Delicious reading...Republicans starting to splinter

[Neecy]

Seems the Country Club pukes are starting to steam over the Palin debacle - they must be freaking over the potential loss of their massive tax cuts:

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Focus on the Family has issued a statement expressing their complete support for the Palin family regarding Bristol Palin's pregnancy and her upcoming marriage to the father, as quoted at the Corner. But of course the issue is not Bristol's unmarried pregnancy and how the family is dealing with it--the same situation has happened a billion times before and will happen a billion times again. The issue is whether McCain should have chosen as his vice presidential running mate--and thus required the Republican party to approve that choice--a woman who has all these issues going on in her family. The issue is that McCain chose her and announced her selection, thus getting all the Republicans lined up behind her, with full knowledge that shortly after he announced her selection, there would be the further announcement that her unmarried daughter was pregnant. The McCain campaign itself told Fox News that McCain knew about the situation when he selected her. What kind of conduct is that by the leader of a party? Is this really what we want to be dealing with in the middle of a presidential campaign? Are conservatives now to raise as their co-leader and new icon a career mother whose unmarried pregnant teenage daughter is getting married while the mother is running for vice president? McCain has put the conservative base in a position where it has to bend itself out of shape to maintain its support for the Republican ticket.

McCain has been lauded for his brilliant stroke against the Democrats in choosing Palin. But it appears that McCain's truly brilliant stroke in choosing Palin has been against Republicans and conservatives. Which is no surprise, since, as we all know, sticking it to conservatives and defeating conservatism is McCain's main goal in life, something he cares about, I suspect, even more than being president.

Update: But, no surprise, I am way out of step with the conservative base. They don't have to bend themselves out of shape at all. Read the reactions at Lucianne.com. It's an endless string of encomia for the wonderfulness of life and the fact that life is often messy and that many of us started out as the children of unwed teenage mothers and that the Palins are just so "real." That's what conservatism now stands for--getting "real" people with their "real" issues into the White House. Talk about the Obrah-ization of conservatism!

Or, rather, the McCainization of conservatism. Which is why I have opposed his candidacy from the start and still do.

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011313.html

[populistdriven]

1. I agree they are all acting as dumb as actors in a reality TV show nt

[Iris]

2. interesting reading. I didn't know the liberal alternative to shotgun weddings is abortion.

wow. talk about black and white.

[shey1218]

3. also read here...same author- calls for palin withdrawal

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011320.html