Posted on 01/04/2011 8:08:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Earlier today, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin caused a stir with a retweet that many read as a cryptic indicator that the Mama Grizzly was poised to come out in favor of some gay rights. Prominent Palin fansite Conservatives4Palin.com, however, has swooped in to defend her honor, noting that Palin’s retweet of Tammy Bruce’s sentiment, “But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. Enuf already–the more someone complains about the homos the more we should look under their bed,” doesn’t indicate support for gay rights. I’m inclined to agree.
From Conservatives4Palin:
Apparently, her re-tweet of a Tammy Bruce tweet is making news. What a lot of people are missing is that it’s possible to share the sentiment that Tammy expressed in her tweet and still oppose repeal of DADT and other issues. I don’t know Governor Palin’s opinion on the issue. However, I think it’s a stretch to claim that she is a proponent of repealing DADT based on one re-tweet.
I don’t believe Tammy was actually criticizing people who genuinely oppose repeal of DADT. After all, the most visible and vigorous opponent of repealing DADT was John McCain, someone who no one will mistake as a fanatic. The people Bruce is mocking are those on the right and the left who spend every waking hour of their day thinking about homosexuality.
I think they sort of hit the nail on the head here. First of all, it’s a retweet. It might well have been an accident, especially given the lack of follow-up. Assuming it wasn’t a mistake, though, the notion that Palin would criticize those who make gay rights a priority, either way, has basis in fact. Palin, herself, has spoken out against the repeal of DADT, and in favor of a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, but hasn’t done so for a very long time. Since the 2008 presidential campaign, she has generally avoided gay rights issues.
She also made a point of bringing up a headline-making Facebook rant that featured several anti-gay slurs, but ignored the portion of the rant that actually made headlines.
When she did address the DADT repeal, in fact, it was to criticize President Obama for making it a priority:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Personally, she's clearly walking the talk as a social conservative...that's indisputable. But she is a little more "live and let live" than some would like.
She has also stated the police have better things to do than worry about somebody smoking a joint in their living room and has never mentioned the WOD other than that.
Smells like a bunch of wishful thinking to me. She tweeted what she tweeted, and now people are trying to ‘interpret’ it to comfort themselves. LOL
So what if Palin isn’t a flame thrower on the whole issue of gays or DADT. Do people expect her to be PERFECT, or to be in 100% agreement with everyone on EVERYTHING?
Personally, I’m against homos serving in the military at all, but I wouldn’t allow that single issue to be a ‘deal breaker’.
This whole thing is a bunch of nothing. People should just let it go.
She would still get my vote either way(especially against Hussein).
What did she tweet? a retweet about what? I find it ambiguous, you can’t say that it is a support for Gays in the Military either!!
That would be interpreting it as well!
You have obviously never served.
Let the spin begin.... Once again I will show my screenshot of Sarah’s Twitter page...
http://oi52.tinypic.com/5tsw7q.jpg
“the more someone complains about the homos the more we should look under their bed”
Palin agrees with that statement.
That’s the problem.
Nothing to do with DADT. Palin is agreeing with the argument gays have been using for years. Anyone who criticizes gays is gay. Total BS. And Palin agrees with it. And not only that, Bruce seems to think that someone should be investigating critics of the gay agenda. And Palin agrees with that. That’s the problem.
There needs to be a correct interpretation of Sarah's tweetings. The focus of the statement is hypocrisy. Sarah is looking at those who would destroy the credibility of our stand against "homos." Our enemies on the Left are pushing for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. They will use any method of trickery to further their cause. One way would be for one of their operative to pretend they are a conservative. Such a person will pose as some right wing nut job and make all kinds of noise about homos. They will loudly behave as the stereotypical flaming homo haters and set up circumstances to be exposed for some manufactured scandalous hypocrisy. Casting a group with hypocrisy is the easiest way to kill the credibility of any group.
We have seen them operate at Tea Party rallies. They put on the face of the Tea Party members. However, they carry outrageous signs and make outrageous statements. They try to ferment violence to make the Tea Party look like morons and give the Tea Party movement a bad name. In just the same way, they will act like raving smucks in order to put a loony tune face on all conservatives who oppose same sex marriage and the homo agenda. We need to look under their bed to see if they are who they pretend to be.
This is the tactic of the Southern Poverty Law Center which draws out one person who has some nasty stuff under their bed. The SPLC exposes one person and uses it to cast a bad picture on the entire group. They have moved on to a new twist on that tactic. They infiltrate the group with one of their own operatives. Such a person will through outrageous behavior destroy the reputation of the entire group.
