Let us be frank. I think there is a good case to be made for Sarah Palin, as I have done in my previous post. And as Douglas Wilson has pointed out the issue of abortion is the first one that needs to be dealt with before we focus our attention on anything else. If we cannot deal with murder first, it is hard to proceed to other significant moral issues. Palin is indeed remarkable on the issue of life. She is to be applauded and encouraged to pursue by all means necessary to overturn all laws giving legitimacy to the taking of the unborn life at any stage. But let us not be overly encouraged: she is a neo-con.
From the Jerusalem Post:
“The Jewish community should be very excited that Sarah was selected. She has been very conscious of the Jewish community here in Alaska and now with the opportunity of her new position, she’ll have the opportunity to look at the Jewish community globally,” said Alaskan Republican Jewish Coalition member Terry Gorlick, who knows Palin well and has worked with her on several issues…
“Sarah’s absolutely pro-Israel,” he said, referring to conversations with her and comments she’s made about Israel’s security and its importance to the United States. He noted that as governor she signed a resolution honoring Israel for its 60th birthday…
“She has ties and interests in the Holy Land,” said Gottstein, who described her as someone who could be effective across party lines, noting that he worked well with her despite being a Democrat…
And she received praise from other Jewish quarters, including from Anchorage Chabad Rabbi Yosef Greenberg. He recalled Palin’s support for a Jewish museum he is building there and her hora lessons at the annual Jewish gala she has attended the last two years…
Greenberg also spoke of her reaction to giving birth to a child with special needs. “She said, ‘God doesn’t give you something you can’t handle,'” he said. “It was straight out of the Lubavitch book.”
(Thanks to my friend Chris Ortiz)
I am of the opinion that it is not wrong for women to hold civil office in extreme circumstances (and abortion is one of these), as the examples of Deborah and Margaret Thatcher illustrate (sadly Britain is slowly going back to her Socialist sins after Maggie’s time of deliverance)….But I am not sure I could bring myself to vote for her…
Yikes, straight out of a Lubavich book? Though my conscience says that I must vote for McCain instead of Bloody Barry Obama, that statement is very creepy. Also, if she’s reading Lubavich material, doesn’t that actually negate her as being a neo-con? Since the Lubavich is well known as aligned with the Marxist communist movement.
Also, I’m sure the Lubavich book she supposedly quoted from (which I doubt) was much more articulate than the Americanglish “God don’t give ya nuthin’ ya can’t handle, ya hear”. What Greenberg must therefore be embellishing on her paraphrase, which, by the way, could be just as much as a paraphrase from anything in the Sacred Scriptures. I don’t necessarily trust Greenberg’s take on it either as it seemed to be an effort to pull her on his team.