Heidi - well said; and thank you for your comment.

Palin recently said that the war in Iraq is "God's task." She's even admitted she hasn't thought about the war much—just last year she was quoted saying, "I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."
Palin has actively sought the support of the fringe Alaska Independence Party. Six months ago, Palin told members of the group—who advocate for a vote on secession from the union—to "keep up the good work" and "wished the party luck on what she called its 'inspiring convention.'"
Palin wants to teach creationism in public schools. She hasn't made clear whether she thinks evolution is a fact.
Palin doesn't believe that humans contribute to global warming. Speaking about climate change, she said, "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being manmade." 
Palin has close ties to Big Oil. Her inauguration was even sponsored by BP. 
Palin is extremely anti-choice. She doesn't even support abortion in the case of rape or incest. 
Palin opposes comprehensive sex-ed in public schools. She's said she will only support abstinence-only approaches.
As mayor, Palin tried to ban books from the library. Palin asked the library how she might go about banning books because some had inappropriate language in them—shocking the librarian, Mary Ellen Baker. According to Time, "news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor."
She DID support the Bridge to Nowhere (before she opposed it). Palin claimed that she said "thanks, but no thanks" to the infamous Bridge to Nowhere. But in 2006, Palin supported the project repeatedly, saying that Alaska should take advantage of earmarks "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist."

The plain fact of the matter is that Sarah Palin did a bang-up job delivering a Karl Rove-style political attack speech last night. That makes her a skilled politician but it doesn't make her views any more palatable for voters. Americans don't need another far-right, anti-science ideologue in the White House.

There's no trash talking here.  Just facts.  Unlike those items included in her address yesterday.

Here is something for all the people that feel so sorry for poor old Sarah...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

Finally, Carl Rove and other true partiots are talking some sense about all the liberal media hoopla!

Finally, Carl Rove and other true partiots are talking some sense about all the liberal media hoopla!
watch?v=ZMdRSmHxVdo

Toe! Well done.

It amazes me how quickly the Republican party issues attacks against other party candidates, then as convenience dictates, turn the same attacks into "strengths" for their candidates (ala, the Obama inexperience issue. Now, suddenly, Palin's mayoral "experience" trumps community service at the ground level? Appalling).

I actually laughed at the rhetoric that they wanted "change", since it was their party and politics that put us in the situation we are in now.

And I'm sorry lofty Conservative thinkers, but the party that produced Abe Lincoln is long gone. Karl Rove and clandestine smears are what I see. I was once a Republican when I was in the military, but it didn't take long to see how poorly they treat veterans.

The left has always used character assasination as a tool to their ends.  Nasty is their name.  I hope they eat it bit time.    Going after Sarah Palin and only telling cherry picked snippets, and some things that are outright lies, is bad enough.  But to pick on a teenager is really an all time low.  The shameless , conscienceless left will do anythign to elect their marxist swine.

@Voice of the People

Yeah and all democrats are truthful and forthcoming, right? Sorry you joined the dark side. Semper fi, do or die.

Linda,  please be specific about "the left" and "character assasanation"
who said what about ????  I know that you are not speaking about what I wrote above- these are all documented facts so I will assume that you have something else in mind and await your reply.

toe, NO!! I won't be specific. I, unlike you, do not have time to write a damned tome whe I do come in here.everytime  I have a life.  DO you have a life? 

I do indeed. Unlike you, I do not make up things.  Nor do I make claims that I cannot back.
Put up or sit down.

Numerous print media outlets uncritically reported Gov. Sarah Palin's claim that Sen. Barack Obama "is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform -- not even in the state senate," without noting that Obama has played key roles in the passage of reform legislation at both the federal and state levels, including a bill that McCain co-sponsored and thanked Obama for his work on.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200809040007?f=h_top

Toe - let's see ... media matters. these are a bunch of progressive (ultra left) liberals. If they were non partisan and investigated both sides, they would have more credibility. Moveon.org is probably behind this. 

