Palin views on oil, polar bears, and abortion may be liabilities

A friend of a friend who knows Todd and Sarah Palin (their cabin is near the Palin's cabin) told me that Sarah Palin had amniocentesis when she was pregnant with her 5th child: the test came back positive for Down syndrome - but she went ahead anyway. I find this pretty disgusting!

First, why would anyone have more than 3 children? It's excessive and selfish, there are already too many people on this planet, if we all had 4 or more children, it would be a disaster.

Second, what kind of idiot gets pregnant at the age of 44 when they already have four children? It is common knowledge that the risk of Down syndrome goes up dramatically after the age of 40. Sarah should have known her eggs were getting old.

Third, why did she have amniocentesis anyway, if she was just going to ignore the results?

I suppose, as with everything else, Palin doesn't care, she just does whatever she damn well pleases, without any regard for anyone else. Everyone else has to pay for her arrogance.

I would really like some news organization to investigate this. The public needs to know what sort of monster this person truly is.

The man McCain is from a long lineage of warriors. His ancestry was resolute with war.
Hence the man was born into war. He runs his campaign as war is his touchstone to the people!

Born, raised and winding his life through in and about war, he tells his story...

It does not seem to matter to him that the Vietnam War in which he served, was an imperialistic national blunder to "stop communism from taking over the world!"
The pro war hype of that era would have the nation believe we were in grave danger- "fear" was once again the guiding light!

As a young boy. I witnessed this abomination of our nation going into war- “stop the communists, they are taking over the world!” That was the word of the day. "The domino effect will..."

McCain, to this day feels betrayed by the American peace movement as to why the Vietnam war was lost. This is familiar ground for the war culture that now has manifest itself in the Iraq War!
A war that McCain said we needed and voted for!

Yet another war that will go down historically as a political assignation of our constitution and our cultural beliefs!
Another huge loss of national equity and our beloved youth all because of political ego and the lack of political wisdom!

Wars are won or lost by the rightness of the participants! This is something viably important that McCain and conservatives don't grasp!

As our nations history goes- we have never lost a war when we were right but now we have lost wars because we were ideologically wrong! It's not just about military strength- its about wisdom and justice!

McCains campaign, and his video bio are sequenced within his life of war.

Service and gratitude of and for his country is based on his war experience.

His biography finally sequences into his career as an AZ. senator.
Twenty-six years of senatorial time are blurred into nothingness!

His voting record parallels the GOP- a 10% difference from the GOP is supposed to define his presidency, and his given name the “Maverick?”
His record cannot be hidden, his ideology is full of contradiction- flip flops!

President Bush said, “Im the War president, Im the War president!”
It most definitely seems there is another one named John McCain following in the wings!
I truly hope he is not the one!

McCain says he's different then Bush, he's not the same!
Yet who was in the program directors chair off the convention stage as though he were directing the entire RNC proceeding?

Karl Rove!
McCain is the same as Bush- divisive, self-righteous, a fist-swinger with no answers for change from the destitude that his own party has created!

Wanna lose? Vote McCain/Palin! They don't stand a chance, unless Diebold fixes it again...

WHY DO THE LEFT-WING SEXISTS DISMISS A WOMAN JUST BECAUSE SHE IS BEAUTIFUL! AND, WHY CANT'T THE LEFT WINGERS STICK TO THE FACTS INSTEAD OF MAKING UP LIES!

1.) SARAH PALIN TOOK ON THE BIG OIL COMPANIES, FORCING THEM TO SHARE THEIR PROFITS WITH THE POPULATION OF ALASKA.

2.) SARAH PALIN'S HUSBAND IS NOT AN "OIL TYCOON". HE IS A UNION WORKER ON THE PIPELINE. EXECUTIVES AS NOT UNION MEMEBERS!

3.) SHE IS A VERY ACTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIST. GET YOU FACTS STRAIGHT! JUST BECAUSE, SHE IS INFORMED AND INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT DRILLING FOR OIL HAS HAD A POSITIVE EFFECT ON THE WILDLIFE OF ALASKA, DOES NOT MAKE HER ANTI ANYTHING.

