An Interesting Choice

Sarah Palin as Vice-President of the United States of America is such a strange choice we could be second guessing those who decided on her from now until election day.

Will she withdrawal in several weeks as some have projected to be replaced by a more traditional choice? 

Is the Republican Party really that desperate to capture the mythical PUMA vote? 

Is this a hail-Mary pass to the Republican extreme right?

Is this a sign that the powers that be have tossed McCain to the curb and made him the sacrificial lamb for the last eight years?

Yes, it could go on forever and we will really never know for sure in any case.

So I say, just the facts, ma’am. Here are some facts I learned about the woman now on the Republican ticket. Sarah Palin believes creationism should be taught in school; Sarah Palin does not believe in equal pay for an equal job; She does not believe man (or woman) had a hand in global warming; Sarah Palin is against choice for woman, including the extreme cases of rape and incest.

And this is the one I want to concentrate on: Her pro-life stance. I certainly believe in her personal right to not agree with abortion and I say to everyone who doesn’t believe in abortion, great don’t have one, take that off the slate of choices in your life. 

But stay away from my right to make a choice. Keep the government out of it. Separation of Church and Government in our Constitution is there for a very good reason. 

Whether a woman becomes a mother and when is the most life defining choice she will ever make. It is more important that whom she marries, whether or not she goes to college and what college and what line of work she goes into if any. It is a permanent choice, a difficult choice and one she alone is equipped to make (or her mistake to make). And that choice will stay with her, her entire life. Make no mistake, just because it is her choice, does not make it an easy choice, quite the opposite.

And maybe that is what this is about after all. People terrified of making these really difficult choices in their own lives, so instead they give their own power away and as a consequence take away all individuals ability to choose. I don’t know about you, but I vote for the right to decide no matter how difficult that choice may prove. I vote choice.