Sarah Palin mayoral strategy: opponent not Christian enough, living in sin?
When Sarah Palin ran for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska in 1996, her campaign spread the word around town that she would be “Wasilla’s first Christian mayor.” This, despite the fact that her opponent, the incumbent mayor John Stein, was a Protestant Christian, and Palin knew it. Some of Stein’s supporters interpreted this as an attempt to falsely portray Stein as Jewish.
Palin’s campaign also started a vicious whisper campaign that Stein and his wife were not legally married, a claim which, again, she knew to be false. Stein had to actually produce his marriage certificate to disprove the rumors.
Is someone who would do these things the kind of person we want as our leader, the kind of person who we want our children to look up to as a role model?