AGAIN, SARAH PALIN HAS ACCOMPLISHED MORE IN HER POLITICAL CAREER THAN ANY OTHER RECENT POLITICIAN. OBAMA HAS NOT ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING! HE HAS DONE NOTHING BUT RUN FOR OFFICE!

Wow, we're back in the 80's with Skeletor and Evil Lyn.

I didn't make this connection right away with Palin and big oil, but recall the unrest in the region in recent years because of ANWR. Perhaps the timing couldn't be better for the GOP ticket to endorse Palin and McCain. Obama will have to weigh the pros and cons of off shore drilling, as well as ANWR in the upcoming weeks ahead. But if he should choose to talk about the issue, should focus on the negative aspects of ANWR, and tapping American oil reserves as alternatives.

The numbers simply don't support off shore drilling as a viable option, and I feel most Americans won't buy the proposition, much less any dabbling within ANWR. You can't take a relatively localized issue, and make it a national crusade. I'm sure big oil would love Palin in there under ideal circumstances, but this isn't quite the time if the candidates are going to be truthful with their voters.

There is no chance in hell that a staunch Hillary supporter would vote for McCain. This nominee sounds like the kind of appointment that put a show horse judge in charge of FEMA.

The number one issue is who could step in to be President. That and the tie breaking vote in the Senate are the only two jobs of a Vice President according to the Constitution.

That should be the litmus test. The only test that really matters. Is the VP ready to step in and lead 300 million Americans when we are involved in two wars, face global challenges economically and have 8 years of unilateral aggression to dig our way out of?

To me, he was just looking for a woman VP to get some women's votes. I don't think it's going to work though...

you no brain dumbocraps are just hoping her conservative positions are liabilities.
but dream on cause your in for a rude wakening.
Most people aren't koolaid drinking dumbocrats and will find her positions refreshing as opposed to the bitter socialist hypocrites you guys are offering.

What this comes down to is....If the president dies..who do you want to take his place??

i am more comfortable and confident with Biden...
Palin is very very conservative so we would not see eye to eye on issues. I dont care about the drama in her life..or her inexperience...she would be a female bush and thats not for me!

im glad he picked Palen at least she believes in the second amendment and is pro life

There goes his argument of Obama being unexperienced.

Current Staffers:

Why are you continually bumping stories to the homepage and on to TV that smear the conservative candidates? Why is it that almost every story crawling up the homepage is anti-conservative? Hey, I've submitted some stories that are anti-liberal, why not bump those?

If you are going to call yourself a place for open discussion and if you are going to not specify that you have a liberal agenda, then why not bump at least...hmmm, let's see... ONE pro conservative story to your home page this year?

Tonight you finally pissed me off. Because for the first time in our nations history the republican party selected a woman as their VP. A progressive moment in history! And yet you choose to do nothing but slander her on your website and bump stories that smear her. Yeah, she may have policies that most on this site disagree with, but what gives? Why spend the whole day on your site smearing and discrediting her? It's fine if you will just admit you are a pro-obama website. But if you are going to claim political neutrality then show some balls and bump some stories that can provide some balance.

Is it Mario who replys to posts like this? Don't ignore this posting because I'll just keep asking for an answer.

I mean Current TV has a Journalism team right? You are trying to position yourselves as a source of independent journalism. How can you claim independence? I see zero effort to balance your content. It's your homepage for crying out loud! That may be the only thing anyone ever sees.

Obviously the majority of your viewers are liberal. Please nobody argue otherwise on that fact. But you have a responsibility if you claim political neutrality to balance your website and the content you are bumping. If not just state on your homepage what you are..."a place to smear conservatism."

And don't give me this algorithm bullshit either because you guys are internally bumping these stories all freaking day.

& If Republicans are trying to make McCain look younger with her next to him, its not working, stick with getting a lazor treatment every week.

So based on her views, McCain's choice of a Washington outsider who will bring change to government is actually bringing the same views as those of the insiders. How is this change?

Palin thinks polar bears are on the endangered list to prevent oil drilling. if they wanted to make up a link to prevent oil drilling, they should find evidence that oil drilling creates a social environment that leads to abortions. it is her gods unborn creatures that are of the greatest importance. to hell with the polar bears and their oil hating scientist. did dinosaurs live in Alaska millions of years ago? i like polar bears, never cared much about dinosaurs.

