Lay Off Palin - Please! (by Eric Sapp)

With a stroke of the pen, Gov. Palin made it harder for unwed mothers to take care of children. She made it more of a challenge to chose life over abortion for pregnant girls. She CUT FUNDING for woman who are pregnant, How is that helping with family values?

Every time she took out her VETO stamp, she hurt the middle class and the poor. She is not the person she wants us to believe she is. But the most important thing is that she has changed her view of taxing oil companies because she has in the past taxed them the most but now that she is part of McCain's team, she will have to say she wants to give it all back and put the burden on the middle class.

It is not that Palin is that bad of a choice, its that she is on the McCain ticket. The Maverick has become the Bull and he is trying to get into the China Shop with favored deals for China, Oil and smashing the working class of America by shipping Union jobs overseas.

Unions built the prosperity of America. When Reagan became President of America, prosperity started downhill by the Anti-labor movement of the GOP. Anybody who thinks that the GOP cares about the working men and women of America, I've got lake front property in the Mojave Desert for you.

Just to be clear, my above comment referred to the article, not to the comment that preceded mine!

I agree completely with Scruffy's opening paragraph and wish that had been the approach we'd taken to Palin early on. It actually took a little while for this article to post, and this morning I've seen some positive shifts in the way we are framing this discussion...but the longer we keep up the counter-productive attacks and frameworks, the more innoculated she will be when we finally get on-message.

Palin is not a hypocrit b/c she cut funding for programs that might have kept her daughter from getting pregnant. The hypocrisy comes from her cutting programs that result in more unwanted pregnancies (and therefore abortions) and vetoing support for women and their babies. That is a policy and values debate we can have and win, and it brings the discussion back to our strengths as a Party.

Thanks and looking forward to the dialogue on this site.

Your comments are provocative and worthy of consideration. However, we cannot allow the question as to whether Ms. Palin abused her powers as Governor to go without investigation, particularly in light of the abuses of the Bush administration over the past 8 years. If the charges are without merit then prove it and move on, the fact that the McCain campaign has resorted to an obstructionist response to this line of query is highly suspicions and frankly, reminds me of the initial response of the Nixon administration to the Watergate inquiry.

I have a bigger problem than what is being mentioned here! The whole of the liberal political machine has one objective! And that being to turn this nation into a Socilistic State with no mention of G-D anywhere. That will also include the United Nations as a supplimental security force for what has even been termed "Their New Americanism" which includes internment camps and a foreign security force within the United States. Not a Theory, it is already here!
Did anybody listen to the Clintons close? Are they really hearing the words of Obama? Or are we all more like a tape worm trapped in the bowels of a liberal media and a government being run by liberal socialistic commitees?
Your artical was well written and has good objectivity, but the real train left the station before the passengers arrived. I am neither a Democrate nor a Republican and don't want to be neither! And now I am going to make a radical statement to both parties! If this Government is going to make fundemental changes then we should go back to the original voting standard (meaning only those who own property and pay taxes should enjoy the right to vote), and with all of our technology we should institute a direct vote system and wipe out the electorial system of today (no need to wait for someone on horseback to arrive with a general count anymore). Thus allowing the people who actually work and provide for the welfare of this nation to have a proper word in what this nation should be! If a person benefits from a testimony in Court then his testimony is not allowed in most cases, however almost 28% percent of Americans are receiving some form of social aid. heck, Must of New York Cities inhabitants are in subsidary housing of some sort! That only serves one mechanism in this country.... The liberal mechanism, which by the way are even trying to ban the generic prayer before eating at the Naval academy....a 300 year tradition being attacked....where will it all end? Yes LAY OFF PALIN AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT STANDS FOR ANYTHING! or we will be left with nothing very soon.

i kindly like to ask that blogger calling himself a "Christian" sitting on the Democrat fwnxw post. i am a single issue voter and so are three voters in my family. I am not ashamed to be a Christian, we ought to be like Christ as ascribed in KJ original version Bible. do you think Jesus would do as Obama did as Illinois state senator allowed partial birth? do you know what partial birth process is all about? it is about render the still born, helpless baby to its death, cut it to pieces and casted to trash bin. now you tell me do, you think Jesus will stand beside this butcher watching this process going on in Plan Parenthood clinic butcher shop in America? only in America as far as i know! the Democrat Party rejoice letting this carry-on with the help of NOW feminist special interest group. do you think Jesus will vomit at this scene? killing the unborn is foremost hideous crime in America! other issues are non-issues. if moral living is abound, other issues will take care themsleves. Republican Party is not about aborting and pro-choice mentalities. you either for life or snuff life. i wholehearted support Sarah Palin as VP. you cannot serve two masters, either you hate one or love the other. there is no piety involve in this issue. it is God ordain and sanctify life. even one day the US supreme court judges who allowed roe vs wade into law will face up their Creature, not with their raise fists, but in eternal flame of fire, the place call Hell. i do hope some of those judges have come to repentance and ask Jesus as their Savior. Jesus do forgive as he spoke to the thief on the cross. you can kill the body but not the soul. i'm looking forward seeing all those beautiful aborted babies one day in Heaven. thank you Governor Palin for supporting your children at this time of need! tangshui of China on mission

a blogger mentioned ronald reagan fact was so distorted. he must have draw his conclusion from a match box. remember the 21% interest rate and 12 to 15 percent unemployment rate during peanut farmer carter adminstration, also caused the down fall of Iran monarch. which is more evil, the presence regime of the madman in Iran or the monarch which was our friend? get your history right and get off my space! I love Sarah Palin, she will put all you liberal to shame come november election. better find another job if you know what work mean, especially those demo senators and repres in congress. a new republican will take back both houses. the red tide will cover whole america after this election. tangshui in china

Paul, you are so right! Let's hope some of the Dem's decision-makers read this. And as for the Republican defenders of Palin-- Unfortunately, I'm afraid they represent the majority of Americans, which is why this country is in the shape it's in, and why we continue to see so many morons on the Republican ticket.