Evidently McCain was set to pick Senator Joe Lieberman. Some say that he had already asked Lieberman. The Christian Right objected vociferously. To satisfy them and to gain their support, McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin, a person of the Religious Right, ostensibly without much investigation of her background.
Think about this. First McCain picks Lieberman who is not even a Christian - he is Jewish - and then switches to Palin, who claims that U.S. was founded as a Christian nation. From a non-Christian to an extremely devout Evangelical Christian! Furthermore, it appears that she was active in the Jews for Jesus movement which uses subterfuge to convert Jews to the Christian faith.
This is CYNICISM! It shows that McCain does not live by principle. One tack will do as well as another, as long as it works. Straight shooter? Please. All politicians are to some extent cynical. But this cynicism beats any other political move from either Democrats or Republicans.
Evidently Palin is a cynic like McCain. She is against abortion even in trhe case of rape. She does not believe in choice. She wants to strike down Roe vs. Wade. Yet she told her daughter that she had a choice: have the baby or not. Others don't have a choice but she does.
What bothers me most about the Palin selection is that it signals that the Culture War continues. Didn't we have enough of it? Isn't it time to seek what unites us instead of what divides us? For awhile, McCain's pronoucements let me believe that this is so.
I was wrong.
To avoid continuation of the Culture War, or at least reduce its vehemence, don't vote for McCain. Vote for Obama.
