Palin "re-emerges" on national scene with speech to "rogue" anti-choicers

[Bluebear]

...she asked her husband, Todd, "Why us?" He responded, "Why not?" That could happen.


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WEST ALLIS, Wis. - Less than two weeks before the release of her memoir "Going Rogue," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was on message during a Friday night speech to anti-abortion activists at State Fair Park.

"Let's simplify: We're pro children," Palin told thousands of people who attended a $30-a-ticket fundraiser for the Wisconsin Right to Life Education Fund.

In a personal and passionate speech, Palin lauded the state's anti-abortion movement for legislative advances achieved over time.

"We were told to sit down and shut up," Palin said. "Wisconsin, you went rogue."

Palin spoke of her youngest son, Trig, who has Down syndrome. She recalled that when she was pregnant, she underwent an ultrasound and the technician told her, "I see boy parts."

Later, the technician told her that the baby's neck "is a little bit thicker," an indication that there might be an extra chromosome. A few days later, Down syndrome was confirmed.

"I was scared," Palin said, adding that she asked her husband, Todd, "Why us?" He responded, "Why not?"

"My family life is much richer thanks to this beautiful baby boy Trig," Palin said. "He is awesome."

The speech marked Palin's re-emergence on the national scene.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/110909/sta_514416763.shtml

[bluestateguy]

1. She made a choice to have the baby. I respect that choice.

Now I am kindly asking that she please respect other people who, when presented with similar information, might make another choice.

[TwilightZone]

2. What I find somewhat surprising is that she admitted that she considered an abortion.

Just as you noted, she admitted that she had options and chose one. And, yet, she thinks that others shouldn't have the same options.

And she doesn't see the hypocrisy inherent there.

[Contrary1]

3. How can Palin "re-emerge", when she never went away? n/t

[smirkymonkey]

5. "The Rogue Idiot Who Wouldn't Shut Up"

That's going to be the title of my next book. When I get around to it. Or she shuts her big fat piehole. Whichever comes first.

[KansDem]

4. You know what's really sad about all this? The fundies are being played for chumps...

The GOP had both houses of Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and most of the media for six years, yet they did not outlaw abortion.

In fact, David Kuo's book "Tempting Faith" reveals that Bush, Rove and others referred to evangelical Christian figures as "nuts" and "goofy" (Kuo was Bush's no. 2 man in the "Office of Faith-Based Initiatives").

In his book, Kuo wrote that White House staffers would roll their eyes at evangelicals, calling them "nuts" and "goofy."

Asked if that was really the attitude, Kuo tells Stahl, "Oh, absolutely. You name the important Christian leader and I have heard them mocked by serious people in serious places."

Specifically, Kuo says people in the White House political affairs office referred to Pat Robertson as "insane," Jerry Falwell as "ridiculous," and that James Dobson "had to be controlled." And President Bush, he writes, talked about his compassion agenda, but never really fought for it.

"The President of the United States promised he would be the leading lobbying on behalf of the poor. What better lobbyist could anybody get?" Kuo wonders.

CBS

And now we have T&S again preaching this crap. I'm really getting tired of this...

"Chumpsanity" never goes out of style with these people!

[spanone]

6. i fart in her general direction

[ixion]

7. yeah, sarah! you go rogue!

:rofl:

I'm actually delighted that she is out there marginalizing the whacko xian vote. :)