Thu Sep 11, 11:31 AM Pacific • posted by Jed Lewison
Bizarro world
The national media is starting to pick up on the story (unearthed by AMERICAblog) that under Sarah Palin, Wasilla charged rape victims for sexual assault kits.
To me, the most striking part of this story actually has to do with Joe Biden. Why? Because one of Joe Biden's most important legislative accomplishments is the Violence Against Women Act -- the very same legislation that will help ensure that no rape victim will be forced to pay for her own sexual assault kit.
It's an extraordinarily bizarre contrast. On the one hand, you've got this older white guy who's been in DC for decades, and on the other hand you've got this inexperienced governor who probably hasn't spent ten days in DC in her entire life.
And yet it's the graybeard who has done more to protect women from violence. Weird. But true.