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Archive for September 3rd, 2008

Wingnuts Say the Darndest Things

Posted by s.z. on September 3rd, 2008

The topic on everyone’s mind today: Bristol Palin. 

The main talking points:  (1) the liberals are really mean to have made Sarah Palin’s daughter get pregnant out of wedlock, just to make Sarah look bad; and (2) The pregnancy actually makes Sarah a more attractive candidate to Evangelicals.  This is because the bun in the daughter’s unmarried oven demonstrates that Sarah really is against abortion, and also shows that Sarah and her family are just like them (sinners; parents of rebellious kids who just won’t do abstinence; trailer trash; etc.). 

Here are a few examples.  First, our friend Pastor Swank breaks the news that Bristol Palin did not abort her baby.

Sarah Palin is for abstinence prior to marriage as well as not murdering womb infants.

When her 17-year-old Bristol became pregnant, Bristol did not abort her child. Instead, she is expecting and praying for a healthy human being.

She is also going to marry the baby’s father, handsome hockey hunk Levi Johnston.

Bristol and Levi are like a lot of the couples who get married here: teenaged, no schooling beyond high school, no job skills, and a baby on the way (or already here).  They get married due to parental and societal expectations.  Their marriages usually last about 5 years, and often end in acrimony, financial strain, and with damaged children.  So, although I wish Bristol and her handsome hockey hunk all the best, I think that nobody should see marriage as the panacea for teen pregnancy.

If Bristol had been reared in a theologically liberal household like B. Hussein Obama’s, it very well could be that she would have already aborted her child.

B. Hussein Obama and wife, Michelle, enthusiastically support abortion. In fact, when the Supreme Court outlawed partial-birth abortion, B. Hussein considered the decision horrific.

If Bristol has been reared in Hillary and Bill Clinton’s household, it very well could have been that she would have been encouraged most certainly to murder her womb human.

Or, it could be that if Bristol had been reared by the Obamas or the Clintons, she never would have gotten knocked up in the first place, because she would know about sex and about birth control.  Heck, she might not have even been sexually active, because she might have had a better relationship with her parents, and might have heeded their advice not to have sex until she was older (or to wait until marriage, or whatever it is the Obamas and Clintons tell their daughters).

In any case, I like the Pastor’s new line of political accessories: Womb Humans!  Trade them, collect them, get the whole set!

Next, Michelle Malkin’s latest column (The Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse) is about how the nasty liberals are treating Sarah Palin just like they treat Michelle, because the libs just can’t stand smart, strong, capable, non-feminist women (you know, women like Michelle and Sarah).  Michelle resorted to using comments from DU and the Huffington Post to try to show just how low the liberals will stoop to invalidate Sarah’s creds — so here’s a comment from one of Michelle’s Town Hall readers:

If I wanted a black president,
I’d move to Africa. If I wanted a marxist/communist president, who’d tax me to death, I’d move to Cuba. If I wanted a Muslim for president, I’d move to Iran. If I wanted all of the above, I’d stay here and vote Obama/Biden.

Thankfully. I now have a choice: McCain/Palin.

I think that the McCain/Palin campaign should make this message into a TV spot, since it would resonate with the kind of people to whom they are hoping to appeal.

Lastly, here are a couple of thoughts from Kathleen Parker’s Palin the Impaled“:

Others have used what should be a private family matter to challenge Palin’s preference for abstinence-only sex education.

Like commenter heydave said, “Johnny McMav sez: it’s a purely personal choice to become pregnant out of wedlock, but a pressing public issue to abort the fetus.”

Were it not for the pain of a teenager who didn’t deserve to be exposed and exploited, the left’s hypocrisy in questioning Palin’s qualifications to be vice president against the backdrop of her family’s choices would be delicious. Instead, it leaves a bad taste.

You know, there was a way to have helped to protect Bristol from being exposed and exploited: all her mother had to do was to TURN DOWN THE VP-NOMINEE OFFER.  If Palin wasn’t running for the second highest job in the land, who (outside of Alaskans) would be paying any attention when the AK governor’s teen daughter married her red-neck boyfriend and had a baby two months later?

Sure, Sarah is free to run on the McCain ticket even though she has a 17-year-old daughter who is 5 months pregnant and feeling kind of vulnerable, but it’s rather disingenuous for anyone to suggest that it’s the Democrats who are exploiting Bristol and exposing her to unwanted scrutiny.

