Palin: Pro-Rapist.
McCain: Pro-Pedophile.

Really sick ticket they've got there.

Why does Palin think we might need to have a war with Russia? Is she insane?

Can we all stop panicking because McCain got a convention boost now?

Please? It's really starting to be embarrassing. IM starting to doubt whether Democrats can be trusted. Seriously. Most of you are so panicky and unreliable that I'd almost rather have a nutjob psychopath in charge of things.

And--- In before some anonymous fucktard finds a way to spin this as good for women!

You missed the rest of the story!!!!

In 1994, John McCain voted against legislation -- pushed through Congress by Joe Biden -- that helped put an end to the practice of charging rape victims for sexual assault exams.

Twisted as it may sound, charging victims for a forensic exam was a real problem. For example, as AMERICAblog has documented (and the media is now reporting), when Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the town charged rape victims for the exams.

Biden's legislation required that state, local, and Indian governments provide the rape exams to victims free of charge as a condition of receiving federal funds under the Violence Against Women Act. In 2000, Alaska finally passed state legislation in order to qualify for federal funding.

McCain not only opposed Biden's legislation, but also has voted against funding it as recently as October 2007.

Palin is clearly a woman who hates other women. She believes that when a woman gets raped it is her own fault, and she should be punished for it.

An outrageous thing to say? Maybe, but what other conclusion are we supposed to draw? She makes women pay for their own rape kits. If the rapist impregnates the woman, she wants to force her to carry it to term. If it walks like a duck and so on.

My god the GOP is chock full of sociopaths.

Not only that, the town was in the process of borrowing millions of dollars to build a sports complex that wasn't particularly wanted. Yet no money to track down rapists...

What is the matter with her? Don't people in this country realize what kind of "leader" she really is?

Anyone who was a Hillary Hugger who doesn't throw their support - and generously - to Obama ought to be ashamed of themself.

I am so glad to see all you people saying these things. Maybe there is hope..

How many rape kits could they have bought with the $1.2 million that Palin's hockey rink screw-up cost the city? Just wondering.

The rape kits issue show misplaced priorities of Palin.

But the McCain sex ed ad is downright sleazy and dishonest. Young children are so vulnerable to sex predators, they need guidance to report suspicious behavior to their parents. These predators are more prevalent than people realize, and can sometimes be a family relative or a friend.

Shame on McCain for trying to score political points over something as important as "protecting young children."

Obama is lying about his sex ed position. If you listen to his talk in front of planned Parenthood, he did not limit the teaching of kindergartners to 'inappropriate touching'.

He stated clearly that he believed they should be taught biologically accurate information on sex.

He said if a Kindergartner asked the teacher if storks bring babies, the teacher should be able to biologically accurately explain to the five year old where babies actually come from.
Obama said QUOTE:

"If they ask a teacher 'where do babies come from,' that providing information that the fact is that it's not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing."

Now what exactly does providing factual information on how babies are created anything like teaching about inappropriate touching???

The mans a liar, straight up and his quote proves it.

DO YOU HAVE ANY QUOTE OF GOVERNOR PALIN SUPPORTING CHARGING FOR RAPE KITS??

I thought not.

The story is good, but my only question is why it wasn't in the 2006 vetting document from her run for governor. http://mudflats.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/palin-2006-vetting.pdf

After getting slightly singed by the Alaskan Independence Party thing, I'm waiting for corroboration from someone from her city - the police chief for example. Or for it to show up on the cover of US Weekly.

I don't know why John McCain and the Republican Party are opposed to helping our most vulnerable young children recognize pedophiles and child molesters and seek help when needed, but certainly it raises important questions about who should be entrusted with the power of the Presidency.

I wouldn't say that Obama was lying. However, he does, at times, seem confused with hi own positions.

DO YOU HAVE ANY QUOTE OF GOVERNOR PALIN SUPPORTING CHARGING FOR RAPE KITS?

Her administration charged for rape kits, Anonymous. She's responsible for it.

But don't worry. You can ignore it like you've ignored her "Bridge to Nowhere" lie, right?

Anonymous, the town of which she was the mayor was the only one in Alaska charging for the rape kit. It doesn't matter how enthusiastic she was about the policy; that she didn't do everything in her power to reverse it is more than damning enough.

Maybe she has a good explanation for why the policy existed, if work-arounds existed, etc. Or maybe she can point to some effort she made to have the policy changed. But these are definitely questions she should be asked.

How many rape kits could they have bought with the $1.2 million that Palin's hockey rink screw-up cost the city? Just wondering.

