A Hockey Mom Just Like You and Me

Or so I thought..

Palin recently said that the war in Iraq is “God’s task.” She’s even admit­ted she hasn’t thought about the war much—just last year she was quoted say­ing, “I’ve been so focused on state gov­ern­ment, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.”

Palin has actively sought the sup­port of the fringe Alaska Inde­pen­dence Party. Six months ago, Palin told mem­bers of the group—who advo­cate for a vote on seces­sion from the union—to “keep up the good work” and “wished the party luck on what she called its ‘inspir­ing convention.’”

Palin wants to teach cre­ation­ism in pub­lic schools.

Palin doesn’t believe that humans con­tribute to global warm­ing. Speak­ing about cli­mate change, she said, “I’m not one though who would attribute it to being manmade.” 

Palin’s inau­gu­ra­tion was even spon­sored by BP.

Palin doesn’t even sup­port abor­tion in the case of rape or incest.

Palin opposes com­pre­hen­sive sex-ed in pub­lic schools. She’s said she will only sup­port abstinence-only approaches.

As mayor, Palin tried to ban books from the library. Palin asked the library how she might go about ban­ning books because some had inap­pro­pri­ate lan­guage in them—shocking the librar­ian, Mary Ellen Baker. Accord­ing to Time, “news reports from the time show that Palin had threat­ened to fire Baker for not giv­ing “full sup­port” to the mayor.”

Appar­ently I have even less in com­mon with hockey moms than I thought.

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