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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Why Palin is
"Ready"
YUP, SHE'S A WOMAN. I wrote the other day about the Babar Conservatives who haughtily inform us that in their considered opinion, Sarah Palin is not ready to be Vice President of the United States. As I reread the post, I spent too much time on it. Here's a better one.
She's ready. The biggest and most important qualification for the presidency of the United States has become, thanks to the MSM, an ability to endure inhumanly savage and filthy personal attacks and still do your job. The fact that such attacks are automatically easier and more damaging to inflict on a woman than a man is a big part of the reason women are still not permitted (officially, at least) combat roles in the U.S. military. It is, for example, a given that women can be subjected to the physical and psychological torture of gang rape if captured, while it remains an unlikely possibility for male U.S. troops unless they're captured in San Francisco.
Here's the irony. While David Brooks and his oh-so-refined fellow skeptics have been parsing the gaps in her state department jargon, Sarah Palin has been undergoing a metaphorical gang rape by the colleagues (of both sexes) they sup with in the Capitol's finest restaurants. Yet she's still here. When asked, she stepped up to the challenge of running the gauntlet any Republican VP pick would have had to run this year. In response, the "liberals" and the feminists have invaded her life and her person to a degree that should be repellent to every American citizen. The SNL skit aside, the sexist innuendoes about Hillary pale in comparison to what has been done to Sarah Palin. Any day now, I expect Chris Olbermann to solemnly demand a live, televised internal exam of Sarah Palin so that we can all be assured that she is indeed a woman and not a white supremacist militia conspirator in drag. "If she won't put her feet in the stirrups, what is she trying to hide? Let's all look inside her vagina so we can decide for ourselves." The New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and, of course, The Philadelphia Enquirer (not a typo) will consider it a reasonable request. Speaking of pigs who try to disguise themselves with lipstick...
But she's still here. Still smiling and doing her job in support of the ticket. This woman has more guts than any single other person you have ever met. And what is the biggest challenge of being President of the United States? Withstanding all the pressure, polls, abuse, and libel you receive while you make decisions that affect the well being of everyone in the world. Making the decisions honestly requires good information from your flunkies and common sense. The hard part is finding someone who can make right decisions that are unpopular. Sarah Palin has already passed that test. Bring on Putin, Ahdumjihad, and Kim Il Dong. She'll make mincemeat of them.
I always thought this movie, and this scene, were ridiculous.
I've changed my mind. I wish I had even half the courage Sarah Palin has already shown America. David Brooks and Ross Douthat are pussies. Meaning no disrespect to Mrs. Palin (to whom I apologize for the bad language). Now, can we get on with the election? You know the one. John "They broke my arms and all my teeth" McCain versus Barack "I'm so nervous without a teleprompter" Obama.
UPDATE. In a startlingly immediate fulfillment of prophecy, New York comedienne Sandra Bernhard has added the explicit threat of gang rape to the left's bombardment of Sarah Palin. She avers that Mrs. Palin should stay out of New York City unless she wants to be gang-raped by Berhnard's black "brothers." A funny joke? Here's an event just referenced by Rush Limbaugh which explains what constitutes humor In Bernhard's set. No pictures. Just words. Still NSFW.
