The trick was that Bush wasn’t really from Texas – he was from Connecticut, and was more of a citizen of the state than any place in particular, given the way that he rode his father’s coattails all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sarah Palin is another story – a genuine village idiot. Everyone knows the village Sarah Palin is from, and that makes the equivalent slogan for Sarah Palin more specific:

Wasilla needs its village idiot. Send Sarah Palin home. The bumper sticker mixes a bit of compassion with a healthy dose of self-defense.

The practice of banning books, as Sarah Palin tried to do, is founded upon the idea that books are dangerous things that pollute the minds of the people who read them. Sarah Palin believes that it’s a good idea for the government to control the books that people read, because Sarah Palin believes that the government knows better than the American people what ideas are good for them.

Not just any government, of course. Sarah Palin hates the idea of the constitutional democracy established back in the 1700s at the birth of the USA with the Bill of Rights. Palin can’t stand the idea of the separation of church and state, or the right to a free press.

No, the kind of government that Sarah Palin seeks to lead is a theocratic government, in which fundamentalist Christian religion uses the federal government of the United States to force its beliefs on everyone else. She wants her religious beliefs taught in public school science classes. She wants libraries to ban the reading of books that don’t support her extremist right wing version of Christianity. Like the ayatollahs of Iran, Sarah Palin wants to ban books.

Unfortunately, a large segment of the population of the United States agrees with Sarah Palin. They love the idea of censoring books and other forms of free speech. They believe that it’s the government’s job to protect people from dissent.

Sound the warning that Sarah Palin, who would likely inherit the presidency from an elderly President John McCain, is an authoritarian who has no respect for the foundations of American liberty. Put this bumper sticker on your car to warn against the book burners for Palin.

While she was mayor of the village of Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin instituted a new law that outlawed the use of skateboards, in-line skates, scooters, and even bicycles in certain areas. Palin also declared that fines would be imposed against offending skaters and bicyclists, and their skates and bikes would be confiscated. (Source: Frontiersman, September 18, 1998)

In these days when big cars and trucks are burning up the planet with their gas guzzling engines, we ought to be encouraging people to find alternative forms of transportation – not punishing them. Sarah Palin and John McCain don’t understand that.

That’s why
Skaters are against McCain-Palin 2008.