by Edgard Portela
As I predicted a few days ago, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska is John McCain’s Vice-Presidential running mate. I could not be any more ecstatic and proud of my party – we are tearing away the misconceptions and stereotypes perpetrated by the left and making history all on our own. The American people now have a choice between two historic tickets – picking the first woman Vice-President and picking the first Black President. It’s an exciting time.
Not only that – but Sarah Palin has, in my opinion, more experience than Obama. –What people forget is that being a legislator is immensely different to being a Governor. Has Obama ever been Commander of a state’s National Guard? Sarah Palin is. Has Obama had to work with a legislature to balance the budget TWICE and do it without raising taxes? Sarah Palin has. Who has actively fought corruption within their state party? Taken on oil companies? Once again, Sarah Palin has. In two years, Sarah Palin has easily gained more executive experience than Obama or Biden could even dream of having. Incidentally, Sarah Palin has the same level of experience as Governor Tim Kaine, who nobody was criticisingas inadequately prepared. Of course she still has room for more, but two years as Governor, with actual palpable achievements stand sharply in contrast with Obama’s lack of legislative accomplishments.
The left knows that Sarah Palin is a strong candidate, capable of challenging the whole “change” theme that Obama has been promoting for a while, and offers a stark contrast to his and Senator Biden’s “charisma”…which usually leads to him putting his foot in his mouth.
Since Friday’s announcement, the left has wasted no time throwing about mud in the hope that some of it sticks. For example:
- Daily Kos speculates that Palin’s baby with Down’s Syndrome is actual the child of her eldest daughter and Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover it up. (They’ve been watching too many Desperate Housewives episodes.)
- Wired Magazine claims that Palin wants creationism taught in schools.
- Florida Democrat Robert Wexler accuses Palin of being a Nazi sympathizer.
- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says Palin is a worse VP pick than Dan Quayle (If he truly believed that, you’d think he’d be happier).
And that’s just for starters.
This is ridiculous. It’s horrendously disappointing to see the left resorting to this kind of politics. They are throwing out their so-called commitment to women by throwing petty lies and false claims at a woman who actually as a chance to become America’s Vice-President. (Come on. Ferraro had no chance. No one could have beat Reagan in ‘84.) If they could provide substantiated criticisms, that would be another story.
Not only is the left displaying their hypocrisy, they are showing how desperate they are to win this election. Sad, isn’t it?
Edgard Portela is a student from Michigan and has been a volunteer on the McCain campaign since mid-2007.
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Whilst the Republicans just sit there and throw no mud at all?
The rumour is not even a Democrat invention. It started in Alaska some months ago. From some of the evidence on DailyKos now, it is looking more and more likely.
Though this is now trumped by the fact that the Republican campaign claim Bristol is pregnant NOW – just goes to show where abstinence-only gets you.
It’s not about mud-slinging, it’s about hypocrisy.
The Democrats trumpet themselves as the party that cares about women, single mothers and compassion. Yet when the Republicans select a woman as running mate, she’s automatically dismissed as an inexperienced bimbo. When they find out that one of her daughters is pregnant (and thus to be a single mother) they can’t stop tripping over each other to be the first to bellow in outrage.
The party that is supposedly about empowering women to make choices about their pregnancy is attacking Palin for doing something they consider irresponsible despite having no harmful effects and acting on the advice of her doctor. Perhaps they are also angry that Palin’s daughter chose not to have an abortion.
This is what wonks call being “off-message”; it’s what ordinary people call hypocrisy.
The only outrage Democrats are expressing is that her own mother’s policies forced her into abstinence-only. That is where Democrats stand up for women.
Correct, the ‘party that is supposedly about empowering women to make choices about their pregnancy is attacking Palin for doing something they consider irresponsible’ – namely preventing her own daughter from using birth control.
The Dems aren’t angry that ‘Palin’s daughter chose not to have an abortion’, they’re angry that Palin’s daughter did not have the choice to have an abortion.
‘no harmful effects’ – If you’re saying that Trig and Bristol (let alone the child Bristol is supposedly carrying now) will suffer no harmful effects from their (grand?)mothers policies, you are wrong.
You’ve confused two separate attacks. I was referring to the controversy surrounding the circumstances of the birth of Palin’s fifth child.