I think throughtout this entire pregnancy Sarah Palin was doing the equivalent of throwing herself down the proverbial staircase... (the christian method of abortion), only it didn't work.

No one could tell she was pregnant at SEVEN months? She had to have been starving herself and that baby.

And you all know the rest of the story... Getting on that plane in labor, the drive to the GP, etc... Consciously or subconsciously, I don't think she wanted to have that baby.

Either that or it really wasn't her kid.

P.S. I know the odds of a girl her daughter's age having a Down's syndrome baby are pretty damn high, but does the chance of it go up if you live in a place where the gene pool isn't all that big? Like, say, Wasilla, Alaska?

"Then let it go. This is not a religious war. It is just politics."

You have obviously had your head in a hole. This is a religious war. The guy who helped start back in the seventies and eighties has even said so:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/sarah-palin-americas-lips_b_124213.html

This is also a helluva lot more than just "politics". To quote Frank Shaeffer:

We have seen the next Mussolini and she's wearing a skirt. Don't let Palin's "hockey mom" image fool you. Sarah Palin is the face of a post-democracy America, post-constitutional and post-freedom America. She is the home town "little Austrian" vice presidential candidate to a cancer-riddled old man who, chances are high, won't see the end of his first term in office if he becomes president due to illness and old age. The woman who said that we don't need to read people their rights may well be the next president.

The Fascist tactic that destroyed the democracies of old Europe was simple: mock and belittle your opponents, nibble at the edges of the rule of law, promote violence, and grasp at a weird religion of "destiny" (their version of American exceptionalism) with an "us" against "them" mentality, blame others, including the intellectual classes and the media, pit the working people against the perceived elite (Jews in Europe and today's university-educated Democratic Party leaders in America), take power based on grievance and fear and then set aside the constitution altogether based on claimed threats by outsiders.

This is the path that America is on with Palin and McCain. The election of 2008 is a choice between United States Constitution and Lipstick Fascism.

Frank Schaeffer is the author of CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back.

This is who Frank Shaeffer is:

"Long before Sarah Palin's son was preparing to deploy to Iraq, my son John joined the Marine Corps, did two deployments in Afghanistan, one mission in Iraq, and fought for and defended his country and family. I was proud of his service, in spite of the fact that I believed that my son had a fool for his commander-in-chief. In my mind, John's motive (regardless of who the President was) was to defend an American way of life based on a set of principles and our Constitution that place the value of the rule of law and human rights above mere expediency.

John and I wrote a book, Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps, that, after my appearance on Oprah, became a bestseller and has since become a standard book many Marine Corps families read as a guide to Marine Corps boot camp, and the lives of Marine families.

I won't take a back seat to flag-waving Republicans and their "patriotism." Besides the fact that my son stood up and volunteered, Sarah Palin would not have been nominated if it were not for the abortion issue and John McCain's need to shore up the commitment of the Evangelical pro-life right wing. As John McCain and the leaders of Religious Right know (including figures such as Dr. Dobson and Pat Robertson, Rev. Hagee and their ilk) there would have been no Evangelical pro-life movement as we know it without my and my father's connecting the Republican Party to the Evangelicals.We led that movement into the pro-life camp in the 1970s and early 80s with a series of influential books and film series.

So, I know something about the Republican Party having been a lifelong Republican until recently when, disgusted with the dirty tricks perpetrated by Rove and others, I quit and registered as an independent voter. (I even worked for McCain in 2000 by going on many religious radio shows to plead his case against Bush.)"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/sarah-palin-americas-lips_b_124213.html

You want to see divisiveness? Did you happen to watch the RNC?

Did you happen to see McCain pick a right-wing religious nut-job solely for the purpose of appealing to those folks who would gladly turn us into a religious state?

There is no compromising with these people. Our country is at stake.

What we need is a truly Democratic leader who has the balls to stand up to their religious pandering and their fear mongering and restore our Constitution and bring our country back from the brink of fascism.