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The Phantom Candidate | 34 comments (34 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The Phantom Candidate (4.00 / 3)

how's this for a counter to her "wholesome female warrior...nuturing mother" image. here's palin's favorite bloodsport: aerial slaughter:

"Alaska is truly our nation's last frontier. It is also the last place in the U.S. where a few hunters still use aircraft to chase and kill wolves. They shoot these animals from the air or chase them to exhaustion before landing and shooting them point blank."
"Congress passed a law thirty five years ago to put an end to aerial hunting. But Alaska is exploiting a loophole in federal law to resume the practice, not only for wolves, but bears as well."
Sarah Palin recently offered 180 pilots and gunners $150. for each left leg from a fresh killed wolf. Another source states Palin spent $400,000.00 in taxpayer dollars in a massive PR campaign to promote aerial killing of wolves and bears...
Republicans for Obama

and this video from gristmill:environmental news blog...The Truth About Aerial Hunting of Wolves in Alaska:

run them down, wound them with a shotgun, and then mutilate them...it's called bounty hunting were l come from, and it damn sure ain't sport.

Gov. Palin supports aerial hunting because the powerful Alaskan commercial hunting industry wants to eliminate nature's predators in order to inflate moose and caribou numbers so they can continue to cater to wealthy out-of-state hunters seeking a trophy.
care2 news

palin's an anti-intellectual, anti-science, pro oil, war, big business, reich wing, bloodthirsty fundamentalist; and l'm sure l left some out.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Fri Sep 5th, 2008 at 03:56:24 PM EST
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Re: The Phantom Candidate (4.00 / 3)

Good find! Now THIS is what we should be talking about when it comes to Palin. Even the few hunters I know think shooting from an airplane is disgusting and a slap in the face to all hunters.

Sarah Palin: marketing the slaughter of wild wolves from an airplane to rich out-of-staters. It doesn't get more elitist than that.

I really think this is the one that could bring her down. What's needed is explicit footage of the slaughter that doesn't come from an "environmentalist" source. There should be lots around. Also unarguable proof of her involvement from non-partisan sources.

She's doing a pretty good pretense so far of being a frontier environmentalist type. Remember how polar bears don't need protection because here in Alaska we care about our environment? Now we'll see in bloody detail exactly how much she cares. Except when it comes to money, of course.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

by DaveW on Fri Sep 5th, 2008 at 04:26:05 PM EST
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Re: The Phantom Candidate (none / 1)

l don't think anything can "bring her down" among the fundie zealots, but this could hurt her big time with the nra types. their initial response has been euphoric:

The McCain-Palin ticket has spawned "great excitement among gun owners and hunters," says Chris Cox, the NRA's top lobbyist in Washington. "Our focus is to arm gun owners with the facts," Cox adds, pun intended, noting that the 4 million-member NRA intends to do comprehensive education and voter-turnout work targeting the nation's 80 million gun owners.
[note: from national journal, ergo, no link]

l'm not an nra member but l'm a long-time wing-shooter, as well as trap and skeet shooting, so l come into contact with quite a few who are. certainly anecdotal evidence, but based on my experience and interactions with them, most of these guys are serious and conscientious sportsmen, and in their own way, environmentalists...with a few exceptions.

these kinds of activities are not looked upon with any respect...much like cheney and his canned hunts...and her support and promotion of them, will not go over well with them if it can be made a part of the dialog, and it has the potential to seriously erode some segment of that particular base.

certainly worthy of wider distribution.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Fri Sep 5th, 2008 at 05:36:02 PM EST
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Re: The Phantom Candidate (4.00 / 2)

I think it goes way wider than that. I'm thinking of a lot of suburban and small-town people who lean GOP but will be unable to vote for McCain after seeing this. Don't forget that outside the loony base, McCain/Palin are going for the big content-free emotional binge to win over the soft-minded. In the sentimentality wars, this is a WMD to their .22. You'd have to be a borderline psycho to want to vote for her after seeing this.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

by DaveW on Fri Sep 5th, 2008 at 05:52:57 PM EST
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Palin, the Real Scandal (none / 1)

Palin: the real scandal

(The Independent) Sept. 6, 2008 - Seen from the air, Sarah Palin's state is an environmental wonderland. From Anchorage to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, there is a vast landscape of snow-capped peaks, fjords, crystal glaciers, coastal lagoons, wide river deltas and tundra.

The guardian of this wilderness - and Governor of Alaska - has, this week, become one of the most recognisable faces in the world. But behind her beaming smile and wholesome family values is a woman aligned with the big oil and coal firms that are racing to exploit Alaska's vast energy reserves.

Governor Palin would also like to bring open-cast coal mining to Alaska's Brooks Range Mountains, an act of environmental vandalism in the eyes of many.

The Palin administration has allowed Chevron to triple the amount of toxic waste it pours into the waters of Cook Inlet. This, even though the number of beluga whales in the bay has collapsed from 1,300 to 350 - the point of extinction - because of pollution and increased ship traffic.

On the Republican convention floor Palin said: "We Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas and take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: We've got lots of both."

Alaskan village sues 24 energy firms for climate change

What the Anchorage Daily News has had to say on Palin

≈ Cross-posted from my diary -- Palin's Wildlife Policies, Guns and (Sex) Appeal ≈

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Fri Sep 5th, 2008 at 07:35:07 PM EST
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