Hitchens on Palin and the Democrats:
I could well be wrong, but I think something similar is involved in the attempt to paint the Palin family as if it were Arkansas on ice or Tobacco Road with igloos and Inuit. Very well, she possibly has had her Troopergate and even trailer-park moments. But whom exactly did the Democrats drown in moist applause, for two nights running, in Denver? The most dysfunctional family ever to occupy not the vice-presidential mansion but the executive one. It’s hard to imagine that there will be any more unwanted pregnancies or shotgun weddings when or if the Palins move to the Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue, whereas with the Clintons, the very thing that made all Bill’s friends turn white and pee green was that they made him the president, and he still wouldn’t stop. For me, it is astonishing that the Democrats have been babbling all week as if this point isn’t just waiting—indeed begging—to be made in riposte to their “opposition research.”
This is a point I would have made last week at the RNC, only my laptop didn’t survive the trip up north. But it does bear repeating: There is not one single element of the orchestrated attacks on Palin which doesn’t positively reek of hypocrisy.
It’s a scandal when a 17-year-girl gets in trouble — but keeps the baby and gets set to marry the boy?
A mom with kids can’t hold down a job with real responsibility?
A vice presidential candidate of one party needs more executive experience (which she has got anyway) than the presidential candidate of the other party?
Right to choose doesn’t include the option to keep?
And so it goes.
This last week has revealed that the hardcore Democrats on the left — and the East Coast punditry on the left and right (I’m looking at you, Krauthammer and Noonan) believe in one thing and one thing only: Grabbing and maintaining power by whatever means necessary.
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