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She has no experience. She was governor of Alaska (pop. About 600k) for a year and a half. She’s already under two ethics investigations, with which she refuses to cooperate. She was mayor of a tiny Alaskan town, and she was so terrible at it that not only did she almost face a recall, the city forced her to hire an administrator to do the actual work. 
Before that, she was a sports journalist with a degree from the University of Idaho, gleaned after 5 years and 6 colleges, including the University of Hawaii. What a serious, dedicated student. Clearly she has the educational background to understand not just the complexities of one of the largest economies in the world, but also the political problems that exist not just between us and the Islamic world, but us and Russia and us and…well, everybody else, right?

Wrong. She’s already admitted she doesn’t even know what a Vice President does, or anything about the War in Iraq and what’s been going on. She knows nothing about the economy, the military (has not even made a single decision while being Commander in Chief of Alaska’s National Guard)—and no, being near Russia does NOT mean that you have foreign policy experience. 

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Her pro-life stance. We can argue back and forth for the rest of our lives as to whether life starts at conception, but let’s face it: at this point, no one has the right to anyone else to succumb to their viewpoint. Don’t like abortion? Don’t get one. You don’t have to right to make that decision for other people.
Oh and she’s so pro-life that when her water broke while she was pregnant with her fifth, down-syndrome suffering child at the age of 44, she not only went on to give a speech at a convention but then to wait around a couple hours, get on a plane to Alaska for an 8 hour flight (without notifying the airline that she was pregnant and about to deliver), then took an hour drive to a hospital that didn’t have an NICU. What kind of mother does that in her situation? Her excuse? “I wanted my baby to be born in Alaska.” Well that’s great. With the plethora of life-threatening ailments than can befall a baby with down-syndrome who is being delivered a month early to a woman in her forties, at least if the poor baby had died in childbirth, he’d have died in Alaska and that’s how God would have wanted it. 

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Her views on abstinence-only education. Which clearly worked so well for her daughter, who is now being forced into marriage at the age of 17. We won’t even mention the fact that 60% of teenage marriages end in divorce within 15 years—I mean, after all, it’s not the plethora of divorces destroying marriage, it’s the gays.

4.

Speaking of gays, she also subscribes to the belief that gays can change their sexual preferences through the power of prayer, which is blatantly false. You’d think the large number of Republican males who’ve been outed as having gay lovers or caught having illicit trysts in the men’s room would be proof enough that clearly, it’s not the prayer—or lack of it—that’s the issue here. Saying someone could pray to be straight is like saying a black person could pray to be white. Hey, maybe that’s what did it for Michael Jackson!

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With all of this, she’ll be one heartbeat away from assuming the presidency, and McCain fans, don’t fool yourselves—the man has an 8% chance of making it through to the end of his presidency. 8%. Do you want to take that kind of chance when as of right now, no one even knows what her main goals and policies will be as VP? She spent her entire acceptance speech bashing Barack Obama—where were the issues? Oh, right—the Republican party has told her what they are yet. And clearly, if it’s not written on the back hide of a moose, there’s no reason she would already know.