The American View talk-show on Sarah Palin, her resignation from the Alaska governorship

Regina: For one thing she is an insider, or she’s being managed by them, just like Obama. They took her Henry Kissinger; she’s being handled. And so her conservatism that she is known and loved for, right now, by a lot of my friends, is going to evaporate, in any effective way. So she’s not worth voting for, because she is not going to be a strict constitutionalist.

But, what grieves me is the example she is going to be to a lot of Christian young women, because when I was little I wanted to be a Congresswomen like my heroine, Helen Chenoweth, who was a great lady and was not married at the time, and was a property rights advocate from Idaho. But one problem with Palin is that she is an example of a mother just doing it all, and you can’t do that.

John Lofton: That’s a very important point, because if you’re doing it all you are not a mother. Being a mother is a full-time job: it’s an in-the-home, keeper-of-the-home job, particularly for a person who purports to be a Christian. Now if she was not a Christian, then it would be just stupid for anyone to be saying, “Why aren’t you home raising your children?” because that’s the way heathens behave: They don’t raise their children, they have their children, because they haven’t found out how not to have the children, although they’re working on that. Rid the womb of – and then the minute they are borne then other people are raising the children.

And for the life of me I don’t understand why she would be attractive to any Christian for openers and secondly even as a conservative. You heard a lot of talk during the campaign about her being pro-life. Well, really? How so? She has said it. I did interviews with the lady who heads up the Alaska state Right To Life Committee as well as the lady who heads up the Alaska Eagle Forum and they did not want to talk about her [Palin’s] record on abortion, because she has none. She’s done nothing, and both of the ladies—I had to drag it out of them—said that the few things that their organizations in Alaska had pushed, that they thought pro-life, she, Palin, as Governor did not lift a finger to help them. Palin, herself has said that the abortion issue, the pro-life issue, is a state matter. So it’s ok for the states to decide to murder unborn babies.

She’s also said, when homosexuality came up, that she had friends who were homosexuals, and she doesn’t judge anyone.

When asked about evolution being taught in schools, “Yes, no problem with that.” Seriously, what would a conservative, much less a Christian, see in this women? I don’t get it.

Regina: It’s a matter of influence. She wants to be a strong woman; she wants to be a big influence on the world. But, the problem is that she could be so much more of an influence with her children.

JL: Thank you very much. Exactly!

R: Abigail Adams was the wife of one president and the mother of another, and I am just amazed reading her letters to her husband while he was in the Constitution Convention. The news couldn’t get in; nobody could get in there. It was a closed session, and they’re writing back and forth. She’s advising him and homeschooling her son at the same time. She had more influence than if she had been President.

JL: You’ve probably heard the phrase: “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” That’s true! There is no more important role if you want to effect world change, and I believe that was part of what she [Sarah Palin] said in her press conference, she wants to accomplish something else outside government now. O, great she’s at last found out maybe that’s not the best place to achieve world change, and of course our hope would be would go home and raise her kids. But, in her case, seriously, I don’t think she has anything useful to impart to her children: she does not think like a Christian, she does not act like a Christian. You know for better or for worse she has to raise her kids, but I don’t think that she has much to teach them.

Regina: One thing I notice about Proverbs 31, this woman is totally amazing, she is running businesses, she’s running a home, she has her family looking good, but her husband is in the gates. She is not in the gates; her husband is in the gates, and it’s because she has freed him up to be there. If she didn’t have everything together, he couldn’t be there!

JL: Well, there you go; that’s right. As it was, he wasn’t at the gate, he was home changing diapers or standing in the background twiddling his thumbs at a press conference. I thought it was very embarrassing, for him. There was a lot of embarrassing things, by the way, this idea, these questions that were, thank God, being raised by some, raising it explicitly about how proper is it for this woman to be flying around the country when she has children at home: teen aged children, and tiny kids. Seeing her come off that plane clutching her little down-syndrome baby, and that made some people furious. I remember seeing Cokie Roberts on ABC’s this week program; she had smoke coming out of her ears, she was furious that these questions were being raised about staying at home and raising her kids. Her point was: This outrageous to raise questions about her raising her family. “They’d never ask a man that,” she said. And I thought, "Of course not! Of course not! The man is supposed to work outside the house!"

Regina: I met a family that was raised without a mother. The mother passed away, and I never realized how important my Mom was until I did. And I woke up the next morning for the next six months, thanking God my Mother was still alive.

JL: Wow.

Regina: I love this family. They were wonderful, fun in a lot of ways, but in some ways, half their education is completely missing!

JL: Oh, sure; absolutely!

Regina: Part of the problem, I think too, is, girls go to school. Life happens at school. Life happens at church and they really don’t realize how much there is to do at home. They don’t know how to teach their kids communication skills, and how to get babies to love peeling carrots. If they love peeling carrots they will love to do everything else growing up. We think babies are supposed play, but you have to grow up in a home where you teach kids to be involved in everything, and know how to raise children!

JL: That’s a very profound point, and it can truly be said without any exaggeration that if Sarah Palin were really a Christian woman, we would’ve never heard of her, she would not have been the mayor of Wasilla. She clearly had political ambitions outside the home which means inescapably that your family will be neglected. Did you hear that clip where she was telling Couric, “Yeah, I’m a feminist. I was blessed to grow up in a household where gender was not an issue.” What does that mean?

R: Wow.

JL: They couldn’t tell the men from the women? They didn’t know who was a boy or a girl? You know we’re all just – nobody in here except just us human beings. There’s no assigned role to anybody, we all just do everything? That’s a mess! That’s not a Christian family. It’s a mess! That’s that way heathens behave.

Regina: Yes. You know, I’m not saying the women’s role is less in any way.

JL: Amen; absolutely.

Regina: If she is a Christian woman, she cannot be spared to be President.

JL: As a matter of fact, we are saying that in many ways the woman’s role, the wife’s role is more important than the man’s. This doesn’t denigrate women to suggest that they obey God!

Regina: Thank you, John.

JL: God bless you, your family and your work which is hopefully inside the home.