assholeofday:Sarah Palin, Asshole of the Day for May 7, 2014by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)Hill
assholeofday:Sarah Palin, Asshole of the Day for May 7, 2014by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)Hillary Clinton is going to be a grandmother. And as long as she’s in the running for 2016, people are going to speculate on what that might mean. (Here’s an interesting one from before it was even announced.)Of course there’s partisan takes on it, such as Republicans who say she should just help with the baby and not run for president. The sexism has been quite bad.But Sarah Palin has her own take— she thinks Hillary will, upon becoming a grandmother, throw away a lifetime of political activism and feminism and just, well, become an Republican like Sarah Palin:Palin said in an interview with “Extra” airing Wednesday that having a grandchild could “broaden [Clinton’s] worldview” with respect to the national debt, which would affect her grandchild down the road, but also in terms of the “sanctity of life.”“It’s a real baby! It’s not some disposable something – and I know that’s gonna be controversial – but those who, perhaps they’re in this position now as a parent or grandparent, they realize that sanctity of life, how innocent, how precious it is,” Palin told “Extra” host Mario Lopez. “Of all places it should be in the womb that these babies are protected. So maybe even on a social issue like that she’ll open her eyes.”Nice. Real nice. As with many Palin statements, she manages to pack ten pounds of bullshit into a five pound bag (for example, just last week we pulled 5 different points about her torture speech). She has that talent for pulling it all together. So let’s unpack this one:The deficit has been going down for the last several years. Also the deficit and debt can be reduced by increasing taxes, which Palin opposes and Hillary supports. Bill Clinton reduced the deficit by increasing taxes, and even created a surplus. Then the George W. Bush and the GOP threw it all away with tax cuts, unpaid for wars, and a new unpaid for entitlement (Medicare Part D). And when did all those huge deficits start? With St. Ronald of Reagan, who Palin prays to daily. Hillary does care about the debt, but it is grandmother Palin who doesn’t care about it enough to raise taxes on the Koch brothers.On abortion Palin wants no abortions ever, under any circumstances. That is the policy of her party. She wants it to be illegal.And then like many anti-choice extremists, Palin mischaracterizes Hillary’s position— Hillary isn’t pro-abortion. She wants women to have control over their own bodies. She knows that having access to birth control, and having the sex ed classes at appropriate age, will help keep women out of needing abortions. Sex ed classes that are more than the abstinence-only sort that Bristol Palin advocates. But Hillary also knows it’s not always in a woman’s control (rape), and birth control isn’t 100% effective, so abortion needs to remain legal to help those women. In fact the most effective birth control, IUDs, are expensive, and Palin has thrown her lot in with the people fighting against the contraceptive mandate in insurance that would make IUDs affordable for all women. For Hillary and many Democrats including Obama, they would like to keep abortion legal, but make it rare by helping women to control their lives so that it doesn’t come to needing that choice.And even putting aside the women Sarah Palin would force to carry their rapist’s baby, a baby they didn’t consent to, Sarah Palin also would rather women die in childbirth than have their doctor allow them and their family the choice of who to save. Yes, Palin’s abortion stance is zero, not even to save the life of the mother.So, no, I doubt very much that Hillary will suddenly think that forcing young women to carry rape babies or to die in childbirth will be something she would support. If becoming a mother didn’t change it, why would becoming a grandmother make her want to oppress women?And what if the baby is female? Why would Hillary want her granddaughter to have less freedom and control over her own body and reproductive choices than she and Chelsea had? That sure doesn’t sound like Hillary Clinton. But of course the point of Palin’s whole statement isn’t to speak sympathetically as one female politician to another, but to paint the fact that Hillary will not change her positions on reproductive freedom for women as making her a bad person, cold-hearted and not a sympathetic grandma.So, for saying that by becoming a grandmother Hillary will adopt conservative views, Sarah Palin is the Asshole of the Day.It is Sarah Palin’s sixth time as Asshole of the Day. Previous wins were formaking a huge “scandal” out of a president having someone hold an umbrellasaying black people don’t understand her definition of slaverydefending Phil Robertson’s homophobic, racist interview without even reading itsaying Putin invaded Crimea because Obama wears “mom jeans”saying if she were in charge “waterboarding is how we’d baptize terrorists”Full story: Talking Points Memo -- source link
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