When a political candidate is openly attacked by the media in the disgusting manner in which the drive-bys are crucifying Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her family, one has to wonder at the motivation. Consider that these organizations, such as CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, the NY Times, TIME Magazine, Newsweek, etc. all believe themselves to be credible journalists (whether or not that is the case is no longer even debatable…but I digress). So, why then would these so-called bastions of journalistic integrity be gleefully diving head first into the mud pits of yellow journalism?

I propose the answer, dear reader, is comprised of the following: Ideological Sexism.

What is that, you may ask? Ideological Sexism is bias against a person for their ideological views expressed in a sexist manner. Sarah Palin and family is currently the victim of these despicable types of attacks.

Case in point:

CBS Interview by Katie Couric with McCain camp spokesman Steve Schmidt

“SCHMIDT: Well, let's talk about what’s coming out. The fact that her husband had a DWI 24 years ago when he was 22 years old. Senator McCain thinks that’s nonsense, that’s not a disqualifier for a Vice President of the United States. We knew that her daughter was going to have a child. Senator McCain offered his love and support for their family. That doesn't disqualify this exceptional leader, and the American people, I think, will angrily reject it. Today, Katie, I’ve been asked questions that are outrageous by the national media. I’ve been asked questions about when her amniotic fluid started to leak with regard to her last birth. I was asked whether we would make the genetic tests available because she had a Down's Syndrome child. Members of this campaign went to off-the-record lunches with reporters today, and they were asked if she would do paternity tests to prove paternity for her last child. Smear after smear after smear, and it’s disgraceful, and it’s wrong, and the American people are going to reject it overwhelmingly when they see her tomorrow.”

Questions like these should immediately clue you in to which way the interviewer leans politically. Unfortunately, this isn't the only example of this type of gutter-bias by the MSM.

Now, imagine the fury of the left if someone had the audacity to ask these same questions about Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. Or if someone had inquired as to whether or not Barack Obama would be able to effectively parent his two young daughters while being President. Or if his wife could handle his absence while he serves in Washington, work her own job AND effectively raise their two daughters. The person who even dared to hint at these things would have been (and should be) publicly crucified.

Point Two:

Panel Discussion on CBS. Topic: “Can a mother of five children be an effective vice president?”

Hang on a second. Isn’t that what the feminists have been telling us for so long? “You can have a family and a career. You can be successful if you want to be. You can have it all!” So here comes a woman who actually has it all and because she doesn’t share all of their ideological views they add the caveat: “But only if you’re a liberal!”

Add that in and it’s suddenly OK to skewer a woman for her feminine attributes.

What’s causing this most recent display of sexism, you ask? The answer is simple: FEAR.

The left has spent the past forty years portraying the Republican party specifically, and Conservatives in general, as a group of Neanderthals entirely devoted to suppressing minorities, especially women. The narrative is that we’re all Bible-thumping nutcases who expect our women to be barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen. Our women aren’t allowed to think or have opinions. We’re completely dominated by our men, whose sole interest is to exploit anyone who comes across their path for money or power.

Sarah Palin has completely shattered that narrative. She is an extremely successful and respected conservative woman with a career and family. She has single-handedly re-energized the conservative base (Neanderthals and all!). And once those of us who live in fly-over country find out about this marvelous woman, the liberals know their lame old lines and arguments about conservatives being backwater, sexist bigots will no longer hold water.

So you see, dear reader, a woman who has the audacity to enter politics with an (R) behind her name is no woman at all, she is THE ENEMY.

Sarah Palin is a real, middle-American kind-of lady. She believes that human life is sacred; that the topic of sex should be introduced by one’s parents instead of government-run schools; that the Second Amendment means what it says; that the government can’t solve all our problems; that there’s nothing wrong with having a family and loving them and having a career, too.

Sarah Palin is JUST LIKE US. She’s NORMAL. She has a family whom she loves. She pays her bills and her taxes. She has children who make bad choices, but she loves and supports them anyway. She understands us because she’s one of us. As Glenn Beck says, Sarah Palin is “MRS. Smith Goes to Washington”.

Like many of you, I will be anxiously awaiting Governor Palin’s convention address tonight. As she said to one of McCain’s vetters during her interview: “Do you know the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick.” The drive-bys would serve themselves well by remembering that.

Go get ‘em Sarah!

Democrats are in full-blown panic mode after the brilliant pick of Sarah Palin for McCain’s running mate. In the past 72 hours, I have seem more sexism, character assassination attempts, and general grasping at smear straws from the left in order to belittle McCain’s choice. Case in point:

Liberal Nonsense Example #1

“McCain only chose her because she’s a woman! If she weren’t female she would never have been picked.”

I first saw this bit of garbage suggested by none other than the former Carter administration surrogate and architect of Walter Mondale’s campaign, Democratic Strategist Bob Beckel. If that isn’t sexist, I don’t know what is. And while I guess it should be surprising coming from the party of the FemiNazis, I’m not exactly shocked at the hypocrisy.

Imagine if a conservative had suggested that Hillary Clinton’s supporters were only backing her because she was a woman, as if she had zero in the way of qualifications outside of her gender. The liberals would all be foaming at the mouth and calling for a public lynching of any conservative who would dare to suggest such a thing.

But, of course, it’s OK when the female target in question happens to have an (R) behind her name. Ironically enough, when you compare the resumes of the two women prior to seeking national office there’s a pretty stark difference. First, you have Mrs. Clinton, whose main achievements before she ran for the Senate entail being the spouse of a President and a failed attempt to author a Universal Healthcare bill. Prior to Mrs. Palin’s VP run, she’d managed a city and a state, fought corruption within her own party, took on the oil companies, and got more accomplished in two years of her governorship than her predecessors had combined over several decades.

