“There were some scarily Heinleinian moments”

This meme that McCain-Palin are somehow henleinian candidates has gotten a bit of play, and I really don’t understand it. I think that it comes from those who read Starship Troopers – (or maybe just watched the incompetent drivel of a film that butchered it), and not much else of Heinlein.

One of Heinlein’s most consistent themes throughout his work was a disdain for those who let religion do their thinking for them, and even more pointedly an utter rejection of religion taking a place in politics. Religion seems to me to be the only area where Palin has any actual positions that she can articulate. I don’t think Palin would have been Heinlein’s candidate, and it kinda bothers me to see him tied so often to the republican ticket.