Hating Palin
It’s about Trig. Always has been.
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Attacks on Trig and her children are the reason she is getting out (I suspect) although I think the left hates her for a number of reasons well beyond Trig.
Mark Steyn, spot on.
The Campaign Spot
Of course, some are immune to that by not having kids. Too bad beagles can’t be slandered. They do not care. They eat their own poop you know. Some of their owners should too (they already roll around in it and throw it at people that threaten them).
Tina Fey did more than Andrew Sullivan ever did to make Sara Palin a laughingstock. Palin’s problem isn’t that people hate her – it’s that they can’t take her seriously.
PDS (as Michelle Malkin puts it) has been replaced by POS (Palin Obsession Syndrome), only this time it’s the Right that’s obsessed. I get it, first Sanford falls from grace and now soon-to-be-ex-Gov Palin has decided to quit. Your poster children are disappearing at an alarming rate, so you’re going to do your best to keep soon-to-be-ex-Gov Palin in the news.
“…There is something about a Down syndrome child in plain view which has exposed the moral and emotional bankruptcy of the left-wing of the Democratic party…”
Self-loathing is the pathology behind the democratic left, and they know it.
Ridiculous. The only people that care about Trig are the right. In particular, pro-lifers have made Trig into a relic speaking to Sarah’s [sic] saintliness.
I still can’t help but think what the left hates most about Palin is her decency, her ability to think independently.
They relentlessly attacked her son, Trig, because frankly, the Left preys on the weak as most predators do. And what better tactic can they use against her than her own motherly instinct– to protect her children.
Who on “the left” attacked Trig or mocked him for his disability? Can you provide any support for that other than the inevitable anonymous blog commenters? Andrew Sullivan’s obsession w/ his origins was bizarre, but it was at most an attack on Palin and her daughter, not on the baby. I have to say the new meme among Palin-defenders that there was some kind of broad based assault on Trig really seems to border on an outright fabrication.
The idea that people don’t like Sarah because she is too smart, too beatiful, and loves her family too much is something, but it isn’t reality.
Jay, don’t even try peddling that garbage here, man.
No one has ever said she’s a saint–but of course, recognizing and admiring a person’s decency would seem so to a leftist.
For a leftist to speak of reality is, in and of itself, unreal.
Badger, how appropriate a name.
Andrew Sullivan’s behavior should not be surprising. For once one makes the judgment that Trig is mentally retarded it implies that there is a rightly ordered mind that Trig lacks. But this lack, ultimately, has no bearing on Trig’s intrinsic dignity. So, here is Sullivan faced with Christian charity: one is a child of God and ought to be treated as such regardless of one’s abilities, trials, or difficulties. But Sullivan believes that such difficulties may be avoided by destroying the child before it exits the womb, and he also believes that judgments of what counts as a rightly-ordered person are “hateful” and “mean.” So, he is trapped in an appalling loop of moral incoherence: it is wrong to judge a person as disordered, except when it is small and its destruction benefits you.
Thus, Sullivan would be confused on how properly to react if he met a retarded gay man: love him or loathe his existence.
rufus– Does that mean the answer to my question is “no”?
That means you need to get out more, Jay. Go have a few beers, man, and celebrate your independence–if you still any left (no pun intended).
I like Mark’s “I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I?” response. He makes Paul’s point so well.
On the flip side of Sullivan and MoDo’s schadenfreud, Ace laments the backlash on conservatives who think Palin made a bad move:
And I do think I am taking off the week. You guys only seem to want to talk about sarah palin and furthermore you only want to hear the same thing — she’s running, this is a great move, she’s now perfectly poised for the race, etc.
It’s nonsense. And I hardly need to blog about it, because you all seem to know the words to the song. So you don’t need me as part of the chorus. You can sing the same words well enough without me.
I am really tired of this relentless nonsense and occasional nastiness whenever someone is believed to have departed from the conservativey correct line.
And Francis,
I do not believe Sullivan has any animus towards Down Syndrome children per se. I assume he is ambivalent to children in general.
Sullivan’s Trig Trutherism is driven by animus to Sarah Palin. There is something about Palin that drives him mad with frenzy. Trig is just in the way.
…peddling that garbage here…
That, um, garbage is, well, bipartisan:
“Sarah Palin’s resignation is an appalling dereliction of duty and a highly cynical move to set herself up for a presidental run for which she is manifestly unqualified…”
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/07/03/palins-dereliction-of-duty