What does Sarah Palin have against women who were raped?

Just a weird observation. We all know about Palin's efforts in Wasilla to make women pay for their own rape evidence kits, an effort that eventually led to a law being passed in the Alaska legislature specifically to stop Palin because the policy was considered so wrong.

Next we have Palin's abortion stance. Roughly, it doesn't matter if you were raped, you have to have the baby. (I always have trouble with the "Being raped is god's will" argument.)

Tonight, I come across this in the McCain campaign's efforts to explain away the "Troopergate" firing of Public Safety Commisioner Walt Monegan.

To that end, the campaign released a series of e-mails detailing the frustration several Palin administration officials experienced in dealing with Monegan. The "last straw," the campaign said, was a trip Monegan planned to Washington in July to seek federal money for investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases.

I know this this is a very tenuous case, and may be a wildly inappropriate figment of my imagination, but it does seem like, time and again, Palin seems to side against rape victims. (A seeming consistent policy of "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, ladies" "Don't look to the state for help," and "God wanted it this way.") I'll leave the psychological interpolation to y'all.

And, no, this isn't sexist. If it were a man who time and again sided against rape victims, it would be significantly creepy as well.

Alaska has the highest incidence of rape in the country.

(Kind of a late night post. It may seem very wrong tomorrow. If you think this is wildly inappropriate, I'll apologize in advance.)