Posted by: Tom Hilton | September 11, 2008 7:29 PM

Given that these rape kits cost $300-$1,200, the answer is 1,000-4,000.

It's not about the money. It's about discouraging women from reporting rape and pressing charges against good ol' boys in the local community.

It's sort of amazing this would even come up in a town of less than 10,000 people.

There was only one town in the state doing this: Wasilla, where Sarah Palin was mayor.

Um, no.
It seems another town, Bartlett, sometimes charged rape victims (if they didn't file a complaint and give evidence); see
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/051700/Loc_rapebill.html.

Not that this exculpates Palin.

the key to whether or not this will stick to her is WHEN was the policy put in place. If it was existing policy when she became mayor, she can claim ignorance, and that it just never came up on the agenda. However, if it BECAME policy on her watch - then we can hang it around her neck, and I'll be shocked if she gets 5% of the women vote.

If it was existing policy when she became mayor, she can claim ignorance, and that it just never came up on the agenda.

I don't think it would be much of a winning argument for her to claim ignorance on the law and policy in the town where she was the mayor, especially when that town had less than 6000 people.

Wasilla had a DEMOCRAT Mayor for three terms prior to Palin. Did they charge insurance companies for the exams.
Democrat Tony KNowles was Governor for years prior to this being enacted. So Democrats Tony Knowles charged rape victims for rape kits for years.

You really have to love how the entire Democrat machine is imploding.

- A women wants to charge rape victims. Let's see Obama argue that against Palin..that should be fun.

Just like Biden saying he cares more about her son then she does.

Or telling us shes popular because she never had a abortion

Or Matt Damon believing Internet smears and broadcasting his stupidity on National TV

What's next, is Biden going to claim that Obamas one big decision of picking a VP, Obama screwed up and picked the wrong one? Ohh yeah, he already said that.

Stand Up for Chuck Graham!!
Ohh God love ya Chuck...your in a wheelchair.....

"""Her administration charged for rape kits, Anonymous. She's responsible for it."""

Just prove it. Find one person that was charged. Oops that's right, you can't.

Just like you couldn't find any quote where she specifically supported earmarking money.

Because your hatred gets ahead of your facts.

Josh Masrhall already pulled an Andrew Sullivan smear and claimed she wanted to go to war with Rusia over Armenia. She never said no such thing, but hey, women aren't supposed to actually be in positions of power, they're too dangerous with all those hormones and such.

There allowed to run and lose graciously like Hillary.

Sit down and shut up bitches.
The men are in charge.

Pitiful.

Obama apparently doesn't mind battering rape victims.

Here s afew FACTS for you.

Obama has praised Al Sharpton and Sharptons National Action Network.

ACTUAL FACTUAL OBAMA QUOTE:
Senator Barack Obama (“Reverend Sharpton is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed. What National Action Network has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up.”

In the spring of 1989, the Central Park “wilding” occurred. That was the monstrous rape and beating of a young white woman, known to most of the world as “the jogger.” The hatred heaped on her by Sharpton and his N.A.N. is almost impossible to fathom, and wrenching to review. ...Outside the courthouse, they [Sharpton and his N.A.N.] chanted, “The boyfriend did it! The boyfriend did it!” They denounced the victim as “Whore!” They screamed her name, over and over (because most publications refused to print it, though several black-owned ones did). Sharpton brought Tawana Brawley to the trial one day, to show her, he said, the difference between white justice and black justice. He arranged for her to meet the jogger’s attackers, whom she greeted with comradely warmth. In another of his publicity stunts, he appealed for a psychiatrist to examine the victim. “It doesn’t even have to be a black psychiatrist,” he said, generously. He added: “We’re not endorsing the damage to the girl — if there was this damage.” ...

These are the people Obama PRAISES publicly.

So you think rape is bad? Then don't vote for OBama who praises those that attack rape victims.

THERE...ACTUAL FACTS, ACTUAL QUOTES. Obama supporting those that attack rape victims and further damage them.

That's Obamas real record.

OBAMA FAILS TO PROCESS 1500 RAPE KITS!

Obama as an Illinois State Senator failed to process 1500 rape kits.

It was widely reported in 2003 that thousands of rape kits in Chicago were not being processed at all.

December 11, 2003 -- A group of women in Chicago has banded together to address a mounting backlog of untested rape kits at the Illinois State Police Crime Lab. The Women's DNA Initiative announced their plans on Sunday in the Chicago Tribune to raise as much as $1 million to have the rape evidence tested at private firms. Obama in Chicago had three-year backlog of some 1,500 rape kits, the Tribune reports.

Well of course Obama didnt charge for rape kits because he didn't even bother processing them to bring justice for the victims.

