Sarah Palin thinks fruit fly research is wasteful spending

Is it though? Maybe the research has come up with nothing, and they're just dragging it out.

Philjas, as you can see, once again the Palin supporters don't think this is a problem at all. There are so many stupid things we waste money on yet all she could think of was something that might actually produce some useful results. Add this to the long list of Sarah Cari-boo-boos! Apparently she was a feminist a few weeks ago but she isn't anymore and hates labels. She even brought up about labeling people from different parts of the country in different ways! I guess she not only forgot she told Katie she's a feminist for she also forgot telling her supporters there are parts of the U.S. that aren't in the "real America"...lol! Annie

You're attacking her for being against wasting money on fruit fly research? I guess you'll complain about anything now. Yes, I've heard of what SOME people think this research MIGHT produce. Do you know how much it's produced so far? NOTHING.

Autism???? Gee make sure Jenny McCarthy knows about that one. Her kid's probably getting tired of the loopy diet she's got him on. Oh and it is sanctioned by Autism Speaks the same Autism Speaks that has a founding member who said she wanted to kill her autistic child but didn't for the sake of the "normal" child she had.

Regardless of what her supporters are going to say, if Palin is going to get specific about something, she needs to know what the heck she's talking about because, if she doesn't and ends up looking stupid, it's her own fault. Maybe she does it on purpose so she can play victim...you know, like that faked out Joe the Plumber.

Wow people sure dig deep for something to rip on Palin for. I am not a supporter of either candidate but to rip on someone because they don't know about fruit fly research in Paris in crazy. Are people that desperate for Obama to win that they will stoop to these kind of attacks? it is funny how everything she does or even wears gets criticized but yet nothing about what the men spend, wear, or stupid things they say get called out. Seems pretty sexist if you ask me. Good luck with the fruit flies.

Well I have to agree that the government does spend a lot of money or stupid wasteful studies of some booger or pimple or what have you on a frogs hinny. She just used fruit fly as an example. What is your problem?

Well Unlike the rest of you bashers, I actually did a little research on this. (It doesn't hurt I promise) I don't think it's the research part that SARAH is against, I think it's THE PARIS PART. As any ten year old could easily see. In fact this issue is on the top of the Citizens Against Government Waste website. http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2008Oinkers It's worth a bookmark. Also There is a Democrat in "Mini sO ta" That agrees with her. At least his spokesbabe does. “If John Kline thinks safe roads and bridges in Minnesota are equivalent to ‘olive fruit fly research in Paris,’ then he’d better talk to Minnesotans whose lives are being affected, sometimes tragically, by our crumbling infrastructure,” said Sarvi spokeswoman Bridget Cusick. www.stevesarvi.org/ Although I don't see the connection between Kline and this research. It was attributed to a California Democrat. But hey, continue the bashing. Don't let me stop you. You just show once again that Sarah is smarter than you look.

hi philjas yes someone shoud have educated her on a lotof things, and I do think shes just not cut out to be a vice president of'the United States at all. She seems to me to be out of her league and not really interested in the issues that are so crucial for the rest of us..

Philjas, The problem, as I see it, is America is tired of congress spending OUR money on foolishness or at the very least something that is netting no return! We already fund many medical research institutions and if this is a necessary viable study for the relief or cure of autism, then let the medical researchers do it not a seperate grant. Our congress is getting very good at spending "other peoples money" and your candidats has never met a peice of "pork" he didn't like! John McCain says he will make these "pork barrel" theives famous or rather infamous if you will. I want to know how it is even legal to attach spending "wish lists" not even related to the impending bill! This is how our government spending has gotten out of control and is becoming the greatest threat to our already stressed economy!

Anyone who has studied basic biology knows that research using fruit flies forms the basis of a great deal of our current knowledge about genetics. That doesn't matter, though. What matters is that it can be made to sound trivial, just as the Zeiss projector that powers the oldest planetarium exhibit in the country can be called an 'overhead projector' and ridiculed.