Posted on 07/17/2009 7:03:28 AM PDT by Wolf13
Reactions to Sarah Palin’s decision to resign the governorship of Alaska have been a reminder of her unmatched ability to elicit strong emotions from friend and foe alike. We know some of the reasons why. It’s her evangelical Christianity and her folksy manner. It’s her small-town roots and her “new feminism.”
But there is something more. A year ago, Palin gave birth to her youngest son, Trig, who has Down syndrome. Since then, mother and son have become objects of the left’s unrelenting scorn and the right’s unflinching fidelity.
An underexamined reason why Palin is loved and loathed so fiercely is her intimate association with two of our most divisive issues: disability and the right to life.
In her resignation statement, Palin suggested her decision was due in part to her family’s reaction to personal attacks against Trig. Those comments stoked the rage of the Palin-haters. At Talking Points Memo, an article sarcastically suggested that Palin resigned because “she wants to spread Down syndrome ... because Down syndrome is just too cute to be reserved for one in 800 births.”
A Paliban Daily article titled “Sarah Palin’s Retarded Platform: More Trigs!” interpreted Palin’s outspokenness on disability rights as a political ploy to win votes. Other articles contained subtle but unmistakable eugenic overtones.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
“Trig Palin has divided America”
totally wrong. A deliberate lie.
The headline should be changed to “Liberal anger, hatred and insanity has separated them from the world of normal people”
Yea, how dare Trig be different. So much for the tollerance of the left.
Agreed.
Why is it Gov. Palin’s fault that the left wants to kill babies, especially those with disabilities?
How can you not love that little guy?
This makes me sick to my stomach. While I would not wish for a Downs Syndrome child, if the Lord blessed me in such a way, I would take care of that child until my very last breath.
These Liberal idiots want eugenics and abortions for children who are “different.” What would’ve happened if Helen Keller’s mother aborted her? Imagine the advances in handicap accessibility that would’ve been lost.
Liberals and progressives are the same as Socialists and Communists. They don’t want anything to impede with their Bachannalian lovefests. They are GODLESS people who will roast in the fires of Hell for their utter contempt for the beauty of life and all of its variety.
More proof that liberlaism is a mental disease.
Democrats are the enemy of freedom.
And yet, they come looking for trouble with FR whenever someone here (very rarely I might add) dares to criticize and ridicule Obama’s daughters.
Sarah needs our prayers now more than ever.
anyone who makes fun of that poor little guy should be smacked in the face with a wet rubber glove, at minimum.
Don’t forget the left is scared to death of this beautiful lady..What class she has..and they are afraid of that..She is very intelligent and beautiful at the same time..The thing is the public is getting sick of these demons that attack a baby..Sarah chose to keep Trig not murder him..and for that the demons of hell are after her..(The demons I speak of are the whole democrat party)
How can you not love that little guy?
I don’t know...the evil that lurks in the hearts of some of these libs is stunning...I’m pretty sure there will be several articles in the NYT about their hate filled rants...any day now...
It’s time for a whole bunch of “real talk” here. Though I doubt the libs will cooperate.
They seem almost angry that a pregnant lady would search her heart and choose the burden of bearing a Down’s Syndrome baby. We have genetic tests for that.
The homosexual lobby has ensured a “stop” on the same genetic tests. While the libs berated GWB his entire term for not going for their version of following “science”, they seem oddly quiet now.
So now I’d like to know how many of these moral superiors can guarantee me this: “If you knew your child would be born gay, would you bear that child?”
In other words, are you as brave, ballsy, and humane as Gov. Palin and her family?
Somehow, I suspect .................crickets.
..and every one is gracious, respectful and extremely hard working.
They spread sunshine every time they're there!
..and they don't shirk their job.
I do believe that Trig's existence woke up a huge population in our country to the culture of death the liberals have been promoting since forever.(ALL liberals are margaret sanger's in their hearts. Sotomayor is, ginsberg [who beieves girls as young as TWELVE YEARS OF AGE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT to CONSENT TO SEX]-it is enough to make one HATE THEM.
This picture shows GENUINE COMPASSION.
Liberals HATE that.
They are such fake, shallow, creepy 'let me slide my hand into your pocketbook' dirtbags it has become SURREAL!
Look what a fag did to Miss California! And got away with it. Liberals are filthy.
Helen Keller was blind and deaf due to an illness when she was 19 months old. She was healthy at birth.
However, I’m sure the modern Death Eaters would have been happy to have her eliminated once she was handicapped. No “quality of life,” “useless eater,” etc.
DESPERATELY needs to be protected from the likes of...
...this.
Her decision NOT to kill him reminds the left
that this is the morally superior decision.
It also reminds them that they, who would choose to kill him,
are in the morally inferior position,
and even more, it reminds them that they are perishing - eternally speaking.
Read the history of Nazi Germany and how Hitler’s regime viewed the disabled.
The language may be slightly less vitriolic, the method less bloodthirsty (abortion) but the intent of the Far Left and Nazism is the same, to eradicate disabled folks from playing any part in the society.
To me, the question is not whether Sarah Palin is worthy enough to be President. Instead, I wonder if America, in its present state, is worthy of the honor having her as President.
