REALLY?? Sarah Palin for VP

As always, I question anything coming from the mouths of the repubes, but the latest blurbs and speeches are killing me. I was willing to listen to what Sarah Palin had to say, after all, you cannot judge a book by its former beauty pageant title, but from the minute she started talking, I had to shout, "REALLY??" First of all, both McCain and Palin keep repeating things that have been proven to be outright lies from day one. The whole "sold the governor's private jet on ebay for a profit" mantra is just plain wrong. The jet was sold by a private broker at a loss to the state. Sarah Palin claims she turned down the funding for the "Bridge to Nowhere", when in fact, she was all for it until it became unPC to be pro bridge. In other words, until they figured out it would only serve to hurt the repubes.

My next major issue is the fact that for some reason, the repubes seem to think that by selecting a female running mate for the dinosaur, they will attract women voters. Sarah Palin appears to dislike women in that she is anti-abortion to the point of being beyond scary. While she is hailed as a hero for not aborting her son with downs syndrome, no one remembers to mention that, because she is governor, her children are being raised by their father, a cook and nanny. She is "sacrificing" her children's' well being for her own career aspirations. I am all for women being successful career women, wives and mothers, but do NOT claim to be a bible thumping pro-life supporter of women when your kids are not your priority and you are willing to go on national television and tell huge lies.

Finally, we come to the issue of Sarah Palin's religious "beliefs". Sarah Palin is a member of a church in which the members speak in tongues. The church fully believes that not only is the rapture coming, but it will be somehow centered in Alaska. Sarah Palin's church also believes that you can literally, "pray away the gay". A homosexual has only to believe strongly enough and pray hard enough to discover the joys of both Jesus Christ, as their personal saviour, and heterosexuality.

The scariest part of all of this for me is that there are millions of Americans not only drinking up all the kool-aid, but they honestly believe that both John McCain and Sarah Palin are the answer to all our woes, will raise up this nation to its former glory, and will jump start our sagging economy. OH WAIT, I keep forgetting that the economy is not only doing great, but the war in Iraq was the right thing to do. AND, lest I forget, the repubes themselves had stated emphatically that this election is NOT, I repeat NOT, about the issues but about personality. YES, they really said that on national television.

REALLY????????

REALLY ??

The topic today is abortion. Apparently John McCain was considering a VP running mate who was rather on the pro-choice end of the spectrum...allegedly. John McCain appears to have said that abortion was not the only issue that mattered in the run for the big white house, but was only one of the issues. John McCain has never met my mother. My mother is one of those staunch pro-lifers who will take the list provided by the Catholic church of acceptable candidates to vote for and that will be the ONLY issue she will vote on. Unfortunately, my mother does NOT stand alone and there are millions just like her. The only difference I can note is what "church" provides them with their list of "acceptable candidates" worthy of a vote. When the list comes from the far right, it only means look out, they also consider things like your stance on that horror which will cause the end of the world as we know it...........(whispers) homos. Once they allow abortions, the homos are next and then the rapture will occur. So, back to abortion.

Abortion is NOT, I repeat NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, the "problem". Abortion is but one solution to the "problem", which is unwanted pregnancy. The OB-GYN who assisted me in giving birth to my second son performed abortions at Cook County Hosp. According to her, over half of the women who came in for an abortion had NO CLUE how it was that they became pregnant. They either had NO basic understanding of the birds and bees, or they believed one of the many urban myths, such as "you cannot get pregnant the first time you have sex." Considering most of them probably did not know what "sex" was, this is not hard to believe. The one thing she said that struck me to the core was that NOT A SINGLE WOMAN was GLAD to be there. For all of them, this was a very difficult decision that would likely haunt them the rest of their lives.

According to the far right, and they know who they are, the ONLY thing kids today need to know about (dare I say it out loud) sex, is the word abstinence. That's right, just say no. Worked great for Nancy Reagan as well. The problem with abstinence programs is that they don't even begin to scratch the surface of what it is the kids are supposed to be saying no to. If we go back to the very beginning, according the far right, it didn't work that great in the garden either. It always makes me laugh to think that the very first "just say no" campaign was a total failure. They, and they know who they are, always seem to forget this. I say if you want to preach abstinence, do it from a viewpoint that might actually work. Convince the young boys to have at least a modicum of respect for the biatches and hos they plan to screw and teach the young women to respect their own bodies and to fully understand that a male teenager with raging hormones and a boner will say ANYTHING to get in your pants, and NO, he does not "love" you. I have said enough for now.