I do not like Sarah Palin very much.

It's been circulating around the blogosphere lately that when Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, she allowed her police departments to charge rape victims anywhere from $300 to $1,200 for their own forensic exams. No other victims of violent crime that I know of have ever been charged money for their exams - just rape victims. In case you were wondering, Alaska government doesn't give a flying piece of crap about women (this stopped in 2000. Yes, you can make the turn of the millenium and still not figure out rape is a crime.). Bitch PhD points out how this demonstrates the callousness of the libertarian position: yes, it does put more burden on the taxpayer, and yes, we are morally fucking obliged to do it anyways.

Now, purely in the interests of playing devil's advocate and nuanced debate (do not mistake this for a compliment to Palin!), I will point out that Palin was not directly responsible for this policy. She was merely mayor of a city at the same time the state government had this atrocity going on. We can't know if Palin was really 100% ignorant of the whole thing, since after the lies-ridden RNC speech we can't really trust a word that comes out of her mouth.

However, she probably could have stopped this policy. You know why she wouldn't have, if she did know/were responsible for the perpetration of this anti-woman policy?

Because Sarah Palin is not a feminist. Feminists like women's rights. Basic math, people.

I would argue, personally, after that mendacious-ass RNC speech, shat Sarah Palin is not an anything but a political chameleon with no colors of her own to show except nauseating scaly grey. She's so cartoonishly anti-woman it hurts. Margaret Thatcher syndrome, anyone?

P.S. ~ It's a tad ironic that Palin's opposite number (Biden) was the main man behind the federal legislation that made debacles like this impossible in the future.
P.S.S. ~ Holy shit on brussel sprouts these people are obscenely rich