The inveterate muck-raking of Sara Palin’s daughter’s personal life, particularly her unremarkable decision at 17 to have a baby and marry the father, is that it is not about her or her daughter. Instead, it’s supposed to be a sign of McCain’s reckless decision-making and an implication that other skeleton’s lurk int he closet.
That may be true for some, but that’s just a ruse. It’s a cover, an alibi. It’s obvious the collision of an evangelical Republican woman and her family’s ordinary problems is supposed to make us all despair. No one’s good! Everyone’s a hypocrite! It’s like the thin tissue of relevance surrounding the Jon Benet Ramsey killing. In that case, we were all invited by the media to look in horror at her over-sexualized beauty contest performances. The media claim they show us these images to demonstrate their awfulness and as part of the story. But then they repeat the glamour shots ad nauseum.
McCain should be judged on his merits. If he rushed to pick her that should not be a surprise. This guy rushes to antagonize Russia, rarely knows the facts of any important issue, and is a shoot-from-the-hip kind of guy. He always has been. This is not news. This is part of his appeal to some.
But even if he discovered Palin’s daughter was pregnant, should that have disqualified her? Should he have not nominated her? Hardly. The Left’s cynicism and despair are a far cry from the moral realism of social conservatives, who are well aware that stuff happens, kids get pregnant, and that it’s far more admirable in this day and age to allow that unexpected child to live than to abort it, as Obama has implied he’d encourage his daughters in a similar situation.
Palin’s daughter’s human weaknesses are far less of a commentary on either her or her mom’s character, whereas Obama’s admission that he’d encourage his daughters to have an abortion rather than be “punsihed witha baby” shows him to be a callous, overly image-conscous human being.
This will backfire on the Democrats. There may be other legitimate concerns about Palin, such as her flirtation with the Alaska secessionist movement. But things like her husband’s 20 year old DUI or her daughter’s pregnancy will only make the Left look mean-spirited and judgmental, traints which they project upon evangelicals without understanding in the least the basic vibe of Christian churches, which is very much the opposite. Tales of lives gotten off track are not new to such people; any set-back is rightly seen in today’s Christian churches chiefly as an opportunity to get back on track and honor God going-forward.
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The problem with the Left is that they want to hold exclusive rights to defining what a minority is and what a woman is. Palin is an NRA member, so she can’t be a woman. Palin is pro-life, so she can’t be a woman. Palin believes in family values, so she can’t be a woman. Unless you’re a pro-abortion, anti-guns swinger, you’re not welcome to be a woman in the Liberal camp. The same holds true for minorities: See Clarence Thomas.
In the end, this tactic will fail as people will see the Dems as attacking Palin for having the very same problems that make her an appealing candidate.
Now if the media would just give equal coverage to the problems of both campaigns and not be afraid to call out Obama on the skeletons in his closet….
Yeah, I mean, he bought his house with a sweetheart deal from a bribing developer. Granted, normal for Chicago politics and normal for Illinois politics, but it should demonstrate it was a bit naive to think a South Side Chicago politician was going to clean up Washington or anything else.
What about his association with Ayers? The minute someone started talking about the fact that Obama associates with a known terrorist, the Obama campaign sends their minyans after the Chicago radio station and bullies them to shut up. That’s the kind of change Obama stands for? That’s the kind of freedom he espouses? No thanks!
There is the argument that a mother of five (including a recently born child that happens to be retarded) should be at home policing the children rather than being a politician. The antics of Bristol Palin only hit home this point. But liberals won’t use that argument. And considering how many conservatives have suddenly come to love identity politics and ‘smashing glass ceilings’, I doubt many conservatives would say so too.
Ayers (& wife); Rev. Wright; Rezko; Aiham Alsammarae; Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam–”Black Muslims”); people from ACORN (voter fraud); people from CAIR (suspected terrorist ties)and donations from foreign nationals and organizations from Gaza, Nigeria, Somolia/Kenya and other countries.
I am afraid that his is only the tip of the iceberg.Obama’s connections are troubling to me. I keep wondering, if he is elected, if America will ever be the same.
Obama isn’t the only one…
But to be honest, McCain took money from the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) after it had been designated as a terrorist group (in 1999). I wonder if he’s returned money
to these people ???
Let’s face it; the US/EU decision to allow Kosovo independence has come back to bite the US/EU in the country of Georgia.
(FYI: 10-20% of the residents of Kosovo are Orthodox Christians of Serbian ethnicity. They are being killed and harrassed by the Muslims in Kosovo. Ancient churches, monasteries and shrines are being destroyed.)