Palin’s granddaughter (part 2)
My previous blog post, done much better:
http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2008/0…
…what the Left sees as hypocrisy, most folks who are not Obama voters just see as falling short. As, of course, we, as humans, all do.
Bristol Palin’s journey is a human story. She tried to be good. She fell short. Instead of aborting the baby she will carry it to term and marry the father. To socially conservative America, there is nothing tragic about this.
You see, to many of the voters Barack Obama has not yet seemed to reach and who have thus far been ambivalent about McCain, this is exactly how these things are supposed to go. Their reality has not been shaken, the scales have not fallen from their eyes.
Sarah Palin did nothing “wrong.” And Bristol Palin did nothing other than sin, which we all do. She is now managing her sin as proscribed by tradition. To the traditionalist the situation is not ideal, no, but it is not a disaster…
This is a human story. The more the left attacks, attempts to expose “hypocrisy”, the more the personal will very much become the political. Unfortunately it will become political in a way that leads all those hard working Bubbas, all those church-going single mommas, right out to the polls to vote for that war hero and and those women they now identify with, Sarah and Bristol Palin.
To the Left, this situation looks like that big fat change-up they have been waiting for coming right across the plate. Let me assure you, friends, what is coming at you is a knuckleball, a greased pig with wings.
You are gonna want to take this pitch. You may win the “argument”, but you will lose the election.
Wow.
Amazingly said.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:25 am
Some of us on the left are *not* jumping at this situation as a political tool to be used to get what we want. I’m pretty sure Obama sees exactly this danger when he pleads with his people to please, don’t go after people’s families, because he really does want this story to be irrelevant to the campaign.
I think Obama sees what you’ve said here, and his supporters may be too rabid to listen to his warnings to stay away from this story. But he has tried to wave them off.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 am
She is now managing her sin as proscribed by tradition.
Paging Dr. Freud. . . .
Best typo of the week, by far. “Tradition, thou art for suckling children / Thou art the enlivening milk for babes.”
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I’m beginning to suspect that this tempest in a teapot was orchestrated by the McCain campaign in order to prove to average voters that liberals don’t understand them.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I’m beginning to suspect that this tempest in a teapot was orchestrated by the McCain campaign in order to prove to average voters that liberals don’t understand them.
That just barely makes sense. If they recruited him in early February, the moment McCain began to pull ahead, the father would have had six weeks to seduce her, which is fast work even in a red state.