WOLF WATCH: September 2008

PALIN a CONDOM QUEEN?

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Now Sarah Palin is taking positions more liberal and less moral than John McCain. At best she's equivocating and supporting spending tax money on unconstitutional programs.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-sexed6-2008sep06,0,3119305.story

Palin appears to disagree with McCain on sex education

The Republican vice presidential candidate says students should be taught about condoms. Her running mate -- and the party platform -- disagree.

By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 6, 2008

Palin's running mate, John McCain, and the GOP platform say children should be taught that abstinence until marriage is the only safe way to avoid pregnancy and disease. Palin's position is less clear.

In a widely quoted 2006 survey she answered during her gubernatorial campaign, Palin said she supported abstinence-until-marriage programs. But weeks later, she proclaimed herself "pro-contraception" and said condoms ought to be discussed in schools alongside abstinence.

"I'm pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues," she said during a debate in Juneau.

Such statements could raise concerns among social conservatives who have been some of Palin's most enthusiastic supporters since she was tapped for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket last week.

Leslee Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse and campaign manager of the Vote Yes for Life effort, said children must be given a "clear and concise" message on the benefits of abstinence. Asked about Palin's statement, Unruh said, "I don't think it's clear. It seems disjointed to me.

McCain's campaign did not respond to questions about whether Palin's position is inconsistent with his. But earlier, a campaign spokesperson said McCain believes abstinence is "the only safe and responsible alternative.""To do otherwise is to send a mixed signal to children that, on the one hand they should not be sexually active, but on the other, here is the way to go about it," according to a statement provided by the campaign. "As any parent knows, ambiguity and equivocation leads to problems when it comes to teaching children right from wrong."

Palin's statements date to her 2006 gubernatorial run. In July of that year, she completed a candidate questionnaire that asked, would she support funding for abstinence-until-marriage programs instead of "explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?"Palin wrote, "Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support."

But in August of that year, Palin was asked during a KTOO radio debate if "explicit" programs include those that discuss condoms. Palin said no and called discussions of condoms "relatively benign.""Explicit means explicit," she said. "No, I'm pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues. So I am not anti-contraception. But, yeah, abstinence is another alternative that should be discussed with kids. I don't have a problem with that. That doesn't scare me, so it's something I would support also."

PALIN USED TO THWART BIBLE & FAMILY

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The gist of this article by the Christian Ethics professor at a supposedly Christian university, is that if Christians believe Sarah Palin can lead the country, she certainly can lead her husband and family, and us conservative fundamentalists have been wounding women by keeping them from fully serving God.

Once again, a phony "conservative Republican Christian" wolf-in-sheep's-clothing is going to do more to destroy the once godly fabric of America than any liberal Democrat could ever have gotten away with. And willingly ignorant Christians are going to help her do it. Neither Obama, Kerry, AlGore, Hillary, or Bill could have gotten away with this without a fierce fight from conservative Republicans and Christians.

I'm warning you NOW, so that when you complain about how bad things are getting in America, and I tell you to look in the mirror to see who to blame, you'll KNOW I was right.

Pro-family my foot.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/09/the-palin-predi.html

Questions of faith

Never have conservative evangelicals positioned themselves as staunch advocates for women's leadership in political life until Sarah Palin. The nomination of Palin offers conservative Christian leaders the chance to rethink an archaic theological vision that wounds millions of devout Christian women and restricts the full exercise of their gifts. This is an unexpected gift from presidential candidate John McCain to evangelical Christianity. May Sarah Palin flourish in her new role, and may she open many new doors for evangelical women in America.

David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University in Atlanta.

Another Pair on Palin

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Sounds like a Skull & Bones, Bilderberger, or CFR operation:

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/palin_leaders/2008/09/23/133517.html?s=al&promo_code=6B2B-1

Palin Bans Reporters From Meetings With Leaders

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:30 AM

NEW YORK Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin is banning reporters from her first meetings with world leaders (Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe), allowing access only to photographers and a television crew. The TV producer, print and wire reporters were told they would not be admitted with the photographers and camera crew. The Associated Press, objected and was told that the decision had already been made and was not subject to discussion.

Sarah Palin Mythology Debunked

Washington Insider with Ronald Kessler

In a list of myths about Palin being debunked by a supporter was this one:

http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/sarah_palin_mythology/2008/09/23/133526.html

Myth: Palin cut funding for special needs education by 62 percent.

