We asked the question just days ago because we were interested in the answer from policy and electoral analysis perspectives:  What does Gov. Sarah Palin think about card-check?  Almost simultaneously it seems, in his zeal to undermine her and to insult her husband -- a longtime dues-paying member of his union -- Steelworkers' President Leo Gerard has asked the question in more rhetorically loaded fashion:

Inquiring minds want to know, Ms. Palin. Where do you stand on Employee Free
Choice? Where do you stand on privatization of social security? Where do you
stand on job-killing free trade?

Are you with McCain – and against workers –
on these issues? If so, you need to stop using your husband’s membership in the
USW as a prop, because then his union card cannot possibly cover up your or John
McCain’s worker-savaging positions.

And once again, a prominent labor leader shows his true disdain for independent, individual thought.  You are a long-time, dedicated, dues-paying member of the Steelworkers, who might not swallow the leadership's political agenda whole?  You are a "prop," you are being "used," you poor dupe.  This is not only the type of self-interested, vindictive rhetoric that precludes intelligent debate over issues of labor law reform.  This is also precisely the troubling type of extreme pressure that EFCA proponents want workers exposed to throughout a card-check organizing campaign -- but that they still assert does not exist.