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Stepping into the spotlight with a shrill, rancorous, occasionally snide speech, the governor poised to become the nation’s first female vice-president, Sarah Palin, reinforced my view that the boastfully anti-intellectual Republican Party is hostile to individual rights. Wearing her lack of credentials as a badge of honor—and condemning anyone’s right to question her fitness to become president if necessary—Gov. Palin took the Grand Old Party to a new low in last night’s acceptance speech. The staunch religionist, benefiting from the lowest expectations, displayed her serious opposition to abortion rights, compared herself to a dog (with lipstick), and substituted the spectacle of a family psychodrama for a coherent political philosophy. Using a mentally retarded infant (past proper bedtime) as a stage prop—the party of so-called family values can be counted on to attempt an annihilation of the values needed for a healthy family—the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee literally looked into the camera and pleaded that she will turn the White House into a place for the mentally deficient. It was practically the only specific policy position she addressed—short of a ban on abortion, free speech, and teaching the theory of evolution—and she ought to be taken at her word.

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