Posted on 03/05/2009 7:42:22 PM PST by ASOC
(snip)...Christen's application included her membership in several charitable groups, including some from her past, but did not mention that she was on the board of Planned Parenthood in the mid-1990s. The organization, which didn't provide abortions in Alaska until 2003, is now on the opposite side of a Palin-supported bill to require girls under 17 to get parental consent for an abortion. (snip)
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A lot of things are strange in Alaska - the weather, Nothern Lights, politics....
I'm sure this is the best they can get for the little they pay. If the 'paper' is around a year from now I'll be surprised.
I’d settle for the least amount of Governement possible. The whole Ronny Ray-gun thing. He was right on so many things at so many levels.
She should have appointed no one until suitable pro-life candidates were put forth as options.
If two evils are presented as choices, choose neither.
Thanks for making that clear. Need more of you in the media.:)
Please everyone take the time and read these threads before jumping to conclusions:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2199866/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199650/posts
Also:
http://www.lifenews.com/state3460.html
Quote:”Governor Palin appointed Daniel Winfree of Fairbanks to replace one of the judges who sided with the majority in overturning the consent statute.
That earned her praise from Alaska Right to Life, the state’s leading pro-life group.”
It is clear that when possible, Gov. Palin picks pro-Life judges. Her first appointment makes the reintroduction of parental consenting possible.
Sorry, this is bad history. Murkowski was subsequently forced to eat humble pie and pick from the original list after all. The only alternative would have been to force a ballot to change the Alaskan constitution. There was no public cry for such a chnage then and there is none now. Besides, strictly speaking, neither ‘pro-life’ nor ‘pro-abortion’ should not be a litmus test. Rather, the question is, will the candidate interpret Alaska’s constitution according to original intent, or are they likely to ‘actively legislate from the bench’. Governor Palin, by all accounts requested detailed information on both candidates and made the optimal decision in the circumstances.
Yeah Murkowski did choose someone else but I think she was trying to limit the authority of the governor. She really does believe in smaller government.
Basically, Palin was following the rules, where Murkowski just did what he wanted, when he wanted.
Hmmm... could it be she’s a closet pro-abortionist? Hmmm? Theeeeenk about it, man. And if she’s that, she might be a closet pinko toooo. It all makes sense, man.
This is nothing but a well designed execution of part of Alinsky’s plan to use your opponents creed against them.
Be ready for more of the same to breed discontent and divide Palin’s support.
She is walking in a perpetual, electoral minefield simply by exercising effective government for the state of Alaska.
Take these words to heart . . .
———— dare to cheat, dare to win ————
. . . this is the one constant you can count on from the marxist opposition.
thaDeetz
There was a third choice - Palin could have stood up and let it go to court. But no, she chose to not use her position to stand up for what was right. Instead, she caved and allowed the Alaska supreme court to be swayed further left.
The previous governor started to fight the process that allows the trial lawyers to basically control who gets on the court... but then also caved when he was beat up in the media.
I guess Palin has lost her taste for a fight.
So long, Sarah....
That assumes the original premise is true, that Palin knew and Christen was pro-choice, both of those are in question as the ‘planned parenthood’ group was not on the application, the group was not part of planned parenthood at the time Christen was on the board, nor did they even promote abortions until almost a decade after Christen left. A lot of information is still coming out on various threads on this.. it seems this is a poor smear job at best.. we don’t even know at this point that Christen is really pro-choice..
LOL
And you saw how far that got him....
Ya, guess you have to work the best you can with the cards that get deldt.
Just too many libs in Alaska nowadays
The judge was NEVER a member of Planned parenthood.
Thanks. I think that’s come out now. This story was broken horribly.
The judge was NEVER a member of Planned parenthood.
You really want your politicians to commit an impeachable offense by disobeying their Constitutional Obligations. Do you want Obama to ignore our Constitution?
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