Patrick, even the most "impressive" resume matters naught at times.
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.
In 2011, he received a degree in Classics with high honors from Harvard College, where he was managing editor of The Harvard Salient, competed on the sailing team, and served as chancellor of the Knights of Columbus council. In 2013, he was a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute. His work has been cited by, among others, Forbes, The Economist, The Week, and Real Clear Politics. He has appeared on Canada’s Sun News Network, Al Jazeera America, Mike Huckabee’s radio show, and other radio programs.
Does that explain his angle?
Gov Palin was great....this article is just another establishment story.
Pat must be the life of the party...the only guy in the room who didn’t get the joke
Another RINO libtard who takes himself way too seriously. It was a red meat punchline. To be taken literally only if you have an agenda.
Too Fing bad for the author of this article.
Ye she could be more diplomatic but let’s get something straight.
Islam is an inferior Third World religion there is no society on Earth it has benefited.
It is one of the most intolerant movements on Earth.
We are not going to survive by kissing their butts while they demolish Christian Churches and take people’s freedoms.
This whole concern with Islam is perverse. Damn straight the world would be better off if those lands are converted to Christianity.
So he’s a jejune prig? Why does NR specialize in this brand of editor? I guess I get it, by the clone theory of hiring, there’s a nest of them there and they just keep attracting more of the same.
Jeesh!
Thank God we have Ivy League elites to tell us what ordinary Americans think about things.
Miserable ObamaCARE-promoting, gay marriage-imposing,
and open borders-loving, TEAM ROMNEY continues
its attack on American conservatives.
The GOP is Enemy of America and Freedom
G.O.P. = Gave. Obama. Power.
This article tells us more about National Review than it does about Sarah Palin.
Patrick, even the most "impressive" resume matters naught at times.
Yes, that’s what I meant.
Water board Patrick Brennan.
Yeah they should write about failed freepers like you. Honestly, you should stop posting. Your socialist cloaking device stopped working months ago.
Sarah Palin soldiers on as a diminished figure in the Republican Party
You know, I also thought it odd so many would still support her after she quit her governorship mid term, her only national political position.
She ceased to be a serious political player a long time ago, and the waterboard/baptize comment was an unserious comment from an unserious person.
Hahahahahaha! Guess who?
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