It would be very interesting if McCain will tell Americans what are his criteria in choosing Palin. And he should also remember that Americans are smart voters so he better prepare for a good explanation.

Wow what was he thinking,she has all most no experience, Obama has some and i can trust him and Biden has alot

McCain really would have done better to put the VP nomination up for a vote on the floor of the RNC, but he's a maverick and has to go it alone.

You might be right, Dab. She does have a tad more time under her political belt. Just enough to show us her NeoCon tendencies.

I'm not concerned with how great she makes you feel. You got your rock star. Kudos. It's just that she's a Steven-Tyler-on-Heroin rock star, not a John Lennon. You know... a complete let down both as a human being (to writ, her stance on abortion in the case of rape) and as a politician (Troopergate ring a bell?).

That is unless you enjoyed the last 8 years.

I'm sure I didn't.

I'm guessing that no one actually cares about the environment anymore? Barack, mccain, joe, and sarah.....its your wish if you truely want to die then...popularity from votes won't make such of a difference...

Those views will hurt her on Current.com, but to the base of the economic and socially conservative Republicans unhappy with Bush and lukewarm on McCain, those views are what they are looking for.

Call her what you wish..."hockey mom." Actually, she's the Governor of Alaska.

Discredit her experience? Actually she has more as a VP candidate as Barack has as a Presidential candidate. She's a Governor, runs the National Guard, and has used a Veto pen.

Argue this won't attract bitter Hillary voters? Argue until you're blue in the face but some will now for sure vote Republican, not all but some, and that's all McCain needs. This has now become a bigger story than Barack himself. This woman is going to become a bigger media sensation than Barack. Now the Republicans have not only their "soldier" but a "rock star" themselves. Politically Brilliant.

Spill the oil, kill the bears, and buy stock in foster homes, whats wrong with that?

OH AND

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will sue the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species."We believe that the listing was unwarranted and that it's unprecedented to list a currently healthy population based on uncertain climate models," says Alaska Assistant Attorney General Steven Daugherty.

To green groups, that argument is, shall we say, unimpressive. "Even the Bush administration can't deny the reality of global warming," says Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity. "The governor is aligning herself and the state of Alaska with the most discredited, fringe, extreme viewpoints by denying this." Palin's litigation comes mainly out of fear for Alaska's fossil-fuel-reliant economy, even though the wording of the Interior Department decision went to great lengths to ward off any new restrictions on oil and gas drilling.

It's sexest to say that McCain picked her just to get the female vote. And the fact that she has a background in oil shouldn't matter. The energy we invest in is up to us, the consumers.

There's a huge cultural schism here, that much is obvious. Though Alaska is part of the US, Alaskans have a much different view of the world than people in the lower 48 states. What seems like an important wilderness preservation to us, to Alaskans probably just seems like more wilderness in a state that's already something like 90% wilderness and twice the size of Texas.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for alternative energy and don't want the ANWR to be developed, but I can see how Alaskans might think that some of its 19,049,236 acres could be spared.

i say drill baby.1 hurricane, a natural occuring thing looming right now where i live,does much more damage than any drilling could ever think of

I like many others I watched Palin except the Vp nomination,and the whole time.One question remained in my mind.Is McCain serious??I could not help but burst into a fit of laughter.A hockey Mom form Alaska....!!She spent the majority of her time talking about all 10 of her children.(exaggeration I know) And was I the only one who heard the "White Power" outburst from the crowd.I really see McCain's pick as desperation. McCain you have signed, sealed, and delivered Obama as the next President of the United States of America.Thank you

If she had more foreign experience i'd like to see her on top of the ticket. She tried (or did) turn down the earmark for the bridge to nowhere, which is one of many poster children against earmarks.
Big deal her husband works for an oil company, at least he works in a real job and is a licensed fisherman.
So she should be for helping keep oceans and inland water clean and helping get oil from the wasteland called ANWAR.

Another sad attempt to pander to the lowest common denominator. What makes him think that women are just going to run over and vote for him just because he has a woman on the ticket? She pretty much is a republican patriarchy shill with her anti-choice, anti-fair wage stances.