Sarah Palin Struggles To Shed Hillbilly Image: Picks Wacky A.G.

As a relatively liberal person, it’s kind of nice to watch an entire faction of the US Republican Party, mired in quicksand, flailing about, like beached whales, just like Democrats of old. After loosing the last election, by a fairly large margin, you would think that the Republican Party would somehow re-focus, get on the same page, and work on the upcoming mid term elections. I am sure the Party brass want just that, but Sarah Palin continues to stand in their way. As her personal life gets even more wacky, it only reinforces the entire theory that she was John McCain’s ultimate undoing. She was the beginning of the end for him. I am not sure if he made the decision out of pure haste, or because of some estranged librarian fetish, or if his decision was simply hijacked by his handlers. I suspect the latter. Her selection as VP candidate was like a fork in the road for the McCain campaign, where he left the “straight talk express” lane, and headed right on to the “crazy, hillbilly” highway.

Palin has recently endured the teen father of her first grandchild telling family secrets to Tyra Banks and the arrest and indictment of her sister-in-law on break-and-enter charges. Now she’s confronted with a political storm: Wayne Anthony Ross, her choice for attorney general, has an alleged fondness for rape jokes and doesn’t like homosexuals.

Ross, who once described gay people as “immoral degenerates,” was quizzed this week about how he would view cases involving homosexuality as the state’s top legislator.

“Let me give you an analogy — I hate lima beans,” Ross told a legislative hearing into his nomination.

“I’ve never liked lima beans. But if I was hired to represent the United Vegetable Growers, would you ask me if I liked lima beans? No. If I disliked lima beans? No. Because my job is to represent the United Vegetable Growers.”

A letter from Leah Burton, a lobbyist on children’s issues and domestic violence, has caused an uproar, hogging headlines and infuriating some of Alaska’s most outspoken bloggers, who play a critical role in reporting politics in the remote and far-flung state.

Burton alleges that in 1991, she heard Ross say at public meeting that domestic violence “wouldn’t be an issue if women would learn to keep their mouth shut.” At the hearing, Ross denied making that statement, and also denied making the suggestion in the same conversation that it was acceptable for a man to rape his wife.  “That’s a bunch of crap,” Ross told the hearing.

On Tuesday, there was more bad news as the Huffington Post obtained a 1991 column written by Ross in defence of a statue of a KKK figure as an expression of free speech on a college campus.

Read the rest of the story @ The Calgary Sun – Palin’s A-G pick slams gays, backs KKK.

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