A). It’s not actually the evidence gathering test she has a problem with, nor rape victims, per-se. She’s not really lying about that. Rape kits include emergency contraception. Being of the “If God didn’t want you pregnant, you wouldn’t be knocked up in the first place” persuasion, this is blasphemy to her. It’s not so much that she wants to saddle rape victims with the charge for the kit, she wants to saddle them with the child of the rapist.

B). I don’t remember the math, but somebody ran the figures fo how much they said it would cost for the city to pay for the kits. If it was even ballpark correct, Wasilla has a rape rate somewhere between 1000 to 3000 times the national average. One might think that with that big a problem, the Mayor might have a reputation, one way or the other, as to taking care of such things. Law and Order Republicans, anyone?

It’s all too much for me. I need a break; it’s beyond parody and hyperbole. Aaahhhrrrggghhh!

Yeah its beyond me why dems arent hitting her HARD on this issue, and force her AND Mccain to confront this issue.
This one is a real powder keg which i dont know why the dems dont light..

THey need to put REAL rape victims in political ads, sayin things like “if john mccain and sarah palin have thier way, women like me would be forced to give birth to our rapists baby…if YOUR daughter is ever raped, do you want john mccain and sarah palin to decide what should happen next?”

this would get the right wing howling like tasered baboons AND it would force mccain’s campaign to take a stand on this issue…and no matter what he says, either he losses moderate votes or he looses votes of fruitcakes like our own troll “upright left” who thinks that fertility clinics are the moral equivalent of concentration camps….

Those are just words. The fact remains that in Wasilla, while she was mayor, rape victims had to pay for their own rape kits. She has dodged providing any justification for that, nor has she debunked that bit of information as a lie.

Sarah is not afraid of the coming debate because Thomas Muthee the witch hunter guy is on her side.
Muthee promised Sarah that he will deliver, and he’ll get demons out of her campaign.
And if you question Sarah about that…you’ll be accused of ‘Gotcha’ questioning.

I know where Sarah would feel right at home with the questions. It’s this place where the waitresses wear white tanks tops with orange short-shorts. Then again, her pastor would think he’d be in the middle of a witch’s coven with the music and loose morals…those girls wear pantyhose and all!

Um, isn’t Wasilla’s population like 37 or something? A town that size that has ANYTHING as “standard practice” for rapes has a HUGE problem.

The truth of the matter is that an evidence-gathering kit in the case of rape would not be reimbursed by an insurance company because — plainly and simply — it is not medical care or treatment rendered to the patient.

I spent my career in health care and I know this to be true. Here is another example –> insurers do not pay for translators who may need to be brought in so that a doctor can communicate with a non-English-speaking patient.

I wonder what the Pentacostal Pork-barrel Princess of Wasilla’s position is with regard to billing insurance companies for translators paid to be in the emergency room with a non-English-speaking rape victim.

Wow, that’s really helpful, Sarah. Why don’t you just