn't threatened their habitat. She's really worried that protecting them would impinge on oil drilling:
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
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Presenting a different kind of trophy, just the local beauty-queen turned mayor turned governor turned VP nominee (just a tad in over her head at this point??):
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For more info, and the original "list of the top 11 things you should know about Sarah Palin", see a local Alaskan website:
http://www.grizzlybay.org/...
The site includes a video of grizzly (brown) bears being killed by trophy hunters in the Katmai Preserve, a practice the governor won't outlaw:
http://www.grizzlybay.org/...