So here I was, watching the morning political returns on Obama’s speech on last Thursday when McCain announces that he had picked Sarah Palin, a literal no one from Alaska to be his VP pick. Talk about shooting Craps, McCain has rolled the dice looking for a hard double 4’s on a center bet.

Now, McCain has pandered in the past, but here is the mother of all panders… he is pandering to women, pro life, pro gun, religious right, fiscal conservatives, and the confused all at once. Now mind you the pro life and pro gun stance always kind of struck me as a funny combo, but what the hey. But the stance that I find interesting is that even her being pro life, can’t she also be pro condom?

OK, in today’s world having five kids is out of the norm. According to the 2000 census, the US averages 1.86 kids per family. Alaska averages 1.97 kids per family. Now, I know she is pro life, but does she have to populate the state herself? Five kids is not family planning, it is wishful thinking and bad timing. What is she teaching the female children of Alaska anyway… go have sex and pray you don’t get pregnant? That seems to be her method. She falls into the old joke… what you call a girl on the rhythm method? A mother.

Worst of all she is imprinting this on her eldest daughter who is 5 months along and unmarried. I don’t have a problem with the unmarried part, it is rather that I am for contraception for people too young and too stupid to realize that results of fornicating before being in a steady and stable relationship. Again, I do not care if they get married, that is for then to deal with, but if this girl is going to get married just because she got pregnant, we got a morals problem and to be honest, an intelligence issue.

So, Sarah, future grandmother… did you never talk to your daughter about condoms? Did you never talk to your daughter about contraception of any type? Did you trust the schools to teach your daughter what she needed to know about pregnancy? Or did you just leave it all in God’s hands and close your mind to the upbringing of your daughter Bristol? Really, I think you got to answer this one because it shows your level of responsibility, because let’s face it, Alaska is not that difficult to govern.

As for the tragic rumor about your youngest son Trig, if it is true that he is your daughters child, you have some issues to deal with and where to you get off trying to be VP? If they are false, maybe you need to learn more about pregnancy and change your stance on abortion a bit. If you knew in advance that your child was to be born with Downs Syndrome, don’t you think it is unkind to bring a life into this world that will know little joy and too much grief? There are times abortion is worth considering.