Sarah Palin: Small Town, Small Mind

If you are a regular reader of mine, you are probably expecting this article to be funny. But I am going to change things up this time because what I am going to talk about just doesn't make me feel like being funny. I hope you can hear the anger in my voice when I say that I have had enough of this Sarah Palin person!

Mrs. Palin talks constantly about small town this and small town that. She is a small town girl and she wants to bring small town values to America. The implication is that small town values are better than big town values. Small town folks are good and honest and know what's best and big town people are bad and dishonest and want to pervert everyone they come in contact with.

Listen up Sarah! If the values you want to bring to America are anything like the kind you have displayed the past couple of months, take them back to Wasilla where small-minded folks like you will eat them up.

Let's see. Which of these small town values are you poised to bring to America?

Should we start with you telling your small town folks that Barack Obama pals around with terrorists? Is that a small town value? Is feeding on the stupidity of your small town followers and playing on their fears the kind of small town values you plan to bring to America? Does being acquainted with a man who admits to a crime he committed 40 years ago constitute "paling around." Do you actually believe that Barack Obama would be a threat to the security of America?

How about your desire to see Roe v. Wade overturned? Despite the fact that a majority of Americans favor a woman's right to choose, your small town values say that a woman should be forced to carry a baby to term even if she has been raped or if the girl's Daddy happens to be the daddy. Nice values.

And then there is sex education. We all know that you oppose sex education being taught in schools. Fine, you are an idiot. But when Barack Obama favors teaching first-graders how to avoid molestation, you tell your small-minded, small town folks that he is some kind of pervert who wants to teach little kids all about sex. Is that another of your fine small town values, Sarah?

Despite the findings of years and years of scientific study, you actually believe that dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. Again, that's fine, you are an idiot. But you want that belief--based on your religious faith and not on fact--and other equally inane beliefs that you hold, to be taught in schools. I'm guessing teaching your religious beliefs in public schools to other people's children is another one of your fine small town values.

You are a member of the National Rifle Association and received the NRA's "highest possible rating." Since the NRA opposes the federal ban against assault weapons, we can only assume that someone with such a high rating holds the same values--some of those fine small town values.

You actually believe that homosexuals can be "cured" of their sexual orientation. The implication is obvious: homosexuality is wrong and there is something wrong with these people. That's another one of those nice small town values of yours. Make those who are different from you feel like outcasts.

Well Sarah, I am not small town. I am, like most Americans, big town--maybe not from a big town, but with big town values. Values like these...

We are the crazy ones who think that stretching the truth to an extreme in order to discredit an individual and rile up small-minded idiots is not a good value. It is wrong.

We think that a woman has a right to make the difficult decision whether or not to serve as a human incubator to a fetus that she not only did not want, but may have had forced upon her.

We think that ALL religious beliefs should be kept in places of worship and out of public schools.

We think that science should be taught to children because it is based on fact, not fantasy.

We think that children educated about all things involving sex may be able to avoid unwanted pregnancy and molestation.

We think that a gun-crazy society requires laws that will help keep weapons out of the hands of dangerous individuals; laws that will help assure the safety of children; laws that ban the use of certain types of weapons and ammunition.

We think that people, no matter their sexual orientation, should not be spurned and made to feel there is something wrong with them, but rather welcomed into society.

But most of all, we think. And that's something foreign to small-minded folks like you.