An Alaskan Revolt

It seems that Alaska does not see many protests or picket lines. But on Saturday it was different in Anchorage.

A Don't-Elect-Sarah-Palin demonstration drew at least 1,483 protesters, most of them women. (Somebody with a clicker counted heads. Oh, and 93 McCain/Palin supporters showed up.) Dedicated Palinites tried to stop the rally beforehand by resorting to silly dirty tricks, such as spreading a false rumor that the Secret Service had forestalled the event. A local hate-radio propagandist, Eddie Burke, said that people planning to attend the rally were "a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots." Well, the "maggots" outdid the turkey, who showed up but was surrounded and drowned out by chants of "ObamA, ObamA!"

Obviously a lot of Alaskans agree that this narrowly-experienced, untraveled, global-warming denying, rigidly fundamentalist, repeatedly mendacious candidate would as vice-president and very possibly president be an absolute disaster for the nation and the world.

I watched a video of the rally. There were some very catchy signs, like these:

PALIN = BUSH IN A SKIRT

MCCAIN/PALIN - A BLIZZARD OF LIES

HOCKEY MOM FOR OBAMA

PITBULLS MAKE POOR DIPLOMATS

BLINK BEFORE GOING TO WAR