Give that old chestnut up – evolution is no longer just a theory, it has been definitively proven that it takes place. It’s no more a theory than the Theory of Gravity. Come out of the 19th century.

She was associated with to a 3rd party which among other things supports allowing Alaska to secede from the United States and feels the only thing wrong with the John Birch Society was it was to liberal! Her husband “First Dude” was registered as a member of this party between 1994 and 2004!

She tried to have a local Librarian fired for not banning books. She used her political office to try to have fired and smear a state trooper who is in a custody battle with her sister. She is being investigated for this and is worried enough about the outcome to have recently “lawyered up.”

Palin currently has pretty messy family issues. She recently gave birth to a son with Downs Syndrome and has a 17 year old daughter who is pregnant. Ironically she has fought sex education in the schools and availability of contraception for minors. I am glad she was able to make the choice to carry her disabled son to term…we all need the right to make our own choices!!!

She believes that for 9 months a woman has no right to control what is happening to her own body and is basically nothing more than a baby container. She does not believe in a women’s right to choose to end a pregnancy, even if she has been raped.

She does not believe human pollution has anything to do with global warming (even Bush has had to back down on this one). Is so in bed with big oil she is willing to watch as the polar bear and beluga whales become extinct, rather than slow the possibility of drilling. She would open up one of the last great wilderness on earth to exploitation by oil interests.

She laughed when hearing a fellow Republican woman being called a bitch in public (she and the woman had disagreed on several issues) I guess this does make her on par with McCain who thinks it is alright to call your wife a cunt in public.

She has been repeatedly described as stubborn with a vicious streak – even by family and friends. (nick name Sarah Barracuda)

Has an undergraduate degree in Journalism for a small obscure university.

She did fund raising for Sen. Ted Stevens (think major Alaskan corruption) and accepted money from the same sources as Sen. Ted Stevens. She pushed for the “bridge to no where – the flipped when convenient to do so.

She has been named Sen. John McCain’s VP selection for the Republican ticket. Sen. McCain is 72 years old and has reoccurring cancer as part of his health history. One can not help but question Mr. McCain’s judgment regarding her selection. John McCain has made a calculated choice in selecting his VP, that has unfortunately put an undereducated, inexperienced right wing nut case a “heart beat” away from becoming President at a time when our Nation faces some of the most complex and volatile issues it has in decades. I VOTE FOR A PERSON BASED ON THEIR STAND ON THE ISSUES – NOT THEIR PLUMBING!!

PUMAS eat Barracudas for breakfast!!!!

BTW, I don’t like abortion either. Maybe we should eradicate poverty and the conditions that produce unwanted births. Wouldn’t that be a change!

Those who are truly Christian might also believe that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24) Doesn’t that mean that that simplicity and sustainability are the way to go? I think so. We shouldn’t need to open up Alaska, because we should be simplifying our lives, and using less petroleum products.

None of us have a monopoly on morality. The choice of Sarah Palin is clearly about pandering to a certain kind of worldview– not necessarily a moral one– that brings prosperity to those in the leadership who advocate it. They’ll be looking for some mighty small camels!

Well, frankly, yes. Creation, intelligent design, quantum physics, and Darwin’s theory of evolution are all just that: theories. All have credible and accredited scientists that support them. And none have been disproven–only disputed. It is plainly fascism that the schools censor information to the degree that students graduate with no information about any theory other than Darwin’s.

What a strange euphemism for pro-life–anti choice? There are certainly choices other than abortion–adoption, leave the baby at a hospital or police station, keep the baby. The only choice that kills someone is abortion. Perhaps the choice of allowing an innocent child to have a chance and the risks of a back alley abortion would have more women make a choice that does not place their own personal selfish convenience as a priority over the life of someone who might potentially grow up to cure cancer.

And as for ANWR, have you read about it? Check out ANWR.org. You will learn that 1.5 million acress–that’s 7.9% of the 19 million acres–is open for discussion as far as drilling. You will also learn that there are housing, schools, stores, boats, an airstrip, power lines and a variety of other modern-day facilities, including an oil well there already. The U.S. military’s Barter Island Distant Early Warning System radar site is also on the shoreline. Turns out that most of the residents favor drilling, as do more than 70 percent of Alaskans.

Concerned about animals? The environment? Well, reading on, you will find that the coastal plain is distinct from the rest of the ANWR as it is not part of the hills and mountains of the Brooks Range, where the environmentalists take their beautiful photos. It is a flat, treeless, almost featureless plain in northeastern Alaska. Few animals can thrive in those temperatures. In fact, only five species of birds, some polar bears (who den on the Beaufort Sea pack ice) and lemmings (who burrow beneath the snow-pack) remain during the winter months. This increases the bird count and brings back the arctic fox and, most significantly, the Porcupine caribou. While only a portion of the caribou herd shows up each year, yhe caribou travel to the coastal plain from Canada, passing near 89 dry wells drilled by the Canadian government and crossing Canada’s Dempster Highway–all of which seems to be development that does not hinder theirmigration or survival. The Central Arctic caribou herd that inhabits part of Prudhoe Bay has grown from 6,000 in 1978 to 19,700 today, according to the most recent estimates by state and federal wildlife agencies. In fact, there is some evidence that the caribou use un-vegetated and elevated sites in the existing oil fields as relief habitat from mosquitoes and from oestrid flies that attack their nostrils. Worried about the polar bears? Alaska’s polar bear population is healthy and unthreatened. In fact, there are no listed endangered species on the North Slope or in the coastal plain. So, yes, since it seems the existing development and drilling that have taken place have had NO negative, and perhaps some POSITIVE impact on wildlife, I am happy to have someone who wants to drill there so I can feed MY HUMAN FAMILY without sacrificing to pay for gasoline and fatten the wealthy oil execs and middle eastern terrorists.

So, yeah, there are people who like her and would vote for her. I am SICK of politicians with experience in Washington–the longer they’ve been in the game, the more CORRUPT and DISHONEST they have become, voting and lobbying for their own personal financial interests with no regard for the impact on families like mine.

And in case you were assuming that I must be some dummy, I have a bachelor’s in secondary education, a law degree, and I’m a homeschool mom of 6, pregnant with #7. Yes, there is a stark contrast between the D and R platforms–that’s by design. They are two different parties with two different philosophies. And Sarah Palin reminded some of us who had lost hope in the R party that there are still conservatives left who are willing to MAKE CHANGES HAPPEN to STOP THE EROSION OF OUR RIGHTS AND VALUES.

And yes, I’m a Christian. Amen.

I mean do we want–a creationist, an anti-choice bring-back-the-coat hangers person, an advocate of drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge–to be possibly our next president??? Do we want to go back to the Dark Ages?

This was a colossal mistake on McCain’s part. Had he chosen Pawlenty, Lieberman, Ridge or even Romney (his notorious flip flops help him keep the “vagueness” factor going), he could have passed muster with a lot of Clinton supporters. He didn’t need to “consolidate” the conservative base, because they would have voted for him anyway–I mean would they have ever considered staying home or voting for the most liberal and 3rd most liberal senators?

McCain is TOAST.