One of Them and One of Us
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Tuesday, September 9, 2008

One wonders: What did Sarah Palin ever do to inspire the rage and
bile that exploded on her selection by John McCain? What is there
either in this woman's record or resume to elicit such feline
ferocity?

What did we know of her when she was introduced?

That she was a mother of five who had brought into this world a
baby boy with Down syndrome, thus living her Christian beliefs.
That she was a small-town conservative who had risen from mayor of
Wasilla (Pop. 9,700) to be governor of a state twice the size of
Texas.

That she was a reformer who had dethroned an Old Boys' Network by
dumping a sitting Republican governor. That she had taken on Big
Oil, taxed the companies and returned the money in $1,200 checks to
every citizen of Alaska. And that she had cut a deal with Canada to
build a pipeline to bring natural gas to her fellow Americans.

And, oh, yes. She was "Sarah Barracuda" -- a fierce high school
athlete, a runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant, a Feminist for
Life and lifetime member of the NRA. Introduced by McCain, she
praised Hillary Clinton and pledged to finish her work by smashing
through the glass ceiling in which Hillary had made 18 million
cracks.

What, in any or all of this, is there to justify the feral attacks
within minutes of her introduction? What had she done to cause this
outburst? Answer: absolutely nothing.

No. Sarah Palin is not resented for what she has done, but for who
she is: a Christian conservative who believes unborn children are
gifts of God, even those with birth defects, and have a God-given
right to life.

Normally, the press is reluctant to rummage into the private lives
of public servants, unless their conduct affects their duties or
they preach virtues they hypocritically do not practice.

Yet, no sooner was Palin introduced, than the media went berserk
over the news that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. As one in
three births in America is out-of-wedlock and Hollywood celebrates
this lifestyle, why did The New York Times and The Washington Post
splash this "news" on page one above the fold?

How does Bristol Palin's pregnancy disqualify Sarah Palin to be
vice president? Why is it even relevant?

They did it because they thought it would damage Sarah Palin in the
eyes of a Christian community they do not comprehend.

So out of bounds was the media that Obama, in an act of decency,
declared Palin's family off limits and reminded the media that he
was himself born to a teenage single mom.

If one would wish to see the famous liberal double standard on
naked display, consider.

Palin's daughter was fair game for a media that refused to look
into reports that John Edwards, a Democratic candidate for
president, was conducting an illicit affair with a woman said to be
carrying his child and cheating on his faithful wife Elizabeth, who
has incurable cancer. That was not a legitimate story, but Bristol
Palin's pregnancy is?

Why did the selection of Sarah Palin cause a suspension of all
standards and a near riot among a media that has been so in the
tank for Barack even "Saturday Night Live" has satirized the
infatuation?

Because she is one of us -- and he is one of them.

Barack and Michelle are affirmative action, Princeton, Columbia,
Harvard Law. She is public schools and Idaho State. Barack was a
Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah Palin
kills her own food.

Michelle has a $300,000-a-year sinecure doing PR for a Chicago
hospital. Todd Palin is a union steelworker who augments his income
working vacations on the North Slope. Sarah has always been proud
to be an American. Michelle was never proud of America -- until
Barack started winning.

Barack has zero experience as an executive. Sarah ran her own
fishing fleet, was mayor for six years and runs the largest state
in the union. She belongs to a mainstream Christian church. Barack
was, for 15 years, a parishioner at Trinity United and had his
daughters baptized by Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons are
saturated in black-power, anti-white racism and anti-Americanism.

Sarah is a rebel. Obama has been a go-along, get-along cog in the
Daley Machine. She is Middle America. Barack, behind closed doors
in San Francisco, mocked Middle Americans as folks left behind by
the global economy who cling bitterly to their Bibles, bigotries
and guns.

Barack has zero foreign policy experience. Palin runs a state that
is home to anti-missile, missile and air defense bases facing the
Far East, commands the Alaska National Guard and has a soldier-son
heading for Iraq.

Barack, says the National Journal, has the most left-wing voting
record in the Senate, besting Socialist Bernie Sanders. Palin's
stances read as though they were lifted from Reagan's 1980 "no pale
pastels" platform. And this is what this media firestorm is all
about.

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