Despicable, Inhuman, Horrific, Disgusting

Words fail me. Palin and her sheriff in Wasilla, Alaska, coordinated to charge women who had been raped $1000 apiece for their evidence-gathering exams and lab work.

Where is the media? I, a not-gay man, will give up the World Series, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup playoffs, and beer, if every single TV station agrees to report on this story every day, forever.

The most appalling part of Palin's utter contempt for women who have been sexually assaulted is not that she saved the town a (very) little bit of money. Or that she inflicted financial penalties on women who had just been terrorized. No, the worst part is the implication that lies just beneath the facts: once it became known that reporting a rape to the police would cost you $1000, women would stop reporting being raped.

The sheriff and his lazy-ass, under-brained deputies win. The mayor -- who could say that reported sexual assaults declined precipitously in her town -- and her paleo-Christian, woman-hating supporters win.

Only raped women lose.

McCain-Palin: inhuman.