AMERICAblog: Why is Sarah Palin using hedge words about the rape kit issue?
kirkaracha
· 1 year ago
Palin's response is a non-denial denial. Saying Palin "does not believe, nor has she ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test" does not answer whether or not Wasillia charged for the kits.
DeppFan
· 1 year ago
She is definitely choosing her words carefully.
I wonder if the rape kits were free if the victim turned down the morning after pill. Maybe they charged the victims for the entire kit only if the pill was accepted.
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
The McCain Campaign's Palin-for-VP joke is getting stale. They should announce the real choice already.
John, could you ask a local reporter about the "priority" she made of domestic violence? Bet she is lying about that too.
And why not just change the rape kit instead of kill the funding? Why not just say that the people should not pay for the controversial emergency contraception, that is defendable position.
Like all religious fundamentalists, she may blame women.
MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel
· 1 year ago
Given McInsane's ghastly rape "jokes" and remarks about his current wife, as well as documented violence against Cindy--at least three visits to a Phoenix ER with bruises, black eyes, and other injuries "consistent with domestic abuse"--he and Palin probably think that any woman who is battered "deserves" it. I read the documentation at CounterPunch (unintentionally bad name for the source, sorry), at which Alexander Cockburn writes about speaking to several ER physicians who told the stories and declined to make their names public. Such would be a violation of HIPAA as well as pre-existing norms of patient confidentiality...
Other folks here and at other blogs have remarked that McMean may remind certain women of their first husbands. You betcha! Before coming to my senses, moving 3,000 miles away, divorcing, and eventually marrying the manly-and-gentle Mr. Biscuitbarrel, I had a passel of in-laws who were fundie woman-blamers, and who advised my ex to beat me AS WELL AS knock me up to "put me in my place." I earned a modest salary at the time that nevertheless was higher than my then-husband's. His family called my higher wage "castrating."
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
That's why I don't believe the story that an overzealous fan shook Cindy's hand so hard that he sprained her right wrist. She has the Secret Service and news cameras following her everywhere. If the Secret Service failed to protect her from a wrist sprain, that would have been on the news channels the same day. Instead, we heard of it only after she showed up in a cast days after it allegedly happened. I think McMean did it--he's left-handed, so Cindy's right wrist would be what he'd grab.
RainbowPhoenix
· 1 year ago
I don't know how I missed this. Can you supply any reports or press releases about Cindy McCain's ER trips.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Even in Alaska, Palin's popularity is taking a tumble
Sondra Tompkins, a reliably Republican voter, found herself speaking out at the rally — upset, she said, because of Palin's handling of the trooper issue and the example it sets for children in the state.
"They're listening, they're watching, and they're asking questions," Tompkins called out to the crowd. "Do we tell them it's OK not to tell the truth? Do we tell them it's OK to bend the truth? Do we tell them it's OK to distort the truth if you have a gaggle of lawyers to defend you?
"It's not OK, and I think Alaskans have had enough."
Palin: " making domestic violence a priority of my administration." That's the first time I've heard her make that claim. As John has pointed out repeatedly it'd be *so* nice if the big women's rights groups would get up to speed on this and tear Palin's neanderthal approach to women's rights apart.
I wonder if Palin's approach to "domestic violence as a priority" has anything to do with with McCain advisor Pfotenhauer's stance that "You have to look at domestic violence as a culture of intimacy" (see here). In other words: women in Alaska really just needed to learn how to say "yes" when the manly Alaskan dudes wanted some?
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
She's certainly going to make domestic violence (as opposed to prevention of domestic violence) a priority if she forces her 17-year-old pregnant daughter to marry a bum who doesn't want to be tied down with a wife and baby at the age of 18.
MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel
· 1 year ago
T-shirts stamped with FREE LEVI -- STOP PALIN! are available on eBay...
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
If truth be told, I think if Sarah and First Dude really wanted Levi to make an honest woman out of Bristol, they would have been married at the courthouse within days of the announcement that she's pregnant.
I suspect that Sarah is only teasing her "Christian" supporters until the election is over, whereupon Bristol and Levi will break up -- assuming there was any engagement to break in the first place.
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
from FoxNews:
"I confirmed for us here on GretaWire: the McCain campaign did NOT know about Gwen Ifill’s book (I think I told them when I made my efforts - emails about midnight - to find out!) I am stunned….the campaign (actually both) should have been told before the campaign agreed to have her moderate. It simply is not fair - in law, this would create a mistrial."
Kind of embarrassing FOR MCCAIN wouldn't you say?
MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel
· 1 year ago
Yes, but they probably figured that a "colored woman" couldn't write.
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
That would be 'uppity and presumtuous' of Gwen I am sure.
lilyannerose
· 1 year ago
I can't wrap my mind around her absolute disconnect from women. I fail as a mother and a grandmother to understand how a mother could actually think it is OK for other mothers and their daughters to carry the child of a rapist for nine damned months. Does she feel that women "ask for it" and the wages of the sin of 'asking for it' is to have your body continue to be violated for nine months?
I wonder if she and John Boy share rape jokes?
