Congrats to the GOP! They have found a very likable, intelligent, effective and attractive candidate in Sarah Palin. She was an effective hit woman. But, before you neo-cons get too carried away about her, please remember the following:
1. You can’t keep her on script and away from the media forever. She has never done this before. She will screw up. It’s not a matter of if, but when. (Even the best candidates screw up)
2. She is under investigation for abuse of power. There is a decent chance she will not even be a governor come November.
3. She very conveniently did not mention a single one of her beliefs last night. Governor Palin is extremely far right. She is for overturning Roe v Wade, against teaching evolution and against sex education in schools despite her daughter’s pregnancy. (Don’t tell me I am beating up on a teenager. It is a 100% relevent topic, the same as Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter was relevent to his opposition of gay marriage. It’s just worth exploring to see if Palin’s opposition to sex education still stands now that she has been personally affected.)
4. John McCain is still at the top of the ticket. That’s a problem.
That said, I fully expect Sarah Palin to be the GOP nominee for president in 2012.
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September 4, 2008 at 5:26 pm |
Some questions for you.
What is your source of information for Sarah Palin being against teaching evolution? She is for teaching the creation theory.
In the heat of any passionate moment in your life, did you think back on all of your sex education before continuing?
How much did you know about sex before you had any classroom education on the subject?
Maybe the solution is to put that responsibility back on the parent(s) and stop making the government responsible for it.
September 4, 2008 at 5:37 pm |
Happy to answer your questions.
1. My source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/03/ap/politics/main4409395.shtml
Your point of clarification is valid. She is for teaching creationism along side evolution–but it’s still extreme. My problem with that is one theory belongs in a science class, one belongs in a religion class. And, to intermingle the two, is to project your religious beliefs on children who may not share those views AND potentially dilute their knowledge of and possible excercise of science.
2. What I have thought about is what a huge responsibility parenting is and that I should probably use birth control. I received sex education both in my public school (Virginia Beach Junior High) and sunday school (Star of the Sea Parish). When you come to a stop light, do you think about all the driver’s education you had? OR, did all that driver’s education cause you to instinctively obey the stop light?
3. Photos, my dad’s Playboys, trying to watch the blurred lines on the adult TV channel that was scrambled on the parent’s cable box.
4. It would be nice. Maybe we should just trust everyone to drive sober, pay their taxes, love thy neighbor and so on. But the problem is, not everyone does. And, in those instances where their incompentance places a burden on society, we should do what we can to discourage those negative outcomes.