I must say, I have never seen anything quite like it. Palin Derangement Syndrome has forced a number of reporters absolutely over the edge, jettisoning all pretense of neutrality in an all out and odious effort to destroy the Palin candidacy. Admittedly, we have seen several variants of derangement syndrome before, but I cannot recall this disease ever progressing so quickly. It seems that female reporters are particularly susceptible.
Why, why this absolute and immediate hatred of an obviously accomplished woman? What is a the root of it? What is all about? The answer is very simple. Abortion. If the McCain /Palin ticket is successful, this ardently pro-life woman from Alaska will be a major force in national politics for the future and that puts in serious jeopardy the agenda of the abortion on demand lobby.
Sheila Liaugminas put in very well:
What’s really at issue here in the campaign against Sarah Palin is that she’s a strong pro-life woman in an executive position, who is now a candidate for the White House. It’s all about abortion.
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In the first day of Sarah Palin’s announcement, she was already being called “the most ferocious anti-choice candidate” by a guest on a PBS news show. Which has been the refrain ever since.
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And their desperate campaign to keep it enforced is fueling the rhetoric in this campaign. The White House is only the most visible goal. It’s really who controls courts and judges.
In order to protect abortion on demand, any and all smears leveled at Palin are justified in their minds. Many of these reporters are claiming that Palin is such a surprise pick that all they are really doing is vetting the candidate in a way that McCain didn’t. Nonsense.
First, the fact that Palin was such a surprise to the Ordinary Ministers of the Media just illustrates how poor a group of reporters they mostly are. Conservative blogs, websites, and publications had been pushing her potential candidacy for some time. This fact was obviously never brought up at their elite cocktail parties, but it was out there for any reporter who cared to look. Secondly, they haven’t found anything that harms the candidate in any way. The media dragging her daughter through the muck says much more about the media than it does Palin. So this line of justification is simply a lie.
These attacks are about one thing only. Abortion. That is the lens through which they see everything. Anything that threatens the status quo on abortion must be opposed by all measures. All measures.
Bu this is not just unreasoned liberal hyperventilation. No. The liberal Democrats, their cohorts in the media, and the abortion lobby understand very well that their time is now. They may not get another chance. They either knock her out in the next 30-60 days or she will be a prominent national figure for years to come. And that is if she loses in November. If McCain-Palin win, she will be the first female VP in history and an unstoppable political force when her time comes in 2012 or 2016.
Sarah Palin with her views, her style, her life story, her witness, and her prominence is potentially the greatest threat to the abortion regime they have ever encountered. You know it. I know it. Their reaction to her only serves to show that they know it too.
September 3, 2008 at 6:44 am
So much for “Pro-Choice”. Governor Palin chose life for her youngest child and encouraged her daughter to choose life as well. I guess Planned Parenthood and their media henchmen never expected anyone to actually choose life over death. Didn’t Palin get the memo?
September 3, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Satan is busy indeed.
September 3, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Watching this mass of wide-eyed, frothy-mouthed journalists sputtering in an impotent rage is morbidly entertaining to me.
I wonder if that means I need to go to confession again…
September 3, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I hope they keep it up. Everything they find to smear the Palins with will endear them to middle class and rural swing voters. Todd had a DUI in 1986: before he married Sarah. So apparently she helped stabilize him, the way so many good women take a wild boy and turn him into a husband and father. Of course, the more recent criminal activities of the family are of some concern. Todd was driving an ATV in a game reserve and actually ran a stop sign; I heard the boyfriend was cited for fishing salmon out of season. The more they try to hurt them, the more they help. Keep it coming, guys. Kit.
September 3, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I’ve heard a number of folks who pay little attention to politics echo similar complaints, “If the media is being this MEAN, there must be a good reason to support her.”
I echo Pawlenty’s comment: Why is Obama never asked if he would consider a 100% pro-life VP?
September 3, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Abortion is to liberals as the Incarnation is to Christians. If you take it away, you are left with utter nothingness.
September 3, 2008 at 4:52 pm
There has been more coverage on Sarah Palin since Friday than on Barack Obama ever since he started running for office, so it seems. What does that tell you?
September 3, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Actually, I think some of the PDS might actually be pure and simple jealousy.
She’s smart,pretty and successful. She has a manly husband. She seems to have it all.
I mean, gosh! Her life is so easy, right?
Sure, she has a special needs baby. Sure, her teenaged daughter is pregnant. Sure, she’s a mom of five who works full time. But she’s not on Oprah complaining about it, so she must have an easy time of it!
Meanwhile, those poor women in the media have had to sacrifice so much, and suffer so greatly, just to host a nightly news hour! Where’s THEIR praise? Where’s THEIR media spotlight. Why aren’t THEY the nominee? Do you have any idea how much executive experience it takes to make sure your lackey brings the right latte?
Sara Palin is just some Alaskan redneck… she’s never had to deal with that sort of trauma!
Face it…. they’d go easier on Palin if she was run-down looking and had a whiny voice. Because they can’t stand anyone who steals their spotlight…….
September 3, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Four words that accurately describe the mainstream media and the radical left:
Panic
Desperation
Hypocrisy
Hatred
September 6, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Doesn’t all of their vindictive blather just warm the hearts of all thinking people?
She is a wonderful candidate indeed. I pray that God in His infinite mercy spares us an obama/biden presidency.
Fiat Voluntas Tua
Barb