What to Make of Sarah Palin's Alleged Cocaine Use

[Brewman_Jax]

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/152426/wha...caine_use/

From the article:

Quote: A forthcoming unauthorized biography about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is generating news around the country. The two items getting the most ink so far are the claims that Palin had a fling with NBA star Glen Rice while she was a sports reporter in Alaska - and that Sarah Palin used cocaine while snowmobiling with friends.

Palin has previously admitted to using marijuana, making her part of an ever growing group of elected officials, from both the GOP and the Dems, who have used illicit drugs or have substance abuse issues in their immediate families.

President Obama broke new ground when he admitted to not only marijuana use, but to expermenting with cocaine when was a young man. John McCain and his family know about substance abuse, with his wife Cindy's well-known addiction to prescription pain pills. George Bush dodged questions about his cocaine and marijuana use and would only admit to "youthful indescretions." Al Gore was a known marijuana smoker. President Clinton famously addressed the issue with the bizarre I-smoked-it-but-didn't-inhale line. Jeb Bush's daughter Noelle was busted with Xanax and crack. I could go on and on with those who've admitted to or have been outted for illict drug use: Newt Gingrich, yes. Mayor Bloomberg, check.
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It is time for voters to punish elected officials - not for past drug use, but for supporting draconian laws that lock up so many of our brothers and sisters for doing what so many of our elected officials do themselves.

Agree. It's no secret of the unfairness and racialization of drug policy. Maybe if these officials, esp. the law&order repubs, were as scandalized by drugs as they are by sex, and they knew that they'd have to suffer for it, there may be a change in policy.

[Treestar]

I'd guess leave it to the right wing to worry about! From their point of view, it shows she has bad judgment. Of course she only has to claim she was young and stupid and has since reformed, and Jesus has forgiven her. So in the end it may have no effect - the left already would not vote for her, and the right will forgive her.

Good tabloid stuff, though. Which is becoming Palin's reason for existence. She's like another Paris Hilton. Just famous for her famousness.

[NJMaverick]

Sarah is just one of a long line of holier than thou born again Christians that live a questionable life with all sorts of questionable self indulgent acts and then decides when they are too old or now have a family all their sins are completely forgiven and forgotten and they now look down on people like themselves. They are the worse kind of people and they are almost always republican

[azmouse]

I think it's past time to give people something to live for beyond using drugs.
Having never used them myself, I just don't understand the need to get high.

[RoyGBiv]

Who?

[There Is No Spoon]

Coke-whore.