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Hilary once appeared to be the perfect candidate for feminist voters 枛 intelligent, determined, and dedicated in her pursuit of valiant social causes like children’s welfare and women’s equality. Hilary was also the first first lady in American history to have a postgraduate degree and a full-time career.

“There is an assumption that because she’s a woman, because of the excitement about the potential of a woman running for president, because of her first lady status, that women will automatically adhere to her in a strong way,” said Kate Michelman, former head of NARAL Pro-Choice America, who is currently working to overturn the South Dakota abortion ban. “I don’t think that’s true. Hillary, along with every other candidate who aspires to this nomination, has to earn the women’s vote.”

She didn’t manage it. Twice! Ouch. Obama picked Biden. So what about the new girl Perhaps it would be sexist to view Palin as a Hilary replacement, but we can’t help but wonder if the force that would invigorate the McCain vote was chosen for just that reason.

Hilary once said of her ambitious nature, “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life. I’m a big believer in women making the choices that are right for them. The work that I have done as a professional, as a public advocate, has been aimed at trying to assure that women can make the choices they should make.”

No one can accuse Palin of spending too much time baking. Her power-hungry appetite would be better satiated by abusing her position and firing anyone who gets in her way. Anne Kilkenny, Wasilla resident, tells it like it is.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin抯 attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

This is hardly a one-off case. Sarah seems to have a history of ruthlessness, whilst playing on her gender for sympathy. Too bad she tried to replace her victim with someone even worse.

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla抯 Police Chief because he 搃ntimidatedher, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska抯 top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it抯 pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn抰 fire her sister抯 ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.

Her staunch pro-life stance, even in the case of rape, would suggest that she doesn’t seem to be interested in assuring women can make their own choices

She’s chosen to be a working mother but she would deny other women the right to make their own decisions, and has even used her own underage, pregnant daughter as a political pawn for her own views. She even lied about it. She wants to abstinence-only sex education taught in schools. Because that worked out so well for her own family.

She knows how to spend! (… other peoples’ money.) She served two terms as mayor of Wasilla (1996-2002) and left the city with a debt of over $22 million, having increased general government expenditure by over 33%. I’ve heard she has the decorating skills and moral fibre reminiscent of a young Martha Stewart…

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.

Easy on the gold leaf, Sarah. Damn, that’s expensive wallpaper!

So far, she doesn’t seem like much of a feminist. But look at it another way. Hunting hardly seems the kind of activity befitting a dull stay-at-home Stepford wife. She used the tools handed her to get what she wanted out of life 枛 an education. Sometimes a girl gotta hustle.

Palin hunts, fishes, and was voted Miss Congeniality after winning a beauty pageant, which paved the way for a scholarship to pay her college fees in her small town in Alaska.

For some reason, she spent 5 years in 4 schools getting her degree. Perhaps it took her that many schools to find people she could threaten. Or put her beauty-pageant skills to work on.

And lastly, HERE’s a video of Sarah and Hilary (sort of) standing side by side on Saturday Night Live, calling for an end to political sexism. Kinda.