CBSNews.com: Who's on the list of people mentioned for VP that you think would most excite Southern Baptists and other members of the conservative faith community?

Richard Land: Probably Governor Palin of Alaska, because she's a person of strong faith. She just had her fifth child, a Downs Syndrome child. And there's a wonderful quote that she gave about her baby, and the fact that she would never, ever consider having an abortion just because her child had Downs Syndrome. She's strongly pro-life.

She's a virtual lifetime member of the National Rifle Association. She would ring so many bells. And I just think it would help with independents because she's a woman. She's a reform Governor. I think that, from what I hear, that would be the choice that would probably ring the most bells, along with Mike Huckabee, of course, who's a Southern Baptist.

I don't have any issue or argument with her personal choice.  I know Talk2Action is pro-choice, which I would interpret to mean exactly that, no matter which decision one makes.  However, I do not believe that merely exercising that choice one way or another qualifies someone to hold public office.  Nor does one's religion qualify someone to hold public office, whether McCain as a supposed Baptist is under Land's "spiritual authority" or not.

This was a lesson learned by the British during the English Civil War, Cromwellian Interregnum and Restoration, reaffirmed during American colonial history, and codified in our Constitution, whether David Barton believes it or not.

A lesson long forgotten by these theocratic idiots and those willing to kowtow to their demands to gain power, like McCain.

Interestingly, CBSNews' own headline today is "Alaska Gov. is McCain's VP Shocker." Shocker???? Hello!!! Anyone who read Land's interview and has half a clue should not be shocked.