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

"Palin doesn't believe that humans contribute to global warming. Speaking about climate change, she said, "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being manmade." 
Palin has close ties to Big Oil. Her inauguration was even sponsored by BP. "

First, thanks for cutting-and-pasting those Democrat talking points (again). I haven't seen them anywhere else.
Interesting that the two above points are together. How close are her ties to BP, I wonder? British Petroleum has bought into the Global Warming Religion, hook, line, and sinker, spending more time advertising the evils of their products and the "established fact" of Global Warming than their own product. Yet, they sponsor a heretic. And she doesn't change her position to reflect that of BP? What kind of politician is she?

"As mayor, Palin tried to ban books from the library. Palin asked the library how she might go about banning books because some had inappropriate language in them—shocking the librarian, Mary Ellen Baker. "

And what books did she ban? None. Hmm. Well, what books did she ask to have banned? None. Did she hint that particular book needed to be banned? She didn't? Hmmm.

"Palin opposes comprehensive sex-ed in public schools. She's said she will only support abstinence-only approaches."

More importantly, she supports the teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic. You know, the stuff schools used to teach before they started handing out condoms and showing "An Inconvenient Truth" instead of making sure students could do long division. Why, she's practically a Nazi!

"Palin has actively sought the support of the fringe Alaska Independence Party. Six months ago, Palin told members of the group—who advocate for a vote on secession from the union—to "keep up the good work" and "wished the party luck on what she called its 'inspiring convention.'"

Sniff. Sniff. What's that I smell? Desperation? She was friendly with a fringe political group that has no hope of ever getting Alaska to vote on secession from the US? Oh, no, say it's not so! One thing you aren't saying is that she was a member of the AIP--although that was in the talking points a few days ago. Until, like much of what's been flung at Palin, it turned out to be demonstrably false.
She's a politician that tried to be on good terms with the various political factions in her state. Shocking! Shocking, I say!

"Palin wants to teach creationism in public schools. She hasn't made clear whether she thinks evolution is a fact."

She wants to teach Intelligent Design, not Creationism. Creationism is a specific school of thought that the book of Genesis is the literal, inerrant truth about the creation of the world. Intelligent Design is a school of thought that suggests that the amazing complexity of life and the physical sciences is indicative of a much greater intelligence, and tends to side-step the possibility that evolution is the mechanism chosen by an Intelligent Designer to create life. While I do not support teaching ID as science beside biological sciences, it is, without question, not Creationism. Creationism is a code-word for "backwoods, snake-handling, tobacky-chawin' Christian nutburgers". Which is why they are using it to inaccurately describe the Intelligent Design curriculum.

At least you didn't include the falsehood most commonly included with that talking point: that Sarah Palin wanted to teach Creationism (re: lies) instead of science. She never advocated replacing the science cirriculum with Creationism, although many lists of talking points from the left say just that.

"Palin doesn't believe that humans contribute to global warming. Speaking about climate change, she said, "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being manmade." 

Speaking of teaching religion in the schools. Good for her. I don't believe in the religion of Anthropogenic Global Warming either. And lots of people don't. Because "consensus" is not science, and it's politics and ideology that is driving the First Church of Climate Change, not science. And certainly not historical data! That's not a ding on Palin, that's a reason to be excited. Finally, a politician not so easily won over to the Climate Change Cult.

I discuss the topic in much greater detail here:

http://www.kevinwillis.net/viewarticle.php?&artID=199

And other links, but I'm not going to load up because I'm pretty sure that gets the comment killed.

"She DID support the Bridge to Nowhere (before she opposed it). Palin claimed that she said "thanks, but no thanks" to the infamous Bridge to Nowhere. But in 2006, Palin supported the project repeatedly, saying that Alaska should take advantage of earmarks "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist."

Gee, no politician has done that before. Especially no Democrat. Is this an admission that John Kerry was unfit to serve, because of his flip-flops, or is it only when Republicans do it?

Frankly, there were reasons to support the Bridge to the Alaskan International Airport, and reasons to change her mind (cost, ambition of project vs. benefits, etc, potential overruns, problems with bidding process). A detailed explanation is not as convention-friendly as a soundbite.

But, keep at it. I know it makes you feel better.

Mr UC- again, you failed. MIserably.
What did Media Matters Say?
You found the cake beautiful, artfully decorated, skillfully baked and the recipe followed with precision making it true to it's origin and delicious so you, lacking any problem with the food,  grumbled about  the plate.
 

