There is nothing out of the ordinary for a politician to wear a pin on their lapel, especially with the American flag nowadays. It is meant to show your patriotism (how it translates into the real world, I still haven't figured that out) and that you care about our country. Other pins have a similar affect, such as those to address AIDS, breast cancer and so on. That it is extremely curious that Sarah Palin would wear a polar bear pin, especially when she is so callously trying to let them go extinct.
Climate Progress tries to answer the question:
I am really trying to stay away from the "she's pure evil" explanation. Therfore I'm going to go with the fact that she is looking to show that she cares about the things that get in the way of more oil exploration, so ultimately it comes down to a simple cover-up of her greed for petroleum.
A1: She wants to help people remember what they looked like before her policies render them extinct.A2: She likes sticking it to the bears.
A3. She couldn’t find a wolf-cub pin.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is famously fighting the Bush administration liberals who designated the polar bears a threatened species, and her global warming denial, if enshrined into law, would finish off the bear’s habitat (see “McCain VP Palin is a global-warming-denying, polar-bear-dissing, Pat Buchanan acolyte“).
Notwithstanding Palin’s faux pas of wearing white (with a white pin!) after Labor Day, her pin is clearly missing either a bull’s-eye or a red circle with a slash through it. I wonder what Polar bears against Palin think of this.
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