On Sarah Palin

Here are some interesting opinions the Republican candidate used to hold. Just a few:

1. Complete the sentence by checking the applicable phrases (you can check more than one).
Abortion should be:
Banned throughout entire pregnancy.
Legal to save the life of the mother.
Legal in case of rape and incest.
Legal if the baby is handicapped.
Legal if the baby has a genetic defect.
Legal in the first trimester.
Legal in the second trimester.
Legal in the third trimester.
Other:__________________

SP: I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctor’s determination that the mother’s life would end if the pregnancy continued. I believe that no matter what mistakes we make as a society, we cannot condone ending an innocent’s life.

So she favors forcing a raped woman to carry her rapist's child? Wow, that's pretty cold.

2. Will you support the right of parents to opt out their children from curricula, books, classes, or surveys, which parents consider privacy-invading or offensive to their religion or conscience?

SP: Yes. Parents should have the ultimate control over what their children are taught.

The problem is that many parents don't want their children to learn things that they need to know. Little Jimmy won't be able to 'opt out' of evolution questions on his SAT, mom.

3. Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?

SP: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.

Abstinence-based sexual education doesn't work. Not to mention that some parents don't do a very good job! That's one of the problems with Republican idealism.

11. Are you offended by the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?

SP: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.

Heh. What, are you kidding me? Now I'm guessing that the defense will be that she was referring to the words 'Under God' with this answer, but it sure looks like she thinks that the founders wrote the Pledge. (hint: they didn't) The words 'Under God' weren't even part of the Pledge until the 1950s.