Sarah Palin is nothing new

"Letter to Editor"

09/04/2008

Fellow DFL'ers:


Here is some perspective on last evenings Palin speech and some talk points for you among your friends (and others) who may have been awed by Palin.

Last night the Republicans really had a chance to bring to their campaign an outsider, a reform minded individual and a "maverick" by just showing Sarah Palin as an ordinary American who wants to make a change. After being "handled" by the McCain campaign folks what we got instead is nothing new.

In Sarah Palin, as presented last evening, we have a eerily scary duplicate of Dick Cheney.

She comes from a small population western oil and gas state like Cheney.

She is snide and sarcastic like Dick Cheney offering attack after attack but no substance.

In her comment of how Barack Obama is wrong about being concerned with the rights of prisoners held in Guantanamo she demonstrated that she doesn't care about laws and people human rights but merely her preconceived notions of morality that are conservative and far right as they can be. Sounds like she wont have problems with people being tortured as long as it is for the good of her America. This is a notion that McCain should have a very strong position against seeing as though he was a victim of this same type of abuse. This belief of hers is also evident in her apparent disregard of law in the firing of the public official in Alaska who wouldn't fire her ex-brother-in-law. Sarah Palin sounds like Dick Cheney.

She doesn't hold science in high regard (i.e. her stand on creationism, stem cell research and that humans are not the cause of global warming) except as it relates to extracting oil and gas from the ground just like Dick Cheney.

Folks, this is nothing new and we need to make our friends be aware of this.

As I have said many times concerning the Bush administration, If all it took was good intentions to successfully run this country, the last 8 years would have been fabulous.

Unfortunately for many real ordinary Americans, real hockey moms and dads and their families that has not been the case.

Don't let this opportunity to correct the perspective on Sarah Palin go by. One well delivered speech does not a vice president make.


Steve Hoffman
Stewartville