August 30, 2008 01:46 AM UTC

Sarah Palin = Janet Rowland?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Is it just us, or does Sarah Palin for John McCain’s VP remind you a little of Janet Rowland for Bob Beauprez’s Lieutenant Governor in 2006?

If you recall, not long after Beauprez announced Rowland as his running mate, we learned that she had recently compared homosexuality to bestiality. Nobody knew anything about Rowland – including, apparently, the Beauprez campaign – and her selection just highlighted further Beauprez’s disastrous statewide campaign.

Now, Palin is no Rowland, but the former has her own far-right ideas that McCain now has to deal with. As Colorado Independent reports, Palin supported the idea of teaching Creationism in schools when she was asked about it during her campaign for governor in Alaska:

Then in a classic McCain-style back-flip, a few days later Palin tried to take it back…

…She added that, if elected, she would not push the state Board of Education to add such creation-based alternatives to the state’s required curriculum.

This is the person McCain thinks should be one heartbeat away from the Oval Office? As a former McCain fan, I’m actually quite sad about this, but his run for President has turned McCain from a maverick to just a mimic for the far right.

Creationism really isn’t an idea you flip-flop about. Either you believe it should be taught in schools, or you don’t. If you even entertain the idea that Creationism is worthy of being taught in schools, you’ve already crossed that line far enough – there’s no going back from there.