Posted on 04/28/2014 1:20:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s been no secret for a while that Sarah Palin, erstwhile vice-president candidate, is no longer a serious political contender — for evidence of that transition, note that even among her faithful, at CPAC this year, she got just 2 percent of the vote in the straw poll, tied with Condoleezza Rice. But as her crowd-pleasing performance in the very final speech of that event — and her lucrative contract with Fox News and huge social-media following — indicate, she’s gone from being a potential political leader to something of a cultural totem.
That means her speeches have gone from being standard political pablum to something even more substanceless — more or less a long string of hokey but often amusing jokes. But for all the lightheartedness, her appeal is to a set of people who take seriously their commitment to faith and freedom, right? Well, should this line garner laughs from such a crowd?
Oh, but you can’t offend [Islamic terrorists], can’t make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.
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As Rod Dreher explains, this is pretty perverse:
"Not only is this woman, putatively a Christian, praising torture, but she is comparing it to a holy sacrament of the Christian faith. It’s disgusting — but even more disgusting, those NRA members, many of whom are no doubt Christians, cheered wildly for her. . . . Palin and all those who cheered her sacrilegious jibe ought to be ashamed of themselves. For us Christians, baptism is the entry into new life. Palin invoked it to celebrate torture. Even if you don’t believe that waterboarding is torture, surely you agree that it should not be compared to baptism, and that such a comparison should be laughed at. What does it say about the character of a person that they could make that joking comparison, and that so many people would cheer for it. Nothing good — and nothing that does honor to the cause of Jesus Christ."
Torture — waterboarding being something reasonable people may consider to constitute it — is and should be a question of grave moral consequence for Christians, and is for any Catholic familiar with the Catechism. Palin wasn’t even just jokingly comparing a serious violation of human dignity into one of the most important transcendental recognitions of it – she was mounting an expansive defense of something near torture, on the grounds that our prisoners ”would obviously have information on plots,” and therefore ought to, apparently, be subjected to a horrible practice not as a morally necessary last resort but a habit of quotidian intimidation. There’s a word for that kind of practice: barbaric. The Greeks used to use it to describe the other guys.
NRO also ceased being serious
fighting back after Pearl was also unchritian?
Should we all be more like Daniel Pearl??
She’s just so damn pretty! Which is one of the major reasons the Left hates her.
What a state!
That Sir, is the Best Comment on this thread.
You have won post of the day!
You have won post of the day!
That's what I love about these threads. They draw the PDS sufferers like flies to horse dung. It's so much fun watching them pompously scurry about like little self-important nabobs desperately seeking avenues where they can safely spew their Palin hatred.
Why do you suppose she continues to live rent-free in their heads? She must, otherwise they wouldn't continue to post.
Masochism. They like to be humiliated. Gives them a thrill.
People that attack conservatives with a proven record of conservatism on conservative websites aren’t the most stable of people and this is the closest they can get to letting their freak flag fly short of Pissant comments and naked selfies.
Hey, they aren’t stable. I put nothing past them.
Well, no. Not compared to the slow beheading performed with a dull knife; or flying planes into skyscrapers filled with innocent men, women, and children; or sending suicide bombers into shopping areas filled with civilian non-combatants; or any of a long, long list of muslim atrocities.
When Americans no longer tolerate terrorists or terrorist sympathizers, such as this leftist author, then we will be making progress.
Great post ‘Gip! Disease and carrier is right. These Sarah hating toads are really something.
He's also a gutless liberal pussy.
He has lots of likeminded company unfortunately.
Not near as much fun as watching her fan club play grab-ass with each other about how clever they are. A few posts a year about her dwindling popularity turn into "Palin living rent free in their heads", and pointing out the obvious fact that she's no longer a serious political contender becomes "misogyny".
"grab-ass"...how...adolescent.
Do you often forget to wipe? You give off that vibe...
The smart ones must've grown up and stopped worshipping celebrities.
For a couple years out of High School I worked at a mental health facility. High functioning mental Illnesses through sub 20 profound retardation.
Your debate skills, if memory serves, fall somewhere between the two. Now lets see if you can avoid the obvious comeback urge.
Huh.
Dude must have run through all his cue cards, or somebody else colored on the rest of the deck.
Have a good evening. See ya around.
His GOPe script didn’t cover the question so he had to call a manager for direction. He’ll be back with more memes I’m sure.
His bio has Pajama-boy written all over it.
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