Fact: Funding for the program in question was actually tripled thanks to legislation signed by Palin.

TG: So it's a good thing that she tripled tax spending? He's bragging on her for being an even bigger socialist than the liberals are accusing her of?

FAILIN' PALIN UPDATED

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FAILIN’ PALIN

(9-22-08)

Here is a list of over 60 items about Sarah Palin that should be undesirable to a conservative, Christian constitutionalist. Some are more important than others. I’m not claiming that every item is a disqualification, but they are all things to consider in a candidate for high office.

BIG GOV'T SOCIALISM

1. She worked to keep a state-owned business, the Matanuska Maid Dairy, in operation, rather than allow the free market private sector to deal with it. That is socialism.

2. The dairy operation received $600,000 in taxpayer aid from the state. That is theft, even if considered legal.

3. She "persuaded Wasilla voters to increase the local sales tax to pay for an indoor hockey arena and convention center."

4. The city didn’t get clear title to the property and had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars untangling the snafu.

5. She has also offered $500 million in incentives (again from taxpayers) to attract developers to build a new gas pipeline in the state. More theft.

6. She presided over a tax increase on oil company profits, teaming with liberal Democrats. She quietly accepted their increases of her tax hike. More socialist theft.

7. Failed to keep promises to cut spending.8. Palin hired a lobbyist while mayor of Wasilla, to secure $27m funding for a population of 9,000, the kind of spending McCain has vowed to veto. Small town big-spending. What would she do in Washington?

9. When she took over as mayor, Wasilla was not in debt. She left it $22 million in the hole.

10. She supported vouchers for alleged educational choice. That sounds good, but gov’t never gives away money without strings attached. Vouchers simply give the gov’t control over private, Christian, and home schools. Better they allow citizens to keep more of their own income to pay for their own educational choices, or offer tax credits.

GOVERNMENT ETHICAL CONCERNS

1. Under investigation for ethical violations for having a personal motive in firing Alaska’s public safety commissioner because he wouldn’t fire her ex-brother-in-law.

2. "The Governor first issued a blanket denial (of above firing) but now she's had to back down and that's a problem," said French. "She has a credibility problem," he said.

3. Her husband has refused to respond to his subpoena in the case even though doing so is a crime in Alaska.

4. Previously accused of personal motives in temporarily firing Wasilla librarian who refused to ban books.

5. Also fired the Wasilla police chief, partly because he wanted to close bars early due to a rash of drunk driving accidents. Bars were among Palin’s largest contributors.

6. Sarah Palin billed Alaska taxpayers almost $17,000 for her to spend 300+ nights in her own home. Can I get in on that program?

7. She also billed taxpayers over $135,000 for travel expenses, unusual acts that are illegal in many places.

8. The “corruption fighter” maintains a political relationship with Ted Stevens, indicted on seven counts of corruption.

9. The V.P. acceptance speech Palin is being hailed for was written before she was even offered the position.

NEW WORLD ORDER GLOBALIST

1. Says the attack on Iraq was a "task from God" (now trying to recant that statement).

2. Willing to go to war with Russia over Georgia conflict, even though Georgia violated their treaty and attacked first.

3. Says she believes Iraq was responsible for the 9-11 attack, something even President Bush has been forced to deny.

4. In the pre-written speech, Palin trotted out the al Qaeda threat to justify trashing the Bill of Rights.

5. Palin refused to take a position on the intrusive “Real ID”, even thought the Alaska legislature voted 58-2 to reject it.

6. Honored the United Nations by naming three days as "Alaska Model United Nations Days".

7. Alaska is a “sanctuary state” for illegal aliens.

8. One of the first ads for McCain-Palin was a Spanish ad telling (illegal) aliens that they would be more favorable for them than Obama.

9. To gain some foreign affairs experience, the campaign had veteran globalist Henry Kissinger take her to the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly.

TALK WITHOUT WALK (CONTRADICTIONS)

1. She ... opposes gay marriage - but exercised a veto that essentially granted benefits to gay state employees and their partners.

