I will never buy another US magazine as long as I live.  (Okay, not that I buy more than 1 every five years anyway.)

I know this isn't a political blog, and I am not extremely intelligent in the world of politics, nor generally taken with politics, but I'm pretty fired up about this election year now...

This morning, I am truly jaw-dropped and horrified by the way liberal women and the media are placing judgment on Sarah Palin and trying to paint something moral as something scandalous.  To paint her as a Jerry Springer guest, and refer to her daughter's fiance as her "baby daddy" as I've read online, is nothing short of the voice of Evil, outright lies and a twist of the truth.  (And to think these are likely the same leftists who dismissed the Clinton sex scandal as "his personal business.")  But that's assumption, on my part.  You would think the left, at the very least, would acknowledge this selection as a milestone, rather than act out against her simply because it caught them off guard.  They just can't stand that Republicans could be the first to put a woman in the White House.  Their blatant agenda-driven sexism and hypocrisy is just too much to stomach.  The Elite Feminists don't care about women.  They care about women who agree with their agenda.  Those are the only women they want in power.   

And Sarah Palin?  Sarah Palin IS pro-women and pro-choice.  She CHOSE to have a down-syndrome child, she CHOSE to have 5 children, she CHOSE to work while raising children.  But she's also pro-life, because she CHOOSES to oppose the killing of the unborn.  To paint her as criminal because her daughter is pregnant and CHOOSING life, also, is just outrageous, and those doing so should be ASHAMED.  If Bristol had chosen abortion they would be delighted- and scorning Sarah all the more- BUT Bristol would have their support and approval instead of being labeled and demeaned.  Because she chose life, and it makes such a statement, they are painting her as a tramp?  Yeah... that makes sense?

And let's talk about abortion in all its forms for a minute, shall we?  While I'm on my soap box?  I was telling Evan it is an important time for our country because we are selecting the next president of the United States.  I told him who was running and tried to explain in his terms what they each supported.  When I defined abortion and said some people think it's okay to kill a baby in a mommy's tummy if they just don't want the baby his jaw dropped and he gasped "THEY DO?!"  I thought, 'you know, if a five year old is horrified by this, it ain't brain science as to what's right.' 

The problem is the hardened consciences out there.  Hardened by our own narcissism and self-pity and victim mentalities.  I don't expect rape victims to have a baby unsympathetically, but because I would expect that of myself.  If I know of rape victims who were terribly caught up in drugs and still chose to have the baby and give it up for adoption, if they can do it in the midst of addiction and turmoil, then anyone can.  I have so much respect and sympathy for these women I hear about from my adoption specialist friend.  They may curse out the hospital staff because they need a smoke, but they chose life, God bless them.

However, blogging feminists would shame them, I'd imagine, as they didn't CHOOSE to abort.  Pro-choice is not above anyone's pay-grade, as Obama claimed, (what a cop out.)  Pro-choice is not pro women choosing.  Pro-choice, to many, many women and men, is anti-life and pro-abortion.  It is pro-narcissism and pro-self-centeredness and pro-me, me, me, me, me. 

I am tired of women using guilt to justify murder. "Well, you don't understand what it's like."  Irrelevant.  Doesn't make murder okay.  I'm sure I don't understand what it's like to be the serial murderer who was once abused as a child, but that doesn't make his murders justified. Condoned? Encouraged? 

But abortion is different because out of sight, out of mind. Replace authentic guilt with false guilt.

I'm over it.

It's Michael Moore's tactic, too.  What a fruit loop.  No solutions for his fantastical, fabricated crises.  Liberals are about destruction, not construction.  As the new Michael Moore spoof soon to be released says, "I love America.  That's why I want to destroy it." 

Somebody recently raised the question of why Michael Moore bugs Conservatives and it is for this very reason of his using false guilt to push an agenda.  Let me give you my take on Michel Moore, (not that you asked or care, or are even still reading this, ha!)

Michael Moore is hard for Conservatives to stomach because he passes off lies as truth. He takes a truth- for example- "we need to take care of our environment," and creates a distorted version of it- "it is your fault there are hurricanes, and you are guilty as charged until you spend more money on light bulbs and go green." This is what evil IS, a twist of the truth. If you're a Christian, you recognize that this is exactly what the enemy does, this twisting truth- it's a familiar battleground- and I battle with not believing these twisted lies about myself and my worth, that I am forgiven and loved, every day. The enemy's voice is one of doubt, self-pity, and self-chastisement. It is negative and critical and puts complete authority in our hands instead of recognizing a higher power.  And it becomes very identifiable when it is in contrast to the voice of Truth. 

I am not stating that if you're a Christian you will indefinitely hate Michael Moore, but rather, that perhaps it is for this reason that the familiar twist of the truth Moore accomplishes resonates (if unknowingly) with this deeper twist of Truth we experience and battle as human beings every day. If you don't feel forgiven, his voice feels familiar and natural. BUT!  If you know forgiveness, your heart cries out- no, that's not right. You feel secure enough to recognize the false guilt. Perhaps that is why Conservatives despise him. He is all about encouraging false guilt, victim-ology, and changing the proportion and reality of the issues as they truly are, without any offer of a solution to the lies he presents. His goal is obviously not constructive, it is destructive.

I am so sick of women guilting women about how to mother, how to not mother, how to have a career, how to eat, breathe and sleep, and recycle. And I am sick of Michael Moore guilting Americans for how to be a patriot by feeling sorry for terrorists and not using gas or oil. I'm over humans thinking they can actually control each other, let alone the world or the path of psychopaths or hurricanes!

Also, let's go back to the Palin rumors for one last moment- the sister's ex-husband was a dangerous, out-of-control man who tazored his own son.  HELLO, Left America?!  Is it a scandal to keep this man out of law enforcement, or would you prefer he act out against anyone who rubs him the wrong way, be it YOUR daughter, son, or husband?  Of course not.  You just don't want her in office, and will attack her on anything and everything, valid or not, to avoid that happening.  And you should be intimidated because she's one TOUGH mother.

Former Hewlet-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, a top McCain campaign adviser, suggests the Democrats should ease up and take credit for helping pave the way for Palin's candidacy.

"Because of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognize and decry sexism in all its forms," Fiorina said.

Let's hope so.

(And don't worry, my next post will be birthday pictures.)

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