Sarah, Palin and Tall

Sarah Palin can boast of one astounding yet none-too-surprising accomplishment- turning liberal armchair pundits into astoundingly prudish hypocritical snobs. Sure, her vocation of being a mother of five uniquely named children, particularly one with special-needs (hats off to everyone with a special-needs child), is remarkable but no one cares about that these days. Her brief tenure as governor of Alaska (being a small-town mayor before that) has shown she has necessary administrative skills but Alaska is just a freak state- or an extension of Canada (depending on where you live). However, her ability to galvanize the Republican Party and have heaping amounts of scorn from obviously desperate leftists is her crowning achievement.

Sarah Palin is happy. She has been married to the same man for twenty-four years and has five children of whom she is proud. She supports her oldest daughter during her pregnancy, having said before abortion is “an atrocity”. She has been an achiever in her youth and has, in her words, “shaken up” things. Now Governor Palin will have the monumental task of being the second-most powerful person on the planet and the most powerful person in her household. Feminists hate her. How could she be married? How could she have children, especially a disabled one? How can she balance a career and family? Isn’t this the twenty-first century? Indeed. Perhaps the world has awakened to the fact that feminism, like communism, is a colossal failure. Women can’t have it all (don’t worry- neither can men). However much has changed, some things remain the same. Feminism- in all its work, work, work and no-baby glory- doesn't cut it for women these days. Women are rejecting tenets of radical feminism in favour of other ideals. Most women prefer staying at home. Women can raise their children to be smart, respectful, self-sufficient beings without relying on day-care which some studies suggest is detrimental. Women do see abortion as a moral quagmire and not as something “liberating”. Western societies have lived with single mothers for decades so why Democrats gasp at Bristol Palin’s situation is beyond imagination. How Victorian of them! Perhaps it is a matter best left alone as no one is voting for Bristol, anyway, but her mother. To top it all of, she. Looks. Awesome. She does. It’s shallow and unrelated to whether or not she can balance a budget but to catty women (be honest- women are catty) but feminists hate when a woman can look her best.

And there are other reasons why Governor Palin is an “atrocious” choice of vice-president. Her being Christian and pro-life (a double threat if you live in the cowardly political climate of Canada), being a hunter, being a woman. The list goes on. Smart fact checking has punched holes in the most recent controversies but like the anecdotal woman with a bag of feathers, it’s hard to contain the claptrap that spreads through the nerve endings of the Internet. Being Christian in a largely secular society and having pro-life views in a world that is disgusted with things like eugenic and sex-selective abortion but accepts it anyway is something some would rather not acknowledge but live with. She increased funding for special-needs students, not decreased it. The people of the twenty-first century might be out-of-touch with their hunter-and-gather roots but huge segments of the world’s population, including in the US and Canada, still live that way (Premier Paul Okalik enjoys fishing and hunting. I doubt someone will raise issue with that, unless they also hate his golfing). So what? Hunting an animal is not as barbaric as hunting Afghan schoolgirls. One of Sarah Palin’s first acts as governor was to build a natural gas pipeline that Alaskans had clamouring over for years. She can make good on a promise. She has promised to drill off-shore and use alternative forms of energy. Whether these plans will be feasible I cannot say for sure but if drilling off-shore decreases domestic reliance on foreign oil AND cheeses off the House of Saud, I say good. Sarah Palin has come under fire for allegedly banning books in the town in which she was mayor. What had happened was this: she asked a librarian if she was comfortable banning certain books. Nothing was banned or burned. I can say from my experience working in libraries that a book may not be included in a collection for any number of reasons. There are rumours of Sarah Palin being someone’s real mother or not, just some disgusting insinuations that are not worth going into.

That Sarah Palin has to suffer indignities that a male politician or radical feminist would not go through is a testament to the double standards present in North American politics. Had Sarah Palin been pro-abortion and secular, would anyone say the utterly misogynist things they’ve been saying about her? I think not. Liberals must make sense of a world that is complex, raw and often black and white. Established norms of right and wrong can’t apply. It’s childish but that’s the prevailing attitude of liberalism. Moral relativism is just one example of liberal stupidity. Wife-beating is wrong in a WASP neighbourhood but Sharia law, in all its tribal cruelty, is acceptable. Race is irrelevant but is brought up constantly. One’s black friend precludes one from being racist, no matter how one might justify soul-crushing treatment of “those yellow people” who apparently don’t mind working for $1.27 CDN a day. The pro-life ethic is especially telling of one’s attitudes towards everything from women’s rights to race to the environment, even though there is not one iota of proof to suggest that accepting life from conception to natural death equals antiquated notions of hatred. Conservatives are greedy and heartless while liberals are giving. There are no numbers to suggest that. It’s just something said when facts don’t conform to the theories. Whatever. In the end, it all shows how racist, chauvinistic, hypocritical, and ill-informed liberals can be.

And the fact that they are attacking Sarah Palin shows that they are desperate.