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I swear, I'm going to stop as soon as the novelty of how astoundingly stupid a choice McCain made wears off...

The Washington Post reports that Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms.

The article states:

Earlier today the Associated Press reported that Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, opposed funding to prevent teen pregnancies, a position that Palin also took as governor. "The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," she wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates.

So let's put this all together. It seems Sarah Palin believes...

• You shouldn't fund sex-ed or birth control programs (presumably because abstinence works until marriage)
• If you get pregnant, you shouldn't have the right to choose, even in the case of rape or incest
• Should you get pregnant, despite the fact that the government stood in the way of programs that would have helped you avoid getting pregnant, and it stands in the way of your ability to make early term decisions about your pregnancy, and that you might be running away from a broken home where you were raped, you're on your own if you have no where to go with your child.

Is it ironic, or merely tragic, that her own daughter didn't know enough about birth control to use it, that even in a ultra-conservative household, abstinence didn't work?

How is it "compassionate" or "conservative" to pay lip service to the sanctity of human life and then with the stroke of a pen, and in the name of lower taxes (Jebus praise the almighty dollar!), strike down funding for programs that would assist that sanctified life once it's here and present?

If it's worth protecting in the womb, it's worth protecting once it's born, with health insurance, and social programs to help single mothers and their children get back on their feet!

To believe you possess some kind of clairvoyant ability to legislate morality, then subsequently stubbornly to ignore obvious evidence that dogma doesn't change human nature, and yet maintain that those who have fallen through the cracks you helped create don't deserve your help, smacks of something that can be classifed in the DSM-IV.

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What Republicans Really Think of the Palin Pick

The hot video on YouTube right now is a MSNBC clip where republican talking heads Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy are caught thinking their mics are turned off during a commercial break:

Murphy: You know, because I come out of a blue, swing-state governor world. Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, I mean... And these guys, this is all like how you win a Texas race, you know, just run it up. It's not going to work.
Noonan: It's over.
Murphy: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech and do himself some good.
Chuck Todd: I think this was insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson ... She's never looked comfortable with this.
Murphy: They're all bummed out.
Todd: I mean, is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
Noonan: The most qualified? No. I would think they went for the, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives....
Todd: Yeah, they went to narratives.
Noonan: Every time Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
Murphy: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism and this is cynical...
Todd: ...and gimmicky.

In a few seconds, they call it a cynical, calculated gimmick that's going to fail. By talking about Hutchinson, they're admitting that McCain had to pick a woman, which means they had a limited choice of who to select from, and considering they ended up with the social conservative Palin, means that the Rush factor (having to placate the ultra-conservatives) was what this was about.

With this kind of conservative discontent, I'll make another "bold" prediction. This election is going to be a blowout. Obama is going to easily surpass 300 electoral votes (just short of 350), and the only double digit states that McCain will carry will be Arizona (natch), Texas, Missouri, Indiana, Tennesee, North Carolina and Georgia. Maybe McCain will get Ohio, but I think Obama will get Florida.

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