You Insult My Intelligence, Madam

Ok. So I doctored the photo a little bit. It's not too far off, though.

First of all, I am insulted by McCain for choosing Sarah Palin for the VP slot as he feels it is in lieu of Hillary's absence that he will gain women voters because she is a woman. The GOP won't say it, but its politics, folks, they will only say what you want to hear, not their true agendas. This is why she was picked. It is the strategy of the party.

Also, to demonstrate that 47-year-old Barack Obama is too inexperienced to be president, McCain chooses 44-year old first-term governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. WTF?

Her stance is Pro-Life and Pro-War....not possible. These two labels are in direct conflict with one another. That's my first problem. You cannot claim to be Pro-Life if you are ok with the deaths of innocent civilians as "collateral damage" in an unjust war.

While I do agree that the pregnancy of Palin's 17-year old daughter is irrelevant to the main issues I have to ask....Abstinence Only Education? Are you serious? She wanted to cut funding for sex education in Alaskan schools. ANY funding cuts of education PERIOD are dangerous. So, instead of teaching the facts about sex, the consequences about sex, or the reasons why one feels the need to have sex, her idea is just to put a lock on the chastity belt. That worked out real well for her daughter. Any family that suppresses "the talk" in realistic terms is doing a disservice to their child. You could see that situation coming a mile away. Also, her daughter, by law, was statuatorily raped.

In a 2006 gubernatorial debate, the soon-to-be governor of Alaska Sarah Palin said of evolution and creation education, "Teach both. You know, don’t be afraid of education. Healthy debate is so important, and it’s so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both."

No. The separation of Church and State is in place for a reason. You want to have Creationism taught alongside evolution, then you also have to teach the origins from ALL OTHER religious perspectives. Science class has ceased to be science class and is now "comparative religion" class. A public school system funded by taxpayers who are not necessarily Christian should not teach anything religious. That's why you have church and Sunday school classes.

As recently as last year Sarah Palin was also involved with the Alaskan Independence Party and support(s)(ed) their fringe-group long-shot stand to secede from the lower 48 states.

Logically, anyone who is for a division like this in any way, shape or form is unfit to rule over the whole U.S. I also read that she had also attended a Libertarian meeting. Hmmmm.

Offshore Drilling: She's ready to call out the brigade to get to work without considering major funding initiatives for alternative energy sources such as hydrogen, which is a readily renewable resource that won't damage the environments and oceans and can be put into place with proper funding and attention.

I'm not 100% sure what her views are on gay rights, but I'm betting my money that she is "anti".

And finally, she is against abortion even in the cases of RAPE and INCEST. Presuming she has never been raped and add in that she is a rabid evangelical, it is really easy for her to make this blanket statement from her ivory tower. I find it militant and anti-woman and anti-Christ, really, because it is a militant stand against her fellow woman's options following an act of violence upon which the woman is a VICTIM, not a willing participant. That's ridiculous!

I can count on one hand the number of women I know who have been raped. I would never wish a pregnancy on any one of them that resulted out of the violence they experienced and would put my arm around them and take care of them with compassion. No child deserves to be told they were a product of rape. NONE. No woman should have to live with the psychological, physical or spiritual burden and scarring of carrying full term a life that will remind her daily that she was raped. I love babies but babies need to be LOVED back. Fully. By two parents who love EACH OTHER. People like Sarah Palin think women who have abortions don't have a tough choice to make. Or shed tears over the choice. Or have remorse. She is a whitebred elitist who needs to take a walk through a woman's shelter in the Southside of Chicago when she is not selling airplanes on ebay and talk to those women. She is used to a small town and a big house. She needs to speak to the women who have been raped at Planned Parenthood, who have been victims of incest. She is so far removed from the realities of large urban environments that she is not able to make the best decisions on behalf of those demographics.

All women considering voting for the GOP should take a second hard look at her stances.