faux fixed: the internal 3 speed fixie conversion of the political realm

"Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough," ~ Peggy Noonan

this statement was made shortly after Noonan was caught on a live mic foul-mouthing the conservative campaign.

my question is, is Sarah Palin really a feminist?: a "gun toting, bible thumping, failed beauty queen with a knocked up baby, momma," sure, but insofaras actually pushing for women's rights, is an emphatic, no.

McCain's answer to the minority issue and a back handed attempt at picking up Clinton votes is weak at best. Palin isn't a proponent of pro-choice. she's been well documented, debated & derided for her pro-life (albeit in instances of rape) stance.

the conservative duo, although "mavericks," who are widely considered as "not playing by the rules," their right-wing beliefs are predictable; almost to the point at having become clichéd. of course all of this is merely an echo for what many people already know and have come to consider as par for the republican agenda.

what scares the shit out of me is the likelihood of McCain getting elected as president and that that broken-down, pale, lifeless body of his giving out to a woman who acts as if she personally knows what "god" wants. Palin was quoted in reference to the soldiers in Iraq at the Assembly of God Church in Wasilla, as having said, "Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure we're praying for. That there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan. So, bless them with your prayers."

if we have political leaders speaking religiously on foreign policy, suicide bombings and war called upon from a middle eastern jihad is only fortified moreso. this puts americans dangerously in the path of a war that could easily make vietnam look like a casual game of risk, possibly even charging other countries to take a stand against "our beliefs," resulting in wwiii?