I've been thinking about this, and I think I have come up with a simplified way to help conservatives understand the problem that liberals have with Palin.  

Imagine for a moment that there was a growing new religion in the country: The Tech-ians.  I have been indoctrinated into the religion and it is part of our belief system that children should spend 6 hours a day in front of the television or X box in order for them to do well in school and become good citizens (hey, it's our right to believe what we want).  I run for national office.  I have a record of trying to pass legislation that will give parents no choice but to clock 6 hours of screen time with their kids on a daily basis, and I vow to pursue that policy while I'm in the White House.  

Meanwhile, it is revealed that one of my children has failed a grade at school and is illiterate (a situation that seriously depreciates his life chances in the future).  However, I still maintain that I will pursue my policies at the national level and possibly force this lack of choice on you and your children.

Can you see how liberals- who may or may not support abortion but see how it's a personal CHOICE- may have a problem with Palin's candidacy and the fact that her teenage daughter is pregnant?

I'm simply trying to bring reason here.  Stop for a moment and at least consider understanding how that might make liberal bristle a little and stop being so defensive over your new pseudo messiah-mamma.

Cheers!  See you at the Obama inauguration!

On September 2 and September 3, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News each dedicated more on-air time -- significantly more in most cases -- to official Republican convention programming during the most-watched portions of their coverage than each channel dedicated to official convention programming during the same times on comparable nights of the Democratic National Convention.

(so much for the "biased liberal media")

next?

the highlight of last night's acting performances by the GOP were the people waving McCain hand puppets among the cheering people in the audience. 
how apropos.

too funny.

The GOP's use of the films showing the extreme tragedy of 9-11 was not only in poor taste-to use this to re-inflict this pain for political gain is inexcusable. 
To mock "a community organizer" is  not only an insult to those in community service- who work to help others help themselves- it is a direct contradiction of the GOP's "theme" of "COUNTRY FIRST"
Again, the GOP have nothing to say and prove it every day.
They want to change...yeah, they do... they want to change their sox but wear the same pair of worn out shoes.

You know, if you put on a clean pair of pants over dirty underwear-it does not change the fact that you still have on dirty underwear.

1. I really, really like Palin.
2. Obama was pretty much “cooked” after refusing to put Clinton on his ticket.
3. With a “safe” veep choice (Pawlenty, Romney, etc.) McCain would now be waay ahead (3-5 points in the polls = 10-15 points in reality – given the super-sized Bradley Effect of 10+ points I believe is likely in this case.)
4. By selecting Palin, McCain took a huge risk – enabling the establishment media’s mean-spirited smear-campaign about “mayor of Wasilla – population 9,000 – as a seconds’ notice stand-in for a 72 year old president with history of melanoma.”
5. Obama’s current 5% advantage in the poll (= at least 5% advantage for McCain – according to my theory) is a reflection of “normal people” (the ones who have real lives and are paying as little attention to politics as possible) are right now little more hesitant Obama than about Palin (whom I think they like) being a heartbeat from the presidency.
6. Media-sharks will not relent and Palin will have some bad days. With the mass-hysteria the dems can create if there is any “blood in the water” a lot of ordinary people can get even more hesitant about McCain-Palin ticket – enough to make it really interesting on election night.
 
On the other hand: McCain’s (“hot dog pilot – damn the SAMs”) choice of Palin:
A. Created a possible setting for a campaign with 2 icons of “real America” (a war hero and a hockey mom) running against the liberal establishment (the media, the chattering classes and the D.C. rot – in that order of amount damage done to the country). That’s a campaign I have been looking forward to – since the first Reagan election.
B. We might have an “orderly” succession/transition scenario emerging here. (Was I the only one who noticed Palin’s comment about “McCain being the kind of president America needs for the next FOUR years”? IF we are reasonably lucky – with Palin “surviving” the shark-attacks and McCain staying around for at least a couple more years to allow Sarah some “on the job training” for presidency – we might have some really good years (for Republicans and -- much more importantly -- for the Country) between 2012 and 2020.

toe ya ho, get a job.

