It’s a baby. Oddly enough, the people writing this nonsense were also babies once. Too bad they can’t see that.
Palin and John McCain oppose abortion and have supported promoting abstinence in schools, which would seem to make Bristol Palin’s pregnancy an inconveniently timed development.
But she is keeping the child, a fact that could make the Alaska governor — whose candidacy has been enthusiastically embraced by evangelicals who regard her as one of their own — even more popular among that key GOP voting bloc. Watch more on Palin’s announcement »
“Fortunately, Bristol is following her mother and father’s example of choosing life in the midst of a difficult situation,” Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said. “We are committed to praying for Bristol and her husband-to-be and the entire Palin family as they walk through a very private matter in the eyes of the public.”
Evangelical leader Richard Land also backed Palin completely.
“This is the pro-life choice. The fact that people will criticize her for this shows the astounding extent to which the secular critics of the pro-life movement just don’t get it,” Land said in a statement.
“Those who criticize the Palin family don’t understand that we don’t see babies as a punishment but as a blessing. Barack Obama said that if one of his daughters made a mistake and got pregnant out of wedlock, he wouldn’t want her to be punished with a child. Pro-lifers don’t see a child as punishment.”
The immediate support of these major figures, who offered universal praise for the Palins’ actions after learning their daughter was pregnant, provides the filter through which conservative Christian voters will process the development.
Seriously, you folks need to stop playing with your fake doll of what the “right” thinks and start dealing with the reality. Keep harping on your idiotic mindset and you will, honestly, get a surprise. Because the “right” is not populated with the automatons the left blithely assumes it is.
Is the media guilty of trying to make hurricane Gustav into another Katrina? You be the judge. AP:
NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana’s fishing and oil industry with 110 mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina three years ago.
According to NOAA, 110 mph winds are a category 2 hurricane. Far, far short of Katrina. Frankly, if a city built below sea level located near the seacoast can’t ride out the expected storms that hit the area frequently, why is that city there in the first place?
Yeah, that sounds harsh, but frankly, I’m getting sick of the histrionics over this. Yeah there is a storm, yeah it happens down there - every year - and frankly, I have no desire to live below sea level near the sea coast. Why does anyone else?
My brother turned 51 this year. While that isn’t a very noteworthy accomplishment in this day and age for most people, for him, it was a milestone for him. You see, not many years ago, someone like my brother did not have anything like the life expectancy of an “average American”.
My brother has Down (or Down’s or Downs) syndrome. In addition to the very visible characteristics of what was once called Mongolism, there are other invisible problems, health-wise. Most born with this had short life-expectancies, not so very long ago. That extra chromosome wreaks havoc with the body.
In a cognitive sense, my brother is about eight years old - and always will be. But he is sweet, affectionate, artistic and quite the ladies man. He will tell, with complete sincerity, any woman he meets that she is gorgeous. This is not a hollow compliment, he means everything he says; there is not one dishonest bone in his body. And he can draw some stunning pictures.
My children, all four of them, absolutely adore my brother. When they were growing up, he was right there with them in a cognitive sense. When they grew older - and he did not - they loved him all the more.
Is there a point to this post, you ask? Only this: If you think this world is a better place without my brother in it, you’re mistaken.
Badly.
AllahPundit at Hot Air has a pretty thorough roundup of the latest, I’ll send you over there to read all he has put together before continuing reading this post.
Finished? Well then, let me put my two cents in. First, the slime who were pushing the Palin rumors were not only wrong, they were spectacularly wrong. Retractions, anyone? I’m not holding my breath.
Second, if the caricature of the right that the left assumes exists were actually real, this might be trouble. However, the left’s version of the right has never existed anywhere but in the left’s twisted minds, so it isn’t. Instead, the left’s (and the media’s) gleeful attacks will backfire, spectacularly. Attacking a minor child to get at a politician will cause a backlash of, excuse the term here, biblical proportions.
The one person on the left who understands that appears to be Barack Obama. I’m quite pleased by that, even though I still do not like his politics. But his sudden disavowal of the Koz Kidz and their poo-flinging still rings hollow. Whether he likes it or not, he climbed in with them - he still owns their behavior. If he’s smart, he’ll publicly bash them for what they are doing, even more explicitly than he has. Otherwise, the backlash will swamp him.
Politics | Gaius Monday, 1 September , 2008 | 
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