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If people could stop obsessing about how many Palin articles there are on Salon, it seems to me the real reason is that none of us knew a damned thing about her until McCain selected her as his VP. Those who claimed to know she existed are more than likely lying. So whereas we know a lot about the others, she's a fountain of weird stories. What other candidate has witch hunters in their recent past? Or ran the only town in Alaska to charge women for their rape kits? Or fired a guy for... recent excuse... trying to cut domestic abuse & assault in his state?
Palin isn't an attractive woman in my view, neither physically nor personally nor politically. She's an insult to feminists, and to women in general. She's not a great candidate, & the fact the VP debates had to be tailored to her 'inexperience' speaks quite enough for me. However, she is new - and that means, where we've heard about rape kits & witch hunters ... oh, ya... and human footprints in dinosaur fossils... there are undoubtedly 500 MORE weird Palin-related stories out there.
I cannot fault any journalist for digging a little deeper into THIS pile of weirdness.
