Thursday, April 9, 2009

Conservative nutjobs

The ever-enlightening Huffington Post brought my attention to the creation of a fund to help Sarah Palin pay her legal fees in the Troppergate probe. Named "Sarah Palin's War Chest", it was set up by the nutjobs at FreeAmericanCitizens.org, at the instigation of Bill O'Reilly. Ha! Anyway, this quote from the HuPo article piqued my interest:

I think she has been abused," he said. "I think she has been abused by the news media. And here is the thing, a lot of people may not like the idea of a woman being a leader. But who is the best protector of the children? A woman on the playground will protect a child in harm and then they say they can't be leaders? But they are the best protectors.... People don't look at that, people don't see it, but mothers are nurturers.
[Clayton Paslay, of FreeAmericanCitizens.org, on Palin]

So I checked out their website. Under the heading "Our Reasons" can be found the delightfully disparate policies of opposing compulsory wearing of seatbelts (no shit), legalising the hiring of illegal immigrants and the promotion of abstinence in sex education. I'm not really going to try and add anything other than pointing and laughing. I'm especially amused that a group supporting Palin is all for illegal workers, and also find it pretty amusing that despite Bristol Palin's baby, these people still support abstinence. Stupid people - they're everywhere.