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Sarah
Palin: the Perfect Choice for John McCain
“In
memos, e-mails and phone calls this week, Obama campaign officials
have urged surrogates and allies to mention Republicans who are
‘nervous’ about the Palin pick and to link those worries to George
McGovern’s aborted vice presidential pick of Thomas Eagleton in
1972, according to three Democratic surrogates. That year, McGovern
rescinded the pick after learning that Eagleton had been treated for
depression. Questions about the thoroughness of the Palin vet have
been raised, particularly about how and when Palin disclosed the
news that her teenage daughter is pregnant and whether Palin’s
political resume had been thoroughly scrubbed.”
“[I]t’s
always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go
along with the status quo. But I didn’t get into government to do
the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not
why the ship is built.”
“And the
press rampage has only just begun.” By the time this edition of the “pro-life newspaper of record” reaches your door, we will have witnessed thousands of additional ignoble, below-the-belt, viciously personal attacks on pro-life Gov. Sarah Palin, her family, her faith, and her small-town roots. The Obama campaign—you know the one that was going to “transcend” partisan politics—has displayed utter contempt for the American people’s deep commitment to fair play. Cynics from the top of their heads to the soles of their shoes, they believe they can sink as low as they wish and pay no price for their dastardly treatment of John McCain’s vice presidential selection. Just keep smearing Gov. Palin and her family and then cry foul when the McCain campaign fights back. You and I hold a contrary view. We know that the American electorate understands that when you attack a woman’s children, liken her to a vice presidential nominee who was booted off a presidential ticket when it was learned he had undergone treatment for clinical depression, and slyly compare her to a pig, you’re reached new and wholly unacceptable depths. And because we believe in the innate goodness of the American people, we know what goes around, comes around. There are a hundred reasons why Obama, his underlings, and his gaggle of cheerleaders in the media have been thrown for a loop by pro-life Sen. McCain’s selection of Gov. Palin. It starts with this: Palin unapologetically describes herself as a pro-life feminist. Talk about politically incorrect speech. Talk about turning the world upside down. There is no way that the contemporary feminist movement, wedded as it is to lethally pitting mothers against their unborn children, can allow Palin to survive. If an alternative view is fairly debated, the foundation of modern feminism—50 million dead babies—will be exposed and undermined. Palin must be destroyed. The irony is that we’ve heard about “culture wars” for decades. But those were minor skirmishes. The campaign to destroy Palin is the real deal. And that requires all hands on deck. Take Sen. Joe Biden, Obama’s pro-abortion running mate. After declaring that discussion of families (particularly children) was “off limits,” he used children with “a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect” as a political prop to criticize Republicans. Worse yet, feigning innocence he insisted he was not talking about Sarah Palin, whose four-month-old baby was born with Down syndrome. “Barack Obama’s running mate sunk to a new low today, launching an offensive debate over who cares more about special needs children,” McCain-Palin spokesman Ben Porritt said. “Playing politics with this issue is disturbing and indicative of a desperate campaign.” But not all Democrats, not even all pro-abortion Democrats, should be accused of following the lowest of low roads. Michael Smerconish is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News. He wrote a piece last month in which he interviewed the former chief of staff to former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, a Democrat. Smerconish described the former aide as “one of the most politically astute individuals anywhere.” “Having met her, having met John McCain on a number of occasions, I understand why he chose her,” he told Smerconish. “He sees a lot of him in her. She’s a blunt speaker. She’s very direct. She’s got guts. She’s tough as nails.” We see a lot of Sarah in us, too. One final thought. There is a saying in Washington, D.C., that administrations come and go but the bureaucracy endures forever. Such is also the self-image of the Media Establishment. Mere politicians come to the nation’s capital for four or eight years, but the big newspapers and the electronic media see themselves the real keepers of the flame. Sarah Palin is not only not one of them, she and her family are as far from the Media Elite as the East is from the West: pro-life, pro-family, rock-solid. This alone would be reason enough for MSNBC and CNN to stone her. Compounding their determination to exile Palin into political oblivion is the Media Establishment’s utter contempt for Middle America. Not a new or novel insight, to be sure, but a fact that has come to the surface in a way never seen before. Put all these components together and the picture that emerges is of a media that is obsessed with trying to destroy Palin but with two unanticipated consequences. First, pro-lifers universally recognize that the Palins’ beliefs on life are synonymous with ours and that they have lived out those beliefs. None will ever forget that Sarah and Todd Palin are standing foursquare with Bristol, their pregnant, unmarried teenage daughter, or that when Gov. Palin learned that her unborn baby would have Down syndrome, the family closed ranks behind their seventh member. Second, the rampant elitism and sexism that is driving the vicious assault on Gov. Palin and her entire family will come back to haunt not only the media itself but also their must-win-at-all-costs candidate, Barack Obama. Americans believe in fairness above all else and there has been nothing fair about the treatment of Gov. Sarah Palin. |