Posted on 10/02/2008 2:27:42 PM PDT by Woodland
With winds of change rivaling Hurricane Ike, John McCain’s historic VP pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has blown away the left’s mask of “inclusive tolerance,” exposing an ugly and desperate countenance below. Flummoxed and frantic, their shameful attacks on Palin and her family have revealed that liberal Democrats, the mainstream media, and those malicious hacks in the “progressive” blogosphere are willing to navigate the deepest, darkest sludge of slash-and-burn politics to see their man, Barack Obama, elected President.
The way the media have dispensed with the hold-harmless tradition of “hands-off the kids” and gone after the Palin children is both deplorable and unprecedented. It tells Republicans, Independents, and moderate Democrats alike everything they need to know about the extremist nature of “Obama-mania.”
Examples are plentiful. NBC joked that Todd Palin – Gov. Palin’s husband and father to her five beautiful kids – was having incestuous sexual relations with his own minor daughters, in a disgusting and decidedly unfunny hit-skit on Saturday Night Live. And Lefty pro-bama blogs, such as the Daily Kos, have targeted teenage daughter, Bristol, cruelly attacking her over and again on a personal level. (I imagine Todd’s itchin’ to drag those patchouli-bathed pansies out to the woodshed for a not-so-tender lesson in how to properly treat his little girl.)
“How dare McCain pick her?” they bellow. “How cynical.” To them, she’s not a real woman and they’ve said as much. Just as Clarence Thomas is really a rich white guy in blackface, she’s just a misogynistic female impersonator.
Not surprisingly, the ultraliberal and presumptuously self-styled “National Organization for Women” has been beating the warpath drums, claiming that Palin is “… more a conservative man than she is a woman.” And Wendy Doniger – a feminist Kool-Aid guzzler with the University of Chicago – wrote in Newsweek that “[Palin’s] greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.” (Sorry, gals; Sarah Palin’s most definitely a woman. Suppose some of that hate boils down to the fact that the governor is so easy on the eyes?)
Still, it was uber-fem, Gloria Steinem, who placed her finger directly on liberal feminists’ true bone of contention with Palin, writing, “She opposes just about every issue that women support. … [She] opposes everything most other women want and need.” Of course, Madam Steinem’s “everything most other women want and need” can be summed up in a single word: abortion.
Palin blew it, you see. She made an unforgivable “choice.” She publicly expressed, through both word and selfless deed, that she values all people during every stage of development, from conception to natural death. Most egregiously, she refused the sacrificial rite of passage into authentic womandom. She declined to slaughter her own unborn child, Trig, to goddess feminism – even after doctors told her he was one of those Down syndrome throwaways. Steinem called her own abortion a, “pivotal and constructive experience.” I guess, according to these nasty ninnies, we simply can’t have a Vice President who “lacks experience” in “pivoting” and “constructing.”
Think about it. Sarah Palin is poised to undo much of what the left has accomplished. Imagine her as a role model for millions upon millions of young girls around the world. Imagine those young girls embracing life over death on the abortion issue – embracing true feminism over angry, abortion-centric feminism. They absolutely can't have that and will stop at nothing to destroy her. We expect liberal bias from the media and other leftist elites. But this time around, the bias is off the charts. It's finally exposed liberals for who they truly are, and we have Sarah Palin to thank for it.
The reality is that – except for those who, like Gloria Steinem, think the preamble to the Declaration of Independence should have read: “All women are endowed by mother earth with the inalienable right to eat their own young” – Sarah Palin has connected with average Americans. Especially with women. Most notably (oh glory day) with Hillary Clinton supporters.
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Matt Barber is Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel and Associate Dean at the Liberty University School of Law. Send comments to Matt at jmattbarber@comcast.net
And I suppose a Governor from Arkansas had more experience to bring to the table in 1992?
Some say her lack of experience is a reason to vote against Gov. Paline, I say her lack of WASHINGTON experience is a reason to vote for Gov. Palin.
You know, given what has gone on in Washington the last couple of weeks, that is a much better line than I ever imagined.
Exactly, especially in the area of foreign policy. How quick some forget!
Love it!
Palin is real the way it was intended — to respect people, to include the babies and the handicapped.......to be able to juggle being female, married, kids, job and personality......the left can’t take it, they are unmasked.
Call them what they are: PRO-ABORTION.
It has been difficult, for me, to find truthful, well written articles concerning the current political events.
Thank you for finding and sharing this one.
Sarah Palin is our Joan of Arc.
Joe Biden is a trojan. I do hope his shield is broken tonight.
Yes, a used one.
She'll speed up a transformation that's been happening for some years now.
A Zogby International poll reports that young adults are more likely than their parents or grandparents to support a total ban — that’s right, a total ban — on abortion. One-third of people ages 18 to 29 said that abortion should never be legal, compared to 23 percent for those ages 30 to 64 and about 20 percent for those over 65.
A University of California, Berkeley poll found a similar trend. In that one, young people (ages 15 to 26) were about 10 percentage points more likely to support abortion restrictions than their elders, by a margin of 44 percent to 34 percent. That’s a mere 7 percentage points away from a majority.
...but really, the ways of Washington center on screwing over the people of the country on a routine basis.
My vote is for Sarah.
I'm hoping that 120 million other voters feel the same.
Creator-endowed right to life and liberty is the foundation upon which this nation was founded.
If a nation devalues that concept, basing an individual's right to life and liberty on judicial fiat and a woman or girl's decision, then where is the security for liberty for any?
The elephant in the room in this election is the Radical Left's absolute determination that it, alone, will decide who sits on the Supreme Court of the United States! They talk about "change," they talk about war, they talk about everything else, but the "elephant" is the question of the unfettered right of a woman to destroy her unborn child. To the Left, this is a declared war on all opposition.
Yes, it is time for John McCain to take off the gloves on exposing the real culprits in the government who forced banks to make risky loans to unqualified people, but for the sake of liberty for generations yet unborn, it is far more important that he clarify the importance of the life issue, and the threat to liberty if Obama carries out the Left's agenda. Soft pedaling this issue, as if it is just a personal preference, overlooks a far more significant principle.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."- Thomas Jefferson
"The world is different now. . . . And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forefathers fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."- JFK, Inaugural 1961
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