Community Oreganizers had to get together for justice in Obamas chicago: (Tribune)
Rape victims groups, state legislators and an organization raising money to analyze untested evidence collected in rape cases are demanding Gov. Blagojevich change state figures he used to tout a dramatic decrease in the state's backlog of untested DNA evidence.

The backlash occurred after Blagojevich announced Sunday that the number of DNA evidence kits left to be tested by the Illinois State Police amounted to 158 cases, a drop from the backlog of 1,113 cases state police acknowledged in January 2004.

The Tribune reported earlier this week that the state's figures do not include 1,269 kits that remain unanalyzed in Chicago police evidence vaults. The kits hold traces of DNA left by attackers that can lead to a suspect when compared with national DNA databases.

State police officials said they do not count Chicago's numbers
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Apprently Ezra and the rest of the left didn't bother checking on what Obama had done in Chicago when they decided this was a good way to smear Palin.

So Palins town MAY HAVE charge rape victims insurance companies for their exams, which ammounted to about 14 cases.
Meanwhile Obama left 1500 rape victims without justice.
Having the Governor have to step in because Chicago was so poorly managed.

Wow. Obama makes 1500 women have to band together a raise a million dollars to get their rape kits processed, while Palin charges at most 14 insurance companies to process all the kits in her town.

So who is the real incompetent here when it comes to supporting rape victims.

Should come as no surprise that a woman who would seek to deny other women (and men, by golly) the right to determine whether or not to have a freaking baby would be all about pay as go rape kits. Just pick yourself up there, little lady, and whip out your debit card.

Here's what I want to know. How can we as a people arrange for a class-action lawsuit against John McCain for reckless endangerment? A good old tarring and feathering in the public square might be the easier way to go.

Sign for Palin rallies:

ASK ME ABOUT SARAH'S RAPE-VICTIM TAX.

This must sting our local republican toadies - judging from the volume of incoherent posts. Palin was mayor and the state had to pass a law - opposed by her police chief - banning the charges. And yet somehow there is "no proof" that she was supporting that policy.

The city of Chicago not doing it's job doesn't translate into the personal responsibility of a state representative.

Again Ezra - you choose to allow your comment section to be nothing but cut and paste garbage from people too cowardly to attach their names to their words. If you want any actual discussion anon needs his IP address banned.

Wasilla had a DEMOCRAT Mayor for three terms prior to Palin.

No, it did not. Heck, it didn't even have a Democratic mayor. Before Palin, being mayor of Wassila was a nonpartisan position.

In the spring of 1989, the Central Park “wilding” occurred. That was the monstrous rape and beating of a young white woman, known to most of the world as “the jogger.”

Man, you are certainly pig-ignorant. You don't seem to understand that DNA testing (and a confession by the real attacker) exonerated the five kids convicted of this rape, after they each spent about a decade in jail. The "wilding" never happened.

Truth means nothing to you people, does it?

Learn this phrase, and deploy it often:

Sarah Palin is objectively pro-rapist.

Sarah Palin is objectively pro-rapist.

The charging for rapist kits looks bad. Certainly, some political hay can be made of it. I think that would be a great strategy, using that phrase all over the place, to have the whole thing backfire and become a problem for the Democrats. But, hey, what do I know?

You just go ahead with that strategy.

I am so glad to see all you people saying these things. Maybe there is hope.

Well, there is certainly hope for Obama, but it's not because of what folks are posting in the comment sections of blogs. Look first at history--no incumbent party has won the presidency again, with approval ratings as low as they are for the incumbent party. Several polls show higher self-identification of voters as Democrats for 2008 than in 2004. Obama is running a very solid campaign. On and on.

I think it'll be close--anyone expecting a landslide for either side is going to be disappointed. But, where comparisons can be made, history is on Obama's side.

I think it's hasty to say that Palin is pro-rapist.

Let's just say she likes to err on the side of the possible rapist over the possible victim.

It's sort of amazing this would even come up in a town of less than 10,000 people.

Not really. Rape is one of the most common crimes there is, and Alaska has the highest rate of it in the country, 2 and 1/2 times the national average.

This whole thing is nutty, using nice words here.

I read through blogs and news articles since this surfaced and as a recent victim of violent rape here is what I had to say:

http://rape-and-sexual-assault.blogspot.com/2008/09/rape-victims-view-of-palin-and-rape-kit.html

Victoria Placeo

It seems a little ridiculous that it costs that much money for a rape kit.

Sarah Palin's book was released yesterday. November 17, 2009. I hear it was a New York Times best seller before it even hit the book stores. Amazing! I will read it to see if she talks about this very important issue!