Posted on 09/11/2008 12:33:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One wonders: What did Sarah Palin ever do to inspire the rage and bile that exploded on her selection by John McCain? What is there either in this woman’s record or resume to elicit such feline ferocity?
What did we know of her when she was introduced?
That she was a mother of five who had brought into this world a baby boy with Down syndrome, thus living her Christian beliefs. That she was a small-town conservative who had risen from mayor of Wasilla (Pop. 9,700) to be governor of a state twice the size of Texas.
That she was a reformer who had dethroned an Old Boys’ Network by dumping a sitting Republican governor. That she had taken on Big Oil, taxed the companies and returned the money in $1,200 checks to every citizen of Alaska. And that she had cut a deal with Canada to build a pipeline to bring natural gas to her fellow Americans.
What, in any or all of this, is there to justify the attacks within minutes of her introduction? What had she done to cause this outburst? Answer: Absolutely nothing.
No. Sarah Palin is not resented for what she has done, but for who she is: a Christian conservative who believes unborn children are gifts of God, even those with birth defects, and have a God-given right to life.
No sooner was Palin introduced than the media went berserk over the news that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. As one in three births in America is out-of-wedlock and Hollywood celebrates this lifestyle, why did The New York Times and The Washington Post splash this “news” on Page One above the fold? How does Bristol Palin’s pregnancy disqualify Sarah Palin to be vice president? Why is it even relevant?
They did it because they thought it would damage Palin in the eyes of a Christian community they do not comprehend.
If one would wish to see the famous liberal double standard on naked display, consider.
Palin’s daughter was fair game for a media that refused to look into reports that John Edwards, a Democratic candidate for president, was conducting an illicit affair with a woman said to be carrying his child and cheating on his faithful wife Elizabeth, who has incurable cancer. That was not a legitimate story, but Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is?
Why did the selection of Palin cause a suspension of all standards and a near riot among a media that has been so in the tank for Barack even “Saturday Night Live” has satirized the infatuation?
Because she is one of us — and he is one of them.
Barack and Michelle are affirmative action, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard Law. She is public schools and Idaho State. Barack was a Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah kills her own food.
Michelle has a $300,000-a-year sinecure doing PR for a Chicago hospital. Todd Palin is a union steelworker who augments his income working vacations on the North Slope. Sarah has always been proud to be an American. Michelle was never proud of America — until Barack started winning.
Barack has zero experience as an executive. Sarah ran her own fishing fleet, was mayor for six years and runs the largest state in the union. She belongs to a mainstream Christian church. Barack was, for 15 years, a parishioner at Trinity United and had his daughters baptized by Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons are saturated in black-power, anti-white racism and anti-Americanism.
Sarah is a rebel. Obama has been a go-along, get-along cog in the Daley machine. She is Middle America. Barack, behind closed doors in San Francisco, mocked Middle Americans as folks left behind by the global economy who cling bitterly to their Bibles, bigotries and guns.
Barack, says the National Journal, has the most left-wing voting record in the Senate, besting Socialist Bernie Sanders. Palin’s stances read as though they were lifted from Ronald Reagan’s 1980 “no pale pastels” platform. And this is what this media firestorm is all about.
Sarah is a direct threat to their entire culture! That’s why the attacks!
Thank you for posting this article, and THANK YOU for your service to our country!!!!
Much like the ‘old money’ elite on the decks of the Titanic mocked the Middle class and immigrants who were ‘locked’ below deck.
And much like what ‘could’ happen to the US if obama-wan-kenobi became President, when the Ship went down, it did not discriminate on who it took with it.
Because she is one of us — and he is one of them.
Definitely a stopped-clock moment for Pat. Wish he could be like that more often.
Wow, great read!
yes and because she’s a threat to their ideology and not just a candidate, they won’t listen to the Obama strategists who don’t want to be distracted by her.
Spot on.
Roger that.
well he’s not one of them when he’s on O’reilly.
Those bitter, atheistic people who cling to their Das Kapital, their expensive armed guards, and their daddy's fortune.
Well said
Very good article by Patrick J. Buchanan. Thanks for posting.
Kudos, Mr. Buchanan...you nailed it.
ping.
And now we have in Gov Palin, the embodiment of Second Amendment, Bible-believing, Middle America-----who is cleaning Obama's clocks just by showing up.
Life is good.
Obama's looking more and more like a short order cook in a greasy all-night diner, serving up leftover Biden stew.
I agree. That one is gonna leave a mark...
It is ironic, Sarah is doing to Obama what Obama did to Hillary. Hillary was the annoited one, the chosen one to be next, then out of left field He showed up. The Clinton’s were thinking, where the hell did he come from?
Now it is Sarah coming out of right field at the final hours, he must be royally PO’ed.
SARAH!
You magnificent woman!
I heard your speech!
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