Sarah Palin: A Neo-Con Animal-Hater of the Worst Variety

It's no surprise to me that John McCain's pick for Vice President is an absolute joke. After all, Barack Obama is the chosen one, and the GOP is there to fall down and die - as John Kerry was in 2004. Normally, I wouldn't care who the choice was. In this case, however, it's someone I've despised for quite some time now.

McCain's choice - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin - runs around under the guise of a quasi-young, hip, soccer mom. In reality, she's a piece of garbage that thinks the aeriel gunning of endangered animals in her native Alaska is cool. She feels powerful in paying dirtbag hunters to cowardly shoot wolves from helicopters, and wants to take the polar bear off of the endangered list.

http://www.defenders.org/newsroom/press_releases_folder/2007/03_27_2007_judge_asked_to_shut_down_wolf_bounty_program.php

I'll have more and more to say about this 'Wicked Witch of the Northwest' as we get closer to the election, but for now, read this message from Defenders of Wildlife head Roger Schlickeisen.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 29, 2008

Shocking Choice by John McCain

WASHINGTON-- Senator John McCain just announced his choice for running mate: Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. To follow is a statement by Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund.

“Senator McCain’s choice for a running mate is beyond belief. By choosing Sarah Palin, McCain has clearly made a decision to continue the Bush legacy of destructive environmental policies.

“Sarah Palin, whose husband works for BP (formerly British Petroleum), has repeatedly put special interests first when it comes to the environment. In her scant two years as governor, she has lobbied aggressively to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, pushed for more drilling off of Alaska’s coasts, and put special interests above science. Ms. Palin has made it clear through her actions that she is unwilling to do even as much as the Bush administration to address the impacts of global warming. Her most recent effort has been to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the polar bear from the endangered species list, putting Big Oil before sound science. As unbelievable as this may sound, this actually puts her to the right of the Bush administration.

“This is Senator McCain’s first significant choice in building his executive team and it’s a bad one. It has to raise serious doubts in the minds of voters about John McCain’s commitment to conservation, to addressing the impacts of global warming and to ensuring our country ends its dependency on oil.”

The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund (www.defendersactionfund.org) provides a powerful voice in Washington to Americans who value our conservation heritage. Through grassroots lobbying, issue advocacy and political campaigns, the Action Fund champions those laws and lawmakers that protect wildlife and wild places while working against those that do them harm.