Attention Twits: Your Queen Awaits (and she ain't no monkey)
All of the Palin coverage in the lead-up to the release of her ghost-written memoir has only demonstrated to me just how disastrous the decision to put her on the ticket was for the McCain campaign. Simply (and quite politely, if I do say so myself) put, the woman is a twit. In fact, she just might be the Twit-Queen.
I won't speak to the ham-handed embellishments and selective memory employed in her book, other than to note that it always seems like the people who self-profess to be the most Christian they can be tend to have a remarkable propensity for dishonesty. No, I'll stick to the things that most interest me, like the former-governor's ideas on evolution. Here's the bit on the subject from the review in the New York Times:Elsewhere in this volume she talks about creationism, saying she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea” or from “monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees.” In everything that happens to her, from meeting Todd to her selection by Mr. McCain for the Republican ticket, she sees the hand of God: “My life is in His hands. I encourage readers to do what I did many years ago, invite Him in to take over.”
Man, that is some high-grade stupid. Fish sprouting legs and crawling out of the sea? Monkeys who "swung down from the trees"? I don't blame Ms. Palin for not believing that. Would you like to know why? Because no one that I know believes that kind of inane, teleological drivel. Certainly not anyone who actually understands the theory of evolution. What a beautiful example of my (patent-pending) First Law of Creationism: That the people who take issue with the theory of evolution overwhelmingly tend to have no actual understanding of the theory they take issue with. And to think, Ms. Palin's father was apparently a science teacher. Shame, shame, shame. Admittedly, I am as far outside of the big tent of elephants as possible, but I have a hard time believing that this kind of lying, hypocritical twittery is really what ~50% of the population wants in their leaders.
