The Return of Sarah Palin, Sans the Emphasis on Culture and Morality

by Michael Jones · 2009-01-27 14:15:00 UTC
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PalinThis was inevitable, right?

Former Republican VP-candidate and current Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin has launched a political action committee (PAC), no doubt spurring rumors that she's looking forward to entering the 2012 race for the GOP Presidential nomination.  The PAC, aptly named SarahPAC, has their own site.  (Editorial note:  Damn...we were hoping that when she made this inevitable step, Palin would have gone ahead and named the thing "Joe SixPAC.")

Incidentally, what's curiously missing from SarahPAC's Web site is a lot of the culture warrior rhetoric that she was so keen on during the election, especially when it comes to the issue of same-sex marriage.  Who remembers these wondrous statements from the hockey mom?

"I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that's where we would go because I don't support gay marriage."  (CBN, October 2008)

"But I will tell Americans straight up that I don't support defining marriage as anything but between one man and one woman, and I think through nuances we can go round and round about what that actually means.  But I'm being as straight up with Americans as I can in my non- support for anything but a traditional definition of marriage."  (VP Debate, October 2008)

(And this one, courtesy of the Human Rights Campaign...)

"Sarah Palin not only supported the 1998 Alaska constitutional amendment banning marriage equality but, in her less than two years as Governor, even expressed the extreme position of supporting stripping away domestic partner benefits for state workers. When you can’t even support giving our community the rights to health insurance and pension benefits, it’s a frightening window into where she stands on equality."

Oddly enough, however, SarahPAC has no language about same-sex marriage, or any of the other cultural issues (choice, immigration) that have come to partly define the lip-sticked pitbull.  Instead, SarahPAC highlights energy independence, economic security, reform of government, and health care.  Are we sensing a repackaging of Gov. Palin for 2012?

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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