The new Rasmussen poll contains more evidence that Sarah Palin has appeal beyond the pro-life crowd:
...[F]ollowing a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters.....Perhaps most stunning is the fact that Palin's favorable ratings are now a point higher than either man at the top of the Presidential tickets this year. As of Friday morning, Obama and McCain are each viewed favorably by 57% of voters. Biden is viewed favorably by 48%.
Percentage of non-affiliated voters with a favorable view of Palin: 59.
And:
The Palin pick has also improved perceptions of John McCain.... Among unaffiliated voters, favorable opinions of McCain have increased by eleven percentage points in a week--from 54% before the Palin announcement to 65% today.
Oh, yeah, the poll also shows the GOP really loves her:
There is a strong partisan gap when it comes to perceptions of Palin. Eighty-nine percent (89%) of Republicans give her favorable reviews...
Sarah Palin. She's not just for pro-lifers anymore.
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We, my husband and I are born-again believers and registered lifetime Republicans. We've recently come to realize and believe that GOD has written HIS LAWS on the hearts of mankind: Romans 2:14-15, and also that HE gives choice in our spirits, hearts and souls, and bodies; i.e.: the two trees in the garden of Eden. Of course GOD could have made it mandatory to serve HIM, but HE wants us to have the CHOICE to make that decision. Choice is an inalienable RIGHT given to us from GOD. Man cannot create a law that would make us moral or immoral, that’s a choice that only we can make as individuals between GOD and all of us, separately and independently. Choice, like gravity, has always existed and will always exist - it is a law of GOD. Attempts to legislate morality are moot.
What so-called pundits fail to understand, is that irrespective on each individuals political position on abortion, a person who champions life (such as Palin), will be liked far more than a person who voted three times that it was OK to kill a baby that survived an abortion (such as OBama). Think about that baby for a second, instead of just your political view, whatever they are. These babies cried themselves to death, alone in Chicago Hospitals while Obama voted against a bill to stop the practice. Just try to justify this inhumanity to me.
Lucia,
Way to make a boneheaded statement. By your reasoning we should get rid of all laws then...? How about in Matthew 22, where we are commanded by Christ to pay our taxes honestly? Or in Romans 13 where Paul writes that we should obey the governments authority over us? The only times that we should disobey is when the government places a law that is evil or unjust (such as legalizing abortion) over us, read Acts 4 and 5. You need to get your Bible out and do some closer reading my friend.
Lucia...
Choice is neither good nor evil. It is the action you choose that determines the moral qualification of the choice you make.
If you choose to oppose Slavery, that is a good choice. The reason is that all individuals are equal. If you choose to have slaves and to consider Black people as ‘non-humans’ that is a bad choice, because all individuals are equal, regardless of their skin color. No sector of society can take that way: it doesn’t matter what rationale that sector of society followed to conclude otherwise. If you are a human individual you are entitled to the same rights as all the rest, period. It did not even matter if the Constitution supported their claim (as in Dred Scott v. Sandford). Those evil laws were overturned. We evolved.
If you choose to oppose the Nazi regime, that is a good choice. The reason is that all individuals are equal. If you choose to exterminate Jews and to constitutionally declare that those individuals are ‘non- humans’, that is a bad choice. The reason is the same: all individuals are equal, and it doesn’t matter if they are not Aryan or have a different religion. They are human individuals: that is all that matters. No sector of society can take that way. If you are a human individual you are entitled to the same rights as all the rest. It did not matter if laws were enacted to support their claim (such as the Reich Citizenship Law). Those evil laws were overturned. We evolved.
If you choose to oppose Abortion,that is a good choice. The reason is that all individuals are equal. Not a single scientist today would deny that the human embryo (from implantation onwards) is an individual from the Human Species. The process of development doesn't make an embryo -or a fetus- more human, it just make him/her more developed. Consciousness is not a measure of humanity: if that was so, my patients under anesthesia would loose their rights! If you choose to support Abortion (which is what being pro-Choice really means), and to consider unborn human individuals as non-humans, that is a bad choice. Again this is because all individuals are equal. No sector of society can take that way. ALL Human individual are entitled to the same rights. It doesn't matter if the Constitution (for the moment) supports abortion (as in the Roe v. Wade decision). One day that evil decision will be overturned. We evolved.
The problem here is that you, as many other Americans, have not been informed about the human embryo. You have been fed the ‘doctrine’ that emanates from Planned Parenthood. This is why you think being Pro-Choice is something civilized.
As our fathers before, we affirm that ALL individuals are equal...Do you?
I don't care if Palin is a woman, a man or a transexual:
"You can't fight religious extremists in the Middle East when you elect them in the Midwest".
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