I think it's fair to question picking someone who is currently under investigation.  Being under investigation in and of itself is not a crime.  Not even close.  The questionable part is that investigations can dig up embarrassing items.  Emails, testimony, phone records etc.  Investigations can veer off to some unrelated, uncharted waters too.  Given the recent corrupt environment up in Alaska, public officials were used to running wild.  With all due respect to the Alaska press corps, the public servants up there did not feel threatened by public exposure.  No one was operating with the idea that the national media would be coming in and examining their every move.  Even if nothing comes of this investigation there is going to be some evidence gathered that suggests that Mrs. Palin is not exactly the reformer she claims to be.  Last time I checked, using your position of power to influence the outcome of personal matters is Washington Politics 101.  Firing someone when they don't play ball in your favor takes it to another level.  I think she was a tremendous risk, bordering on reckless on McCain's part.  It is fair to question his judgment about her choice and exposing his campaign to her investigation.  She will probably weather the storm but you will see the word "reformer" fade away from Grandma Palin's little bio.  And BTW, why do we want someone who has come out of the most corrupt republican scenario in the country?  Countless times I've heard you cons insinuate or charge that because Barack came out of "Chicago Politics" he is somewhat or outright tainted by its corrupt past.  It seems like all that you attacked Barack with over the last 19 months is embodied in Grandma Palin.  Interesting.

i for one am totally rejoicing at mccain's pick of govenor palin for vice president. she totally personifies the values that my husband and i have been trying to teach my children. it will be nice for once to have the "real deal" as far as faith guided leadership in the whitehouse... someone who walks the walk. w was a good start but govenor palin seals the deal. "a vote for sarah is a vote for jesus" -- hallelujah!!!!!!

sarahisawesome,

You are exactly what Father Time and the Grandma are looking for.  I think everything you just said was perfectly legit (even the part about W, even though you are dead wrong) up until you evoked Jesus Christ as favoring an candidate or a party.  Please site the Bible passage that endorses or even mentions democrats or republicans.

sarahisawsome- Have you read the constitution?  

People like you have scared me into quitting my association with the church.  I no longer even wear the cross that my mother gave me lest anyone think that I'm a wingnut like you.

Oh, and sarahisawsome, do you teach your children to get pregnant in high school as well?  Has social services visited you lately?

Linda...what's with the name-calling? 

when you have nothing- you feel it necessary to attack my personal life- a life about which you know NOTHING.
you make claims that you cannot back- when asked for an example of your nonsense claim, you refused to do so

ptfairfax, that is so offensive to me i canot even begin to tell you how i feel about that. we teach our children biblical values which includes abstinence. govenor palin supports this and so does w! and no social services does not visit my house. they dont need to my four children are happy and healthy. poor bristol is all i can say, i hope that the situtation does not cause some people who want to vote for john mccain not to vote for him. govenor palin's values are OUR VALUES!!!!!!!

@sarahisawesome

Don't mind the libs that come here and smack talk.  They attack me all the time and I laugh.  You are right on (pun intended) and I thank you for contributing. 

toe you are pathetic stop whining. 

pfft.

unlike you, i actually know about that which i speak.
go watch your soaps.  they are about as real as your thinking.

Go Sarah!  I'll take a hockey grandmom over a Harvard Law Constitutional Scholar any day!  After all, I am an American idiot.

Winston,  perhaps you have not heard of my campaign.  I am also a grandma...and I went to Berklee.  I play air hockey too!

sarahisawsome- here's the way that I see it- 
If I had a belief system that required my kids to watch 6 hours of television a day, despite the fact that research and common sense supports the notion that it's detrimental to their development, I still have the right to do so.  Correct?

However, if I held public office and continually supported legislation that required your children to watch 6 hours of television a day, then I would be out of line.  Are you following?

If I was then put on a national ticket and promised to pass legislation that required all children to watch 6 hours of television a day- and the next day it came out that my son was illiterate and had failed out of high school, then I think it would be a relevant topic of discussion.  

As a feminist scholar, I am unnerved by the notion that Sarah Palin is a feminist.  Having 2 X chromosomes and full time job does not make one a feminist!  Feminist theory is far reaching and covers a lot of different perspectives, but one basic tenant lies at the heart of it- the idea that women be given the right to determine their own destiny.  This includes the right to vote, the right to remain single and still support themselves, the right to make moral decisions for themselves.  It means that policies, practices, and - yes- laws treat men and women equally.  That is the basic tenant of feminism.  Sarah Palin is not a feminist.

