Sexist bastards continue to froth

I’m hard-pressed to find any other reason – other than blind, raging, insane hatred – because the assaults on Sarah Palin have been blind, raging, insane, hateful, and, yes, sexist. Those paragons of virtue, the illustrious icons of ivory, The Left, the “progressives”, have led these charges and are downright proud of themselves.

It is impossible to imagine any of these investigations if Palin had either been a Democrat or, more to the point, a man. Impossible. No one in the media or on the left questioned Hillary’s ability to raise Chelsea while she was running hither and yon as “co-president” during the 1990’s. The same have been strangely silent about John Edwards and his affair, spawning a love child while his wife suffers terminal cancer.

(And speaking of Edwards, no one on the left questioned his competency to be vice president even though his entire political experience at the time were the few years (three?) he served in the Senate before opting to run for president and then vice president.)

But Sarah Palin is most obviously not a man, she’s a woman. And she’s an unapologetic Republican conservative that had the audacity to rise to prominence on her own merits, rather than marry rich (I’m looking at you, Hillary Rodham, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, etc.) .That makes her red meat to those sanctimonious wraiths who revel in bile and self-loathing.

A self-evident idiot fabricates a theory from whole cloth that Trig is not her son and the mainstream media leapt at it as though it was truth handed down from the mountain. When that blew up, a pustule on another website opted to decree that Palin attempted to force a miscarriage, even though, again, the facts unsubtly got in his way.

I could go on, but the facts speak for themselves. These bigots of the left are just that, bigots. They are so frothing at the mouth they are oblivious to the sexist basis of their lies and slanders. They are the very definition of hypocrite...and that’s putting it politely.

Where are your feminist ideals when all you can do is attack a candidate for being a woman? You can hate her politics, fine, but these attacks are all about her gender, and I could have sworn that was something the left, the liberals, the progressives, that feminism said was a bad thing.

Can she raise her children while handling the job of vice president? When you ask that question of a male candidate, come back and we’ll discuss it. Until then, TFSU.

What about Bristol, Palin’s pregnant 17-year-old daughter? Bristol was stupid. There’s no excuse in this day and age. Everyone knows better, and she did, too. But that was yesterday and I’d rather deal with today and tomorrow. I commend her choice to carry the pregnancy to term, consistent with her faith and beliefs. I am less than thrilled with the upcoming “shotgun” wedding.

Does this mean that abstinence training is a failure? No. Abstinence remains the only 100% effective way of avoiding pregnancy and STD’s. Sorry Bristol couldn’t live up to the ideal, but now she will live with the consequences. This is a much healthier attitude than Obama’s notion that pregnancy is being “punished” for a “mistake”.

All of this is static, though. If you want to discuss Palin’s qualifications to be vice president, fine, but discuss her qualifications and her politics, not her gender and not her family.

And I want to see all the media’s discussion of “inexperience” regarding Edwards. Or, for that matter, presidential candidates such as Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and – more relevant today – Barrack Obama. Or do we talk about inexperience and taking care of your family only when dealing with women?

The silence, as regards those men, is deafening.