"The blogosphere has been all over the responses Palin gave on the 2006 gubernatorial candidate questionnaire of the conservative Eagle Forum Alaska. The group published the candidate's responses on July 31 of that year.

Question No. 11 was: "Are you offended by the phrase 'Under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?

"Not on your life," Palin responded. "If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its (sic) good enough for me and I'll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance."

(The pledge was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister and a Christian Socialist. The words "under God" were added in legislation signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 14, 1954.)

Question No. 3: "Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?"

Palin: "Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support."

Obviously not." (Al Kamen, In the Loop, Washington Post, September 3, 2008)