The Ugly Treatment of Sarah Palin
The left’s reaction to Sarah Palin should remind our friends of another dark moment in recent history: the “electronic lynching” of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Because Palin and Thomas both represent fundamental challenges to liberal orthodoxy – one can only imagine that the attacks on Palin will become ever more frantic, ever more vicious, and ever more hypocritical.
Within moments of her announcement, the Obama campaign launched a classic sexist attack on Palin’s “lack of qualifications” for Vice-President. In doing so, they reminded voters of their treatment of Hillary Clinton during the primary campaign; they also scratched the scab of Obama’s infamous remarks about “angry small town America” while being feted by the elites of San Francisco.
To his credit, Sen. Obama moved quickly to squelch such dismissive treatment of a sitting governor. A couple days later, Obama made it clear that he would not stand for attacks on Palin’s children as part of his campaign. (It may be one of his finest moments). Unfortunately, his fellow-travelers will not be leashed.
Palin represents a substantial and direct threat to modern feminism. She is an intelligent, powerful woman who has thought her way free of liberal orthodoxy. She is a woman, of course, but a woman who has rejected the destructive principles of feminism. For that she cannot be forgiven. For that she must be destroyed.
Just as racist rhetoric and tactics have been used by the Left in their efforts to destroy conservative blacks like Justice Thomas and Secretary Rice – so sexism will be used by feminists to keep a powerful woman like Sarah Palin from becoming an American icon of a different value system.
If there is a silver lining to all this, it may be that Americans will get a hard lesson in the hypocrisy and deceits of the Left.
We urge our readers to be in serious prayer for Mrs. Palin and her family. They are certain to be tested in ways that will hard to believe.
Posted at 9/03/2008 06:17:00 AM Link to this article 
2 Comments:
If you think Sarah is so Pro LIFE.
That should be the ONLY choice.
Sarah at 15 got pregnant and was taken to Nome to have an abortion.
Please Explain This
http://www.alaskaprochoice.org
I'm curious as to where Anonymous got the information re. Sarah Palin's purported abortion at age 15. I found nothing about this on the alaska prochoice link noted.
Beyond that, I believe that judgments about a middle aged woman's current stated (and lived, it appears to me) beliefs re. abortion should be made based on her actions since adulthood, not on those during her teen years.
If everyone who became pregnant as a teen were required to wear a great big red A on her chest, I'd need one. If AA were required for teens who'd had abortions, I'd miss one only because I miscarried my first child at the age of 18, having already decided on an abortion.
God deliver us from the judgments of people who have no idea what coercion, fear, and panic come into play when a teen, particularly a very young teen, finds herself pregnant.
God forgive me for the times when, many years after my first pregnancy, I have pushed that memory as far back as I can and have judged other girls and women in similar circumstances.
If as is asserted a young Sarah was "taken to Nome to have an abortion", that implies probable adult involvement in the act of abortion. If this did occur, what pressure did her parents and/or others put on her to abort?
I don't know what Alaska law was/is, so it is possible that a girl of that age at that time may have been able to have a friend transport her for an abortion without parental knowledge or consent.
If that were the case, perhaps especially if that were the case, it indicates a girl who was probably very frightened and felt she had no other options. I know that was the true for me, and for most women I have known since who've been in the same situation.
And yes, I was a Christian at the time, which made it all the worse because I understood fully that an abortion would be my willful act of murdering my infant. I am not alone in that either.
I'm 51 now,and know from my experience and those of many friends who have had abortions that the very reality of the intent to have an abortion, whether carried out or not, forms the firm foundation that supports our very strong prolife beliefs.
The memories of those children and their loss, and our choices at the times of those pregnancies never leave us!
If we have other children, the day of their births is a bittersweet day filled with "what ifs", as is the day of the abortion or of the hoped-for miscarriage. As is the time that would have been that child's birth.
The grief and sorrow never leave us! Educate yourselves about the rate of depression and suicide among teen girls and young adult women and the correlation to their abortions. Educate yourselves about the increased rate of abuse by mothers of children born after an abortion, and I'm not speaking of mothers who are in the so-called expected high abuser potential categories.
It is only by the grace of God that we can be forgiven and by even greater grace that we can forgive ourselves. A lot of us never do.
Our family is fortunate to have two beautiful granddaughters, one our son's child, because their mothers were brave enough to buck the knowing looks, wagging tails and encouragement to have abortions coming from many quarters during their pregnancies.
Before anyone takes a swing at Sarah Palin or any other prolife woman who has had an abortion at sometime in her past, let him or her spend a good long time repeating out loud, "There but for the grace of God go I."
Bonnie G.
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