Justinology

From Philadelphia Magazine, here’s Linda Carter on Sarah Palin:

Don’t get me started. She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives. And a superior religious self-righteousness… that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn’t she?

It goes on and gets worse.

However, I find it interesting that Linda jumped on the hearsay/rumor bandwagon, as USA Today says:

But in her 21 months as governor, Palin has taken few steps to advance culturally conservative causes. Instead, after she knocked off an incumbent amid an influence-peddling scandal linked to the oil industry, Palin pursued a populist agenda that toughened ethics rules and raised taxes on oil and gas companies.

And she did so while relying on Democratic votes in the Legislature.

“She has governed from the center,” says Rebecca Braun, author of Alaska Budget Report, a non-partisan political newsletter. “She has in some small ways supported her religious views — for example, proposing money to continue the office of faith-based and community initiatives — but she has actually been conspicuously absent on social issues. She came in with a big oil and gas agenda, which really required Democratic allies to get through.”

John Bitney, who was Palin’s issues adviser during the 2006 campaign and later worked as her legislative liaison before she fired him, says, “She’s a very devout Christian. That’s a part of her core. But we never put those issues forward in the campaign. She takes the positions she takes because that’s who she is, but when she came into office, that wasn’t her agenda.”

Sarah Palin realizes that government isn’t about pushing a personal agenda. That, above all else, is what scares people.

Florida Republicans boycott Oprah
By My Fox Tampa Bay

The Florida Federation of Republican Women has called for a boycott of the Oprah Winfrey Show because she refuses to have Governor Sarah Palin as a guest on her show until after the election.

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Is Oprah really a crusader for women’s rights, or is she just a crusader for ratings? Let’s face it, Oprah’s audience is mostly women, so it only makes sense that she’d present issues that interest them.

However, nowadays Oprah is pushing both political and spiritual agendas, and I have no doubt that she fears having Palin on the show would be construed as an endorsement, thus she’d inadvertently put the last nail in the coffin of Barack Obama’s campaign.

Closing thought: Why didn’t the FFRW start their boycott of Oprah back when she started campaigning for Obama?

HT: OneNewsNow