Posted on 12/31/2008 9:57:41 AM PST by mlizzy
I thought that was a hacker...?
I think it was announced at around the same time.
I suspect that McVain's "handlers" were responsible for that, not Palin.
When you cut through all the verbiage, the bedrock point of this piece is Sarah’s pro-life position is more squishy now that she’s no longer a Roman Catholic, which she was born into, but a church-hopping Protestant...
And THAT more than anything else is why she didn’t stress it as much as the writer wished she had stressed it during the campaign.
Let me say, if the writer just wanted her to stress it more just because of it’s importance to him and certain others, that’s one thing.
But if he wanted her to stress it more, thinking it would’ve helped the McCain-Palin ticket win, that’s very different.
Of course it wouldn’t have, because hammering away at that particular issue wouldn’t have helped people go vote for them who already knew and didn’t turn out.
And that’s what we had.
The Dems held a turnout election and the Republicans held an election.
Studies show a few mil Conservative voters didn’t vote.
There’s no way Sarah harping on pro-life more would have stirred ‘em when they were bound to have known already about the Supreme Court picks at stake and Obama and Dems devotion to pro-death.
You don’t need harping. You just need to decide, do I vote at all when I’m unhappy with the choice of McCain, given what’s at stake if the other guy wins.
Which is what they decided.
“... But unlike the Jimmy Stewart character, Sarah did not have the last say, for when she did have the chance to hammer Obama or Biden on abortion or other life issues, she rarely did, and by making the economy—not morality—the main issue, the Democrats of Death won handily.”
I suspect that McVain’s “handlers” were responsible for that, not Palin.
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Naturally. If McCain had allowed Palin to be, Palin, he’d of won the election — all on her skirt-tails. Can’t have that.
I’m Roman Catholic, and the RCC is itself squishy on being Pro-life. Not the Pope, but some of the Bishops and the priests are horrible. I’ve heard 50% of American Bishops voted for Obama.
Sarah has demonstrated her pro-life stance simply by living it. While she has spoken about the subject, I think that her actions speak more loudly than any words could.
You are so off base it isn’t even funny. Nice to know that you think having a down’s syndrome child is the same as a child born addicted or with fetal alcohol syndrome. One never justs “pumps out” a baby. If you are a man you are ignorant. If you are a woman and you have children then you are a danger.
Fertility is always a threat to those confused on issues of sexual morality.
I understand (even though I’m not Catholic) that American Catholics even hierarchy feel free to pick and choose from the various aspects of Catholicism. The writer seemed to believe even this was better than those Protestant church’s without an official position from a Pope. I’m not accepting his views but tried to see what he was saying.
Bottom line: McCain-Palin couldn’t have won given how many stayed home even knowing what was at stake.
They didn’t want to vote for McCain or the GOP in general.
Just curious, how many kids do you have?
People are not going to see the truth about abortion until we find a truly charismatic and powerful rhetorician to enchant them with a call to righteousness.
I didn’t say they’re “the same”. But having (or adopting) a child with any of these conditions, or just large numbers of healthy normal children, should involve recognition that providing proper care to the child(ren) will require arranging one’s life around them.
With mom pursuing a high-profile and time-consuming political career, and dad purusing an career than involves being off in the oil fields for days or weeks at a time, the children are either being nanny-raised or left to their own devices. It’s plain to see what the outcome has been for Bristol, and there’s no sign that either of the Palin parents are responding to this by changing their priorities as their next two daughters enter/approach adolescence. This is hardly “devoted motherhood” (or fatherhood). The needs of the Palin children are not being allowed to interfere with their parents’ outside pursuits. If a woman calling herself a Democrat and feminist was running her family life this way, conservatives would be howling about her family being an example of how leftism and feminism are destroying the fabric of society.
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You have just voiced the pro-choice position. Is that what you intended? Being pro-life means valuing every life, not just the ones that are perfect or convenient.
ugh..
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Bull!
The Assemblies of God has a very definitive stance on abortion.
Abortion. The Assemblies of God views the practice of abortion as an evil that has been inflicted upon millions of innocent babies and that will threaten millions more in the years to come. Abortion is a morally unacceptable alternative for birth control, population control, sex selection, and elimination of the physically and mentally handicapped. Certain parts of the world are already experiencing serious population imbalances as a result of the systematic abortion of female babies. The advocacy and practice of so-called partial birth abortion of babies is particularly heinous.
From:
http://ag.org/top/Beliefs/Position_Papers/pp_downloads/pp_4196_sanctity_human_life.pdf
I hope you feel better after getting that off your sunken little chest.
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