Sarah Palin for Vice President … of the Taliban! (Or, Sarah Palin vs. The U.S. Constitution)

I really don't understand why Sarah Palin has ambitions to rule the USA. Why would she want to be Vice President of a nation that is based on ideals so different from hers?

For example, she doesn't like freedom of the press, as shown by her curious interest in banning library books. She doesn't like the press at all, as shown by her running scared from the media. She scoffs at community organizing, which is to say, she scoffs at freedom of assembly. If she had any real respect for unions (as she claimed in her one speech) she wouldn't dare be a Republican, since that party has spent so much time working against unions.

We haven't even gotten past the first amendment and already she's opposed to it in every imaginable way through action and word. What about freedom of religion? She surely believes in that. Well, as long as your religion is the whacky kind that claims you can "pray away the gay." How many times do I have to tell my fellow Americans, freedom of religion does not mean freedom of Christianity? A lot, apparently.

What about the second amendment? She's all in favor of guns. True, but how will a well-trained militia even know who to shoot if there's no media? How are we supposed to organize a resistance if we can't organize at all?

I haven’t even mentioned the really lunatic stuff, like being anti-abortion even in cases of rape or incest, a stance that would make Osama bin Laden complain, "Now that's a bit extreme." She even whined that "Obama wants to read terrorists their rights." More American principles violated! (See amendments Four and Fourteen or the principle of "innocent until proven guilty.") How are we going to know who the terrorists are if we don't put them through due process?

I really don't get it. She's against freedom of speech, doesn't like the media, doesn't respect the ability of a citizenry to organize. What about America does she like? Why doesn't she just secede from the USA with her husband? Check this out, I'm the hippie and yet I'm the one screaming, "America, love it or leave it!"

Can Sarah Palin even be called American? She has more in common with the Taliban: banning books, power inaccessible to the press or the people, no organizing allowed, no dissent permitted, women are incubators and nothing more. This is the person some Americans are juiced about?

Sadly, it is, and that's what's really scary. It's The Handmaid's Tale. It Can't Happen Here? Oh yes it can.

What's really disappointing is how many people think Ms. Palin is groovy just because she showed contempt and nothing more in her (as of this writing) one and only major public appearance. Side note: if she's such a pitbull, why has she yet to meet with ANY reporters? (Q: What's the difference between a chicken and Sarah Palin? A: Lipstick.)

Her speech reminded me of a ditzy high school girl whining, "OMG! Look what she's wearing!" except she said, OMG! Obama was a community organizer. Side note: I can't help but think "community organizer" is code for "urban black" but leaving that suspicion aside, my main question is, exactly why should I "OMG"?

What is so bad about being a "community organizer" that it deserves contempt? This is a nation where organizing is a right. The first of our fellow Americans died fighting the British Empire for the right of Americans to organize. To hold that right in disdain is not what I would call "supporting the troops."

So did McCain make a good pick? Sure, if his only goal is to get elected (which apparently it is, followed closely by starting wars with Iran and Russia.) Did he choose someone good for America? Absolutely not.

For those of us who want to put an end to racism, an end to poverty, an end to war, an end to supporting terrorists with our oil money, contempt does jack. There is so much to dislike about Ms. Palin, who embodies everything about the term "Ugly American," I'm going to have to stop here and write more later. I just hope those of us who value freedom outnumber those who value something else.

p.s.
I've written a joke that is much funnier than Sarah Palin's pit bull and lipstick zinger. Here goes:

Q: Do you think Sarah Palin will withdraw from the race?
A: No way. She didn't even teach her daughter the benefits of pulling out early.

Is this a violation of Obama's edict that the families are off limits? Maybe. But: (1.)As McCain would say, if it offends you, it's just a joke so please get a life. (2.)Sarah, I'll stay out of your family if you stay out of mine. In other words, if a woman I know is raped and becomes pregnant, she should have the right to an abortion. (3.)Truth hurts, don't it?

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Larry Nocella is the award-winning author of the novel Where Did This Come From? available at Amazon and Xlibris and other fine online book stores. Where Did This Come From? is also available as an eBook. For more info, visit Larry Nocella's website at http://www.larrynocella.com/.