Now, I guess she was trying to explain how there's too much 'pork' in Washington, but the real bacon fat seems to be between her ears.
Ignorance of science abounds. Read the aritcle-
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24573135-5000117,00.html
Or just this snippet will do-
"She has also made several embarrassing gaffes in recent days. In her first policy speech, discussing misdirected federal funding, Palin said: "Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not."
Yet the fruit fly is widely acknowledged as one of the most useful organisms known to man in terms of measuring disease-causing human genes.
Such research may help prevent the down syndrome her child suffers.
"This is the most mindless, ignorant, uninformed comment we have seen from Governor Palin so far and there's been a lot of competition for that prize," said Richard Wolffe, White House correspondent for Newsweek."
So...yeah. I'm not going to argue her politics, but there's no excuse for being scientifically ignorant in this day and age. Especially if she's going to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
On top of her abhorrent Creationist stance (The world is only 6K years old, and Dinosaurs walked the earth with man) and her as-of-yet unaddressed reported book-bannings in Alaska...this woman is the pure anti-intellectual spokes-model that the vast unwashed in the ignorance belt can get behind.
Get your ass to the polls and vote, or I can NOT be your friend. Like, really. Sitting this one out is inexcusable.