Yeah! Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted on 11/22/2008 5:50:07 AM PST by rhema
The other day, as I was watching one of the news channels I had to quickly check my calendar because I had the feeling that I may have only dreamt that the election was over.
The reason for my confusion was that several commentators were still taking shots at Sarah Palin. Here it was, weeks after the woman had left the campaign trail, and the abuse was as strident as it had been throughout her months-long quest for the second spot on the ticket. The man who ran for the first spot on the ticket had shed his bulletproof armor; yet, the woman still needed Secret Service protection.
The continuous assault on Sarah Palin is not so difficult to understand. In fact, it can be summed up thusly: she's a woman opposed to abortion. You see, when a man says he's opposed to abortion, women who disagree can accuse him of trying to control a woman's body and/or simply not understanding how a woman feels about dealing with pregnancy, career achievement and defeating the "good ole boy" network. But, how are they going to justify that to a Sarah Palin, who has raised a family, been elected to the highest office in her state and has gained a reputation as a corruption fighter? And a woman decided to keep, raise, and love a Down syndrome child, her son Trig.
Governor Palin represents a stake in the heart of the abortion movement and for that reason alone, she must be sniped at, ridiculed and trashed until her name becomes a scarlet letter on the bosom of every woman who dares to challenge the inner sanctum of liberal orthodoxy.
Clarence Thomas, during his Supreme Court nomination process, went through a similar pattern of degrading denunciation from those who feared that a black conservative would make it more difficult for liberals to polarize the country. According to some nebulous formula that only exists in the maladjusted minds of mental misfits, every black person should be reading from the same script. In other words, they dare not stray off the reservation. A black who can think and act independently is likely to be the victim of a "high-tech lynching," as Justice Thomas referred to it during the outrageous Anita Hill imbroglio.
Inasmuch as we live in a country that has become obsessively egocentric, we have entire groups who dedicate themselves to single issues. If you believe that women should have the right to kill their fetuses, you may be willing to elect someone with questionable credentials who is pro-abortion, over someone with a sterling reputation who is pro-life.
For these ideological narcissists, nothing is more important than the continued growth and consolidation of their power base. They wouldn't spend a New York minute on the examination of a candidate's qualification, education or history of accomplishment. All they want to know is; will she or he support them in their battle to keep abortion legal.
Not that they'll openly admit it. On the contrary, you'll often hear them say they don't believe in a litmus test for public office. However, the moment they see a name on a list that's connected with pro-life, their eraser will be ground down. Even Obama, when asked about Justice Thomas during the campaign, said, with obsequious submission, that he would not have nominated him.
That was merely another knee-jerk genuflection to the pro-abortion jackals, whose sharpened fangs, dripping with the blood of infidels, were poised to pounce on another lost sheep with the temerity to stray from the flock.
Sarah Palin lost, but her wholesome family values image continues to be a threat; hence she must be crushed.
Bob Weir is a former detective sergeant in the New York City Police Department. He is the executive editor of The News Connection in Highland Village, Texas.
It’s not just abortion, Sarge. It’s pretty much everything in the package. And the package itself. It wasn’t even so much about this election. It wasn’t remotely worth the drama if it was just about her being John McCain’s vice president. And it’s not remotely worth the drama now, if this election were all there was going to be for her. No, the folks who are doing this stuff, whether it be from the right or the left, are living in mortal fear that they might be dealing with her for the next thirty or forty years. Or more.
Not!
I watched that YouTube video of Obama supporters and it was enlightening... they quoted to them all the stupid or dangerous statements made during the campaign and asked who said that... They either answered Sarah Palin or John McCain. Questions like bankrupting the coal industry, the attributed to Palin; the statement about a crisis in the first six months they attributed to McCain... They get all this from the MSM. Asked where they got their news, they answered CNN or NPR or PBS or MSNBC...etc.
Over half the voting population are stupid and uninformed. I have no clue how that is going to change. Those who elected Obama did so not having a clue why except he was not Bush or that stupid Barbie-doll woman Palin.
In my opinion, Sarah Palin may weather the storm and keep her Alaska job and family hopefully, but this never-ending hit job still going on by Letterman, Leno, the rest of late-night and others will make Governor Palin into a Paris Hilton/Britney Spears persona before they're finished and thus, those that elected Obama will have even more of a negative perception of her than they did.
I wish that she would remain Alaska's governor, perhaps write a book, but stay away from Oprah and King and the other daytime and late-night talk shows. She'll make herself into a McCain...
I hope that she keeps in mind that the Obama 'method' is to eliminate opponents. Not run on issues against them.
What are you, blind? The stealth-RAT McLame threw the election.
I have to agree with you, but I think the biggest reason is that the left see’s her as a real threat. She fires up the base, she connects with people and the left is all ready trying to take her out of furture contention.
Do you realize how utterly silly your statement is?
Sarcasm?
I think you're exactly right. And they'll be waging war side-by-side with the RiNO pseudo-conservatives who've seen how the wind is blowing and have decided, en masse, to lick the hand of their would-be master.
The Left has decided that now is the time to get rid of conservatism for all time. Expect rough stuff, even a civil war. Remember, Obama is a Lincoln admirer.
I have to agree with you. McCains campaign was so lame that I just can't believe that it could have been anything other than done-on-purpose. McCain got to ingratiate himself with his RAT buddies, and is now comfortably eye-thumbing the PUBs again. And, he got to destroy an up and coming conservative in the process. It seems that the mans' hatred of the Republican party started in 2000 when he was beaten by Bush. Am I wrong here?
The MSM has demonstrated that it is a useless branch of the Democratic Party, with a similar agenda. There is no reason to take anything these news outlets say seriously. Boycott them. In fact, boycott their sponsors.
Even if you don’t like Sarah Palin, it should be obvious what the MSM is doing. They are going to spend the next four years bashing Palin. Because she’s guilty of “badthink”. They pulled the same crap with Joe the Plumber - and broke the law to do it.
The liberal media THINKS it is crushing Sarah. They have no idea the support level she has and will gain and primarily because they try to crush her.
By referring to the odious pathogen Kathleen Parker, who deceitfully advertised herself as a "conservative" while writing for the WaPo (and then popped out the killer, keystone line: "Howard Dean was right"), the correct term for scary-beary nasty Christians is "oggedy-boogedy".
ditto
Yeah! Inquiring minds want to know.
And that's putting it very mildly.
And Sarah Palin is my kind of Republican.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
It was Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio who started up the circus by arranging for his staffer to leak Anita Hill's statement that she had made to the FBI (remember the term, "raw files"?) to an ink-stained wretch for Long Island Newsday.
But you're right, Joe Biden was the ringmaster -- both for the Clarence Thomas hearings, and for the joke of a hearing that made Judge Bork's name a verb.
This statement is ridiculous: What is the connection between the ego and ideology?
Some focus on a single issue because of the importance of that issue.
Life is one such, the Second Amendment, my own single issue, is another.
In that respect, no matter how "good" a candidate might otherwise be, I could never vote for someone like a Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani whose beliefs are so opposite to the good of the country.
That is simply preposterous, on its face.
There are are, literally, hundreds of millions of Americans who would "like to be" President. It's a very prestigious position.
I'm sure McCain would have liked to be President, too.
Look, he was as lousy candidate in a "Democrat" year. In that sense I'm glad we "sacrificed" McCain because I don't think any Republican was destined to with the WH this year.
McCain got his butt kicked. We never should've nominated him. But we did.
Hopefully, the GOP will change its primary rules, so that it doesn't allow the Dems to choose its candidate in 2012.
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