We are in for some real disgusting times as the Left tries every trick in the book to further their agenda.
LOL!
It’s not a “deal breaker” for me either, but it’s actually pretty serious, for those who are paying close attention.
“the more someone complains about the homos the more we should look under their bed”
Palin agrees with that. It’s a real problem. I wouldn’t call it a huge problem. But Conservatives here, on FR, do not agree with that. She really should stop agreeing with things that Conservatives do not like.
Palin’s supporters should definitely tell her when she’s doing something that they think will hurt her with Conservative voters. I like Sarah Palin. Romney Gingrich and Huckabee are unacceptable. But is it too much to ask for the “Conservative” one to be Conservative.
Personally, I'll still vote for her rather than any of these other RINO's trying for the brass ring.
It'd drive the Left into collective apoplexy...
That is a good answer. I like it. I’m not sure that you’re right. But, I like Palin, and your answer seems to clarify the issue in her favor, which I like.
She was talking about Larry Craig, or something like that? Make sure that the anti gay spokespeople aren’t gay. Sort of like a vetting? It actually is a good thing then if it’s read that way. Lindsey Graham. Ken Mehlman. Get rid of them.
and here I thought we were entering the New Year of “no labels”
Meh, let’s see, last year I was called
racist for opposing Obama’s agenda,
teabagger for championing fiscal restraint,
Islamophobic for opposing the ground zero mosque,
Supporter of slavery for opposing the government takeover of healthcare
Racist (again) for supporting the AZ immigration law
Idiot for opposing the Start Treaty
Insensitive for wanting to fly the colors
But that was all last year. This year, the year of “no labels” I am not being called a Homophobe for opposing the repeal of DADT. Great start to a new year!
However, Palin is not agreeing with the repeal of it, she is agreeing with Tammy Bruce that this is all a distraction of epic proportions (that’s the way I read it).
Back in February, Palin did say that a rule such as DADT is needed in the military and that the military commanders should be setting the rules, not Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. She did point out that now is not the time to be taking this argument up. We are in time of war and there are bigger priorities ie... jobs, deficit, terrorism etc...
The tweet is much ado about nothing. If you are looking to hate on Palin, you will. If you support her, you still will.
The liberals can repeal all they want, Commanders will run their units how they see fit and safe and Sarah supports that.
Does the gay community really believe they should be “openly serving” while we are at war on Islamic soil?? Do they know what the Koran says about homosexuality and what should be done to people like that?
I like your thinking about vetting our spokesmen—looking under their beds. The Left is going to act like a wild savage as we start putting their agenda in a corner. We cannot have weak links like Karl Rove or soon to be outed Lindsey Graham. This will be a tough fight because we do not want it to go violent and give the enemies of freedom an excuse to exploit the trouble to further their power.
BUMP what you said.
Sarah Palin better “clarify” quickly. If she is okay with sodomizing America’s military, that’s a deal breaker for me.
This is spin. She did what she did. Time to look for another candidate.
For the majority of Conservatives, who support Palin and are not quite so obsessed, all I can say is "see ya".
I have a relative, by marriage, who was homosexual. (Note past tense!)
This person was involved in a ‘marriage’ with a transgendered individual (companion actually endured a sex change operation), and there was a child (by AI) born into this relationship.
This relationship endured for about 15 years until said relative suddenly fell in love with member of the opposite sex! (This is not a joke - it actually happened,) This person walked away from own child and spouse to marry a member of opposite sex. (Relative changed sexual orientation to heterosexual.)
Relative said to be very satisfied with present marriage and has even re-established parent-child relationship with son originally spurned by new spouse.
I have talked with son — says, WOW! It was very confusing at first, but he’s adjusted. (He’s interested in girls! Yeah!!) Says his original Dad (the transgendered he/she, is managing the abandonment but still hurting.)
Note: I do not accept the idea that homosexuality is biological but rather a personality disorder.
These people have, by and large, been supportive of a young child and at no time have physically harmed him.
In no way do I believe homosexuality should be illegal or deemed immoral except when it involves the sexual or physical abuse of juveniles and/or minors. That would make it criminal.
>> “FWIW” [snort!!]
Ha!
>> Sarah Palin better “clarify” quickly.
Don’t hold your breath.
As a hunch, I expect Palin to avoid the issue. Her Retweet was probably a courtesy to Bruce and nothing more.
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