I respect your choices - please respect mine.

I think Annette Benning and Waren Beatty are Republicans.

Toe - you went to UC Berkeley? That explains it all!! 

no, Mr. UC. Berklee- 
Look it up. 
As much as I detest having to do all of your work for you here is a little
hint:  Berklee is in Boston.

(good grief, and you people look up to him)

"when you have nothing- you feel it necessary to attack my personal life"

Toe, you are the exact prototype of a mixed up lib.  You nitwits are attacking Palin's family with blatent insults and smears and you are outraged when someone calls you names?  Boo hoo.  If its good enough for you moonbats its fair game for all.  LOL

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

HYPOCRISY!

YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS

Toe - lol, my mistake. I thought it was a typo on your part.  Unfortunately, I don't have the time to research every bit of information about everyone who comments here.  So, your common defense to everything (look it up --- do your research -- blah blah blah) is not realistic for someone who has a busy life like myself.

And if you detest "doing my work for me", i must ask:

WHY ARE YOU HERE?

When libs actually use their communist rags to prove their point is just too priceless.  Elvis must still be alive because the Star or the National Enquirer says its so. LOL.  Just proves one again that the dems are so messed up.  In a year where this election was to be handed to them they blow up.  How about McCain getting more the 500,000 viewers for his speech than that Obamumist?  I find that quite refreshing.

P.S.  Now that Obama and Palin have "historic" speeches under their belts, this should automatically qualify her for the VP.  After all, your buddies, primarily Hillary, said that was Hussein's sole qualification.  What a great year to be a conservative!

See you libs in the White House for the next 16 years!!!!

@ptfairfax

you can't post flash in the comments, dumb a$$.

Yet the dingy detective will most likely believe anything that fox news reports....and that John McCain is an agent of change.

David

AGAIN you show the lib character trait at being WRONG on every turn.  According to your 1st grade insightful theory than you must have O gasams listening that "Often reported but never fact checked" NPR. 

Just because you are devoid of thought and use names to insult me, you are still the chief Barking Mad Moonbat we all though existed but never saw.  Thank you, David.   LOL

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

Okay- here you go. Explain this one you hypocrites.

I'm starting to get used to the name "President Obama" lmao

Why won't this let me post a link to a video?  What are you afraid of?  Call me a dum*as* but this site won't allow video links to be posted.

President Obama is coming!  We got the GOP whipped.

I find it disheartening that religious conservatives have placed such hope in the nomination of Sarah Palin. Unfortunately they have been put on the receiving end of a calculated and strategic move by the McCain campaign, orchestrated by the cynical, winner take all proteges of Karl Rove who are running his campaign. The 'pitbull with lipstick' was solely selected to energize the conservative base. If elected, Ms. Palin will have lots of time to attend her children's hockey games, consult with her lawyers, field dress a moose, and knit booties for her grandchild; because regardless of all the hope placed in her by the conservative right, Ms. Palin will be on a very short lease in a McCain administration, and she won't be making 'executive' decisions. The model of the Cheney vice presidency will be laid aside for the historically normative one of executive branch clerk and figurehead at Congress. Policy will be made by McCain over lunch in the Oval office,consulting with his first and favored choice, Joe Lieberman. The 'maverick' has dally-upped, and is acting crazy as a fox. Despite my politics which most here disagree with, as an American I hate the ruthless manipulation of any constituency's political aspirations for the expediencies of politics. 

Sarah Palin is a shark, but her party has already been "tanked," because the country wants nothing to do with "more of the same." 
I trust her about as much as I do Obama, and the two would have made perfect running mates. 

Get ready, America. Soon, you will be riding your camels to work and the only concern you will have about America will be it's new name. What language will it be spelled in?
  

