I'll bite.

I don't see Allah as not liking Palin, I see him as cautioning people against a cult of personality.

As I've discovered, much to my embarassment, when you vote "For" a politician, you are almost always wrong about who that person is.

It's much better to vote "Against".

In my life I've voted "for":

 Mario Cuomo, the man who had quite a bit to do with turning NY State from an economic and industrial powerhouse into a welfare state with some of the highest taxes in the country.

Moynihan, that one I'm not sure if I was right or not, I've read that he wasn't as good as I thought, he did come up with "Definining deviancy down" so I'll give him props for that.

Ronnie Raygun, that was mostly because I actually did know him. The media frothed at the mouth for his first term and I kept thinking, "But that's a good thing."

John McCain in 2000, back when I still thought the media was at least attempting to be honest and all journalistical.

Bush in 2004, eh. It was okay as a vote against Kerry (the second worst presidential candidate from a major party in my lifetime), but as a vote "for"? Bad, bad, bad. He spent much of his second term calling me a racist and having his staff do the same all while spitting on non-religious-oriented, conservative values.   

So out of 5 "For" votes in my nearly 30 years of voting, I was right on 1 of them and possibly mostly right on another.

That's less than 40%. Maybe I'm just stupid, but that's not a good average.

And look at the reaction to his Allah's "Heartache" posts where she does something that might tick off conservatives, people get all angry that he's noticing that she's not perfect.

And that's what I'm talking about.

I'll definitely vote for her unless she runs against Zombie Raygun, and I'll be voting "For" her, but........ I understand that I'm probably wrong about her but at least she has governed mostly as a conservative and she doesn't shove her religion down my throat.

And that's about the best politician not named Zombie Raygun out there right now.

 ^maybe so, but that's some serious "caution" he's been showing. And while cracking on her, it might be nice for him to offer an alternative. Instead, he just seems content to antagonize 90% of his readership in order to generate traffic.

At least Powerline had an alternative pick (Pawlenty) when they went all "thumb sucking in the corner" when she won the veepstakes.

I should add in something.

Perhaps I defend Allah because I know how tough it is to be an atheist/conservative.

During the Terri Schiavo affair it was brutal.

I've been reading Levin's book, "Liberty and Tyranny a Conservative Manifesto" when I read this

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Science is a dead end around which the Atheist refuses to reason...

How about you go eff yourself there Levin? I'm not trying to get into a religious argument (I would rather debate abortion than religion) but the whole point of religion is Faith, which isn't Reason. The whole point of science is Reason, what we can prove, which isn't faith. And yes, I understand that there are faith-based sciences out there (global worming), but real science is what he was talking about.  

He also states categorically that, since I don't believe in a god, and since the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution both mention a Creator and/or God, I can't be a good conservative because I don't believe in either.

Again, go eff yourself. I don't know how we were created, but that doesn't mean I accept either a Creator who demands worship, maybe we were created for some galactic kindergarten of some long-lived race. We're like hamsters except the Earth is our Habitrail, or maybe we're a master's thesis for some galactic grad student. Or maybe Loki thought it would be funny. Or maybe it was just amino acids getting all uppity. We don't know, that's reason. You want to believe in a creator God, I have no problem with that, just don't attack me because I don't believe as you do.  

I can look at the beauty of  the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and not have to believe in a Creator/God, just like I can see the inherent intelligence and rightness of Jesus' teaching without thinking he is God.

I'm going to finish the book, but I have a much lower opinion of it than I possibly should. Maybe bashing me did it, but it's sort of trite and obvious.

As if he's just regurgitating something Rush probably wrote 15 years ago and is hoping nobody notices (and no, I'm not saying Rush is trite and obvious, I'm saying that 15 years later, it's trite and obvious).

I should think before I type:

Allah's atheism is not what bothers me. And I was preoccupied with the troubled last weeks and difficult aftermath of my daughter being born when the Schiavo thing played out, so I have tried over the years to refrain from commenting on that issue, since my mind was not on it at the time.

I think the Hippocratic oath has a little more to do with the Schiavo case, than mere Christianity, which one preceded the other by five centuries. But there is that part of the Declaration  that we are 'endowed by our creator" maybe that's just an opinion. Which entity, pick one, call it "the prime mover" that generated the "Big Bang"

No, the critique of Allah, is that almost everyone one of his threads about the stimulus, the wardrobe, the mewlings of the Johnston clan, the BDM issue, has to be almost partially or entirely wrong. Than he lets the trolls run free, trying to run down any correction. He says he's against 'personality cults' but that doesn't seem true about Sanford, or Romney, for whom he will nearly always cut some slack ;even when they grandstand.