So, we must assume from their arguments (as well as their choice in Presidential candidates) that the liberals don’t consider actual executive and legislative accomplishments as crucial criteria for seeking one of the two highest offices in the land.

Liberal Nonsense Example #2

“Governor Palin’s new baby son, Trig, can’t be hers since she didn’t ‘look pregnant’ at six months. It must be her daughters and the Palin family is living a lie.”

Outside of this just being an unsubstantiated assumption that is beyond ridiculous, it’s flat-out insulting. Now, remember that we’re not supposed to criticize Michelle Obama or anyone in the Obama family. They’re “off limits”, even if they do choose to inject themselves onto the political stage. However, it’s suddenly OK to smear not only the Republican candidate herself, but also her teenage daughter, based on some cockamamie theory contrived by the folks from the Daily Kossack. Wow. This just beats all.

Again, imagine if a conservative had made this same suggestion about some famous liberal woman, based on absolutely no evidence other than one’s opinion about what a six-month-pregnant woman should look like. This hypothetical conservative would quickly find droves of angry people on their lawn with pitchforks and torches.

I find that this argument, surprisingly enough, defeats itself in terms of the attempt at making Governor Palin’s character seem questionable. Say hypothetically that this is a true story. What does it say of a woman’s character who takes in her own grandchild and chooses to love him and raise him as her own? It says a lot about the capacity she and her family have for love. So this argument, ridiculous as it is, pretty much backfires upon any close examination. Although that in itself isn’t surprising coming from the left.

The truth is far less sensational. Pictures of Palin showing her to be very pregnant are surfacing. That combined with the statistics on women over 40 giving birth to children with Down's Syndrome (1in 100 vs 1 in several thousand at her daughter's age) show this non-story for the contrived left-wing garbage it is. 

Liberal Nonsense Example #3

“That woman has four kids plus a baby with Down’s Syndrome. Her place is at home taking care of her family.”

This one just takes the cake. Every woman with any feminist sensibilities should be outraged at the suggestion that a woman’s “place” is in the home fawning over their husband and children. It is the ultimate in hypocrisy when the same people that rallied around Hillary Clinton when she belittled those who are homemakers with her demeaning comments about “stay[ing] home and bak[ing] cookies and hav[ing] tea” are now suggesting that another woman should just give up all her hopes and dreams and stay home to look after her family.

As a stay-at-home mom myself, I obviously have no problem with anyone who chooses to make her family her profession. But I also have no problem with women who choose to have a career as well. And after all, wasn’t that a major point in the feminist movement? Isn’t this what women have been fighting against: the idea that a woman is somehow incapable of having a family and a career simultaneously?

Yes, dear reader, hypocrisy abounds on the left. It always has, but with the nomination of Sarah Palin it’s becoming more and more apparent as the left scrambles to regain the footing that was lost after the choice of this phenomenal woman as potential Vice President has rallied the conservative base and captured the public’s attention.

So, my rallying cry to all conservatives is to let the liberals have their pity party. Let them try to run Governor Palin’s name through the mud. Because the more they try and sully her good name with the likes of the garbage above, the more apparent their hypocrisy will become to the women and men in the middle. In the end, Independents and Reagan Democrats will see them for what they are and they will run in the other direction. And McCain-Palin and company will be waiting with open arms.

Don't fight the smears.

I am so proud of my chosen political party today. John McCain, who I will admit I was not thrilled with initially, has done a wonderful thing by choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential Nominee. He has not only catapulted her political career, he has done America a great service by introducing us to this remarkable woman who, unlike most of our current examples of femininity in the political and cultural landscape, is truly a class act.
 
Governor Palin started out in a small town and has never forgotten her roots. She and her husband are both from middle class/working class families and have had to RECENTLY worry about the problems facing common Americans. Her life story sounds strikingly similar to the “everyman’s”.

Palin hunts, fishes, and plays sports. She entered and won a beauty contest in order to use the accompanying scholarship to help her get through college. She married her high school sweetheart (a fisherman and oil rig worker), with whom she has 5-count them!- children, one of whom was diagnosed before birth as having Down’s syndrome, and whom she chose to love and cherish regardless of his disability. She pays a mortgage and is not a bazillionaire or a lifetime politician. She’s simply a concerned citizen trying to help others; which is what politicians are SUPPOSED to be.

Her political career began not in some egotistical desire for power, fame, or fortune, but in recognition that her government was not working for the people it was supposed to be representing. In the spirit of TRUE change, Palin went from PTA mom to City Council member. Then on to Mayor and ultimately, after being displeased at the shady dealings of the political establishment in Alaska, she moved on to the office of Governor where she has huge bipartisan support and an over 80% approval rating, both of which are virtually unheard of, and has been a champion of reform.

Unlike the parade of feminist radicals that have shown open scorn for the occupation of housewives and stay at home mothers and contempt at the idea of participating in any form of domesticity-such as Hillary Clinton’s remarks about the demeaning nature of baking cookies- Sarah Palin is a wife, mother, and stateswoman. For Sarah, the latter does not negate the former. For her, being a feminine and a mother-even to those with special needs-is a blessing, not a burden. And she’s working hard not only at home but also in our government for the future of our children.
 
Governor Palin is living proof that the American Dream is still alive and well for those who work hard and live honestly. She is a woman that we should be proud for our daughters AND our sons to see on a national stage. I will proudly pull the lever for McCain/Palin in 2008. And hopefully one day I will have the privilege of voting for Palin for President in 2012 or 2016.