Video (4min 17sec): Sarah Palin's Hidden Base. Sarah Palin has something to hide, especially from swing voters: her deep roots and thriving base of support among social conservatives who are thrilled at the prospect of overturning Roe v. Wade, among other things.
The 2008 Republican platform is the most pro-life in history, calling for a constitutional amendment banning abortion.
Sarah Palin and the GOP leaders at the 2008 Convention avoid speaking frankly about the social conservative agenda, but ANP (American News Project) got an earful when they spoke with GOP delegates and anti-abortion activists at the convention.
"In her acceptance speech at the GOP convention, Sarah Palin didn't once mention abortion or a range of other issues she's taken strong stands on in the past - issues like same sex marriage, creationism, and abstinence only education. But social-conservatives, the very people John McCain is courting with her nomination, know that having a fundamentalist Christian like Palin just a heart-beat away from the presidency would mark a Huge Advance for their movement..."
