[LINK] "Sarah Palin's War on Science"

[rfmcdonald]

Christopher Hitchens is a personality I find tolerable only in small, carefully-vetted portions. Even so, what he wrote at Slate, about Sarah Palin's hostility towards science and the fact that this and her worrying religious background should have but didn't remove her from the prospect of a vice-presidential candidacy, convinces me. I'm even willing to adopt his conclusion wholesale.

This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity.