Palin: A No-Go with Environmentalists

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Friday, August 29, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might have been an attractive VP choice for a McCain campaign hoping to capture alienated Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters, but it’s done nothing but heighten opposition from environmentalists, who note that Palin’s record makes her hardly earth-friendly.

Within an hour of the McCain camp’s announcement, the statements of condemnation were already flying. From Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder:

“Sarah Palin’s record is not extensive — just two years ago she was the mayor of a city of less than 10,000 people — but what her record indicates is troubling. This spring, she opposed the listing of polar bears as a ‘threatened’ species. She supports the brutal aerial hunting of wolves. And she has been a friend of Big Oil, opposing a windfall profits tax on the oil industry that could fund affordable clean energy for more Americans. Palin’s husband works for BP.”

And from Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope: “With the pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for his running mate, John McCain’s race towards the Bush administration’s failed energy policy is now complete.”

Not that most conservatives have ever cared about the environment, but, again, this pick was intended to reel in former Clinton fans. And they probably do.

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12 Comments

mk
Comment posted August 29, 2008 @ 3:02 pm

Why does anyone even bother to equate Palin with McCain picking up Hillary supports? Just because she does not have a penis? She is a complete advocate of everything Clinton DOES NOT support: anti-abortion, drilling in ANWR, anti-gay and she is a Creationist. Gimme a break, people. Things are not that easy.


Pete H
Comment posted August 29, 2008 @ 3:11 pm

McCain thinks he was clever to pick a woman to attract Hilary supporters. What he really did was show his sexism. Does he think women are dumb and will only vote based on the sex of the VP? McCain insults American women.


mcdackblog
Comment posted August 29, 2008 @ 3:16 pm

Too clever by half, methinks — in a year when the political environment is very toxic for the GOP, McCain's best hope was to paint Obama as too dangerous (too “exotic”, we all know what that means, and too inexperienced). Palin, as a far less experienced notawhiteguy, neutralizes this completely. Thanks, John McCain, for sending a message to swing voters that Obama/Biden are the safe choice.

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TRW
Comment posted August 29, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

WOW. I honestly can't believe the cynicism of the McCain campaign. I was not a Hillary supporter during the primary, but I at least respect her for her hard work. To try to pander to Clinton supporters in this fashion is truly desperate. Yes, vote for me because I picked a woman as my VP, she and Hillary are at completely different ends of the spectrum politically but both have a uterus?!?! If that's not sexist, I don't know what is. If people fall for this ploy, I fear for the future of this country.


zentrails
Comment posted August 29, 2008 @ 4:17 pm

Hey, what's out of character for McCain to want another hot babe to travel with?

He doesn't actually want the job he is pretending to be campaigning for.

He just wants the attention.


boragaindem
Comment posted August 29, 2008 @ 4:32 pm

I find it worrying that the executive director of the Sierra club can come out with such a statement and slam John McCain and characterize him as being a supporter of Bush's failed energy policies. Mr. Pope is obviously not well informed. 1) John McCian oppsoes drilling in ANWAR and has actually voted that way publically. 2) the senator in the presidential race who voted against the Bush Cheney energy bill giveaway to the oil companies was John McCain. People should note that Barack Obama quite happily voted for that egregious bill and yet he is not called to account for his actions by the Sierra Club or I guess the Washington independant.


Kwaayesnama
Comment posted August 30, 2008 @ 5:29 pm

If this election about judgment – the choice of Sarah Pahin shows poor judgment on McCain's part.

Any intelligent person knows when you choose to have unprotected sex at 43 you have a very high probability of having a child with Downs Syndrome. She used poor judgment not using birth control.

Would she use better judgment dealing with our economy?

Would she use better judgment dealing with our enemies?

I for one am not willing to take a chance on her and John McCain’s judgment.

With the conditions in this world you can not depend on a roll of the dice for the person that is 1 / 2 of a breath away from being the leader of the most powerful nation in the world. .

And I’m an woman so don’t get on my back about sexism.


Joshua
Comment posted September 3, 2008 @ 3:19 pm

amen


Jenn
Comment posted September 11, 2008 @ 11:29 pm

Ok. So, 1st, I'm a woman. 2nd, I'm an independent. 3rd, this Palin thing is out of control. Just because it's on TV does not make it true. She supported the “Bridge to Nowhere”, she has only been governor for what, 2 years? She has no foreign policy experience other than she knows that Russia is accessible from the great white north. She has no economic experience other than she posted Alaska's budget online. She has no legislative experience whatsoever. But, she's tripled the budget for special needs kids! A little self serving don't you think? She believes dinosaurs roamed the earth 4000 years ago! Does science not matter to these people? I mean, seriously! If Americans are as stupid as McCain and Palin would believe, and they win this election…then we completely deserve what's coming to us. The ostrich like approach on politics for most Americans has got to stop. Soccer moms in “Juicy” attire, starbucks-drinking yuppies in BMWs, consumeristic teenagers, and overly invested babyboomers need to PAY ATTENTION!!! If we blow this election and elect Laura Bush's 6th cousin (yes…John McCain is a relative of her family) and his pit bull with lipstick running mate, we are screwed. Period. We will never get out of Iraq, our economical situation will worsen and the rich will get far richer. Google and Microsoft are supporting Obama…the largest capitalists of our nation are supporting a Democrat!!!! Perhaps we should do the same for the sake of stopping this insanity of the past 8 years of increasing our national debt to ….wait for it…..NINE TRILLION DOLLARS…investing more money in military than education or health care…concerning ourselves with more tax breaks for the biggest oil profiteers in history instead of eco and bio fuel based energy…the list goes on and on and on. I'm not a regular blogger…and I have mostly voted Republican or Independent my whole life. My family (on both sides) are Republican supporters. But I can no longer do it. Obama…plan on my vote in November. It will be my pleasure to support a “new” kind of politician. Please don't disappoint us.


Geoffrey
Comment posted September 13, 2008 @ 2:49 am

Anyone who votes for McCain (the “professionel P.O.W.”) should have their head examined! Anyone who can't see that he has TOTALLY BETRAYED all the “maverick” positions he used to support is either blind or retarded! Obama may not be perfect, but what human being on God's green Earth IS? Plus, if McCain & Sarah “I don't accept the existance of global warming” Palin win, the Earth won't be green for very much longer! A vote for McCain/Palin is a vote FOR GLOBAL WARMING – which, according to the VAST MAJORITY of the world's scientists, if we don't begin to get it under control WITHIN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, will eventually condemn our species (and most others) to EXTINCTION! The Republicans say they believe in “the sanctity of life” – what hypocrites!


Dalton
Comment posted September 13, 2008 @ 12:26 pm

McCain will do or say literally anything to get elected. It's hard to imagine Americans falling for his lies and distortions, but then again…Americans elected George W. Bush…twice.

If course that's based on whether the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen via the Supreme Court and voter fraud.


Dalton
Comment posted September 13, 2008 @ 5:26 pm

McCain will do or say literally anything to get elected. It's hard to imagine Americans falling for his lies and distortions, but then again…Americans elected George W. Bush…twice.

If course that's based on whether the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen via the Supreme Court and voter fraud.


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