John McCain was clear about why he picked half-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. "I found someone with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies," he said in introducing her in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday. Palin was someone, he noted, "who reached across the aisle and asked Republicans, Democrats and independents to serve in government."Whom else but Terrorists, and Terrorists Fellow Travellors do not have a way to both ban books, and be able to organize the Family Book Burning And Heretic Bar-B-Que....
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But in the first major race of her career — the 1996 campaign for mayor of her hometown, Wasilla — Palin was a far more conventional politician. In fact, according to some who were involved in that fight, Palin was a highly polarizing political figure who brought partisan politics and hot-button social issues like abortion and gun control into a mayoral race that had traditionally been contested like a friendly intramural contest among neighbors.
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Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.
[ cf Mayor Palin: A Rough Record ]
I mean, would you want to live in a DANGEROUS WIDE OPEN Barbarous Land without a means to burn Heritics, and unbelievers, who are not supporters of your armed separatist movement???
Ok, so just because the Mamby Pamby Wimp Liberals in the white house right now are SOFT on DEMONIC POSSESSION by God Hating America Bashers, doesn't mean that all TRUE Patriotic Patriots are opposed to a little Auto-de-fe, and family get together....