Syrin from Wasilla

The media is filled with reports of Americans enthralled by Sarah Palin due to her demeanor and personal story, but her positions on the issues are terrible for Alaska and the country and there is a backlash developing on that front.

I hope this laying out the case against Palin based on her record and inviting people to speak out.

Friends, compatriots, fellow-thinking Americans,

I have tried for months to be a siren because of the fury and dread I  felt. Since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party I have continued to be out spoken as a conservative Alaskan. I believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce-on the part of a pandering and rudderless Republican Party-that has a real possibility of placing the 'loser' Palin as the face or a leader of the party.

Perhaps, as Americans, you share the fear of what Sarah all those like her and through proven record of abuse and misconduct and out of control behavior could lead to for ourselves and for our present or future Americans. To say nothing of her complete lack of real preparation to become the second-most-powerful person on the planet.

I want to clarify that I'm not against Sarah Palin as a woman, a mother, or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but solely as a rash, incompetent, and all together devastating choice for any political office. Sarah's political views are in every way a slap in the face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we've so demonstrably benefited from.

First and foremost, Mrs. Palin does not represent me as a Conservative Republican. She does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women. It is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win over women voters. I want to disagree, publicly.

Therefore, I invite you to reply here

Sherry Whitstine

Sherry Whitstine of "Syrin's Blog" is a conservative blogger from Wasilla, Alaska who has criticized Governor Sarah Palin on her blog. The Chicago Tribune quoted Whitstine as saying that John McCain's decision to chose Palin for his vice-presidential running mate was "probably the worst mistake of his entire life."ChicagoTribune.com: Pick Heats Up An Alaskan Town
(September 1, 2008)

On September 14, 2008, The New York Times reported that before Palin was selected, Whitstine received a call from her assistant demanding that she stop blogging.The New York Times: Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and...
(September 14, 2008)

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