Sarah Palin, of course, has a baby with Down's Syndrome that her family loves to death. And speaking of whom, McCain's choice of Palin was simply brilliant. It's turned me (and millions of other conservatives) from "I guess I'll vote for McCain" to an enthusiastic McCain-Palin supporter. I had resigned to the fact that McCain could no way beat Obama (who's a great guy but probably the most liberal candidate ever nominated by the Democrats, and least experienced too), and now McCain is ahead in the polls for the first time. Maybe Rudy Guiliani's super great speech helped with that too. (Although Sarah Palin's speech steals the show.)
Today there's an opinion article in the Evergreen that Palin's decision to "keep her child" was purely political. My response was something to the effect of "!?!?!?!?!!?!!?!?!!!" (Just ask my roommate.) The idea that people even would consider not "keeping a child" is absolutely appalling to me, although it happens all the time with Down's children. But to suggest that she didn't have an abortion because it was politically expedient is nonsense. She didn't have an abortion because it goes against every thing she believes. And that helps explain why I'm a huge fan of Palin.
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Obama is not remotely the most liberal candidate nominated - Dukakis, Mondale, McGovern were all much more liberal than the rather moderate Obama.
Further, Obama is hardly the least experienced candidate, though he doesn't have much, neither did Lincoln. Also, Bush really didn't have any experience either... unless skipping going AWOL and running Texas into the ground counts as experience.
Palin has much less regardless of her experience as a 'mayor' of a 'city' or her work as a 'governor' of a state - and her numerous interviews sure reflect her 'wide' knowledge of the world. Plus for someone who believes in education you would think that she would at least understand a bit about modern science.
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