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
90 percent of Americans agree with you. Heck, even Barbara Bush agrees with you. It's a losing argument, perhaps not a deal breaker for some that support her, but it speaks to the extermist type of person she is. Palin is dangerous and will set back women's issues 100 years.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
My wife, who is a lot smarter than I am, pointed something out when we watched the recent Couric interviews as well as McCain in Des Moines. She commented that McCain is a sexist pig, you can tell by his body language around her and how he interupts and talks over her. In addition, and I never thought about this, Palin makes McCain look like a fucking genius. She truly is joe six pack's wife. For someone with a college degree to speak in the uneducated way she does is meant to attract the country bumpkins across America. Dropping the g's, etc. She honestly believes she is brilliant. McCain picked her because he believed she would never be a challenge to him, after all she is a female and he knows his way around how to treat a woman. He follows the axiom that the incidence of wife abuse is one the rise because "they just won't listen". McCain has always been a man without any morals, ethics or core beliefs other than in his own wealth and comfort. He uses and abuses and Cindy has the look of a woman who likes a little bondage, maybe a smack on the ass and some big time domination and McCain can deliver. McCain + Palin = combined IQ 96 or about the same as a morel mushroom/
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
Well said. You hit the nail right on the head. Throw in McCain's Martyer, victim,Hero complex, and you have someone who really has no business being in charge of a 'Nukyalar" (as Palin says) arsenal.
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
OT: (and not to jinx anything) But every once in a while you hear something that makes you feel good:
Qunnipiac polls: The new surveys show Obama leading McCain in Florida 51 percent to 43 percent, in Ohio 50 percent to 42 percent and in Pennsylvania 54 percent to 39 percent.
Assume we are still behind, and work work work! Don't let up.
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
Damn right. The Rethugs will use every dirty trick in their arsenal to disqualify and scare away any voters whom they think intend to vote for Obama. When you take that into consideration, the vote becomes a lot tighter.
One of their tricks is a phony letter saying that because you've had a traffic ticket, you're ineligible to vote. The preachers in black churches need to address this from the pulpit. It's not illegally endorsing one candidate over another to say that if you get a letter like this, don't believe it.
UncleGlenny
· 1 year ago
This is as weasely a non-answer as the she gave in the clip I saw where she answered about a minor rape victim. She would "counsel" the girl to keep the child; that is what she believes. But she wouldn't commit to saying she'd insist. She believes that life begins the instant sperm and ovum get it on, and this could also, depending on what other beliefs she has (as in scientific knowledge about impregnation that *I* don't know) preclude the use of most forms of birth control (e.g. anything that prevents implantation). Meaning any claim of believing in contraception, which I think she said to Couric, is highly misleading, to put it mildly.
EmGD
· 1 year ago
Because she's a coward who knows her views are despicable and wants to hide them from people, lest they grab pitchforks run her out of town?
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I wonder if the rape kits were free if the victim turned down the morning after pill. Maybe they charged the victims for the entire kit only if the pill was accepted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgCS8OYqu2s&eurl...
And why not just change the rape kit instead of kill the funding? Why not just say that the people should not pay for the controversial emergency contraception, that is defendable position.
Like all religious fundamentalists, she may blame women.
Other folks here and at other blogs have remarked that McMean may remind certain women of their first husbands. You betcha! Before coming to my senses, moving 3,000 miles away, divorcing, and eventually marrying the manly-and-gentle Mr. Biscuitbarrel, I had a passel of in-laws who were fundie woman-blamers, and who advised my ex to beat me AS WELL AS knock me up to "put me in my place." I earned a modest salary at the time that nevertheless was higher than my then-husband's. His family called my higher wage "castrating."
Sondra Tompkins, a reliably Republican voter, found herself speaking out at the rally — upset, she said, because of Palin's handling of the trooper issue and the example it sets for children in the state.
"They're listening, they're watching, and they're asking questions," Tompkins called out to the crowd. "Do we tell them it's OK not to tell the truth? Do we tell them it's OK to bend the truth? Do we tell them it's OK to distort the truth if you have a gaggle of lawyers to defend you?
"It's not OK, and I think Alaskans have had enough."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/53299.html
I wonder if Palin's approach to "domestic violence as a priority" has anything to do with with McCain advisor Pfotenhauer's stance that "You have to look at domestic violence as a culture of intimacy" (see here). In other words: women in Alaska really just needed to learn how to say "yes" when the manly Alaskan dudes wanted some?
I suspect that Sarah is only teasing her "Christian" supporters until the election is over, whereupon Bristol and Levi will break up -- assuming there was any engagement to break in the first place.
"I confirmed for us here on GretaWire: the McCain campaign did NOT know about Gwen Ifill’s book (I think I told them when I made my efforts - emails about midnight - to find out!) I am stunned….the campaign (actually both) should have been told before the campaign agreed to have her moderate. It simply is not fair - in law, this would create a mistrial."
Kind of embarrassing FOR MCCAIN wouldn't you say?
I wonder if she and John Boy share rape jokes?
McCain has always been a man without any morals, ethics or core beliefs other than in his own wealth and comfort. He uses and abuses and Cindy has the look of a woman who likes a little bondage, maybe a smack on the ass and some big time domination and McCain can deliver.
McCain + Palin = combined IQ 96 or about the same as a morel mushroom/
Qunnipiac polls:
The new surveys show Obama leading McCain in Florida 51 percent to 43 percent, in Ohio 50 percent to 42 percent and in Pennsylvania 54 percent to 39 percent.
Assume we are still behind, and work work work! Don't let up.
One of their tricks is a phony letter saying that because you've had a traffic ticket, you're ineligible to vote. The preachers in black churches need to address this from the pulpit. It's not illegally endorsing one candidate over another to say that if you get a letter like this, don't believe it.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/