John McCain's recent choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, rather than being an odd selection, is a snug fit with the Republican Party's reversion to the dark ages through what has been termed the neoconservative movement.

Palin falls into resonant comfort with paleontology, the study of fossils.  McCain's salute of the Alaskan as a force for "reform" decisively reinforces that he is far from the agent of change he portrays himself to be and fits snugly with such neocon stalwarts as Bush and Cheney along with Grover Norquist, Bill Kristol, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Paul Wolfowitz.

Palin's identification with paleontology and the Paleolithic begins with a view that was once held to be within the exclusive province of the far right and that traditional conservatives embracing anti-abortion agendas avoided.  

Before he launched his political career and was an ardent right wing talk show host in Southern California, future Congressman Robert Dornan let it be known that, while he opposed abortion, he made exceptions in the areas where rape and incest were factors.