Things one Can Glean from Palin’s 2006 candidate Questionaire

Here are things we can learn, or confirm, from Palin’s 2006 candidate questionaire that she filled out in her race for governor:

1. She is indeed in against abortion in all cases except for cases where the life of the mother is in danger, but not for rape or incest, putting her in the minority of the minority of Americans.

2. She is for abstenince-only education, which has proved itself to be utterly ineffective at actually preventing teen pregnancy.

3. She opposes hate crimes law since “all crimes are based on hate.”

4. She opposes giving benefits to same-sex couples

5. She thinks the founding fathers wrote the pledge of allegience (they didn’t, and the words “under god,” which was the topic of the question, wasn’t even orgionally in the pledge).

6. She sees defending the 2nd Amendment as one of her top 3 priorities in relationship to familes.

McCain to visit Mississippi to Get in the Way

I agree with most of my blogging brethren when I see this and think that McCain is an opportunist bastard:

Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, his wife, Cindy, and ticket-mate Sarah Palin were heading to Jackson, Miss., Sunday for a briefing at the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, which will monitor hurricane response.

I’m not sure why McCain needs a briefing.  President Bush, sure, but why McCain? He isn’t president yet.  Isn’t he being rather presumptuous by sending his lackies to Georgia to stir up trouble and to act like he’s actually in charge of anything by getting briefings like this?

And I also agree with Will Thomas on this:  McCain could potentially do a lot more good in his abandoned-since-April Senate seat than by going down to Mississippi and sucking up local police which will be required for security, instead of letting them do things like…evacuate people.

P.S. John McCain found a way to have neither Cheney nor Bush speak at his convention as well, though it probably ended up being a choice they had to make (though they could reschedule them for like Thursday or something)