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Mark Steyn: Politics trumps Left's empathy
The Orange County Register ^ | January 6, 2012 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 01/07/2012 1:23:05 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Lest you doubt that we're headed for the most vicious election year in memory, consider the determined effort, within 10 minutes of his triumph in Iowa, to weirdify Rick Santorum. Discussing the surging senator on Fox News, Alan Colmes mused on some of the "crazy things" he's said and done.

Santorum has certainly said and done many crazy things, as have most members of America's political class, but the "crazy thing" Colmes chose to focus on was Santorum's "taking his two-hour-old baby when it died right after childbirth home," whereupon he "played with it." My National Review colleague Rich Lowry rightly slapped down Alan on air, and Colmes subsequently apologized, though not before Mrs. Santorum had been reduced to tears by his remarks. Undeterred, Eugene Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist, doubled down on stupid and insisted that Deadbabygate demonstrated how Santorum is "not a little weird, he's really weird."

The short life of Gabriel Santorum would seem a curious priority for political discourse at a time when the Brokest Nation in History is hurtling toward its rendezvous with destiny. But needs must, and victory by any means necessary. In 2008, the Left gleefully mocked Sarah Palin's live baby. It was only a matter of time before they moved on to a dead one.

Not many of us will ever know what it's like to have a child who lives only a few hours. That alone should occasion a certain modesty about presuming to know what are "weird" and unweird reactions to such an event...

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: moralabsolutes; palin; santorum
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Steyn is simply wonderful. Nobody can slash open the gussied up Liberal garbage sack and expose it’s putrid contents better than he.


41 posted on 01/07/2012 7:25:35 AM PST by Gritty (Much of the developed world has ruptured the compact between past, present and future-Mark Steyn)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
From the article:

Santorum's respect for all life, including even the smallest bleakest meanest two-hour life, speaks well for him, especially in comparison with his fellow Pennsylvanian, the accused mass murderer Kermit Gosnell, an industrial-scale abortionist at a Philadelphia charnel house who plunged scissors into the spinal cords of healthy delivered babies. Few of Gosnell's employees seemed to find anything "weird" about that: Indeed, they helped him out by tossing their remains in jars and bags piled up in freezers and cupboards. Much less crazy than taking 'em home and holding a funeral, right?

That just about says it. Power is all they really want: The power to take your money and spend it themselves. They know they're worthless in a real economy, and that's the nexus for why they hate hard-working, decent family men: It's envy.

42 posted on 01/07/2012 7:53:32 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The RNC would prefer Obama to a conservative nominee.)
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To: peyton randolph

The only reason I subscribe to Rush 24/7 is so that I do not miss any of the times Steyn substitutes.

Neither Rush nor Steyn went to college, but listening to Steyn is like listening to a professor from Hillsdale College. He has an amazing breadth of knowledge.

Rush is politically adept, but I learn more from Steyn whether you like his presentation or not.

As for Colmes, the guy is beyond contempt. He is an evil Eddie Haskell. I hate it that BOR has him teamed up with Monica Crowley. I like listening to her but just can’t with Colmes in the picture. And yes, I know he is her brother-in-law. Creeps me out.


43 posted on 01/07/2012 8:30:31 AM PST by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: Ann Archy

‘He really is a BORE.’

O’Reilly is a B O O R.
A Levittown, Long Island Boor.
I was raised on Long Island - I know!


44 posted on 01/07/2012 2:23:10 PM PST by USARightSide ( SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS)
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To: Darkwolf377
Wow, lefties, how proud you must be of your ‘humanism.’

A more hateful, vile and willfully cretinous people you couldn't find this side of the Gestapo.

45 posted on 01/07/2012 3:47:32 PM PST by GregoryFul (Obama - Jim Jones redux)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stein regularly hits it out of the park, but this article was so powerful that I just had to sit down and catch my breath for a few minutes. Maybe it’s the topic of Santorium’s child dying in infancy, maybe it’s just the quality of the writing. If there is ever a history written about this moment in time, Stein will be remembered as one of the great commentators.


46 posted on 01/07/2012 3:57:57 PM PST by redpoll
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To: redpoll

Steyn is a keen observer and adept commentator. While he powerfully frames things in the context of contemporary conservatism, I wish he’d make stronger and more frequent references to its roots in natural law, and the Judeo-Christian ethic. If he did so, he could fully claim the mantle of this century’s Chesterton.


47 posted on 01/07/2012 4:13:28 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem. meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Jim Rob should include a “like” button sometimes.


48 posted on 01/07/2012 4:22:02 PM PST by redpoll
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