The Salty Peanut Gallery

In an interview with The Associated Press Matt Damon shared his concerns over Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate. To Damon it seems the thought of Governor Palin being a heartbeat away from the presidency is “scary”, “a disaster”, “absurd”, “terrifying” and “crazy”.

Let’s look closer at what he had to say.

I think there is a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president. And I think that’s a really scary thing because I don’t know anything about her. I don’t think in eight weeks I’m going to know anything about her. I know that she was a mayor of a really, really small town. And she’s governor of Alaska for less than two years. I just don’t understand… I think the pick was made for political purposes but in terms of governance it’s a disaster.

I see, so when it comes to governance, being a mayor of a really, really small town and being a state governor for less than two years is a disaster, but being a community organizer and being a junior senator is perfectly fine. Picking Senator Obama wasn’t at all for political purposes, but picking Governor Palin was. Thank you so much for clearing that up for us, Matt.

You do the actuary tables and there’s a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn’t survive his first term and it will be President Palin. And it really…we were talking about it earlier…it’s like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom. “I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska.” And she’s the president. And it’s like she’s facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd. It’s totally absurd. And I don’t understand why more people aren’t talking about how absurd it is. It’s a really terrifying possibility. The fact that we’ve gotten this far and we’re that close to this being a reality is crazy, crazy.

According to Damon, Senator McCain apparently has one foot in the grave and the other foot on a banana peel. This is the part that really makes my blood boil. The hypocrisy and the double standard here is absolutely mind blowing. Here he is denigrating the Governor for being a hockey mom. Are you kidding me? How much more sexist can you be? What ever happened to equality for women? I thought liberals were supposed to be for women’s rights. So it would seem that equal rights for women and minorities only apply to liberal woman and liberal minorities. Conservatives may not be afforded such rights. This would explain the elite media’s fawning over Obama as though he were the anointed one, while falling all over themselves in an effort to dig up new dirt each day on Sarah Palin.

I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago, that’s an important…I want to know that. I really do. Because she’s going to have the nuclear codes. I want to know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago. Or if she banned books or tried to ban books. We can’t have that.

For the record the Governor has acknowledge her belief in a Creator and has supported allowing creation to be discussed in the classroom. While it’s true many creationists believe in a relatively young earth, Sarah Palin has never said when she thinks dinosaurs were here. So why is this even an issue? I’ll tell you why. Have you notice how there seems to be a concerted effort among the liberal elites these days to paint Christians as being out of touch with reality? Being a Christian automatically disqualifies you from running for public office because it is proof positive that you are out of the mainstream in society and therefore incapable of making rational decisions.

This is not the first time we’ve heard this. You may recall an article I posted back in January over outrages statements made by Dr. Gilbert Omenn, professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health at the University of Michigan. Omenn expressed worry over “a president who didn’t believe in the evolution arguments” suggesting that “this is a way of leading our country to ruin.” Never mind the fact that this country was founded by men who believed that “all men are created…”

So it would seem the battle lines have been drawn. If recent polling data is any indication, though, it appears there may be a backlash from all the Sarah bashing going on in the media. Things aren’t looking quite as certain in the Obama camp as they once were. Stay tuned, it should get interesting.