Sarah, just stop.

You are unwisely provoking everyone with a uterus and a brain.

Stop using the term “maverick” to describe yourself. It’s not unlike the word “bitch“.

Stop pretending to be a feminist. I know of thousands of women who are smart, motivated, educated, useful and extraordinary and they STILL did the right thing with their kids – they were there for them.

Gender equality? “You betcha!” You are steadfastly proving that women can be just as shallow, manipulative, cut-throat, self-absorbed, and megalomaniacal. Congratulations, governess, you have earned your Vag Badge. And now I revoke it.

You undermined the VAWA in your tenure as Mayor in Wasilla by charging rape victims for rape kits, (typically $300-$1200 apiece) which are the cornerstone pieces of evidence in prosecution. You had a direct role in this, signed by your own hand, when you cut critical funding and redirected the costs to women’s health insurance or — most despicably — directly to women who were uninsured at the time of their vicious assault.

But, at a rally on October 5th in California, you quoted from a Starbucks coffee cup (in a “providential” moment) to guilt-trip the females in your audience: “There’s a special place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women.” Actually, the quote is as follows: “There is a special place in Hell for women who don’t help other women.” The quote was originally spoken by Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state and UN Ambassador.

Albright offered a concise rebuttal the following day. “Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women.”

When Martha Stewart decorates your shared bunks in Hell Mrs. Palin, remember this. You had the chance to help other women by providing them with the means to prosecute the men who brutalized them. You chose instead to favor lobbyists and the male-dominated culture of shotguns and dead deer head decorum.

Stop talking about God. You don’t have a single molecule of real faith in your entire body and are shrewdly pandering to the scary, zealous cultisms of American conserva-nazi rhetoric.
You do not deserve the title of Christian.

Stop propagandizing your special needs child as proof of your compatibility with the lowly common public. You only just gave birth to him and therefore have not yet lived through the trials and heartaches of raising a Down Syndrome child. You have nothing in common with the families who are stretching paychecks and struggling to provide necessities, specialist care, schooling, support and advocacy for these children and doing so on a budget that is roughly 1/8 of your personal resources.

Stop peddling yourself as a down-home country girl in the Washington jungle.
Your net worth is broken down as follows:
$230,000 in 2007 (combined salary)
$17,000 in questionable per diem payments
$43,490 to soccer-mom your kids around
$1,654 to each family member in state oil royalties
One $500,000 dollar lake home
A float plane at said lake home
Two vacation retreats
But go ahead and try to relate to those of us trying to keep mortgages on one house or pay rent in apartments.

Stop playing the hockey mom. Nobody actually likes those minivan nazis and you’re not even qualified to talk about everyday motherhood because you have never lived it without a nanny and an entourage. Your ivy league college bound daughter is now pregnant out of wedlock and a borderline alcoholic. I appreciated that you are so glad that she “chose” to keep the baby and get married. Because I’m absolutely certain that she had any such choice in the matter. The teenage father-to-be is a self-described “fuckin’ redneck” who “doesn’t want kids”. If your daughter were impregnated by rape, could she have afforded a kit to prove it without digging into mommy’s purse? Even if so, she could not have gotten an abortion: you oppose the mere possibility of it.

Stop fawning over our founding fathers. They can’t see you batting your eyelashes and kissing their asses. You don’t know a damn thing about them, have no legitimate zeal for reform, and you do not represent anything they fought for. When they started this country they were the descendants of exiled activists from overseas, struggling to resist the interference of a totalitarian government.

Stop punching the bag about taxes, taxes, taxes. Would Obama raise taxes? Maybe he would, or maybe not. But we know one thing for certain: you are so innept at handling money that you are still refusing to acknowledge a public disgrace regarding a private executive jet that you lost $600,000 in taxpayer funds trying to unload. The icing on that Betty Crocker crock of shit? You flat-out lied about making a profit!

Stop bullshitting about family values. You drilled puppet strings into every subordinate you were given as governess to harrass and defame your sister’s ex-husband while the state’s own investigation has backed him up on every counterpoint. And you did so while deliberately hiding emails through a legal loophole: you clearly instructed your participants to use only private email accounts, which are exempt from disclosure laws.

You then promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which you appoint. Your attorney, Thomas V. Van Flein, challenged the jurisdiction of Stephen Branchflower, the retired prosecutor hired to investigate and report back to the legislature by the last week of October.

Is your ticket really all about integrity? Or is it typical to find your desperate campaign pushing its volunteers to lie and gossip with racism about the opponent you may very well lose against?

You’re not fooling anybody.
You do not represent my gender.
You do not represent my faith.
You have never represented the best interests of your state citizenry.
And I pray to God that you will never represent my country on a national level.