McCain feeds America a junk food diet with Palin choice

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/379833_palinonline21.html

McCain feeds America a junk food diet with Palin choice
By STEVEN L. KATZ
GUEST COLUMNIST

John McCain has put himself and the nation on a strict diet of political junk food by choosing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate.

While the national media and Internet are freely dispensing all the political junk food about Sarah Palin as fast as they can, many voters including those who were considering voting for John McCain can't stomach it. Can you?

Here it is in one large spoonful.

Small-town white-female mayor who bullies librarians and museum directors, lobbies Washington to obtain federal funds and claims that she is against "pork barrel politics," is elected governor of the state with one of the smallest populations in the country, so small that she can afford to work from home for most of the year and charge the taxpayers for working from home as a "duty-station," lives closer to the melting Arctic ice caps than any other governor in the country but does not believe in global warming, cracks the whip in dog-sled races and in retaliation towards state officials who she thinks have wronged her family, and turns otherwise right-wing fundamentalist social vices into Republican political virtues.

What does it sound like when people can't stomach McCain's political junk food diet? "Shame on John McCain for choosing Palin as his running mate." This is just one of the more common, and most disgusted of voter reactions to be heard, and which the media does not report on.

Who are these voters? They include Republicans, independents and Democrats.

Why doesn't the media cover these voter reactions? For one, they are too busy photographing gleeful elderly white women cheering for Sarah Palin as if they had successfully photographed a species of wildlife long considered extinct.

[orleans]

1. my mom is an elderly white woman and she can't STAND mcfuck or

palin. my mom mutes the tv when they are shown. she would NEVER vote for them. but the reason why is simple, really: my mom is a democrat. a real one.

[FrenchieCat]

2. Why doesn't the media cover these voter reactions?

Someone should ask them.