With winds of change rivaling Hurricane Ike, John McCain's historic VP
pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has blown away the left's mask of
"inclusive tolerance," exposing an ugly and desperate countenance
below. Flummoxed and frantic, their shameful attacks on Palin and her
family have revealed that liberal Democrats, the mainstream media, and
those malicious hacks in the "progressive" blogosphere are willing to
navigate the deepest, darkest sludge of slash-and-burn politics to see
their man, Barack Obama, elected President.
The
way the media have dispensed with the hold-harmless tradition of
"hands-off the kids" and gone after the Palin children is both
deplorable and unprecedented. It tells Republicans, Independents, and
moderate Democrats alike everything they need to know about the
extremist nature of "Obama-mania."
Examples are plentiful.
NBC joked that Todd Palin – Gov. Palin's husband and father to her five
beautiful kids – was having incestuous sexual relations with his own
minor daughters, in a disgusting and decidedly unfunny hit-skit on Saturday Night Live.
And Lefty pro-bama blogs, such as the Daily Kos, have targeted teenage
daughter, Bristol, cruelly attacking her over and again on a personal
level. (I imagine Todd's itchin' to drag those patchouli-bathed pansies
out to the woodshed for a not-so-tender lesson in how to properly treat
his little girl.)
"How dare McCain pick her?" they bellow.
"How cynical." To them, she's not a real woman and they've said as
much. Just as Clarence Thomas is really a rich white guy in blackface,
she's just a misogynistic female impersonator.
Not
surprisingly, the ultraliberal and presumptuously self-styled "National
Organization for Women" has been beating the warpath drums, claiming
that Palin is "...more a conservative man than she is a woman." And
Wendy Doniger – a feminist Kool-Aid guzzler with the University of
Chicago – wrote in Newsweek
Still,
it was uber-fem, Gloria Steinem, who placed her finger directly on
liberal feminists' true bone of contention with Palin, writing, "She
opposes just about every issue that women support....[She] opposes
everything most other women want and need." Of course, Madam Steinem's
"everything most other women want and need" can be summed up in a
single word: abortion.
Palin blew it, you see. She made an
unforgivable "choice." She publicly expressed, through both word and
selfless deed, that she values all people during every stage of
development, from conception to natural death. Most egregiously, she
refused the sacrificial rite of passage into authentic womandom. She
declined to slaughter her own unborn child, Trig, to goddess feminism –
even after doctors told her he was one of those Down syndrome
throwaways. Steinem called her own abortion a "pivotal and constructive
experience." I guess, according to these nasty ninnies, we simply can't
have a vice president who "lacks experience" in "pivoting" and
"constructing."
Think about it. Sarah Palin is poised to undo
much of what the left has accomplished. Imagine her as a role model for
millions upon millions of young girls around the world. Imagine those
young girls embracing life over death on the abortion issue – embracing
true feminism over angry, abortion-centric feminism. They absolutely
can't have that and will stop at nothing to destroy her. We expect
liberal bias from the media and other leftist elites. But this time
around, the bias is off the charts. It's finally exposed liberals for
who they truly are, and we have Sarah Palin to thank for it.
The reality is that – except for those who, like Gloria Steinem, think
the preamble to the Declaration of Independence should have read: "All
women are endowed by mother earth with the inalienable right to eat
their own young" – Sarah Palin has connected with average Americans.
Especially with women. Most notably (oh glory day) with Hillary Clinton
supporters.
that "[Palin's] greatest
hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman." (Sorry, gals; Sarah
Palin's most definitely a woman. Suppose some of that hate boils down
to the fact that the governor is so easy on the eyes?)
Matt Barber (jmattbarber@comcast.net), a regular contributor to OneNewsNow, is director of cultural affairs with Liberty Counsel and associate dean with Liberty University School of Law.
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