{"id":4821,"date":"2008-09-19T00:41:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/19\/sarah-palin-bircher\/"},"modified":"2008-09-19T00:41:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T08:01:08","slug":"sarah-palin-bircher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4821","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin, Bircher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’ll bite<\/a>: why did Wasilla Councilwoman Sarah Palin have a copy of the John Birch Society’s<\/a> newsletter back in 1995?<\/p>\n

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And why was she cheerfully marking it up in her official photo?<\/p>\n

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And don’t tell me it’s just a random confluence of events. If the GOP had a picture of Barack Obama within 500 feet of a copy of The Final Call<\/em><\/a>, Larry Johnson would be screaming from the rooftops. So why is Palin so happy to not only not hide the crazy right-wing claptrap, but actually highlight it in her picture?<\/p>\n

The JBS is, let us not forget, too conservative for the conservative movement, with a long history of racist and antidemocratic action, all undertaken in the name of liberty. They believe that there’s a shadow government working to undermine the U.S. in favor of a one-world state, headed out of the UN. That the United Nations does not presently have full control of their own building doesn’t faze them; the NAFTA superhighway is going to destroy us all!<\/p>\n

Needless to say, that Palin didn’t react to Bircher propaganda with revulsion puts her to the right not just of all Democrats and independents, but the vast majority of Republicans. She’s entirely the wrong person to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, or indeed, within the same universe as the president. Heckuva job, Maverick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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