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????????