Why does Sarah Palin think our Founding Fathers recited the Pledge of Allegiance?

Question

Our Founding Fathers would be appalled at the idea of government promoting a pledge. America is about freedom not coercion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/palin-on-pledge-of-allegi_n_122965.html

Answer 1

Because she is an arrogant stupid ***.

Answer 2

The pledge wasn't around when the founding fathers were.

Answer 3

Alaska may be a little behind in these matters.  It has only been a state for about 50 years.  Cut her some slack while they catch up.

Answer 4

I guess she doesn't know that the Pledge of Allegiance wasn't there when the Founding Fathers were

Answer 5

i think the Republicans have done it. They've found someone else as dumb as Bush.

Answer 6

Why didn't the Founding Fathers abandon slavery when they wrote the Constitution if freedom was paramount and why didn't they let women vote.

Answer 7

I'd like to give you a good answer to that which isn't patently insulting to conservatives, but it's difficult to come up with one.  I'm afraid there are some ways conservatives truly baffle me, and this is one of them.

Conservatives, for some reason, tend to like to think they're the bee-line straight to the hearts and minds of the Founding Fathers, that somehow they're the staunch guardians of truth, justice, and morality in America and that those with a liberal bent are engaged in a relentless attack against the eternal core of values of the country.

I have no idea why.  Not only were the Founding Fathers not convservatives, not only were they liberals, they were radical revolutionaries.  However, since conservatives have little interest in progress, the Founding Fathers are located firmly behind them, and the liberals are pointed ahead, it seems conservatives assume they have to be staying closer to the Founding Fathers simply because they aren't going anywhere.

They also like to think in terms of two moments:  Now, and forever.  

If we didn't come up with it just now, then it's been around forever.  Marriage is between a man and a woman because it's ALWAYS been that way (what a load of nonsense).  America was ALWAYS supposed to be a Christian nation (go check with James Madison and George Washington on that one).

When you get into the idea of patriotism, what we do has ALWAYS been around, what it was envisioned to be has NEVER changed, and that's what they're holding onto.  They've got it right, they've never wavered from day one, so obviously whatever's good enough for them had to be what was good enough for the Founding Fathers.

They're the conservatives.  They're conserving what the Founding Fathers intended (like the Pledge).  They just can't be wrong about it.

That would make the liberals right, and mean we're supposed to be dedicated to protecting the individual liberties of people and allowing them to pursue happiness in their lives how they see fit, with as little interference as possible.  

Then what happens to the visions of the Founding Fathers?  Huh?  Then what?  The Founding Fathers didn't say ANYTHING about people having a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of...

Oh c**p.

Answer 8

Well, she certainly got her facts wrong about that one... On the other hand, how would you know what the Founding Fathers would be appalled about? After all, didn't they think slavery was ok back then?