Posted on 11/22/2008 5:50:07 AM PST by rhema
The other day, as I was watching one of the news channels I had to quickly check my calendar because I had the feeling that I may have only dreamt that the election was over.
The reason for my confusion was that several commentators were still taking shots at Sarah Palin. Here it was, weeks after the woman had left the campaign trail, and the abuse was as strident as it had been throughout her months-long quest for the second spot on the ticket. The man who ran for the first spot on the ticket had shed his bulletproof armor; yet, the woman still needed Secret Service protection.
The continuous assault on Sarah Palin is not so difficult to understand. In fact, it can be summed up thusly: she's a woman opposed to abortion. You see, when a man says he's opposed to abortion, women who disagree can accuse him of trying to control a woman's body and/or simply not understanding how a woman feels about dealing with pregnancy, career achievement and defeating the "good ole boy" network. But, how are they going to justify that to a Sarah Palin, who has raised a family, been elected to the highest office in her state and has gained a reputation as a corruption fighter? And a woman decided to keep, raise, and love a Down syndrome child, her son Trig.
Governor Palin represents a stake in the heart of the abortion movement and for that reason alone, she must be sniped at, ridiculed and trashed until her name becomes a scarlet letter on the bosom of every woman who dares to challenge the inner sanctum of liberal orthodoxy.
Clarence Thomas, during his Supreme Court nomination process, went through a similar pattern of degrading denunciation from those who feared that a black conservative would make it more difficult for liberals to polarize the country. According to some nebulous formula that only exists in the maladjusted minds of mental misfits, every black person should be reading from the same script. In other words, they dare not stray off the reservation. A black who can think and act independently is likely to be the victim of a "high-tech lynching," as Justice Thomas referred to it during the outrageous Anita Hill imbroglio.
Inasmuch as we live in a country that has become obsessively egocentric, we have entire groups who dedicate themselves to single issues. If you believe that women should have the right to kill their fetuses, you may be willing to elect someone with questionable credentials who is pro-abortion, over someone with a sterling reputation who is pro-life.
For these ideological narcissists, nothing is more important than the continued growth and consolidation of their power base. They wouldn't spend a New York minute on the examination of a candidate's qualification, education or history of accomplishment. All they want to know is; will she or he support them in their battle to keep abortion legal.
Not that they'll openly admit it. On the contrary, you'll often hear them say they don't believe in a litmus test for public office. However, the moment they see a name on a list that's connected with pro-life, their eraser will be ground down. Even Obama, when asked about Justice Thomas during the campaign, said, with obsequious submission, that he would not have nominated him.
That was merely another knee-jerk genuflection to the pro-abortion jackals, whose sharpened fangs, dripping with the blood of infidels, were poised to pounce on another lost sheep with the temerity to stray from the flock.
Sarah Palin lost, but her wholesome family values image continues to be a threat; hence she must be crushed.
Bob Weir is a former detective sergeant in the New York City Police Department. He is the executive editor of The News Connection in Highland Village, Texas.
Attempted muggings by the fearful left press are hillarious, and note how they are tanking in viewership and readereship.
America knows and loves Sarah Palin.And that will never change.
That is a good point. The left has a death grip on almost every storyline. They control the narrative all the time. They play duck and cover for the left while shredding the GOP for doing the same or less than the lefty counterparts.
Until we can get the media to report the facts of a story and not opinion, or hit pieces we will always be behind.
Breaking the media’s grip? Fund the arts and literature.
Fat chance, I know, fat chance.
That is the problem. However they are rapidly loosing market share. Pray they go bankrupt before it is too late.
“I really doubt that it is only her anti- abortion stance that they fear. In my opinion they fear her because she has connected with conservative Americans better than any other politician. She has awakened the sleeping giant whom they fear.”
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In the olden days of the 1950s women were considered the backbone of the family, Sarah Palin is in that tradition. Todd Palin has to be a real man to live up to the woman he married. Liberals are very threatened by this sort of thing, a fish and a bicycle make a team that strikes fear into their hearts.
She's made it clear that she is willing to get in their face and fight this. The question is do her supporters (we conservatives) have the stomach to stand with her. There's a lot riding on the answer to that question.
They are desperate to stop her and Hillary as SOS is all about resuscitating Hillary so she and not Sarah Palin can be the first woman POTUS.
The author of the article is spot on: Sarah Palin is viciously vilified because of her staunch pro-life stance. The left can forgive her folksy diction; it can grant absolution for her criticism of big government; it can even ignore her strong support of the Second Amendment and the right of individual Americans to keep and bear arms. But it can NEVER grant her peace for her being pro-life. For that, the left must destroy her, for she represents everything that challenges the left’s secular sacrament of abortion.
Still waiting for McCain to stand up and defend his former running mate. It’s been three weeks since his staff went nuclear on Palin. All we have from McCain is a lame attempt at deflection on Leno. Since then he’s relapsed into his normal routine of playing liberal reach around games with Obama & Co. on a daily basis.
Hillary will go nowhere now. 2012 Obama with certainty will be running again. Hillary will be irrelevant 2016. The State Department is her retirement.
I think the people will have more say next election than the MSM. Just boycott their news and the sponsors of their news. The MSM is in trouble. Ratings are low (really?) wonder why? They can be replaced as the leading source of political disinformation, with no BS, not politically correct and straight forward news broadcasts of the future.
Internet. Podcasts. Satellite radio. Screw the censorship doctrine.
Good point!!!
As much as I respect Sarah Palin it isn’t just up to her. It is up to all of us. Tighten your belt, bite down hard and never give up.
It’s her opposition to abortion they loathe.
Here is a link the the story (fifth item down the page):
Greta Van Susteren - Greta wire
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To think he will ever learn is out of the question.
They’re all (R/D)scared $h!tless of her—she’s an individual!
Semper Fidelis
Dick Gaines
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