I’m certainly not on the left, more like centrist…though I am a “Moral relativist” to those of a religious ilk. :) I’ve heard about the Obama/infantcide thing, but to be honest, haven’t paid too much attention to it, because it seems like a Fox News story taken out of context. I just think picking Palin shows a lack of judgement on McCain’s part and a pandering to the few women who are still POed about Clinton not being the choice.

Well, I will just say — very broadly speaking — that while I am an atheist and on the abortion issue a moderate, I think the government spends 98% of its time doing things completely unrelated to religion one way or the other, thus making me more concerned about econ and the like. I wouldn’t rule out Palin on her pro-life views alone, but then, neither would I rule out Obama on his radically pro-choice abortion views, either (and it might reasonably — and without reference to religion — be argued that bordering on infanticide is more troubling than bordering on thinking a zygote’s a person, insane as I regard both positions as being).

Or to put it another way: bad econ views hurt the economy, but stupidity about evolution doesn’t actually stop evolution, so that kind of insanity I tend to regard as the lesser of two evils (nutty as it is to believe, say, that national ID cards are the Mark of the Beast, as one interviewee on Reason’s blog suggests she may believe).

Until Virginia Postrel runs for president, they’re all mixtures of good and bad qualities.