Why Does Sara Palin Hate Women?

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Sara Palin was upset that Public Safety Commissioner Monegan planned a trip to Washington to seek federal funds for a program to reduce sexual violence in Alaska.

By the way, Alaska leads the country in reported forcible rape.

Why doesn't Sara Palin want to reduce sexual violence in Alaska?

Why does Sara Palin want rape victims to pay for their own "rape kits" needed to arrest and or convict their attackers?

Exclusive: New Doubts Over Palin's Troopergate Claims

Internal Government Document Contradicts Sarah Palin, Campaign
By JUSTIN ROOD
Sept. 19, 2008

An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into "Troopergate."

Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a "rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's directives.

"The last straw," her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.

The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated.

[BlooInBloo]

1. There can be only one...

And she's it.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Yep. She wants to be Queen Bee, not help other women--why empower your competition?

[fascisthunter]

2. She's Brainwashed like the Rest of Her Fundamentalist Fools

[HelenWheels]

4. She's used the work of the feminist who struggled to get women to where they are

She wants to climb up to the peak of what all those great women did and stomp them into the mud so the men will praise her and look to her with admiration. She's a sell out - she's worse than a stepford wife.

[juno jones]

5. I suspect that either

due to personality or conditioning she is one of those 'man's women' types who identify with men and are jealous and competitve with other women.

I hope the enabling of rape will be her undoing.

[Tumbulu]

6. She makes me sick beyond belief

She simply hates women- this is the MO of the type of woman who draws her power from her appearance. And only takes and never gives.

[LiberadorHugo]

7. I honestly don't know...

I guess it's for the same reason that Alan Keyes hates Black people.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Rape Kits

From ProgressiveAlaska

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/09/saradise-lost-chapter-seventy-eight.html (with comments)

The issue of Wasilla Police Department Chief Charlie Fannon's and Mayor Sarah Palin's policy of eliminating financial payment for forensic examinations of rape victims from the municipal budget, and that decision's influence on the 1999-2000 Alaska Legislature's HB 270, is gaining traction. This past week, both Shannyn Moore and I have been guests on a fair number of radio call-in programs. When this issue comes up, people gasp.

The Anchorage Daily News, which failed to adequately address this in 2000, still hasn't covered it in a rational way that would, for instance, use the superb expertise of reporters Sheila Toomey and Lisa Diemer to the paper's advantage. I've asked "Why not?" about this here before, and I'm asking it once more.

Why not?

Others are probing the issue, though. The most interesting example I found this morning (while waiting for a radio appearance on Irish National Radio), was a segment on the Public Broadcasting System's program, To The Contrary. Two conservative commentators on the program keep on trying to put some lipstick on this piglet, but it doesn't seem to work.

Tara Setmeyer claims that Palin and Fannnon were sort of sabotaged by Democrats in 1999, as the two former sought to develop a new, rational policy on how this budget item was addressed. Heritage Foundation shill, Genevieve Wood says, "I think Sarah Palin will speak to this. I'm sure she'll have a very good answer."

Will she speak to his? Should she? That's our Progressive Alaska poll for this week:

Should Sarah Palin be asked about the Wasilla Police Department Policy of charging rape victims for their forensic exams, during the VP debate?

Update noon Sunday - from the comments: (Shannyn says) "Since Joe Biden fought hard to make rape kit charges illegal on a national level, and JOHN MCCAIN voted against it, Palin and Biden should both be asked about it. The have both taken a stand." More coming on this later today.