@Mr UC, you said:
"And if you detest "doing my work for me", i must ask:
WHY ARE YOU HERE?"

as a matter of fact, I have already answered this previously- but for those of you who need to be told more than once:  when non-factual  "information"  is put here as fact, I will call you on it ...every single time.   if you base your "opinions" based upon lies - which have been placed here even by your host- I have called you on this as well.   the only way you (the collective "YOU") are going to be able to make an educated decision is to educate yourselves.  if you insist upon taking some "talking head's impression of what they thought they heard- rather than listening for YOURSELF the entire speech-  and formulating your own impressions, you will continue to be at the mercy of those who will take advantage of your ignorance.

Thank you Toe!

The best line in this year's Republican convention came from Mike Huckabee. Confronting all the gossip about Palin's lack of experience he stated the following fact:

*Sarah Palin got more votes running for mayor of Wasila, Alaska, than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.

In fact, Biden got some 9000 votes in this year's Democratic primary. (By the way, Hillary Cliton, who was passed over for the VP slot, got 18 million).

And Biden has run for president before, in 1987. Most people have forgotten (or never knew) about Biden's earlier run, but The Economist unceremoniously reminds us in the August 28 edition. In that race, Biden not only borrowed a speech from Niel Kinnock, the British Labor leader, and presented it as his own. He even plagiarized Kinnock's life story, claiming to be the first in his family to go to college and that his ancestors worked in a coal mine. Of course, when this came out, Biden's campaign collapsed like a house of cards.

You've got to wonder when and how Biden will blow up in this race. It could get quite spectacular.

Apart from the Huckabee kick, Sarah Palin's own speech was quite a ride. She went after Obama in a way no one has done before, exposing the hypocrisy and self-aggrandizement. A couple of good ones off the top of my head:

- Obama has written two auto biographies but not authored a single significant bill
- "We prefer people who don't speak to us one way when they're in Scranton and then in another way when they're in San Francisco" (a dig at Obama's "bitter" comments)
- "Here's a candidate who can give an entire speech about the war in Iraq without once mentioning the word Victory, except when he talks about his own campaign".
- "I guess a mayer is sort of like a community organizer, except you have actual responsibilities".

The reason why the media and the left wing bloggers are going so hard after Palin is because she's dangerous. They all expected an Obama coronation in November, with the elections a minor nuisance on the path to glory. If you saw the Obama Europe tour earlier this year, you may even have thought he'd skipped the US presidential elections all together and was running for world president.

But now this woman comes along and throws a wrench in the plans. Palin is something very unusual in this campaign: She comes across as genuine, a fighter who has taken unpopular positions, fought corruption in her own party, and thrown out incumbents. She connects extremely well with ordinary folks. So clearly the left needs to discredit her achievements. They're throwing the kitchen sink at her and is looking to see what sticks.

The real danger to Obama's campaign here is that Palin is about to reveal what has been the case the whole time: Obama is not the agent of change he proclaims. In his first important decision as candidate, he picked Biden, the 36-year Washington insider, as his sidekick.

And looking at Obama's record, nothing points to the kind of post partisanship or change he talks about all the time. In fact, he completely squandered the opportunity to clean up Chicago politics when he was a state senator (something that would have provided real benefits but also earned him enemies in his own party). He never stood up to the old boys network in Chicago politics, and he has no achievements at all to talk about in the US senate. (By the way, he's been a member of the US senate for 3 1/2 years, half of which (at least) was spent campaigning for president. So I guess that gives him about 1 1/2 years of actual "experience" in the senate.)

The democrats are in trouble and they know it. If Obama loses the freshness and "change" veneer you've got to wonder what is left of his campaign.

http://www.scepticalrepublican.blogspot.com

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/03/analysis-gop-contradicts-self-on-palin-family/

I like Sarah Palin alot, but I didn't like this stuff she said about taking care of other people's retarded kids.  I don't want to be taxed to pay for other people's kid's medical problems.  That's socialism.  Here in my town, they spend way more on all the retarded kids schooling and then there is no money for the football team or basketball team.  Why do these retarded kids even go to a school?  Its a waste of money.  And I know that they spend lots of tax money on medical care.  If some older woman wants to have a baby then she can go ahead and pay with her own money if the baby is born retarded.  I am against abortion, don't get me wrong, it is just plain wrong and not Republican to make other people pay for your retarded kid.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the state of the republican party brought to you by Mr. Clifford Andersen.  He says he's against abortion which is ironic because his very existence is a strong case for it.