Imagine that Chelsea Clinton got pregnant and someone suggested that Senator Hillary Clinton was disqualified to run for President because she had an unmarried, pregnant daughter. Preposterous, right. But the blind rage of the Left makes that argument unabashedly, and idiotically, against Governor Palin. It’s insulting to working women everywhere. Should all women quit their jobs if their daughters get pregnant? That’s what the Left and its media commentators are saying, apparently unconcerned for their runaway hypocrisy. It’s insulting to all women, liberal as well as conservative, and dangerously lunatic. Who can trust these people to think rationally on any controversial social or political issue?
The fear that Governor Palin will be the first female vice-president, and in four or eight years the first woman to run for President entirely on her own merits, has the Left in the grip of the terrors of their worst nightmare. They said that they wanted women to have real choices, but they meant that they wanted their women in power, not all women empowered. Too late. The Left believed their own propaganda, that Conservatives only wanted women who were barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. They failed to see the coming of Governor Palin and the competent women of the right because they did not believe that conservative men and women were ready and willing to nominate a women for one of the highest office in the nation. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,” is how the Bible (Romans 1) describes such people.