2. She backpedaled on backing Buchanan. Either that or she pretended to back him previously.

3. Being advised by Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman.

4. Rudy Guiliani's former communications director is now her spokesman.

5. Her speechwriter, Matthew Scully, is an anti-gun, Card-carrying PETA vegetable.

6. Three of her five closest friends (from Wasilla “Elite Gang of Six”) are pro-abortion. Are more than half of your closest friends pro-abortion?

7. She is a former Democrat. That may mean nothing, but it also may be a red warning flag to take note of.

8. But she has kept a pledge from her 2006 campaign for governor to not press for creation-based alternatives or seek creation advocates for the school board. Of all the pledges for her to keep, she’s keeping the one she should never have made.

9. Her oldest son will soon be deploying to Iraq (with her blessing) where, besides risking his own life in a questionable cause, he likely will have to kill other people's children in an unjust, unprovoked, war of aggression. Muslims are just as alive and possessing of eternal souls as the pre-born.

10. In her acceptance speech, Palin of course bragged on McCain. She has to now, being his running mate. She can no longer tell the truth about him, she must endorse him, warts and all.

11. In Alaska, she has directed officials to work on ways to reduce greenhouse gases to fight global warming.

12. She’s now claiming man may be responsible for global warming, and claiming she never denied human culpability. She won’t pull McCain to the right, he is already pulling her to the left.

13. Supported “bridges to nowhere” but now claims she’s against them. I guess she’s exercising a woman’s prerogative to change her mind … again.

14. Says she won’t let a "personal opinion" interfere with a McCain administration policy that differs from hers.

15. The GOP and campaign are up in arms about Palin’s email being hacked, but those very same people have no qualms about hacking your email, phone calls, bank records, medical records, travel records, credit records, library records, et al, under Homeland Security legislation. Feel more secure?

FEMINIST CONCERNS

1. Palin could rescue America’s daughters from being inspired in the direction of feminism by liberal women. The solution, naturally, is for America’s daughters to be influenced in the direction of feminism by conservative women.

2. Palin belongs to "FEMINISTS for Life", an obviously “conservative Christian” organization.

3. Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

4. What would Sarah do if her husband disagreed with something President McCain required of V.P. Palin? Which man would she submit to? Careful Mr. Palin, John McCain has a history of committing adultery with young, attractive women.

5. By her own admission, Sarah never prayed about her acceptance of the VP offer, nor did she even discuss it with her husband, before instantly making such a major, life-altering, family-uprooting decision.

MORALITY CONCERNS

1. Though perhaps not outright pornography, many of her photos are more revealing than expected from a professing Christian. The immodest photos range from high school to college to beauty pageants to magazine covers in recent months. Though she expressed remorse for her past pageant poses, the cover of Vogue, and the “biker babe” radio station photo show that her alluring poses are not a thing of the past.

2. She admits to having smoked marijuana when it was legal in Alaska between 1975 and 2006.

3. She named her new infant Van, because she thought it was neat that his middle name would rhyme with 80's rock group Van Halen.

4. Sarah was pregnant before she eloped to marry her husband.

5. Currently, her 17 year old daughter is also pregnant out of wedlock. See a trend? Immodest dress, immodest behavior. Like mother, like daughter. They have given fuel to the birth control/sex ed. advocates and caused Christians to hypocritically defend sin among Republicans that they castigated Democrats over.

6. Sarah's Pastor, Larry Kroon, does not believe Mark 16:9-20 are scripture, and he refuses to preach on them or read them.

7. Gov. Palin issued a proclamation supporting the Prince Hall black Mason group. Questionable group to support.

8. Being in beauty pageants in the first place, which are fleshly contests, is not a wise endeavor for a Christian lady. Wonder if there’s a connection here with the immodesty, fornication, and unwed pregnancies?

9. Her own mother-in-law did not support her for mayor and so far doesn’t support her for Vice President.

10. The Palin administration in Alaska made rape victims pay to have their rapes investigated. Other crime victims don’t have to pay for the crimes committed against them to be investigated.

PRO-LIFE CONCERNS

1. Despite rhetoric to the contrary, Palin is PRO-CHOICE on abortion. When asked what extent should abortion be prohibited in Alaska, if Roe vs. Wade was overturned, she replied: “It would be up to the people of Alaska to discuss and decide how we would like our society to reflect our values”. She added that she “opposes the use of public funds for elective abortions”, indicating she supports using public money for non-elective abortions. Although she SAYS she’s pro-life, she’s DONE nothing to curb abortion in Alaska.

