I hope we have not seen the last of Sarah Palin. She was the one bright spot in an otherwise dim campaign season for the Republican Party. Governor Palin has already made it clear that the door to a presidential run in 2012 is open. Let’s hope so. She was the only true conservative on the ticket, and if there’s one thing the GOP sorely needs, it’s a conservative at the top.
The left despises Sarah Palin. The mainstream press and Democrats were relentless and merciless in their attacks on her and her family. True, when you enter the political arena, you certainly open yourself to scrutiny and criticism, but what Governor Palin endured was far more grueling than the public examinations given Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Her critics said she was inexperienced, even though Sarah Palin has more executive experience than John McCain, Obama, and Biden combined. They went after her family, at one point spreading the rumor that her baby Trig was not her son, but her grandson. They exposed the Palins’ teen-aged daughter Bristol and her pregnancy, sneering about the hypocrisy of a family-values conservative having a daughter pregnant out-of-wedlock. They went after Todd Palin and his associations. They made an issue out of Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe. They hung her in effigy and hacked her e-mail account.
They tried to pass her off as a dumb blond, a cheerleader-type who was chosen for her appearance rather than her substance. They questioned whether she could handle the job of vice-president and still raise a family, which is odd given that the staple of liberal feminism has been to convince women to eschew families and pursue careers. In short, the candidacy of Sarah Palin transformed the party of women’s rights into the party of male chauvinism.
But what really stoked the left’s outrage was the fact that Sarah Palin gave birth to a baby with Down Syndrome. You see, abortion is the sacrament of the Democrat Party. There have been nearly 50 million unborn children sacrificed on the altar of choice under Roe v. Wade, and the left’s callous disregard for unborn human life is just as rife as ever. That Sarah Palin did not abort Trig hit them squarely between the eyes. The image from the GOP convention of the Palins’ 7-year-old daughter wetting and smoothing the baby’s hair during Governor Palin’s speech endeared pro-family conservatives, but frosted the left.
For example, Canadian Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Ottawa, expressed concern that such a prominent role model as Sarah Palin completing a Down Syndrome pregnancy may prompt other women to make the same decision against abortion because of that genetic abnormality, and thereby reduce the number of abortions.
About 9 out of 10 Canadian women given a diagnosis of Down Syndrome choose to terminate their pregnancies. But Dr. Lalonde worries that Palin’s decision may cause abortions in Canada to decline as other women there and elsewhere follow suit.
Barbara Walters said on The View (October 6) that Sarah Palin having her baby at the debate “bothered her.”
And the day before, Liz Trotta was on Fox News Live to discuss the Palin-Biden Debate, and remarked “One other note…the image of dragging that handicapped infant around and having it on stage has caused consternation in some quarters as to how tasteful this is.”
Folks, this is how liberals see unborn/newborn life that is less than perfect. The Democrat Party just nominated and got elected a politician who has supported infanticide for abortion survivors. On the other hand, Sarah Palin carried a Down Syndrome pregnancy to term, and she is despised for it.
Remember, Democrats are supposed to be the party of the little guy, the downtrodden, the oppressed. And yet when it comes to the littlest and most defenseless of us all, liberals have shown themselves to be completely devoid of compassion. Their behavior toward the Palin family, especially 7-month-old Trig, was classless and shameful.
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[...] Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Sarah Palin for President in 2012″ You see, abortion is the sacrament of the Democrat Party. There have been nearly 50 million unborn children sacrificed on the altar of choice under Roe v. Wade, and the left’s callous disregard for unborn human life is just as rife as … [...]
[...] Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Sarah Palin for President in … The Democrat Party just nominated and got elected a politician who has supported infanticide for abortion survivors. On the other hand, Sarah Palin carried a Down Syndrome pregnancy to term, and she is despised for it. … [...]