RNC

Sorry I didn't want to be a political blogger , but listening to the Republican National Convention speeches tonight has made my brain boil. I respect John Mccaine and believe he would be a much more competent president than than George W. Bush, but the same people touting him now are those who 8 long years ago told us that George W. Bush was a "reformer with results", and just what the country needed. Well, they had their chance and the U.S. is weak in the world and plagued with problems at home.

And I have a big problem with his V.P. pick, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Leave it to the conservatives to nominate a Womon for V.P. who would move us backward in time. Palin is someone who denies that Global Warming is real, yet govourns the state in which the evidence of climate change is overwhelming. She also questions Evolution, although all credible scientists agree on it's valididy. And I also will venture to comment on her 17 year-old daughter's pregnancy, although I understand the reluctance of the Obama campaign's reluctance to do so. Palin is one of the many social conservatives who advocate for "abstinence only" education for children and teens, meaning that young people in public schools would be denied information about, and access to, contraceptives. This strategy is wrong-headed and statistically ineffective. It is true that palin's daughter's personal decision's should not be under judgement, but people like Palin (who would select supreme court judges opposed to Roe V. Wade) would have reproductive decisions made by law for ALL women. Mccain is 72 and frankly could keel over, leaving this inexperienced "hockey-mom" in charge.

Mccain himself has never seen a war he wouldn't vote for, and is ambivalent on stemming climate change. The world (and history) will not forgive us if we elect our country backward.