Sarah ******* Palin? Follow

I don't get it. Totem and Jo are both Republicans.

Isn't your party supposed to be the one which stands united with a common purpose and goal?

All I know is that I am getting pretty tired of hearing the word "maverick".

Meh.

Hi sockpuppet. Yes, I'm one of those crazy childfree people. But let me correct some basic misconceptions you have.

I've slept with one man my entire life, and we've been together for six years. I believe that's called a monogomous relationship. One of these days we'll get married, or not, doesn't matter to me so much because we both consider marriage an archaic institution designed to determine what child gets what property. No children makes that sort of a moot point. He's with me 110% on this; if we ever change our minds and want to take care of another human being that needs it, we'll become foster parents. Either way, as soon as I turn 30 I'm getting my tubes tied, and therefore will never have to worry about birth control (which I use) or abortions (which I thankfully have never had to have yet) again.

I am voluntarily removing myself from the gene pool, because 1. My genes are @#%^ed up from being born to my own mother so late (I have three visible mutations and a whole host of invisible ones, I'm sure) 2. Mental illness runs in my family and my fiance's family 3. I'd be a sh*tty mother anyway. I can barely remember to change my cat's litterbox.

See, the nice thing about not believing in creationist nonsense is that you don't view humanity in a vacuum. You realize that the human genome is just one part of a long line going back millions of years. You realize that your own genes really aren't any better than anyone else's; in fact, in many cases they're a lot worse if you're from a family riddled with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder like I am. You study early embryology, and stop believing in any voodoo nonsense about a soul mythically entering an ovum the second a sperm cell manages to penetrate. You also learn that most such pregnancies are terminated by the female body early on, so technically, God kills more babies than anyone else. Two thirds of successfully merged ovum never make it to implantation even in a healthy, monogomous woman. When that happens, a woman's body just flushes it away like it does to the uterine lining (which, by the way, is shed regularly to prevent infections in the endothelium, not because of any curse or anything.)

You can call it murder all you want, but that same genetic material is inside every single hair on your head, every fingernail, every toenail, every skin cell, every blood cell. In a fertilized egg, the DNA is combined with that of another person is all, and about half the genetic material is lost. So many things can go wrong during that recombination process that the body quickly detects it and gives up.

I'm pro-choice, which means I believe that a woman has the right to decide 1. If she is ready to become a mother 2. If the child she is carrying is severely disabled, whether she wants to to carry it to term. It's a decision that should of course be made with the input of the father -- if he's still around -- but ultimately the final choice belongs to the woman. If you want me to go there, I'll say it -- God made it that way. There are enough natural abortificants in the world that women have been ending pregnancies one way or another for thousands of years.

Edited, Aug 30th 2008 10:02am by catwho

Another graduate of the Varus school of wit.

i wont pretend to understand mccains pick for vp. mayor of a town smaller than my incorperated subdivision, govoner to a state with half as many people as most mid sized towns.......with a budget operating always in the green due to contributions for oil companies for drilling there........

= zero usefull experience..........

granted, there is the disenfranchised clinton supporter angle. but she doesnt hold a candle to hillary. not even in the same ballpark. not even in the same league. its like comparing a pony you ride at a kiddie park to a quarterhorse in a states race.

and it did totally upstage the record breaking viewership to the DNC convention. totally. in an instant.

but to bet the whitehouse on a political stunt and assuming clinton supporters wont see the differance between hillary and her just because they both have breasts?

the dems are celebrating mccains choice just as hard as the repubs are. a true bipartisan decision.

Couldn't (and shouldn't) the same be said of those who vote for McCain just to keep a black man out of office? Or those that vote for Obama solely to have our first black president?

Biden actually ran for the nomination of his party before, and Palin did not.

That's your difference.



Edited, Aug 30th 2008 12:05pm by catwho

Well, I did listen to a few interviews of her last night. She seems big on the Alaskan oil. And at least she's well spoken. Maybe McCain needs a young, beautiful face that could speak well to convey his ideas to the masses?

Cheney did it when he decided to run with Dubya.

The difference being that Biden actually brings something to the administration. When Obama announced for Biden, the Chicago Tribune put it this way "Perhaps poor politics but good government". In other words, Biden might not have been the best vote-collector but he was a good choice for the slot from the perspective of who brings the best stuff to the job.

Palin's the opposite. She brings nothing to the job and was selected as a novelty. Her sole purpose is to collect votes, not to be an effective government official.

Like I said, political experience aside, she's eye candy, and sure to get more TV time for his campaign.

This is America. From the time you step out of graduate school, and into a political position, every single step you take, every move you make, is watched, scrutinized, recorded, and put on Wikipedia. She's a nobody to the public. She's not a nobody.

Honestly, you're thinking far too into it... there's no grand strategy behind picking her as the VP. It was done for material (well, relatively material) gain of the votes of depressed Clintonites that have nowhere else to turn.

IE blows. No spell checker ftl