Sarah Palin's pick for Alaska's Attorney General: “If a guy can’t rape his wife…who’s he gonna rape?”

By GottaLaff

UPDATE, HIS RESPONSE HERE.

UPDATE, what the Alaska legal community thinks about him.

Once again, Sarah Palin's common sense, taste, and sense of responsibility are, well, striking:

March 26, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin today announced the appointment of Wayne Anthony Ross as Attorney General.[...]

Ross, currently in private practice, will fill the vacancy created last month by the resignation of Attorney General Talis Colberg. [...]

“Wayne Anthony Ross will be a great defender of Alaska and the people he serves," Governor Palin said. "With his vast legal knowledge, experience and integrity, he will make an exceptional Attorney General."

"Who's that?" you may be asking, "And why should I care?" Via Mudflats, we get the answer:

Tomorrow House Judiciary Committee will meet and take citizen testimony on the nomination of Wayne Anthony Ross to be our next Attorney General.

Leah Burton is on with CC, sharing her testimony regarding Wayne Anthony Ross. She is a former citizen lobbyist who worked on behalf of families and children concerning child support, child custody, domestic violence, child abuse and sexual assault.

She discusses a meeting of the group DADS, being run by Wayne Anthony Ross, and what she heard.

Numerous comments were made that were appalling, not the least of which were remarks by Mr. Ross which included the following: “If a guy can’t rape his wife…who’s he gonna rape?” and “There wouldn’t be an issue with domestic violence if women would learn to keep their mouths shut.”

Other members made their own contributions such as, “We have the right to discipline our wives and children without the interference of government in our lives!”

These comments were greeted with laughter and affirmative responses by the group. Given the fact that they had referred to me in recent months as a “femi-nazi”, the comments I was witness to at this meeting, while abhorrent, were unfortunately not surprising.

This announcement by Governor Palin is a slap in the face to all single parents who have no choice but to rely upon the State Department of Law to support court orders for child support, as well as those persons who need the Department to enforce criminal laws against sexual assault and domestic violence. Mr. Ross is the antithesis of the type of person that should be the Attorney General. This has been clearly demonstrated by his own words and actions in public.

In closing, I am not alone in my assessment that anyone who condones, and contributes to that type of hateful and harmful discourse clearly does not have the judgment necessary to represent the people of the State of Alaska as their Attorney General.

You can read her entire written testimony HERE.

To anyone out there who has accused me of being too hard on Sarah Palin, read this post again. If there's still the slightest question in anyone's mind about why she deserves the critical, snarky treatment she gets, then maybe those few should either reevaluate their own value system or go elsewhere.

Palin is fair game anyway, but after this particularly horrifying example of her total lack of judgment, my posts about her won't be going away any time soon, and the tone will most likely intensify. She just made sure of that.