Moms for Palin?
When I visited home last month, I hadn’t seen my mom in three months. She picked me up from the airport. Soon after a few laughs and warm words, we started screaming at each other—over Sarah Palin. We had gone maybe ten minutes.
I knew my mom would vote Republican—she always does, for moral issues. She’s gone from being devoutly Catholic to attending one of those John Hagee-like psychochurches, 99.9 percent of whose members think Islam is inherently evil, regardless of the fact that they couldn’t tell you the difference between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Knowing that Obama’s middle name is Hussein is adequate “ammunition” to them. That Palin is pro-life and will do all she can to move this country toward theocracy is all they really need to know.
Because really, they don’t know much else about her. Every “Moms for Palin” blog out there focuses on the “sins” of Obama, not the credentials of Palin.
That’s what my mom and I got in a fight over. I asked her, point blank, what credentials the woman had to helm the executive office of the United States. She really couldn’t answer. And when I remarked about how old McCain is, and the real and present danger of Palin assuming the top post despite a flimsy record for the serious job, she responded, “I’d rather have someone with white hair [McCain] than with kinky hair.”
Wow. It’s things like this that make the slow transformation into my mom so bone-chilling.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Of course she’s ready to be president… She built a road to no where…. She built a road just in case someday there might possibly need to be one.
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Lol .. . yeah, she STARTED building it, then renigged, and insulted a bit of her constituency that was then like, “WTF? Thanks a lot.” They had a story about it in last week’s Newsweek.
November 4th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I am just now starting to realize the problem with this country moving forward. It all started in hell, also known as Austin, home of that den of iniquity that was (oxymoronically) my mom’s alma mater.
What they didn’t teach you there was that Islam IS of the devil and inherently evil. Evangelical influences provided the intellectual underpinnings for this republic, and McCain with all his failings is much preferred over the false prophet. Besides that, Biden has to be the dumbest white man in America.
More on Palin later.
November 4th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
palin is supremely unqualified and just plain dumb as rocks… nice photoshop work lennifer!
November 6th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
My grandma voted for McRage for reasons of religion/morality…actually specifically, her ProLife views. Everything to her should be related back to the Bible and there is no separation bt church and state…
I convinced my mom to go Obama.
She has become a more wordly and liberal woman over the years. She likes Obama’s healthcare plan.
My Dad on the other hand likes to challenge me on everything. He would not budge. He voted for McCain because being a CPA, higher taxes is his worst nightmare. lol