Sorry to overwhelm with all this stuff, but it's been so long since I've had anything positive to say or think about the Republicans this year that I'm going to take this opportunity to kvell.
A paleo populist friend writes to say the Palin pick has brought him back into the McCain fold. She's a "positive face for the pro-life cause," and "stands to put state sovereignty back on the map." Says my pal, "That's worth holding your nose and voting for McCain." And as Ross points out, Palin might be a closet paleo. Happy.
Nat Hentoff, the pro-life atheist liberal, a while back wrote a column urging McCain to pick Palin. Excerpt:
Mrs. Palin says of her new son, Trig: "I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection. Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?" ... Taking her stand for life as a holder of high political office is all the more valuable in the face of the termination of fetal lives as not worth continuing before they can speak for themselves. Mrs. Palin's stand also puts a searching light on the growing "futility" doctrine in hospitals which is affecting people of all ages.Nancy Valko, a medical ethicist and intensive-care nurse I consult on these lives-worth-living debates, has emphasized that "with the rise of the modern bioethics movement, life is no longer assumed to have the intrinsic value it once did, and 'quality of life' has become the overriding consideration." Because of Mrs. Palin's reputation as a maverick, and her initial reduction of state spending (including pork-barrel spending), life-affirming Palin connects with voters. For these reasons, she has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for Mr. McCain.
She would be a decided asset: an independent Republican governor, a woman, a defender of life against the creeping culture of death and a fresh face in national politics.
This Hentoff column really stops me cold in my hostility to the McCain ticket. I believe the three biggest threats facing this country are the fiscal time bomb, the long-term energy crisis, and the loss of a sense of life's intrinsic worth in the face of genetic research. The last one is the worst of the three. Sarah Palin couldn't reverse the Culture of Death on her own. But having one of the nation's top leaders as a woman who not only talks the pro-life talk, but walks the pro-life walk, and bears witness by her own choices and life to the value of all human life -- well, we've never had that opportunity before.
Never.
Now we do.
This, in contrast to a man so devoted to abortion he cannot even put the law on the side of infants who survive botched abortions. This, in contrast to a man who can watch this short 4D ultrasound video and proclaim that deciding whether or not his is life worthy of life is "above [his] pay grade."
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You're on your way to racking up another loss.
Ha ha. Face it, Palin was a ridiculous choice. You know it, and we know it. Total desperation...gimmicky. She simply doesn't come across as presidential. A huge mistake.
Oh Houghton old boy, we are all just fine and dandy....thanks for the concern-trolling, but we are just trying to get over the shock of the RNC giving us the election with a bowtie around it. It's not every day that the party of Tricky Dick Nixon politics would just throw in the towel by giving such a monumental fuck-you to the American electorate, so it might take a few weeks for us to absorb the implications of how far the right has imploded. By the way, your keen sense of optimism is noted on our "racking up another loss", but disregarded as blathering stupidity by anyone who can actually think for themselves.
Your list...of Sara Palin acomplishments and suitablility for office- a masterwork of Republican talking-points, lies, half-truths and complete and utter bullshit. Before I see that list again as a mass-email, I'm just gonna send it to snopes.com for their analysis of where this originated. Not that you couldn't come up with original material, you couldn't, it's just not in a RNC robot's directive to be original or think for themselves.
I cannot endorse a woman who would leave her months old special needs baby to the press and nannies. I cannot endorse a woman who is throwing her child to the wolves (which, she wants to kill, BTW) God knows who is taking care of their family. Pray for them!
You said,"
AND SHE HOMESCHOOLS!!!!! Just a few days ago she came into IDEA, Interior Distance Education of Alaska, where my husband works as a contact teacher, and signed up her high school age daughter! NOW I know why. She'll be on the campaign trail! She IS a Crunchy Con. She embodies every value in the book! I LOVE HER!!! All of us Alaskans do! When she had baby Trig, we all so proud of her and the witness she and Todd gave to the world regarding their prolife values. And When she said the state has made a heck of a lot of money because of the oil price speculating so lets give some of this windfall back to the people who are suffering so much from the price of fuel ($10.00 a gallon in some villages), we all just sat down with our mouths hanging open in admiration and awe!!! And you know she is smart! She announced her idea of an energy costs rebate IN THE NEWSPAPER first before letting the legislature get their greedy hands on the idea. The Legislators or some of them anyways, tried to whittle the rebate down or corner some of it for their own projects. One of them said the legislature should be given the money becuase they would spend it more wisely than the people would! (He'll never get elected again!!!) She is awesome and we in Alaska are just bursting with pride, joy and renewed faith in the political system!!!!!
Halleluia!
Posted by: Shelley | August 29, 2008 7:45 PM
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I say, how in the world can a woman "home school" when she and her husband are on the campaign trail??? Oh, right, the Republican school. Don't ask questions, don't learn from mistakes...greeeaaaat! Look forward to the product of that schooling soon!
Won't someone please think of the fetuses?
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