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September 4, 2008

'Community Organizer' Plans To Vote For 'Sarah Palin As Vice President'

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Over at First Things, Suann Therese Maier, "a community organizer" turned teacher says she will be voting for Sarah Palin (I didn't know there was actually such a thing except under Obama/Ayers/Saul Alinsky-type programs - and interestingly Suann references Alinsky):

[...] I remember my father, a successful young Chicago attorney, telling me why the Democratic party was the party of "our people," and why so many Catholics were Democrats, and why the party stood for the little guy, the poor and the defenseless. I remember listening as a young girl in our kitchen as Saul Alinsky organized my parents' Catholic friends on racial and economic issues in our Chicago living room.

[...] As a woman, mother, wife, and lifetime professional educator, I will vote, enthusiastically, for Sarah Palin as vice president this November. Even if the media pressure forces her from the ticket, I will vote against the Democratic party--partly because I respect John McCain and believe him to be the better candidate, but equally because I'm tired of the intransigence and condescension of the Democratic leadership on the abortion issue.

I will vote for Sarah Palin because I don't need the Democratic platform's belated affirmation of motherhood. Thanks, but I already know that motherhood is good, several times over. Moreover, the party's rediscovery of motherhood seems rather cynical in the current news cycle, while Democratic-friendly bloggers and media types bash Palin about her daughter's pregnancy and her own busy schedule while bringing up children. How can a real sympathy for motherhood come from the same people who wrote a platform that hardens the party's addiction to a phony right to kill the unborn?

I will vote for Sarah Palin because she has guts. We've never met, but I suspect I know something about her life, and so do a great many other women. I know what it means to have a son with Down syndrome. I know what it means to talk a good line about religious faith and then be asked to prove it. I know what it means to have a daughter pregnant and unmarried.

[...] I also know what it means to have two grandchildren born out of wedlock, a son struggling with alcohol, two grandchildren with serious disabilities, putting myself through graduate school while simultaneously caring for a husband and children and teaching full time--and a whole lot more. This is the stuff of real human love; this is the raw material of family life.

[...] I will vote for Sarah Palin because she is intelligent, tenacious and talented. Nobody made her rise easy, and no one is making it easy now. And--is it only moms who notice this?--unlike Senator Biden, she does seem to act consistently on her beliefs about the sanctity of life, at considerable personal cost.

I will vote for Sarah Palin because she doesn't come from Washington or New York or Chicago or anywhere else the political and media aristoi like to hang out. In fact, I especially like the idea that the state she governs actually produces something--like some of the oil that powers the hair dryers and klieg lights at MSNBC.

[...] I will vote for Sarah Palin, not because I've left the Democratic party of my youth and young adulthood, but because that party has left me. In fact, it no longer exists. And no amount of elegant speaking, exciting choreography, and moral alibis will bring it back.

By all means, do take the time to read it all ...

Given Ms Maier's obvious respect for life and common sense, I can't help but wonder why she remained in the Democratic Party as long as she did and if there are many others like her that share her sentiment that the Democratic Party is no longer what it once represented for her - before "it left her."

HT - The Lone Star Times

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