Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness

Once Sarah Palin was announced as McCain's running mate, partisans and right-wing Christians became elated and completely energized. Enthusiastic supporters did not hesitate to point out Palin's Pentecostal religious background and more broadly speaking, that the GOP is supposedly the party for conservative Xians.

We have seen over the past decade these so-called Xians becoming obsessed with judging others in violation of the Ten Commandments, especially in regards to sexual sins (lets not mention David Vitter, Larry Craig, the fact that evangelicals are divorcing at the same or higher rates than non-evangelicals). However, they pay no attention to the blatant and continuous lies of the McCain Campaign and more specifically the documented and compulsive lies of Sarah Palin.

Do only certain commandments apply to the Republican Party? Do Xian standards and morals loosen when a candidate has an "R" next to their name? I would argue absolutely not, but it appears that the now-defunct GOP and conservative Xians supporting the GOP will answer that question in the affirmative. Whenever I hear anyone say the Democrats (and I'm not really a fan of them either) don't possess Xian morals but the Republicans do, I want to puke.

Here, Andrew Sullivan documents the lies Sarah Palin has been campaigning on. Not only is she telling the lies, but even when her lies have been proven wrong, she continues to tell them and refuses to correct her statements. Thank God Andrew Sullivan has maintained his steadfast conservative views throughout this election season and during the time the GOP has abandoned its conservative principals. If you don't have time to read his whole post, I'll lay them out quickly:

So for the record, let it be known that the candidate for vice-president for the GOP is a compulsive, repetitive, demonstrable liar. If you follow the links, here is the proof. I repeat: proof:
- She has lied about the Bridge To Nowhere. She ran for office favoring it, wore a sweatshirt defending it, and only gave it up when the federal congress, Senator McCain in particular, went ballistic. She kept the money anyway and favors funding Don Young's Way, at twice the cost of the original bridge.
- She has lied about her firing of the town librarian and police chief of Wasilla, Alaska.
- She has lied about pressure on Alaska's public safety commissioner to fire her ex-brother-in-law.
- She has lied about her previous statements on climatechange.
- She has lied about Alaska's contribution to America's oil and gas production.
- She has lied about when she asked her daughters for their permission for her to run for vice-president.
- She has lied about the actual progress in constructing a natural gas pipeline from Alaska.
- She has lied about Obama's position on habeas corpus.
- She has lied about her alleged tolerance of homosexuality.
- She has lied about the use or non-use of a TelePrompter at the St Paul convention.
- She has lied about her alleged pay-cut as mayor of Wasilla.
- She has lied about what Alaska's state scientists concluded about the health of the polar bear population in Alaska.

You cannot trust a word she says. On anything.