Popular author and Director of Eternal Perspectives Ministries, Randy Alcorn, brings some sage, well-balanced advice to the "experience issue" regarding Sarah Palin's fitness to be Vice-President.Here's one of my favorite recent quotes: “I'm still having trouble expressing the depth of my anger about McCain's choice of a running mate.” Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
You can see here the full fundraising letter from Planned Parenthood, and some interesting comments.
If you believe what I believe about Planned Parenthood (see these blogs I've posted), you simply could not ask for a more powerful endorsement of Sarah Palin than that the president of Planned Parenthood is deeply angry about the possibility that she could be our vice president!...
Is she experienced enough to be Vice President? Well, there are different kinds of experience, and they aren't limited to political prominence in big cities.
For instance, many politicians have decades of experience in denying the rights of unborn children to live. They are long experienced in ignoring and even endorsing the shedding of innocent blood. Sarah Palin has not had that kind of experience. Last spring she gave birth to a child she knew had Down Syndrome, a child who according to the statistics, 80% of the American public, and presumably at least 80% of politicians, would have killed by abortion.
Her experience was to give the child life. That kind of experience means a lot to me.
That experience, especially as compared to the experience of using one's power to facilitate the shedding of innocent blood, is one I value far more than a longer history of making speeches and casting votes and meeting dignitaries at dinner tables.
Now, the limits of the experience of being a small town mayor, then governor of Alaska could be a factor in my decision if she were running against candidates who were comparable in their moral viewpoints concerning babies. But she's not.
True, character isn't everything. Willingness to sacrifice for the weak and powerless isn't everything. But I'll take it any day over decades of political experience. Political experience doesn't trump basic human morality. It is moral to defend the right of children to live. It is immoral not to...
