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Pintos and Cheese

Wickedpinto is blogging again over at Absolute Moral Authority and at the Hostages. Go visit. If you’re not familiar with him, he’s the guy who won’t have kids because he’s a coward. And he thinks people who abort kids are traitors.

I think I know what that means, but with WP, you never know. He’s funny. He’s wicked. And presumably, he’s a pinto. Horse or bean? POS car? I don’t know. Go see.

Anyway. Abortion. I hate the topic. It was one thing about Neal Boortz’s talk radio show I always depended on when I listened: the topic of abortion is always off limits.

Unfortunately, during a big election year like this one, the topic is always hanging around. I’ll be honest: I’ve never based my vote on whether the candidate is pro-choice or pro-life. Take Palin, for example. I don’t care that she’s pro-life. Everything else about her makes me so happy, I just don’t care.

Oh, it’s not that I’m pro-choice. It’s not that I’m pro-life. (Even the names of the sides of the argument make me uncomfortable.) I’m somewhere in the middle. I think most people are. My views on abortion are  confusing and contradictory:

  • I think abortions should be available to victims of incest/rape and to women whose lives are in danger from giving birth. (Though, I would hope that women who know that their lives are in danger if they become pregnant would be super-duper extra careful not to get pregnant. It would save the rest of us so much hassle debating cut off dates and such.)
  • I think partial birth abortions shouldn’t be allowed no matter the circumstances.
  • I think abortions are murder.
  • I think abortions should be allowed up to a certain point in pregnancy. What that point should be, I don’t know. Maybe it should be at the point which the baby has a 50% chance of living outside of the womb. I don’t know. Any plan I come up with seems stupid and impossible to implement.

Here’s the thing about abortion: I’ve never seriously given it any thought. Seriously. It’s never been an issue I’ve thought about because I’ve never considered how it would effect me. Because it wouldn’t. I have no plans on getting pregnant. In my microcosm, abortion isn’t an option because pregnancy isn’t an option.

It’s a selfish position, to be sure. But I think it’s one I think more women should consider. I’ve heard plenty of women say that they don’t want to have children, but rarely do I ever hear one say that they don’t want to get pregnant. Semantics, maybe. But it’s an important distinction.

And my view that abortions should be allowed to a point even though I think it’s murder? Contradictory, I know. But society is full of contradictions. And our own society allows murder doesn’t it? Sure, we call it the death penalty and self defense. Pretties it up a bit. But it’s murder all the same. And I’m all for both the death penalty and self defense. [And before anyone gets upset with that comparison, I’m not saying that the babies deserve killing like our baddest bad guys. I’m saying that our society allows murder in special circumstances.]

Anyway. My point? Damned if I remember. It likely wasn’t a well-thought out point anyway. Like I said, the subject has never been on my radar. Oh wait! My point: Palin! Frankly, had she been pro-choice, it wouldn’t have mattered.

How did I get on that subject anyway? Oy.

They Say

From Instapundit: They say that McCain has picked Sarah Palin. So, assuming it’s true, I don’t know what to think about this. Several thoughts come to mind.

1. Who?

2. Don’t the people in Alaska hate her?

3. McCain saw Obama’s crappy Veep pick and picked one crappier. He’s so competitive.

4. McCain might pick up some of Hillary’s bitter followers if you believe that female Democrats will vote for McCainjust because his Veep’s a female. And you might be right about that.

5. McCain might pick up some of Hillary’s bitter followers if Palin’s as much of a social liberal as she’s reported to be. If so, yay!

 I’ll see what I can find out about her…

LATER: According to Yahoo, she has a rep for “bucking Alaska’s powerful oil industry.” She “took on the oil industry, leading to a tax increase on oil company profits that now has the state’s treasury swelling.” Shit. Taxing the oil industry is not what we need.

ALSO: Yahoo is complaining about McCain’s timing: “It was either tactically clever, or foolish, but there’s no denying that it ate up some of the airtime rightfully due to Obama.” (Emphasis mine.) Rightfully due? Gawd, the media’s made up of whiny, snot nosed bitches.

OY: Palin has a reputation much like McCain in that she’s not afraid to take on members of her own party. Shit. I mean, I’m all for outing the bad guys. But that kind of a reputation has hurt McCain with Republicans in the past. McCain needs to find someone who appeals to Republicans. Because he doesn’t appeal to Republicans. McCain’s the guy they got stuck with when Fred napped and Huckabee sabotaged Romney. McCain doesn’t need a Veep who is a female, younger Maverick McCain.

Well, at least she doesn’t have cankles.

IT’S OFFICIAL: I just watched Sarah Palin speak. I like her. She’s a helluva better speaker than both McCain and Obama, which surprised me a bit. She’s also very appealing in both appearance and in personality. So that can’t hurt. All in all, McCain could’ve picked worse.

And it might make voting for McCain a little less painful this November. We’ll see.

CORRECTION VIA THE COMMENTS: As Jonolan comments below, she’s very popular in Alaska. I just heard on the radio that she has the highest approval rating of all the US governors. Nice. [Jonolan also has an informative post about Palin that makes me feel much better about her as Veep.]