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September 10, 2009

Sarah Palin As The New Voice Of The GOP? (Or The Evolution Of Palin-Drones)

Filed under: Uncategorized — keelyem @ 11:01 pm

Right-Mind.us has Palin’s “tutorial” on President Obama’s efforts to reform healthcare. Right-Mind author Dale Courtney, positioning himself as a Palin-drone, wonders if Palin is positioning herself to become the voice of Republican America.

Gee, I hope so. Republicans haven’t been particularly good for the United States over the last three decades or so, and we’re just eight months out of our national eight-year Bush nightmare, courtesy of the vicious machinations of Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of the bad guys. It would delight me if what is now the Party of the Petulant “No!” would continue its slide into utter, irredeemable irrelevancy. Palin could take care of that easily.

On the other hand, it’s more than a little disconcerting that Sarah Palin is actually taken seriously by people — real people, evidently, who apparently swoon, eyes fluttering, at the sound of her grating, cajoling voice every time she elbows her way into serious discussion. That anybody would confer even the most trifling legitimacy on Palin is disappointing; that Christians would join them, in many cases leading the charge, is absolutely horrifying.

If Palin lands on the 2012 GOP ticket, it will be because millions of Bible-believing Christians put her there. Sure, she’s curried the appearance of wrongdoing at best, and at worst she may have broken the law while in public office, demonstrating a disconcerting tendency toward dishonesty and evasion. Sure, she’s a hypocrite and an opportunist, and, sure, she’s evidently dumb as toast and quite content to stay that way. And sure, the Religious Right, cynically tossed a bone by the McCain people during the presidential election, embraced not only Palin herself but the Machiavellian hypocrisy her selection represented — as some sort of conferring of legitimacy, whether on their faith, their politics, or their desperate hunger to be aligned with the Cool, New Girl In School.

Of course, in very, very few of their churches would Palin even be considered for the office of pastor or elder. The Religious Right is the branch of Christiandom that almost uniformly continues to believe, somewhat conveniently, that Scripture prohibits women in church leadership. Further, even if Sarah Palin were up for consideration for church office, her conduct would prohibit her elevation. She may well be a sincere believer, but no church would risk placing her in a leadership position when she demonstrates not simply a blithe disregard for truth, common sense, and civility, but also wallows in self-imposed ignorance, self-elevating arrogance, and self-satisfying judgment that only the most kindly among us would call “questionable.”

But the Presidency of the United States is evidently now held in such contempt by Palin’s supporters, and their own patriarchal notions of “women’s work” so carelessly adopted and embraced, that a woman unfit for the diaconate of the tiniest church in Wasilla is catapulted onto the national stage as a likely presidential candidate. The scorn in which the GOP holds Barack Obama is so bitter and so overpowering that a rush is on to satisfy Rush, whipping up support for someone from the Rabid Right who is attractive, young, energetic, and able to spew the most venomous, vapid garbage from her honeyed mouth. And until the madness stops, millions of Christian men and most of their wives will have to repent of having committed “adultery in their hearts” by slobbering over the woman who carries a banner assuring folks that if you say “Jesus” just right, you can be as dumb, mean, and dishonest as you want to on the national stage. But there’s a more powerful, more beautiful, more enduring banner carried by just a few in the Church, one that proclaims that we are bound by God’s love, part of his family, and probably, really, definitely ought to start acting like it on the political stage and off. Palin knows about that banner, no matter how much she runs from it toward gaudier, more glittering ones waved by her pals.

2 Comments »

  1. Sarah Palin is what you get when you cross Carrie Prejean with Mike Huckabee. I try to pay as little attention to her as possible. Having said that, however, I do think her criticisms of Obamacare are, as far as they go, accurate. Pointing out the problems in Obamacare is not difficult, but neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are capable of understanding, let alone actually implementing, the only solution that would really work over the long haul, which would necessarily include 1) repenting before the Triune God for our sins, and 2) the elimination of all government welfare programs and the complete return of such functions to the family and to the church, to which they rightly belong.

    Comment by Christopher Witmer — September 12, 2009 @ 3:11 am

  2. Wow. I think I’ll have to handle this one as a regular post . . .
    Keely

    Comment by Keely Emerine Mix — September 15, 2009 @ 1:29 am

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