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Democrats show hypocrisy by attacking governor’s family

Well, well, well. Guess who’s suddenly become the staunch defender of family values in the United States?

Is it A) the media, B) the small-l-liberals, C) the Democrats or D) All of the above. Correct Answer: D.

And it’s all because of a 17year-old pregnant teen named Bristol Palin. May she one day enter the history books as the one who exposed the hypocrisy of the left, even as they attempted to use her to expose the “hypocrisy” of the right.

Bristol is, of course, the now infamous daughter of Alaskan governor and Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin, who’s in turn creating waves of both enthusiasm and shock as Americans learn that she is a married mother of five, pro-gun, pro-drilling, pro-tax cuts and, scariest of all, pro-life.

That last ideal led her to give birth to her youngest child, despite knowing during pregnancy that he suffered from Down syndrome.

Americans were likely even more confused when a speaker at this week’s convention essentially referred to her as the only nominee in history who can shoot and gut a moose in the field.

No wonder the media, liberals and Democrats were confounded and frightened. This is a woman who was willing to kill a harmless animal, yet give life to a disabled child. It’s the antithesis of the liberal notion that women should kill inconvenient children, yet take every extreme and costly measure to save wild animals.

Although the governor was virtually unknown just one week ago, keen media investigations since then have made sure that Americans know every detail of her life. It only took 48 hours for the media to report the ridiculous notion that Palin was not the mother of her four-month old baby; she was the grandmother and the baby belonged to Bristol. It sounded like election gold until an intensive search of media photographs and the changing status of her “pregnancy bump” ruled that to be impossible.

So the Republicans decided to give the media the dirt they were looking for — Palin’s daughter Bristol was five months pregnant. She was planning to have the child and would marry the teenage father next year.

That’s what prompted the media and the Democrats to wave the banner of family values. Not because a wave of conservatism and tradition suddenly swept across America, but because the situation obviously meant that Palin was a family-values hypocrite for allowing her daughter to get pregnant and leaving her family (with a pregnant teen and a special-needs newborn) during its time of need.

Hence, we now have this bizarre situation: Liberal Americans who defend marriage (when it involves gay rights), promote sexual freedom for the young and old (within and outside of marriage) and tell women that the real road to fulfillment is working outside the home (while assuring them the kids will be fine in a day care) are claiming that Palin is making a mockery of family values because her daughter is pregnant and she has left the kitchen to pursue the White House while her husband cares for the kids.

Now who’s promoting the old-fashioned notion of family presented on Leave it to Beaver or Father Knows Best? And who’s the real hypocrite?

There’s no deficit of family values in Sarah Palin’s family. The parents have chosen to stand by, love and support their pregnant daughter who made a mistake. There’s been no hush-hush trip to the abortion clinic. Palin and her family are clearly dedicated to loving and caring for a disabled child that will likely require lifelong care.

One of the best moments of Palin’s acceptance speech was a quick shot of her seven-year-old daughter, Piper, holding Trig, the baby. Piper was the perfect older sister when she licked her hand and then smoothed the silky hair on her newborn brother’s head. I think Trig will be fine.

Just because Palin’s family hasn’t lived up to the ideal of the perfect family doesn’t mean that she should stop believing in, or striving for, that ideal. It doesn’t mean the ideal is wrong or disproven. It only means she and her family are human and, like all of us, sometimes fail to reach our ideals. At some point, we all fail to reach our moral goals of being a good wife, or good husband or good father. Or, in Bristol’s case, a good daughter.

That’s the real difference between those who believe in family values and those who merely claim to believe in them when it’s politically convenient. The former says let’s always strive for the best for our family and our children; the latter says we’re all going to fail anyway, so why bother trying (e.g. “kids are going to have sex anyway, so let’s give them condoms”).

The good news in this is that Democrat insiders apparently claim the attacks on Palin’s family are inappropriate, and have asked the media to put candidate’s families off limits. Of course, it could just be Democrats now realize that attacking a 17-year-old pregnant girl doesn’t make for good press.

As their leader Bill Clinton would undoubtedly tell them, ITBS. “It’s the bullying, stupid.”

Susan Martinuk
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