THE SARA PALIN CHRONICLES (my thanks to all who's contribution here on DU I could not have done without, you did the work I jsut compiled all this)
Since her announcement as vice Presidential nominee for the Republican party we know for sure that Republican Vice Presidential Nominee has
1. Lied about not supporting the “bridge to Nowhere”’. This lie, during her announcement speech, came within a few seconds of the record for a Republican politician.
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
more:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-31-palin-bridge_N.htm From the UK article
Sarah Palin's record in office is facing increasing scrutiny after it emerged that she misled Republican supporters when she was presented to the nation as Senator John McCain's running mate.
The Governor of Alaska gave a misleading version of events over a controversial bridge project in her home state when she made her maiden speech as the presumptive nominee.
Mrs Palin told a cheering audience in Ohio that she had turned down an offer from the US Congress to build the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere", which would have connected Gravina Island with Ketchikan International, an airport in Alaska's southeast serving just 200,000 passengers a year. Mr McCain routinely cites the £100 million project as a symbol of wasteful central government spending.
As she introduced herself to Republicans and the American public on Friday, the virtually unknown Mrs Palin said: "I championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress ... 'thanks, but no thanks'on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we'd build it ourselves."
However it emerged that in a 2006 interview with the Anchorage Daily News during her gubernatorial campaign, Mrs Palin had a different view of the bridge.
Asked "would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?" she replied: "Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now - while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist."
2. Lied when she said she fought corruption and Senator Ted Stevens:
She was in fact, the Director of Ted Stevens 527 group.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html ST. PAUL -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state's political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent political organization organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.
Palin's name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. The group wasdesigned to serve as a politicalboot camp for Republican women in the state. She served as one of threedirectors until June 2005,when her name was replaced on state filings.
Palin's relationship with Alaska's senior senator may be one of the more complicated aspects of her new position as Sen. John McCain's runningmate; Stevens was indicted in July 2008 on seven counts of corruption.
Palin, an anti-corruption crusader in Alaska, had called on Stevens to be open about the issues behind the investigation. But she also held a joint news conference with him in July, before he was indicted, to make clear she had not abandoned him politically.
3. “Troopergate” and abuse of power.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/30/1310109.aspxhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UojMnCgqVA4. Discovered that her husband, who has no role in Gov’t, has been cc’d on classified emails and was in the cneter of the Troopergate scandal..
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/shadow_governor5.Babygate.
If the official story is to be taken as fact, Palin, while in Texas at a Governors energy conference, had her water break before a speech. Instead of going to the nearest hospital in Dallas, decided to give a speech before the Governors conference, (with amniotic fluid leaking down her leg)then decided to fly on a commercial airliner to Seattle, then to Alaska, bypassing the hospital in Anchorage to have the baby at the Wasilla hospital. This is bad enough for a normal child but a difficult birth like a Downs Syndrome baby?
http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2008/04/alaskan-governo.html Watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoPK4pvOE4o6. Supporter and member of Alaskan secessionist society.
"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." - Joe Vogler, founder of the Alaskan Independence Party"
AIP Vice Chairman of the AIP, Dexter Clark reveals that:
"Our current governor who I mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected . . . .and there was a lot of talk about her moving up.
She was an AIP member before she got the job as mayor . . ." "
Clips and more on KOS http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1/84544/50180/809/58
7. Didn’t even have a passport until 2007 http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/decision08
8.Was almost recalled as mayor of Wasilla (pop 6500)over abuse of power allegations http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-schmeltzer/palin-almost-recalled-as_b_122769.html
9.Ran her town of 5400 20 million dollars in the red http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12987.html
10. Begged for earmarks in Congress:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-earmarks1- 2008sep01,0,6108885.story
But under her leadership, the state of Alaska has requested 31 earmarks worth $197.8 million in next year's federal budget, according to the website of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
11. Many of her colleagues in Alaska are stunned and say she is not ready to be mayor of Wasilla let alone the Vice President of the United States: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/30/gop-alaska-state-senator_n_122664.html
The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that many of Palin's local colleagues, even Republican,were rather stunned by her being chosen as McCain's vice president.
State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it was a joke when someone called her at 6 a.m. to give her the news.
"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?" said Green, a Republican from Palin's hometown of Wasilla. "Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"
12. And although teenage pregnancy is something that happens to people of all persuasions and stripes, when it happens to someone that is so strongly anti-birth control and sex education, it is somehow more ironic..
Source: AP
McCain fought money on teen pregnancy programs
WASHINGTON – Republican John McCain, whose running mate disclosed that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, has opposed proposals to spend federal money on teen-pregnancy prevention programs and voted to require poor teen mothers to stay in school or lose their benefits.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's announcement Monday about her daughter, Bristol, was aimed at rebutting Internet rumors that Palin's youngest son, born in April, was actually her daughter's. Palin said her daughter intends to raise her child and marry the baby's father, who was identified only by his first name, Levi. The baby is due in late December.
Palin herself said she opposes funding sexual-education programs in Alaska.
"The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080902/ap_on_el_pr/cv...
Just the simple facts that she is allowing her children and the babies father to be the center of this story for career advancement shows something much worse than her daughter having a baby out of wedlock.
13. Has religious views that support “headship”. Which means, if McCain dies while in office, Todd Palin, would become the de facto President of the United States.
If you don't believe me, ask anybody in the religious right.
There's lots of material about this, it's no secret, but here's two sources I found in just looking quickly...
"Control Freaks and the Women Who Love Them"
http://www.newmanmag.com/display.php?id=818
"Christianity and Domestic Violence"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_domestic_...
The Religious Right can't run away from this because all of the well-known leaders endorse this concept. Two quotes from Pat Robertson, but this one's the money-quote:
"I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period..." (Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, January 8, 1992).
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."
15. Some other things Palin supports
Banning books
Any abortions including cases of rape and incest
Supports aerial hunting of wolves http://www.alternet.org/election08/97207/sarah_palin%E2%80%99s_big%2C_sleazy_safari
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpSjSeM6w0w (do not watch this if you are the slightest bit queasy about wolves being viciously killed)
Bristol Palin and underage drinking and guns http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/02/palin-daughter-puts-the-party-in-gop/
http://photos.tmz.com/galleries/vice_presidents_daughter
Please feel free to do any correcting or adding anything. This is the first time I have tried to do something this encompassing so bear with me. If someone with beter skills can make this prettier go for it.
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