Sarah Palin on Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Sleestaks

Again, the question arises: Does Sarah Palin believe that dinosaurs lived alongside people?

After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.

Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.

Okay, so this guy is obviously not without political motivation for leaking this information. We don't actually know for certain that she thinks the Flintstones was a reality show.

But we do know that she's an Evangelical Christian. And we do know that she's been blessed free from the insidious evils of witchcraft. And that arguably stupider than that thing with the dinosaurs.

I, personally, am willing to put up with a certain amount of magical thinking in my politicians. I'm willing to accept that Barack Obama and John McCain both believe that Jesus is up there in the sky somewhere pulling sky strings for meaningless, boring stuff in our lives. Or at least that they're okay with letting other people think that's what they believe. (I have my doubts.)

But do we really have to deal with another eight years of having a person in the White House who treats science and reason like it's a Choose Your Own Adventure book?

Why can't we just have regular old ridiculous politicians back?