Republican Feminism

No, it's not a new thing. It's very old. Been around forever, in fact. So has the Dem feminism that's been straddling the barstool for the past four decades. You know, that shrill hostility to and replacement of masculinity. Deminism ... Femocrats ... yes, the Femocrats always play a zero sum game: someone wins, someone loses. Either men are in charge, or women. Same with taxes. They don't get that wealth should be created. They think it should be taken, and redistributed. A golden goose thing, both short-sighted and envious. Rather contemptible, actually. Isn't it odd, that the Right, that is so into winning and losing, understands so much better about balance? Games are for winning. Elections are for winning. Wars are for winning. Relationships are for sharing, not owning. Government is for opening doors, not dominating. How strange, that they don't see this.

So with Sarah. She's what Republican feminism is all about. Y'see, she's feminine. Not a castrated male. She understands her own biology, and its role. She sees that there is a responsibility higher than to her community, or to the planet, or to any other abstraction. She understands that her highest human responsibility, as with a man, is to her family.

And the attacks keep coming. Some of them are just insane. Bill Mahr, a uniquely dislikable character (I always expect to see drool sliding down his chin), is apparently saying Sarah's baby is not her own. What exclamation of disgust best applies here? And I heard on the radio that maybe Sarah isn't the governor we thought she was. She's borrowed a lot of money for Alaska, reportedly. Seems unlikely, given the oil revenues. If it's true, could it be borrowed money that is actually going to increase revenues later? Like for a pipeline or somesuch? I don't know. I do doubt that it would be for wasteful social programs. In any case it seems unlikely, given that she's refunded to each tax payer something over a thousand dollars of extra revenue. Pay bill first, before you give money away. I think she knows that.

But so it goes. I really don't think I've ever seen so much mud slung, so fast. It's the speed of the thing. Like one of those harbor fireboats, just spraying out huge jets of water. Only it's mud, aimed at Sarah. Well, we'll call it mud. The Left is having explosive diarrhoea, and hasn't the sense of decency to have it privately. Like that horrifying creature on the MTV awards last night, "Russel Brand," who launched into an attack on Bush. I coincidentally happened to see it, flipping channels. Turned it off after about thirty seconds -- I warn you, what's offensive isn't the vulgarity, but the rank unfunniness, the amateurishness of it. Yes, he actually does know something about himself. Unqualified. Point is, the Left.

As I've said, we can't put our faith in people. I'm sure Sarah's not the white female version of Obama -- a political messiah, regardless of the evidence. The Prince to Come. I suppose that some real problems about her may come to light. Will she cease to be the same person she is now? Or are our perceptions actually illusions, and our hopes just fantasies? I see it as a matter of practicality. We compromised on McCain. We'll compromise with Sarah. Because we find fault even with our wives or husbands, whom we have chosen into our family. It should surprise us that a stranger has flaws?

We like her not because she's perfect. She's not. She seems to have many admirable qualities, and she says the things we like to hear, and seems to believe them and live them. But because her beliefs are strong, she can be attacked. Obama seems, or seemed, to be many things too. But he seems not to have any powerful beliefs. That makes it hard to attack him. He can just start saying slightly different things, you see. Bobbing and weaving. Pivoting. Any sports analogy you want.

One last thing. They're attacking her because of her religion. Assemblies of God -- a charismatic, Pentecostal sect. I suppose I am religiously sort of charismatic. It does creep me out a bit when I hear people speaking in "tongues". It's just that thing about in good order, in closed assembly, with interpretation. You know, biblical. And it would help if what was interpreted was meaningful in some way -- you know, like actual prophecy or something. My point is that she has a right to her faith.

No, that wasn't my point. My point was that not one single reporter or commentator who is blasting Sarah for her church blasted Obama, for his racist church, or its bizarre "Black Liberation Theology." Assemblies of God has the benefit of having a basis in the Bible. BLT is based in racism. But we should have seen it by now. The Left is an expression of racism and bigotry. Indeed, it's the only widespread expression of public bigotry left, in the Western world.


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