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Gary Bauer writes for Human Events on the latest attack on Sarah Palin by the banshees of the far left media.

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.................US Weekly magazine’s cover this week will have a photo of Gov. Palin with her youngest son, Trig, along with this gem of a feature title: “Babies, Lies and Scandal: John McCain’s Vice President.”

Over the past three days, I have had scores of reporters approach me leveling charges of hypocrisy. They can barely contain their glee as they say things like, “This goes against everything you pro-family, pro-life conservatives believe!”

Actually, it does not. None of us claim to be perfect. But the Palins’ situation is exactly what the pro-life cause is about -- helping mothers bring their babies into the world with love and support. We in the pro-life movement celebrate the value, potential and greatness of all human life. Barack Obama’s own story began with a teenage mother who married the father of her son, who has become the historic presidential nominee of his party.

Perhaps the wildest media accusation is that Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is proof that abstinence education doesn’t work. But for years we have distributed condoms and birth control pills to our children like candy, and some of the schools with the most “comprehensive” educational approaches have some of the highest pregnancy rates.

But charges of hypocrisy are leveled partly because they help distract the electorate from the stark differences between how the two tickets have approached fundamental issues of life and death. Barack Obama has said that the question of when human rights begin is “above my pay grade” and has never voted to limit or restrict abortions. He has said voting for legislation allowing Terri Schiavo's family to take its case from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop her euthanasia was his "biggest mistake" in the Senate. And he has said that while he tries to teach the right values to his daughters, he doesn’t want them “punished with a baby.” ..........

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But the Palins’ situation is exactly what the pro-life cause is about -- helping mothers bring their babies into the world with love and support. We in the pro-life movement celebrate the value, potential and greatness of all human life.

Exactly!

The Palins have, in just the past year, been faced with a Downs baby and an unplanned teenage pregnancy. Lots of pro-lifers can talk about what is the right thing to do, but very few are every actually in these positions.

While Obama speaks in satanic platitudes about "punishment," the Palins lovingly accept God's will because they understand that EVERY child is a gift from God.

In the world of contrast of white versus black, good versus evil, we fight for good against evil and find our adversary armed with lies and mirror opposites, time and again,as a principal weapon. The evil ones call good bad and call bad good. Here is a classic with even the name of the site ringing that same dichotomy, Real Clear Politics.

I suspect they don't even realize how malicious and foolish they sound in such rabid attack. I may only exerpt from that site.

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What a McCain presidency now promises is another four years of Terri Schiavo and other artifacts of the cultural right. You remember Schiavo's husband having to fight the Bush administration and Republican Congress to remove his wife -- in a vegetative state for 15 years -- from life support. It's four more years of national humiliation as our leadership undermines the teaching of evolutionary science, and if something happens to John McCain, opposes stem-cell research.

One tries to untangle McCain's political calculations. The Schiavo case, creationism and similar excesses appeal to a passionate but small slice of the electorate. They are one reason voters are booting Republicans out of power. So while some religious conservatives may be "energized" by the Palin pick, most everyone else is revolted......

Palin's Social Views Hurt Ticket

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