I took great offense at the editorial by Ms. Nagorka (“GOP
offers lesson in hypocrisy”). But I guess I shouldn’t be too
surprised by her viewpoint, as this has been so typical of the
rants offered by so many Democrats this election season.
First of all, that the acceptance of Gov. Palin’s daughter’s
pregnancy is hypocritical is absurd. This shows her ignorance of
the true nature of so many conservatives. Yes, we want our children
to abstain from sex before marriage, and yes, we abhor abortion.
However, the acceptance of this young woman’s pregnancy shows the
compassion, understanding and forgiveness that is the nature of
true conservatives and Christians. We know that we’re imperfect
people in need ourselves, of forgiveness and grace. We do not think
we’re better than other people. We understand that bad things do
happen.
I would dare say, that if the situation were reversed and it
involved Obama’s daughter, we, as conservatives would not condemn
but encourage and applaud a decision to keep the baby. To assume
otherwise, in your purely hypothetical scenario, is unfair and
outrageous.
My question is, what would Ms. Nagorka have had the GOP do to
this young girl? Condemn her? Ostracize her? Stone her? As to the
pick of Sarah Palin, this is an issue I find truly hard to believe.
That they, the party of “women’s rights,” would seek to destroy
her, question whether she’s cut out for the job because she has
children — now there’s hypocrisy!
Are we still living in the 1950s? I thought we’d come so far as
to applaud a vice presidential candidate being a woman.
No, not the Democrats, because the woman is a conservative
woman. Her very lifestyle flies in the face of all the liberals in
this country hold dear: She kept a baby with special needs instead
of aborting it, she’s feminine yet strong, she loves her husband
and her God. These are not the values of the liberal feminist
movement, so destroy her, they must! Ms. Nagorka, there is where
the true hypocrisy lies!!
Susan Hettinger
Castle Rock,