If I believed we were here by evolution (inorganic to organic by mere chance) then I and I alone would be God, that is, to me. And, when I would see the senseless, inane, dribble from dregs like the scourge currently called liberals, the fit, progressives, Third-Way, the illumined ones, etc. I would do everything I could to take them out.
But, an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, vengeance is MINE says the Lord...not my job. But there will be hell to pay far worse than I can do anyhow.
For table time, I think Jeremiah Wright is a greater issue...
try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhnc2fxAzg&feature=related
All they are trying to do is deflect table time from their real issues and agenda.
This imbecile cost the "volk" 60,000 reichmarks in his lifetime.
“They are GODLESS...”
I believe that is the whole problem. When they look at someone like Trig, they see a “defect” that society needs to be protected from. “Defects” need to be corrected or eliminated. I see a precious and unique creation made by a Loving God, who according to His words was made in His image - as we all are. I know a child with Downs Syndrome. It is no doubt that they present challenges - but they also give rewards. The “very least of these” can teach us some of our most profound lessons, if we open our eyes — and hearts.—JM
Such abortions will probably be mandatory under Obamacare.
Of course, it being Gary Bauer, I suppose one might expect that.
Sarah’s very existence gives the lie to the left’s claims of their own superior tolerance, love of diversity and inclusion, and respect for the choices of others.
She lives the kind of life they claim for themselves but to which they only give lip service.
Every time they see her or hear her voice they know they are reduced by her in any meaningful comparison.
They know their words and their lives are but hollow lies.
And they hate her for showing to themselves and the world how small and false they really are.
Souless freaking pigs, they are.
Last year we had a Sunday football party and one of my husband’s friends made a disgusting comment about the truthless rumor that Trig is actually Bristol and Todd’s baby.
I went ballistic, kicked him out and said to never step foot back on my property again.
Anyone who makes jokes out of such vile and satanistic things is not welcome in my home.
Back in my traveling days, I used to regularly stop at a restaurant which had a DS young lady on the staff. She was pleasant, super clean and prided herself in making sure that the customers had drink refills, spill cleanups and anything they wanted to discard cleaned away. I don't know if she was the daughter of the owner or actually worked for minimum wage (or more), but thought the attention and service she gave to the travelers was head and shoulders above 99.6% of the places I ever stopped.
Good for YOU!!!!!!
You are welcome at my fire anytime
America has been divided far before Trig was born.
While the title of the article is vile to me, the article, itself, is a disemboweling of the left's desire to kill innocent babies - especially those with birth defects. Special needs children often wind up being the best gift God has provided to their parents. Yes, special needs children CAN, sometimes, be a handful but, ultimately, serve as the best teachers of love - something far too many of us "normal" people don't have that good a grasp of. God bless Sarah, Trig and their whole family.
She lives the kind of life they claim for themselves but to which they only give lip service.
Maybe Sarah Palin will be the worlds last example that
Jesus is our savior. I can't think of anyone right now who could have more of an impact on focusing our eyes on Christ.
She is a christian and kept her special son and they hate her for that. Maybe she will turn thoughts to Christ in her actions.
That was the most heartwarming thing I’ve ever read here.
You’re an angel!
She’s the “winnowing fork” in His hands,
separating the wheat and the chaff.
Reactions to her tell way more about the person speaking than about SP herself.
You da woman!!!! High fives from WA!
Palin is this cycle’s Emmanuel Goldstein - the focus of Party efforts to generate and channel hate by the masses.
I’m having trouble making sense of your post. Did you say the gay lobby ensured a stop on genetic tests for Down Syndrome? Doesn’t sound right to me.
As for your hypothetical question,
““If you knew your child would be born gay, would you bear that child?”
response #1: I can’t bear children.
response #2: You have set up a hypothesis contrary to fact, so the results are not useful.
They think that Sarah should have aborted her baby just because it had downs syndrome. I know of other people who have had chromosome issue and if their parents had aborted them then we would have lost several very intelligent people. The Left cries on end about diversity but when genetic diversity is stating them in the face they want it taken out with the bio hazard waste at the hospital. How callous of them.
Downs babies are probably just the beginning for the left, next thing they will mandate in their health care that all pregnant women get amniocentesis and if their baby shows any sort of genetic or chromosomal anomaly they will demand that the child be aborted. They will claim that this is for the health of the child that they don’t want to see if “suffer”. If that argument fails they will claim that it would be unfair to burden the parent with extra suffering and the taxpayers with the extra cost a developmentally disabled child may bring with them. Yeah that same argument was used by the Regressive “Progressives” of the early 1900’s for justification of sterilization of people.
The next targets of this cull will be those who have cerebral palsy, Sex chromosome anomalies, cystic fibrosis, or any other genetic condition that can be tested for, they will also start to justify the culling of those who may carry the genes but who don’t express those genes.
The dirty little secret is that genetic counseling can become a pseudo eugenics program quite quickly. All int he name of saving money and preventing the “suffering of others”.
Just for the record. Helen Keller was not born blind/deaf, her handicap is usually attributed to scarlet fever when she was a toddler.
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