“On censorship, the teaching of creationism in schools, reproductive rights, attributing government policy to God’s will and climate change, Palin agrees with Hamas and Saudi Arabia rather than supporting tolerance and democratic precepts.”
With the exception of “reproductive rights”, which I assume is being used by Cole as a euphamism for abortion, these points are factually wrong.
Why wouldn’t you point that, Josh?
- She never publically supported or called for censorship, although while mayor she asked a town librarian who publicly supported her opponent a worrying question.
- She’s expressed skepticism of anthropomorphic climate change in the past, but has more recently been accepting of the doctrine, even allowing it to shape policy in Alaska.
- She publicly prayed for wisdom – she never claimed that the government was enacting God’s will, only prayed that that was the case. I’m not a Christian, but I always thought that’s the kind of thing they did.
- Even on abortion, she hasn’t done much to further the cause legislatively in Alaska.
This stuff has been debunked pretty thoroughly. I think the right are projecting their beliefs onto Palin to a certain extent, and the left is essentially doing the same thing — turning her into a boogeyman.
Hopefully she’ll start doing some interviews and the fog will clear (although keeping her out of the hot seat for a week or so and driving the lefty media and lefty bloggers batty was a good – and hilarious – strategy).