2. She was criticized by pro-life groups in Alaska when she refused to include two abortion-related measures in special sessions she called earlier this year to act on her proposal to build a gas pipeline. She said those bills would be too distracting from the pipeline measure, which she considered a higher priority and wanted passed, said Republican Alaska State Senator Lyda Green.

3. Immediately after being tabbed for the V.P. slot, Palin cancelled an appearance where she was to receive the Republican National Coalition for Life's 2008 Life of the Party award from Phyllis Schafly.

4. The McCain-Palin campaign announced Saturday (9-13-08) that they would spend millions more of your tax dollars on stem cell research. Such research kills unborn babies to perform experiments on them (and you though Mengele’s eugenics program was defeated in WWII, didn’t you?). When does life begin Ms. Palin? Mr. McCain? Or is that above your pay level? What if Mr. Palin says his pro-life wife shouldn’t support such a program? Will she submit to her husband, or some other man?

Sources:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5702697&page=1
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5713866&page=1
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/20/politics/fromtheroad/entry4462891.shtml
http://www.newsweek.com/id/157541?from=rss
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122048513733097089.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/the-palin-paradox-does-he_b_124118.html
http://newmexicoindependent.com/view/what-i-know-about
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20080911_Kimberly_Garrison__Young_Palin_mom_to_be_puts_focus_on_pregnancy.html
http://www.courant.com/chi-sarah-palin-vogue-magazine-080829-ht,0,1553493.story
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Palin_on_Israel.html
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/08/31/classless-alan-colmes-omg-palins-eloped
http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/455133336.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103789.html?nav=rss_email/components
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403557.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_creationism_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_on_el_pr/palin_interview_8
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/19/palin/index.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/18/privacy/index.html
http://gov.state.ak.us/archive-18166.html
http://backwaterreport.com/?p=1004
http://georgia4life.org/archives/27
http://www.lewrockwell.com/fontova/fontova73.html
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2008/09/behold-palin-horse.html
http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=1154
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd391.htm
http://www.covenantnews.com/baldwin080916.htm
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=35626
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=72717
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74558
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75453
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74195

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/227-minnesota-and-alaska-legislatures-reject-real-id
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/U.S.-News/Elections/mccain-picks-palin-for-vp

PRO-LIFE PALIN? PFFT!

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http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=35626

McCain, RNC Advertise Intent to Spend ‘Millions More’ on Stem Cell Research

Saturday, September 13, 2008 By Staff (CNSNews.com) -

Sen. John McCain’s Republican presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee released a radio ad yesterday advertising McCain’s intention to join with his “Congressional allies” in spending millions in additional tax dollars on stem cell research.

The entire script for the ad, which is entitled “Stem Cells, is as follows:

Announcer: They're the original mavericks. Leaders. Reformers. Fighting for real change. John McCain will lead his Congressional allies to improve America's health.

Stem cell research to unlock the mystery of cancer, diabetes, heart disease.

Stem cell research to help free families from the fear and devastation of illness.

Stem cell research to help doctors repair spinal cord damage, knee injuries, serious burns.

Stem cell research to help stroke victims.

And, John McCain and his Congressional allies will invest millions more in new NIH medical research to prevent disease. Medical breakthroughs to help you get better, faster.

Change is coming. McCain-Palin and Congressional allies. The leadership and experience to really change Washington and improve your health.

Paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee.

JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approved this message.

Sarah has already said she wouldn't let her "personal opinions" interfere with McCain policy decisions. So she will have to back McCain on this.

Now what does she do if Mr. Palin says, "Sarah, we're pro-life", you can't support something like this!"

Is she going to submit to her husband, or some other man?

When does life begin Ms. Palin? Mr. McCain? Or is that above your pay level?

PALIN MAKES RAPE VICTIMS PAY

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Not rapists, rape VICTIMS.

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75453

Under the Palin administration, rape VICTIMS had to pay up to $1,200 to have their rapes investigated.

As if being raped once wasn't bad enough!

When Gov. Knowles (Democrat) signed the law reversing that injustice, he said, "We would never bill the victim of a burglary for the cost of gathering evidence, nor should we bill rape victims just because the crime scene happens to be their bodies."

