She’s the new face of Republicanism. She flies in the face of the left’s stereotypes about us, that we’re all old white men who think women should stay home and cook dinner for their husbands.

She’s tougher than Obama and Biden added together and multiplied by five.

She’s smart, attractive, and extremely well-spoken, she represents our party and our gender better than any conservative woman–or any female politician–I’ve ever seen.

She has men and women both hanging on her every word. Talk about a bully pulpit!

You show your ignorance big-time in your polemic-but-not-backed-with-evidence assertions.

You prove your ignorant willingness to say more than you know when you refer to the host of this blog as “he” (#23). Obviously, you’re neither a regular at this blog nor have you bothered to notice
http://lashawnbarber.com/about/ or LaShawn’s self-references.

But I guess it takes intellect like yours to be convinced by Obama.

1. She appears to be on the side of issues I think correct.

2. She has a record of acts which are consistent with her expressed beliefs. To take your list:
* She is pro-life….
She and her husband elected/committed to continue the pregnancy and to raise and love the child, even knowing he was Down’s Syndrome. They took a course with their daughter that is pro-life, at a time, btw, that having their unmarried, underage daughter pregnant was VERY inconvenient.
* She opposes the use of government funds to kill the unborn.
* She opposes embryonic stem cell research.
* She believes marriage is defined as between only a man and a woman.
1 husband, 5 kids; not the other way around.
* She supports teaching Intelligent Design in government schools.
* She supports the constitutional right to bear arms.
She owns guns and uses them correctly (for useful purposes).
* She believes in a market-based approach to health care.
With personal experience in small business, she understands the value of a market-based economy. (This applies to her views on the economy, not only to healthcare.)
* She is pro-military and believes in strong national defense.
Her own son is in the military, and shipping to Iraq. She is CINC of the AK NG, and thus knows more about the military and its workings than Biden.

My impression is that she’s genuine, and everything I’ve seen since the announcement has supported that (and I’m too cynical–I’ve seen too much for too long–to be easily impressed.

I’m going to start out disputing with you: You say, “I am one voter with an opinion, and I doubt I will influence anyone.”

Yeah, right! It appears that a lot of people listen carefully to what you say. That’s because you’ve earned the respect of so many of us precisely because you have no fear of doing exactly what you’ve done here, express your own well-informed and wisely thought-through opinion, without regard to what the majority are saying.

We as a nation NEED people like you to make yourself heard. I’m only going to touch upon the subject of this thread right now, the part where it’s relevant to what I’m disputing with you:

What I’ve always liked about McCain is his willingness to stand for what he believes. He has promised us change we can live with (whether we believe in it or not), and by selecting another maverick, also with a track record of positive change (aside to Obama/Biden, and Pelosi: Bringing back the Democrats’ status quo to replace the Republicans’ status quo is not change), he has shown those of us who weren’t quite sure about him that he means what he says.

You are like that, a maverick, one who is different when being the same is not good (vs. just being different) and that’s what I’ve liked about you since I first happened across your blog. We need persons, not sheeple. We need leaders in thought and reason. Okay, so you’re not on the “national scene”. Even so, you have influence, and your influence is all the weightier because you’ve earned it, rather than bought it with campaign advertising.

And so when I heard about the Palin selection, I couldn’t wait to see what you were saying–and you weren’t here! Bummer!

I hope you’re getting settled in to your new home. I came here when I was already way too late to read everything (could have saved a lot of frustration by just not coming now), so I’ve only glanced at your personal update and don’t know the latest. More here and there when I’m able.

Seriously. Just to address the tangential issues…

1. ‘Macroevolution’ (which is what YECs like me have some problems with) has not yet been proven. Remember, to prove ‘macroevolution’ (as opposed to ‘microevolution’, which is simply natural selection at work and not something anyone serious doubts), you have to prove abiogenesis AND speciation caused by accumulation of NEW, USEFUL traits, as well as the NATURAL, RANDOM (or BY CHANCE), UNDIRECTED processes by which this can occur. The closest I’ve seen so far are
(a) The possibility of ‘creating’ something resembling life from fatty acids and other organic materials and
(b) Bacteria gaining the ability to metabolise something they ordinarily cannot, with no clear source of foreign genetiic material they could have incorporated into their own.

Which is a far cry from what is truly needed.

2. The pro-life platform is like this; we do not want to kill ‘innocent’ human life insofar as it can be prevented. We believe (for many Christians, at any rate, and no small number of others) that human life, like all life, begins at conception. And unless the unborn child is clearly threatening the life of the mother, then he/she is ‘innocent’.
As to the death penalty? Those who support it obviously believe that such a human is not ‘innocent’. I, for myself, say that if such a person is convicted beyond a shadow of a doubt (not reasonable doubt) for serial murder in his right mind, then the death penalty is indeed right.
As to war, are you kidding? Do you know how much restraint is on American soldiers through the ridiculous concept of ‘Rules of Engagement’? Accidents occur. People, even members of the armed forces, snap. There are bad eggs everywhere. Shit happens too – sometimes it is NOT avoidable/preventable. And guess what? There is a court martial, all sorts of investigations, a great deal of hassle withal.

Now, back to the real issue. What I like about Governor Sarah Palin as VP candidate? About the best choice McCain could have made for the country. Plus, everything else already said.

I think Roland Martin made an interesting observation during a discussion at the RNC about this very thing.

I hope she is not of the school that the earth is 5000 years old and all the dinosaur fossils are dragon’s or something.

I think the Lord’s creation is more than we can comprehend and it would not be much of a creation if we could comprehend all of it.

Levin points out the following irony; “Now tell me again which party seeks refuge in theology when it doesn’t like the facts that science helps us know.”

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzE4Y2U4MzBjOGY3ODMzMDEyOTdlZmU5Y2Y2YWQwNWE=

I just couldn’t keep quiet.