Posted on 09/03/2008 12:36:01 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Sarah Palin is preparing to take the stage at the Republican convention, and if you believe the chorus in the MSM, the pivotal issue she must deal with is the pregnancy of her teen-age daughter — which in the space of two days has apparently become one of the most burning policy matters of our time. Move over, U.S. economy, world markets, jihadis, oil despotisms, resurgent Russian aggressors, Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
I don’t know what Sarah Palin is going to say. But I am trying to imagine the effect it would have if she stood up before the crowd and declared the following:
While holding elected office, my experience included the pursuit of assorted adulterous liaisons, including intimate activities in my landmark government office with an intern less than half my age, though as I regard it, I did not have sex with that person (depending on the meaning of “is”). When I got caught, my spouse denounced my critics as members of a vast political conspiracy. I could add a great deal more to this list (though please remember that when I got caught taking home state silverware, I eventually did send it back), but let us now turn to the mighty issue of the hour…There are a few more things you need to know about me. As a troubled teen-ager, I myself used cocaine and marijuana (yes, I inhaled), and as an adult, I attended and took my family to (and my inspiration from) a church where the preaching included hate-speech about America and assorted ethnic and religious groups. In my business career, before entering politics, I had talents that allowed me, simply by reading the newspaper, to earn a 10,000% return on a $1,000 investment in cattle futures in the space of 10 months.
That scene, of course, is fantasy. Sarah Palin won’t say these words, because they do not apply to her. But the activities listed here do apply, as a quick compendium, to the three most prominent political figures (the politicians themselves, not their children) who paraded across the stage at the Democratic convention in Denver last week — to wild ovations from the crowd.
Somehow, the awkward moments of Barack Obama, and Hillary and Bill Clinton, rank as pardonable and ultimately unimportant in the eyes of many of the same folks who would now pillory Sarah Palin as unfit for office … because her 17-year-old daughter got pregnant and plans to marry the father and have the baby.
Enough with the audacity of hypocrisy. Now may we go ahead with the real political debate?
Spot on.
“the pivotal issue she must deal with is the pregnancy of her teen-age daughter”
If that’s the best they can do, her critics are in real trouble.
But hypocrisy is all the Dems have!
But hypocrisy is all the Dems have!
Wonderful little piece by Claudia Rossette, one of the great writers and thinkers of our day.
“Let he who is without sin caste the first stone.”
OH, DO bring that issue on.
ONE 527 ad, 15-20 seconds worth,
Palin’s supportive statement about her daughter and new grandchild,
vs Obama’s “punished with a baby” video quote.
You have to have standards of behavior in order to be a hypocrite.
Best closing line in MY fantasy world?
“Regretfully, Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.”
You know, I read and re-read your comment. It’s one of those short statements that really sum up a situation. You are correct, hypocisy IS all they have.
Where’s my ad that’s too big for a tagline? Here ‘tis...
I heard Sarah Palin’s father was a Nazi sympathizer who admired Hitler. Oh wait. That was Ted Kennedy’s father.
I heard Todd Palin not only committed a DUI, he fled the scene and left his girlfriend to drown. Oh wait. That was Ted Kennedy.
I heard Sarah Palin’s family had a frisky daughter and they got her lobotomized. Oh wait. That was the Kennedys.
I heard Sarah Palin used cocaine when she could afford it, and she had this gig with a domestic terrorist where they siphoned off taxpayer money...Oh wait. That’s Barack Hussein Obama.
Claudia should have included Edwards and asked how he could have run for Prez with his wife so ill...and who would take care of his children!
I heard Sarah Palin stated that if her daughter made a mistake, she wouldn’t want her “punished with a baby”...Oh wait. That’s Barack Obama.
If it weren’t for DOUBLE, the MSM woud have no standards.
Here is the video:
Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNzmly28Bmg
Obama: “If they [his own daughters] make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Obama is evil—he will murder his own blood and flesh because babies ‘are a punishment’
I think his followers might call it a “sacrifice” to their secular gods.
But being a hypocrite is not possible for them!
To Neighbor of the Beast:
And I heard that a couple folks in Palins family were very, very afraid that a movie star with whom they had been QUITE intimate, might just spill the beans. And one strange suicide later....no, wait...
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