Happy Birthday, AnnPW!

Posted by scott on September 3rd, 2008

coulter3.jpg Thanks to Heydave for alerting us to the natal anniversary of longtime WoC commenter AnnPW, who blogs over at Beginning to Wonder.

In honor of your special day, here’s the traditional photo of Ann Coulter, caught on a similarly festive occasion, about to mate with and devour a CPAC intern.  Many happy returns, Ann.

The Ronco™ Quayle-izer

Posted by scott on September 3rd, 2008

It’s sad to see the Republicans torn asunder by the selection of Sarah Palin. Where once disparate party factions were united in their common hatred of John McCain, now they are bitterly divided between those who adore the ultra-conservative Alaskan governor, and those who pretend to adore her so they can keep getting booked on Fox.  But beneath the competition to adore her more, there lies a growing dread that the My Size Kewpie Doll they received as a consolation prize for enduring McCain might be Quayle-ized.

Jonah Goldberg in today’s LA Times:  “[O]ne doesn’t have to be an obsessive about liberal media bias to feel confident that the press corps will be eager to Quayle-ize her.”

Pioneering right wing crank Richard Viguerie in my email box:  “Liberal Democrats are working quickly to Quayle-ize her.”  The suspense is killing me!  Does she or doesn’t she?  Sadly, the verb to Quayle isn’t quite as dirty as it sounds.  But that doesn’t stop Dick:

“There is no one who presents all pluses and no minuses. Sure, it would be better if she had more foreign policy experience, and if she had won the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes, while flying the space shuttle and curing cancer.

So those are our choices for the second highest office in the land?  Either a constitutionally unschooled ex-beauty queen who sees supreme executive power primarily as a means of settling family feuds, or Doctor Who?

But she is someone who represents the values and worldview of the American people.

To sum it up:  Firearms, drunk driving, teen pregnancy, and lying about your work experience in the hope no one will check your references.  I suspect that even as we speak, her transition team is looking into the cost of installing a double-wide on the grounds of the Naval Observatory.

And she has the toughness to be president

And to make a tender chicken.

She has spent her political career standing up to powerful men ranging from the state Republican chairman to the previous governor to the presidents of Exxon-Mobil and British Petroleum.

Yes, I bet those conniving fat cats at British Petroleum rued the day they came up against an Alaskan governor whose husband works for their company, and who supports “drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, [is skeptical] about alternative energy sources, and [opposes] listing polar bears as an endangered species.”

Honestly, who is more likely to be another Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher – Sarah Palin or Joe Biden? Sarah Palin or Barack Obama?

I won’t know who I’m going to vote for until after the evening gown competition, but I hear Miss Alaska has the inside track — for the talent portion she’s going to run up a huge public debt and start a war with a small Latin American nation.

By many measures, she outshines Barack Obama in terms of experience, especially in fighting political corruption and making us energy independent.

Why, before her Administration, Alaska was almost totally dependent on imported oil.

As for Joe Biden, he has foreign policy experience, all right – the wrong kind of foreign policy experience. He and those who represent the Harvard-Princeton-Yale ‘best and the brightest’ way of thinking have caused untold suffering for the world’s people. They extended the Cold War by decades, did almost nothing as terrorists waged war on America in the ’90s, and stood by as genocide was committed in Rwanda and Darfur.

Thankfully, after Bush intervened in the Sudan, the genocide was stopped, peace was restored, and today Darfur is a tranquil, sun-kissed agrarian paradise, and America’s fifth largest source of sorghum.

In the effort to beat Sarah Palin, liberal Democrats will play to every sexist stereotype that has kept women ‘in their place’ in the past. They consider conservative women ‘uppity,’ and won’t stand for Sarah Palin being vice president and someday president.

Ah, the old I’m Rubber You’re Glue Defense.  No substitute for the classics.

They are terrified at the prospect that the first woman vice president and possibly the first woman president might be a conservative Republican. A few years ago, they were likewise terrified by Clarence Thomas

I would rather die than see Clarence Thomas become our first woman president!

They trashed Clarence Thomas and continue to trash him in the most racist and hateful ways, and they won’t hesitate to do something similar to Sarah Palin.

Even now, liberals are spreading rumors that Governor Palin invited Anita Hill to watch porn with her.