I can understand wanting to save taxpayers money, but other crme victims don't have to pay for their crimes to be investigated. Why make rape victims pay for theirs?

I can understand Palin being against morning-after pills, which are really not birth control, but are abortifacients. But you still don't have to make the poor victim pay for the investigation.

IM-PALIN

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PALIN ADMITS SHE'LL CAVE

http://www.covenantnews.com/baldwin080916.htm

According to Palin, she would not let a "personal opinion" interfere with a McCain administration's policy that differed from hers. In other words, she would support McCain's pro-embryonic stem cell research decisions. I am sure this would also be true as John McCain increases federal funding for abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, which is something that McCain has also repeatedly done. Pray tell, how many other "personal opinions" is Sarah Palin willing to sacrifice in order to be John McCain's running mate?

PALIN HAVEN FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS

http://www.covenantnews.com/baldwin080916.htm

Sarah Palin did nothing to prevent the state of Alaska from being a sanctuary state for illegal aliens. The La Frontera web site credits Lou Dobbs as noting that, according to an August 14, 2006 report by the Congressional Research Service, at least two Alaskan cities have don't ask, don't tell sanctuary policies in place for illegal aliens: Anchorage and Fairbanks. Beyond that, Alaska has a statewide policy that forbids state agencies from using resources to enforce federal immigration law.

It makes perfect sense that Sarah Palin would embrace (or do nothing to oppose) John McCain's pro-illegal immigration policy, as this is one of the issues he is most passionate about. It is absolutely inconceivable that John McCain would ever select a running mate that did not share (or that would oppose) his pro-illegal immigration convictions.

Information from Chuck Baldwin, presidential candidate of the Constitution Party.

FAILIN' PALIN

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FAILIN’ PALIN

Here is a list of over 50 items about Sarah Palin that should be undesirable to a conservative, Christian constitutionalist. Some are more important than others. I’m not claiming that every item is a disqualification, but they are all things to consider in a candidate for high office.

BIG GOV'T SOCIALISM

1. She worked to keep a state-owned business, the Matanuska Maid Dairy, in operation, rather than allow the free market private sector to deal with it. That is socialism.

2. The dairy operation received $600,000 in taxpayer aid from the state. That is theft, even if considered legal.

3. She "persuaded Wasilla voters to increase the local sales tax to pay for an indoor hockey arena and convention center."

4. The city didn’t get clear title to the property and had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars untangling the snafu.

5. She has also offered $500 million in incentives (again from taxpayers) to attract developers to build a new gas pipeline in the state. More theft.

6. She presided over a tax increase on oil company profits, teaming with liberal Democrats. She quietly accepted their increases of her tax hike. More socialist theft.

7. Failed to keep promises to cut spending.

8. Palin hired a lobbyist while mayor of Wasilla, to secure $27m funding for a population of 9,000, the kind of spending McCain has vowed to veto. Small town big-spending. What would she do in Washington?

9. When she took over as mayor, Wasilla was not in debt. She left it $22 million in the hole.

10. She supported vouchers for alleged educational choice. That sounds good, but gov’t never gives away money without strings attached. Vouchers simply give the gov’t control over private, Christian, and home schools. Better they allow citizens to keep more of their own income to pay for their own educational choices, or offer tax credits.

GOVERNMENT ETHICAL CONCERNS

1. Under investigation for ethical violations for having a personal motive in firing Alaska’s public safety commissioner because he wouldn’t fire her ex-brother-in-law.

2. "The Governor first issued a blanket denial (of above firing) but now she's had to back down and that's a problem," said French. "She has a credibility problem," he said.

3. Previously accused of personal motives in temporarily firing Wasilla librarian who refused to ban books.

4. Sarah Palin billed Alaska taxpayers almost $17,000 for her to spend 300+ nights in her own home. Can I get in on that program?

5. She also billed taxpayers over $135,000 for travel expenses, unusual acts that are illegal in many places.

6. The “corruption fighter” maintains a political relationship with Ted Stevens, indicted on seven counts of corruption.

7. The V.P. acceptance speech Palin is being hailed for was written before she was even offered the position.

NEW WORLD ORDER GLOBALIST

1. Says the attack on Iraq was a "task from God" (now trying to recant that statement).

2. Willing to go to war with Russia over Georgia conflict.