Gerald Warner has a good post on the American election thingy that we are all dutifully trying to keep up with:
Democrat attacks on Sarah Palin have backfiredThe squalor of the Democrat muck-raking has seriously annoyed a lot of women who do not share many of the candidate's views but recognise that the points of vulnerability where she has been attacked were precisely those arising from her role as wife and mother.
Pregnant teenage daughter? There is not a hockey mom in America who does not empathise, with the private thought "There but for the grace of God"... So, her son-in-law-to-be was caught fishing for salmon out of season - that is pure Huckleberry Finn.
Some American women are beginning to recognise that the Democrats talk a good game about shattering glass ceilings - provided the beneficiary is a liberal feminist who has bitched her way to the top; but if an average American wife and mother presumes to come out from behind the white picket fence she will be put down with ruthless calculation. Some ladies are getting quite upset about that.
There's also a good article in the Times "
Sarah Palin: it's go west, towards the future of conservatism" (H/T
Standing on My Head). Here is an extract:
“What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”
“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let's be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.
“The other kills her own food.”
Now we know, thanks to her triumphant debut at the Republican convention on Wednesday, that Mrs Palin not only slaughters her prey. She impales its head on a stick and parades it around for her followers to jeer at. For half an hour she eviscerated Mr Obama in that hall and did it all without dropping her sweet schoolmarm smile, as if she were handing out chocolates at the end of a history lesson.
I have just read
Mac's blog and I think she put it very well:
I would much rather vote for a pro-life non-Catholic than for someone who professed to be Catholic and then ignored the main tenets of the Faith...
Gerald Warner has a good post on the American election thingy that we are all dutifully trying to keep up with: Democrat attacks on Sarah Palin have backfired
12 comments:
Small thing Father, but that picture does not show Sarah Palin.
Yahoo. Jesus. Guns. Babies. Works for us. Much to like about a woman who can kill her own food and the political opposition in one fell swoop. The dims. going after her pregnant daughter are something else. Quick. Stop the presses. No teenage daughter has ever gotten pregnant before! These people walk the walk. Retarded baby boy? He's a blessing not a "hard choice."
Can't wait for her to tell Harry Reid, the demo senate majority leader, to "shut up and sit down, you're out of order." I don't know if she'll have to pull the Cheney card, but it might get intereting.
Francis - oops, yes you're right. I took it from google images but didn't realise it was a "lookalike" article :-)
Got a proper picture of Sarah Palin up there now. Thanks for the correction.
Of course I don't have a vote in America but their politics do so impact on all of us that we cannot avoid having an interest, to say the least.
I agree whole heartedly that I would much rather have a non-catholic pro-lifer than one who professes Catholicism but should be excommunicated.
Of far less concern to all of you, but of real concern to me; we are having a State Election here in Western Australia, today. We have wall to wall Labor (yes, that's the spelling) Governments both at State and Federal levels all round Australia. I. and many like me, are hoping to break this today. At the last election a small party called The Christian Democratic Party tried to make an impact. They are so disappointed that Catholics do not support them in any numbers. We,yes, I'm a supporter of them, came within 200 votes of winning an Upper House seat. That seat went to the Greens who are the worst Party there is. They support abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriages and prostitution (with Green support a Bill went through our State Parliament allowing any two women to set up brothels anywhere they like in the State). The best we can hope for at this election is an overturning of the Labor government and a seat in the upper House for the Christian Democrats.
I have been praying for this ever since the election was called three weeks ago.
JARay
Fr Finigan,
I am a devotee of your blog - but feel you are on shaky ground when even tentatively expressing support for one political party over another.
The 'Rev' Hargreaves stuff was a case in point - I think you have a tendency to sacrifice your usual sober discrimation when it comes to politicians who, at face value, seem to endorse a Catholic viewpoint...
Its all a charade - stick to the magisterium!
Writing from the United States, it has been an electrifying week here.
Just ten days ago Senator McCain seemed to be running rather a low key campaign. Then he suddenly announced Gov. Sarah Palin as his choice of vice-president nominee the day after Senator Obama's acceptance speech. It is hard to convey the sense of shock and enthusiasm (or horror for some) across the nation, but the media have been in a frenzy ever since.
Whatever else Senator McCain learned from being a prisoner of the Communists in North Vietnam - he certainly knows the art of waiting.
DJ - I do try to keep off party politics. Here I am (tentatively, as you say) expressing support for a pro-life politician. I don't much care what party she belongs to.
Although "dj" is concerned about not voicing opinion about political parties he/she ought to be aware that politics impinges upon all of us. How we live our lives. What we are free to do. What we can think. What we can hope for. What freedoms we have.
If "dj" had a brothel set up next door what would he/she do? What if he/she is presented with a "living wills" contract" which if not carefully signed would result in him/she being subjected to involuntary euthanasia? Such is the case here! Does "dj" not care about the sanctity of marriage? If not, then any Tom, Dick or Harry can claim to be married and claim the right to in-vitro fertilisation in order to become pregnant.
Today, I challenged a "Green" supporter as to why he supported the "Greens". I told him that I could never support them because their actions in the last Parliament had given us:-
1)Voluntary euthanasia
2) Same sex marriages.
3) Anyone setting up a brothel next door.
4) Abotion on demand.
He opposed all these ideas.
He said that he had been raped as a child!
Yet, he thought that the Greens were tree hugging lovelies!
What silly b**gers there are in the community out there!
And their vote is equal to mine!
One dispairs!
But the good news is that "Labor" seems to have lost this election!
Thank you Our Lady!
JARay
It is, perhaps, worth pointing out that Governor Palin was baptized in the Catholic Church. Her parents stopped taking her to church as a child and as an adult she joined a Pentecostal church. So, she is a fallen-away Catholic. Isn't there something in the basic tenets of the faith about maintaining the unity of the Church and not leaving it by a formal act? Disobedience to the Church occurs in many ways, not just on the so-called "social issues" involving the sanctity of life.
Since so much in this campaign seems to revolve around having the good judgement to make good decisions then what are we to make of someone who is raised in a family that leaves the Church out of laziness and then embraces heresy?
I was a bit disappointed she was so cavalier referring to the Guantanamo torture business. That rather rankled. Other than that, I enjoyed her speech immensely. Imagine, Ratzinger for Pope, Palin for VP, ... who shall we have for PM?
It is hardly Governor Palin's fault that as a child of just 12 years old her parents began attending another church. We don't know very much about her early religious education or even if she was catechized at all. This has more to do with her parents than it does Gov. Palin.
That said, she puts the pro-choice Catholic politicians to shame.
There are other issues in the election. It does not matter what the VP thinks about abortionas even the president cannot alstr policy on the matter. She is saccharine, ignorant; she is an anti Catholic fundamentalist. Obama is closer to the teachings of the RC church re regarding social issues & I'm no lefty; I'm a card carrying Tory! Nobody wants abortion made illegal & it is dishonest to claim it ever will be. If abortion is wrong- & I believe it is- we work by persuasion.
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