Is Sarah Palin running for president or is John McCain?

The media and press sure seems to be focused on the vice president and comparing her to Sen. Obama...it's almost to the point that he is running against her and not McCain? It's amazes me how quickly the public can lose focus of the real issues, or how clever the Republican party is at throwing up a lot of smoke and mirrors. Palin's speech was excellent, however.

Nevertheless, I am confused by the conservative message that she brings to the ticket - on one hand, she wants to promote teaching creationism in school and does not wish to teach sex education in school (an abstinence only education, if you will). What follows from this approach is that sex education should be taught through the family and not through the schools. If that is the case, however, doesn't her teenage daughter's pregnancy seem to show that either her approach is incorrect or that her ability to manage her own family is a little off-centered? I'll be anxious to see how she fares once she exposes herself to Meet the Press, Bill O'Reilly and the like.

The Atlantic had a very well-written article about this topic which expresses the concern much better than I could. US News had an interesting op-ed piece as well.

Tags: sarah palin vice president, palin v. clinton, palin against public sex-education