Palin Goes RINO With Fiorina Endorsement; Is There A Planned Parenthood Skeleton In Fiorina's Closet?

I think the very real possibility of defeating Senator Barbara Boxer here in California may have caused some clouded thinking by some Republicans. Most notable, Sarah Palin's endorsement of Carly Fiorina today.

"Chalk up another conservative base endorsement for ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina, and it's a big one: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

And the blowback has already started among some of the conservative base -- on Sarah's Facebook page. And now the campaigns are sniping at each other...just in time for the taping of tonight's Senate debate in LA. (It will air at 11 a.m. Sunday on KGO-Channel 7 in SF.)

Palin, the unsuccesful GOP VP candidate, posted her nod on her Facebook page...complete with an unnamed dis to Fiorina rival Tom Campbell as "a liberal member of the GOP who seems to bear almost no difference to Boxer."

Tsk, tsk, Sarah. You broke Reagan's 11th Commandment...about three sentences before praising Fiorina as a Reagan conservative.

Palin, who quit before her first term as gov ended, talks up Fiorina as growing up in a "modest home with a school teacher Dad." Uh, sort of. Fiorina's dad was a law professor who taught at A-list universities -- Yale, Stanford, Duke, Cornell, the London School of Economics -- that Sarah's peeps might sneer at by using the "e-word." Elite. Palin also doesn't mention that Fiorina studied several languages and attended the finest schools as her family traveled around the world.

Also: No mention of the "CEO" moniker or Fiorina's $21 million golden parachute she got from HP or the layoffs that went down while she was there..."

This is a decision based on pragmatism not principle. Chuck DeVore is the lone consistent Conservative running in this race. Palin's endorsement is even more troubling given the relationship Hewlett Packard has had with Planned Parenthood.

"The Hewlett Foundation has announced $125.1 million in new grants to 214 organizations. First and foremost among the beneficiaries is International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF), for whom Hewlett cut the largest check by far, granting $8.3 million to support worldwide abortion.

Of the Menlo Park-based foundation's six program areas, the most money went toward “population” issues, specifically supporting family planning and AIDS prevention worldwide. In all, the foundation's "Population Program" gave $31.8 million to 38 organizations dealing with global population issues. The International Planned Parenthood Federation, based in London, claimed over a quarter of the sum to support its radical agenda..."

So how far back has Hewlett Packard been giving money to Planned Parenthood? Back when Carly Fiorina was the company's CEO? It is hard to imagine that Sarah Palin, a mother with a down syndrome child, would support a candidate who previously helping Planned Parenthood abort babies because they had down syndrome.

HT: Hot Air

Cross posted at Blue Collar Philosophy.