Ugly hate from ugly people who like Obama
I don't really spend a lot of time commenting on the social issues like abortion and gay marriage that some conservatives find important. There are, after all, many types of conservatives. Like the Democrat party, the Republicans are a coalition of groups that tend to have their own particular ideas that they consider primary. In my case, the two big issues that I always want to keep an eye on are national security and the economy with cultural issues coming in after that. But the issues that concern social conservatives don't really move me as much because I consider them to be secondary to the survival of the country and to Western Civilization. Without a proper defense to protect the country and without a free economy to hold up our ability to act in a dangerous world, these other issues would be moot.
But you may have noticed that over the weekend the hard left has unleashed an attack on the family of Sarah Palin that is nothing short of sick and disgusting. The left pounced on Palin immediately after her nomination was announced and came up with the "story" that her youngest child was actually her grandchild. When that didn't pan out, they went after Palin's daughter Bristol for being young, pregnant and unmarried.
Bristol and her parents have chosen to keep that child, as yet unborn, and there will be a marriage in Bristol's future. But the hard left that has in the past lectured all of us about the privacy of the individual and the primacy of a woman's right to choose, is now telling us that we must reject Sarah Palin because her daughter had the bad luck to get pregnant. Note that it is not Bristol who is running for office and who, by rights should not be considered a public figure. She is just a kid herself by any common sense measure.
But the hard left is unconcerned about common sense, or decency or the rights of Bristol Palin. They like to pompously lecture to us that kids are going to have sex anyway, so why not just accept it? Well, if we take them at their word, then why are they launching this vicious smear attack against Sarah Palin based on her daughter's activity? Why such reckless hate? Why the name-calling contest at Democratic Underground? Why the attacks at blogs like The Daily Kos? What about that right to privacy that they screech about at every opportunity?
Of course we all know that these supposed concerns that the left brings up when they are useful are but a pretext and a cover for their attacks on America and the ideas and values that make America's continued survival possible. But in fact they only really value the privacy of leftists. It is only the left that is entitled to free speech. Only the left has a right to choose and to be left alone by others. Misogyny and sexism is OK for the left, but not for anyone else. For the left has a different set of rules for themselves than they do for the rest of us.
No, the smears and attacks against Sarah Palin will continue and are continuing because that is what the left does. They have to do so because they cannot go to the issues in this campaign. What the left wants is to impose socialism on this country whether the rest of us want it or not. But if they come out and say so, they lose. The American people don't want what the left wants, so the left has to hide and lie about their true agenda. And that is why they have to attack Sarah Palin. She is the living refutation of everything that they say they want. As long as there is a Sarah Palin it is proof that we don't need or want their utopian schemes. It is proof that America is a good and decent place. It is proof that regular people can make it with perseverance and effort. It is proof that the elites are wrong about who we are.
And they cannot win as long as we are confident of who we really are.
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