Why Animals Fear Sarah Palin
 Monday, September 22nd, 2008  by Connie T.

Alright. I said I would get to how I feel about Sarah Palin the hunter, so here goes.

In May of 2008, as Governor of Alaska, Palin initiated a lawsuit against the George W. Bush administration for its decision to list polar bears as an endangered species. Summer sea ice shrank to a record low last year, and because climate models predict continued loss of sea ice - combined with the fact that overhunting was a concern - the federal government took measures to ensure the protection of polar bears.

Palin argued that an endangered listing would hurt oil and gas development in the polar bears' Alaskan habitats.

It certainly wasn't the first time that Palin chose sucking up our natural resources over the wellbeing of our wildlife (as if either is commendable). She actively campaigned against a state ballot measure to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay, in hopes of greenlighting a gold and copper mine that would pollute the Bay's waters and threaten the largest remaining spawning ground for wild salmon. The initiative would have stopped mining operations from dumping waste into the water.

As Governor, Sarah Palin was an active promoter of killing wolves, black bears, and even their cubs by aerial hunting, where planes fly low to the ground and unload bullets on the animals in the winter when they have nowhere to run. She even approved a $400,000 state-funded campaign (paid for by taxpayers, that is) attempting to change people's minds on the issue. She removed the aerial hunting initiative from the ballot entirely, blocking citizens from being able to vote on the issue.

No, we are not just talking about a woman who likes to hunt. Put aside the fact that polyester can be spun into faux fur stoles, muffs, and coats, and that there's no good reason to continue to cut the skin from animals to steal their coats. We're talking about a woman that has every intention of converting her anti-environment plight into legislation.
She wants to drill in waters that whales call their only home. She wants to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.

I think that Sarah Palin is a cold-hearted woman. I think she is the type that might hit a dog and keep on driving. I think that a Sarah Palin Vice Presidency - or, God forbid, Presidency - is more than detrimental to the health and welfare of our great land. It is one thing to be a hunter: and it is quite another to block your fellow citizens from weighing in on the creatures of the land that belong to all of us; to be more concerned with tapping into all our resources at the expense of these animals instead of looking into alternative energy sources in this day and age; to see blood in the snow and think, I'm doing my job, and even offer bounty money for it.

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