They cannot seriously believe that the hatred they are inciting today will not adversely affect their ability to govern this country in the event that McCain wins the presidency. The reality is that they will be confronted with a greatly increased Democratic majority in Congress, which will not soon forget this campaign if they should win.

I don’t trust her – she may have a few things in her voting record I agree with – but the bigger picture is her motivation, and the lying and manipulating she does, and there are huge mistakes she’s made while in office as mayor and govenor of very very small town and state (as compared to a whole country).

Yes I know full well every candidate manipulates and lies to a ceratin extent. But Palin just sets off more warning bells with me then any one has in a long time. I totally don’t get how so many people are fooled by her fake “June Cleaver” smile and false homey attitude, when her whole vibe is sneaky, cruel, and down right selfish.

Now that is just my perception of her from the first moment I laid on eyes on her. There are facts (distorted facts, lies and truth, and a lot of grey area too) that support and also disprove my perceptions.

When it comes to making a choice on who to vote for – I have to go with someone who I can at least think of as bring president and not break out in a cold sweat of worry over. Someone who at least verbally and in their actions as far as I can tell supports similar values and a positive plan for the country that I do.

So regardless of her voting record – Palin’s beliefs, what she says, and everything about her represent just about everything I’m against. I would never be able to trust her with the highest office in our country and to not let the power go to her head. Every other president who says the same things she does has screwed this country – so I’m positive she would too.

But I also think Palin would be just as bad or worse – from the facts coming out of what she did while mayor in Alaska, she left that town with extremely high debt (before she took office they had no debt) – the huge sports complex thing Palin rushed to build was none before the land was owned by the government – and they have paid the price in law suits and enormous debt.

I know this election should be about the candidates – not the vice presidential candidates – but McCain keeps pushing Palin out in front, (and so does the media) – and I can’ t help but look at McCain and his health and truly worry that in this election more then any other, who is vice president is just as important.

McCain I could actually live with as president – probably one of the only republicans I could say that about (though his recent flipflopping and becoming a clone of Bush has lessened my respect for him). However, with Palin as vice president – I don’t trust her. There is not one decision I’ve seen that she has made that makes any sense to me. Like cutting funds from a state program that supports, helps, trains young unwed teens – she said she would no fund or support it because it was too sexually explicited – I guess she was talking about their factual and well rounded education on birth control and options. It is fine that Palin herself choses to have only have abstinence taught in her home (and we see how well that worked out) – but that is a private matter – but when she has control of a budget and programs that affect a town or a nation – and used her power to cut much needed programs because they don’t just teach abstinence that frightens me. Of course abstinence should be taught – and at the top of the list as options – but I’m sure if we all think hard enough we can find examples of why this isn’t necessarily a good option to be applied to an entire town or country.