Sarah Palin, The Left, and Hypocrisy
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Decision Eh, Plain Old Hypocrisy
So, I know I’m a little late to the party, and no one is going to read this since it is Friday night, but here is my buck and a quarter.
So far today, I have heard and read both sides of the aisle carooming off the walls about Gov. Palin. I knew about her before today, but got a huge flood of info starting at about 9:30 a.m. She is a mom of five. Her eldest just enlisted. She hunts moose. Didn’t she get some cop fired because he divorced her sister? Her hubby is a oil guy/fisherman. She is a hockey mom. She kicked the ass of the Republican incumbent to win her governorship. She is a reform candidate, and we all know how twitchy they can be. She cut property taxes, but increased the oil dividend payments to the citizens of Alaska. She is suing the Federal Government over the polar bears on the Endangered Species List thing since polar bear populations are the highest in decades and it doesn’t make sense and set bad precedent. She stopped the infamous “bridge to nowhere.” She sold the State jet on ebay for a profit because she didn’t think her state needed something like that. She doesn’t have enough experience. If she is such a reformer, how come Ted Stevens just won his primary? She went back to work three days after having her fifth baby. Who has Down’s Syndrome. Who needs her at home.
Excuse me?
Let’s compare resumes here, Sparky. She has two terms on her city council, two terms as Mayor, and has a ninety percent approval rating in her state where she has been the chief executive for two years. (Um, that makes ten years of executive experience, then throw in her city council job on top of that. What has BHO got again? As a chief executive?) A job she took from the incumbent of her own party because she wanted to stop her state sucking of the teat of the federal government, get rid of the ethics violations ruining her state, and actually put the resources of Alaska to work for her country and her state. As for Stevens, well, he did just get indicted, yes?
The rest of the list up there is pretty much open book to anyone who wants to look into it. But here is the part that makes me freaking boil.
Someone actually had the gall to say she needed to be home with her baby instead of running for office. John Roberts of CNN called it to question in a national forum but I have been hearing it on the radio all day. (Of course, Roberts also called into question her experience, and promptly stuck his foot in his mouth, so maybe he is just in the tank for someone else and desperately striving for relevance.)
The Left, capital “L”, (and can tell you much I HATE having to group the democrats, the environuts, the commies, socialists, and progressives, the feminists, and the gottdammed ufologists into a single label) has been telling us for decades that a woman can do anything, go anywhere, be everything to all and still be a woman. As long as she happens to be a liberal and conform to their agenda. It must be some kind of special hell to them to see a successful woman who isn’t. For decades, THEY have said that women shouldn’t have to stay home and take care of the babies if they don’t want to. Hire a nanny. Force your office to provide day care. Hell, you don’t even need to have a husband to have a baby, but it shouldn’t keep you from pursuing your own dreams or career. Paraphrasing something I heard recently: you shouldn’t be punished with a baby. So instead of standing up and saying “Wow, Sister. You sure are strong to have five kids and a career”, I have heard all day about how she shouldn’t have continued her career since her fifth baby was born with DS. I have heard women, WOMEN, saying that she should have aborted the baby when she found out it was going to be born with Down’s but since she didn’t, she should have had the grace to step out of public life to take care of it full time. I have heard folks today saying that there is no way she should even consider public life with a child that young, even if the boy didn’t have Down’s. These were all folks from Left saying this. The same ones who wouldn’t recognize hypocrisy if it French Kissed their grandmother.
The Left are the same ones who said Clarence Thomas and Gen. Powell were sell-outs to their race.
The Left are the same ones who ran New Orleans and Louisiana for generations and did nothing but beg for help after Katrina when their HARDER hit neighbors in Mississippi were taking care of themselves, while at the same time William Jefferson, D-LA, had National Guard troops haul his ass out to his house to collect $90,000 in cash that he still hasn’t explained.
The Left are the same ones who scream for alt energy but won’t let transmission lines go up.
The Left are the same ones who voted for the war before they voted against it.
You idiots on the Left are so wrapped up in the idea of power for it’s own sake, so that you can enforce your own twisted will on the rest of the populace, that you can’t even see you are using the same argument against Gov. Palin that you would have burned flags, bras, and effigies about forty years ago.
Gov. Palin seems to be a great choice for VP. It may come out at some point later that she has been eating the losing Iditarod teams; but for now, everything I have seen and heard and read had been positive. Her speech this afternoon had the ring of honesty and optimism that never comes out of BHO or Biden. It is beneath contempt that anyone could honestly question her choice to be “a heartbeat away” because she has a kid with Down’s Syndrome. Or that she doesn’t have enough experience. Or even that she is “too pretty to deal with the Middle East.” Beneath contempt, the hight of hypocrisy, and dammit, plain outright lies. Of course, I guess we can expect that from anyone who can say with a straight face that this country will be off of oil completely in ten years.
Tags: 2008 election, It's a beautiful day
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August 29th, 2008
BHO’s team got sideswiped by this choice. They already had ads ready to go for Romney or the Huckster.
So, here’s my prediction – In their haste to throw something together, The Messiah’s Oracles are going to shove their foot so far down their fucking gullets they’ll be able to tap dance out their assholes. Look for misogyny, ageism, and plain old hypocrisy so think you could cut it with a chainsaw.
August 29th, 2008
Dear whingy baby from IP 71.10.111.217 (Charter in Minnesota)…I accidentally deleted your comment before I could call Godwin’s Law down on your stupid ass. Kindly come back so we can heap some proper abuse on you, kthx.
August 30th, 2008
She is the smartest choice he’s made so far in his campaign.
August 30th, 2008
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