Suann Therese Maier over at First Things explains:
…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.
In fact, while we’re on the subject, 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. And those who think that Palin’s beliefs and family struggles are funny or worth jeering at, simply reveal the venality of their own hearts.
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 because Roe v. Wade is bad law, and it needs to fall. I don’t doubt the intelligence and character of men like Doug Kmiec, the younger Bob Casey, and others who sympathize with the Obama campaign. But I do doubt their judgment. At the end of the day, the Democratic party in 2008 has conceded nothing to pro-life Democrats. The fact that Sen. Obama listens respectfully to pro-lifers without calling them reactionary dunces does not constitute progress. Results and behavior are what matter. On both those counts, the party has again failed to show any real sensitivity to pro-life concerns. In that light, high profile Catholics who support Obama are simply rationalizing their surrender on Roe.
Finally, 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.
That’s the real tragedy of this election.
A century or so ago, Theodore Roosevelt – one of McCain’s political icons – spoke against the “malefactors of great wealth”. He was referring to those monied interests who distorted the American political and economic system; back then it was captains of industry and finance who felt the wrath of a Republican who believed in business, but not in big business; who believed that government had a role, but must not be a master; who believed – ultimately – in the power and determination of the American people, individual and collective, to overcome all obstacles. John McCain is such a man, and Sarah Palin is such a woman – but added to the titans of industry and finance are the titans of government…people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden who use the money of government to distort the American political and economic system. Last night, the captains of industry, finance and government all felt the wrath of a Republican – and the righteous wrath of a Republican determined that the government of the United States shall be of, by and for the people.
Glued together by the liberal sacrament of abortion, confident of an innate superiority over their fellow Americans, the malefactors of Big Government seek the levers of power so that they can use the government’s money to shape and change our society into something they feel is best for us, because they know better than us. I, too, will vote for Sarah Palin – and, of course, John McCain – because in this entity, McCain/Palin, is the challenge to the status quo…the challenge to those who for too long have power and privilege are theirs by right of their superiority over the common man. John McCain and I have not agreed on all issues, but I am confident that when he is sworn in as President he will daily do battle against the establishment on my behalf…and right next to him will be Vice President Palin, learning the sorry ropes of Washington politics so that she, too, can in her turn know where to dig to get the filth out of politics.
It is a tragedy in this election there is no real Democratic party to contest the election with the Republican party. Once upon a time we had two parties imbued with a love of country – and a basic understanding of common human morality – who could fight like cats and dogs, but who also understood one another, respected each other and, ultimately, fought the good fight for the benefit of all Americans. Instead of a Democratic party, we’ve got Obama and his Democrats – elitist socialists who bear nothing but ill will for the America we know and love…people whom many Democrats will be unable to vote for because their allegedly Democratic platform is nothing but a blueprint for the triumph of the Culture of Death and the enslavement of the American people to an European-style welfare State.
It is, on the other hand, the triumph of this election that we have now got two tickets which clearly show the difference, and will allow the American people to make a clear choice – for me, the issue is not in doubt; we will win, in the end…because truth always overcomes lies, and true Americanism will always rise above the petty, leftist ideologies which periodically wash up, unwelcome, upon our shores.
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