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I just read an article by Peggy Noonan (http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html) that I found to be both interesting at times and boring at others. However this paragraph hit me over the head.
And when you forget you're a Bubblehead you get in trouble, you misjudge things. For one thing, you assume evangelical Christians will be appalled and left agitated by the circumstances of Mrs. Palin's daughter. But modern American evangelicals are among the last people who'd judge her harshly. It is the left that is about to go crazy with Puritan judgments; it is the right that is about to show what mellow looks like. Religious conservatives know something's wrong with us, that man's a mess. They are not left dazed by the latest applications of this fact. "This just in – there's a lot of sinning going on out there" is not a headline they'd understand to be news.
So the media's going to wait for the Christian right to rise up and condemn Mrs. Palin, and they're not going to do it because it's not their way, and in any case her problems are their problems. Christians lived through the second half of the 20th century, and the first years of the 21st. They weren't immune from the culture, they just eventually broke from it, or came to hold themselves in some ways apart from it. I think the media will explain the lack of condemnation as "Republican loyalty" and "talking points." But that's not what it will be.
Wow!!! Are we truly living up to this? Obviously the vast majority of evangelicals in society are if Ms. Noonan put it in print. However, in the last 5 days I've heard and read allot of very un Christlike comments about Sarah Palin coming from conservative holiness people. People, this is so much bigger than us. So much bigger than our petty little agendas. Yes, I happen to be hugely in favor of Sarah as the next VP. But, more importantly, I think that if we all could see the bigger picture we'd be RUSHING to buy McCain/Palin yard signs, bumper stickers, etc.
Ok... enough for now.
3 comments:
You know what I think? The media wasn't given a heads up on the choice of Sarah Palin for VP... so they think that the McCain people can't possibly know what they are doing. I heard that she was being considered clear back in Feb. or March of this year. I never dreamed she would consider it after having a little Down's baby, but it was circulating up here. The media is up the miff tree... that's all there is to it. :)
Vonnie, I think that is part of the sheer brilliance of the strategy!!!
Another thing. . . I think when the conservatives make a smart move the liberals don't like to admit it and so they start to find anything they can "nit pick" about even if it doesn't have any thing to do with the politics.
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