Posted on 10/05/2008 7:52:08 AM PDT by liberty33
Why is it that her daughter’s sex life or her husband’s 1986 DUI is fair game for the front page, but not Obama’s past drug use, his twenty-year relationship with a rabidly racist preacher (who has now mysteriously disappeared from public life), or for that matter his relationship with an admitted and proud left-wing terrorist? Does equality stop at the door of ideology? Writing in the New York Post, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann described Palin as an “existential threat to the Democratic Party” because her rise, like that of Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, or Clarence Thomas, threatens the party’s hold on a core constituency. “Democrats can't stomach seeing the feminist movement's impetus for greater female political participation and empowerment ‘hijacked’ by a pro-life woman who espouses traditional values.” It would be like the president of a labor union being a Republican....
The purpose of all these false reports, these omissions of inconvenient facts, and the rush to publish lurid allegations before they are properly sourced, is not to portray truth, but rather to establish an idea -- the idea that Sarah Palin is a religious fanatic, an unqualified dip, or a lying and manipulative political operative. It is in essence, an ideological concoction, and in some cases, an incendiary device meant to create controversy where none exists. The Left seems so obsessed with their own “progressiveness” that the mere possibility that the first woman to hold a national executive office may end up being a Republican is simply unfathomable. As true zealots, their words deny this possibility while their actions set out to fulfill their own prophesies. This can’t happen; therefore it won’t, no matter the means....
(Excerpt) Read more at danko.blogtownhall.com ...
Regardless of what happens on Nov 4 a R star has been born. I see Rs like Palin, Cantor, DeMint and I’m starting to feel much better about the future of this country.
if obama is gets in the rest of America will be destroyed. This election is pivotal on how this country will be in the next 4 years.
the cult of Obama.
I agree, but if he were elected Obama would drag down this country in a way that would take generations to repair.
Don’t forget Jindal and Coburn!
Yeah, but fortunately they’re only preaching to Obama’s Choir Boys & Girls. The rest of us couldn’t give a rat’s $ss about “the purpose”.
all of these stupid college students will quickly turn on him when the find there are no jobs after they graduate. And the ones still in college are in for a rude awakening when his claims to make college “more affordable” go unfulfilled.
It’s not going to take long for the American sheeple to see what a lying fraud this guy is.
His supporters have been bamboozled just like the German people of the ‘30s. But unlike Hitler he will not be able to sustain the lie.
He will be challanged by Hillary in 2012-she can not afford to wait until 2016-shell be too old. The Hillary Obama fight will splinter the Dems.
We need McCain to win for Palin to achieve stable orbit.
I have been waiting SO long for someone to reference The Contender, because what Palin has been through in reality makes The Contender look like "the Bizarro world" version, where the evil bastards determined to destroy a female VP hopeful are hateful Republicans instead.
In the 2000 movie, The Contender, the first female vice president, Laine Hanson (Joan Allen), is appointed to the office after the incumbent VP unexpectedly dies. As a typical Hollywood screed, the film is unapologetically liberal: it is the Democratic Party making history by appointing a woman and the Republican Party attempting to thwart them. GOP Rep. Shelly Runyon (Gary Oldman) wonders if any woman can be trusted with the nuclear trigger: “What if she has her period or something?” he asks.The movie is about her confirmation and the subsequent investigations into her personal life. The discovery of photographs of her during her college years having group sex is the major plot device that sets the confrontation in motion. Hanson refuses to answer questions about her past sex life, insisting that it is no one’s business, that if she were a man it would not be an issue, and that it has no relevance to her governing ability regardless. To the point where the president (Jeff Bridges) considers dumping her altogether, Hanson refuses to part with principle.
The question that is never really answered is whether or not Hanson took part in these acts when she was young, for it is possible that the woman in the photographs isn’t even her. Of course, that doesn’t matter for the point of the film is why this question is being asked in the first place. The evil Republican congressman is a villain no matter what the truth is, for his motivation for attack is that Laine Hanson is a woman.
The film was made just after the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski controversy and attempted to address issues dealing with the private lives of high profile government officials, the power of a determined political smear machine, and the willingness of a frenzied media. The issue of sexism was added if for no other reason than to distinguish the film from reality, for few on the Left considered Clinton sexist, just a sex addict. Ironically, however, The Contender now seems far more relevant to the treatment of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Contender was written by Rod Lurie, the son of L.A. Times political cartoonist Ranan Lurie. Rod Lurie would go on to create the short-lived TV series Commander-in-Chief, starring Geena Davis as the first femme Veep (an independent), who must take the reins of The Free World after the Dem President that selected her dies of a sudden illness. Everyone expected her to resign in favor of a loathsome Gingrich-like Republican Speaker of the House, played by Donald Sutherland as if he crawled on his belly and had a forked tongue. The POTUS' dying request is for her to resign. She refuses. And of course, per the template, slimy Republicans target her husband (who, unlike Todd Palin, felt emasculated) and her children, including a daughter who gets entangled with a Secret Service agent.
The Commander show was thought to be a stalking horse for Hillary Clinton; you know, trying to get everyone used to the idea that a woman could be President. We all know how it's panned out so far.
BTW - Roger Ebert, who diminishes and despises Palin and everyone who likes her glasses, loved The Contender - four out of four stars.
I joined the Air Force for 6 years and learned everything from DC to microwave to radiation. 4 advanced courses. And I got an AS degree at night. Boeing want's to hire me, but my company said no. I got a good raise and stayed there.
There are not many of us around that know how to repair mission critical chit.
You’re comparing Sarah Palin to John Edwards, Jack Kemp, and Dan Quayle?
you are probably one of the exceptions that prove the rule. These kids major in pyschology, sociology, liberal arts etc are clueless. It appears as though you’ve focused on a techincal field-which is the right way to go. Engineering and chemistry degrees-there will always be work\jobs.
not my two college age kids.
I’ve got two daughters attending college-both of them know how bad the Ds and Obama are-I made sure they got that education at home. My youngest is getting so mad at those brainwashed buffons-obmamphants-that she asked me to get her a McCain Plain T-shirt that she could wear. (which I did).
cool, but unfortunately these jerks are sometimes violent. I bought some Jones election soda pulled out all the obama’s and left them on the shelf. Filled the pack with McCain’s
the clerk commented that I only had mcCain’s. I justed gave her an odd look and said why would I want the others?
they’re just going to keep on pushing and pushing-and at some point the conservatives in this country will have their fill. There will be a revoluion in this country-the only thing that has yet to be determined is whether it will be a violent or non-violent one (as Ayn Rand foresaw).
Palin is an “existential threat to the Democratic Party” because her rise, like that of Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, or Clarence Thomas, threatens the party’s hold on a core constituency.
When you understand physical relationships, calculus, algebra, and time and distance and frequency, you can work anywhere you want. I had a hand on a part on that SM-3 missile that shot down that unresponsive sattelite.
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