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3 quick answers
1) You alreday know the answer to that or you wouldn't be asking.
2) Many excellent points have been made, and I agree with most of them, but I think one has been overlooked...abortion.
About 1/3 of the women in this country have had an abortion at one time or another, and more than a few men have pressured for/paid for their partner's abortion. From what I understand, paying a third party to cut your innocent unborn child into pieces and toss the remains into a trash can often causes feelings of guilt, and these can often be difficult to deal with. Many people feel, at least on some level, that hiring someone to conduct infanticide on their own kids might make them "bad person", and they have various ways of dealing with the guilt.
One of these defense mechanisims is by saying "If it's legal it must be ok." Another (and this is where Palin comes in) is that they tell themselves the abortion was something regretable but that it "had to be done". They tell themselves they "had no choice" they couldn't have finished school, made something of themselves, gotten the promiotion, etc. had they not had the abortion.
Well Palin's life runs counter to that. Here she is, with a van load of kids, one who is special needs, and another who is unwed but pregnant... and she's not only the highest ranking offiical in Alaska, she's got a good shot at being either VP, or perhaps even the leader of the Free World in 2012.
If Palin could do what she did/does without having an abortion...well how do you continue to tell yourself that your abortion was something you "had to do" in order to become an associate professor of gender studies at Podunk U? Here is Palin proving that you can "choose life" AND still "have a life"...and by her very existance she blows a huge hole in these folks psychological defense mechanisims.
Bottom line, She makes a lot of people feel very very guilty, and they don't like that.
3) In college I was lucky enough to become close friends with a Miss America candidate. (She won our state, but knocked out in the first round at the Atlantic City pagent.) Bottom line, being attractive can be a HUGE amount of hard work. You spend gym time, hair time, make up time.
As a general rule, People who willing to work hard tend to be Republican. People who aren't willing to work hard tend to be Democrats.
Oct 14, 2008, 6:30:00 PM
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