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But she's just stressing on the normal-or-perfect thing here and making some point about old people. It's utterly ridiculous. #sarahpalin
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what saddens me the most is that so many people are too stupid to connect the dots in this simple way: elderly=medicare=government healthcare. #sarahpalin
11/07/09
And I'm so frustrated because it's almost impossible to convince anyone who thinks being Pro-Choice is anything like what she's saying that it's not. It's the polar opposite.
I absolutely do believe women are capable of doing those things, as long as there's a system in place that helps make that possible. But I also believe no woman should be forced to carry to term. Because I wouldn't want anyone to be forced to abort. Is that so hard to understand? That choice is about ALL of this? It's about being able to have an "imperfect" child without having to suffer for it? About not being forced to, but being able to choose to?
And to be frank, life at any cost is not, in my opinion, always the most compassionate view. There are birth defects, deformities, and congenital conditions that it is in every way a compassionate decision to terminate.
People can choose not to, but I'm tired of the idea that Pro-Choice is some kind of callous position.
Further, I want our elderly folks to be cared for. I'm sickened by the way we abandon them and are so afraid of that stage of life that we just shuffle off the responsibility. Being Pro-Choice hasn't hampered my ability to understand all the ethical nuances in both situations. And I'm disgusted that this woman would make such a suggestion.
It's just so wrong to to say these things. So wrong and awful and destructive. #sarahpalin
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I just can't fathom equating one with the other. Being Pro-Choice doesn't make you inhuman or unethical or not compassionate. I'd actually argue that, because being Pro-Choice requires taking a much more difficult political position...and because advocating for choices will always be advocating for something technically more difficult than having things required/dictated of you...then you're more likely to be compassionate and ethical and understanding of nuance. Because you have to be. That's pretty much the nature of choice, in any circumstance. #sarahpalin
11/07/09
Sarah Palin is despicable. #sarahpalin
11/07/09
[Society should be] sending a message right now [, that it should have] for probably the last 40 years, that a woman [is] strong enough [and] smart enough to be able to pursue an education, a career and [make decisions about her own body without the intrusion of the government by religiously motivated conservatives blowhards like myself and my followers].
Whew - that was a lot of work.
11/07/09
P.S. I'm pretty sure that if she did have a mind, her "mind-set" would consist of aerial wolf-hunting, sports journalism, and the distrust of logic. Words cannot express my growing dislike for this human being; her and her redneck family single-handedly display everything that is wrong with our culture today. I truly hope something horrible and shocking comes out about her because I am so sick and tired of people listening to this vacuous bitch. #sarahpalin
11/07/09
Palin: "Mind set"? Is that like a sweater set? Pshht. How quickly you forgot about my wardrobe budget during the campaign! #sarahpalin
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If health care is so damned expensive, then what about wingnut welfare and corporation personhood? Those things damage the common good, and yet there's no huge outraged movement devoted to disputing them. #sarahpalin
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"And that's why I'm happy to announce that I've acquired a time-machine-phonebooth from a fellow named Rufus that's going to help me fix everything! By taking us all back to 1955!" #sarahpalin
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