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Palin, U.S. Right
Revisits Dan Quayle and 'Murphy Brown'
"Republicans in the past, when
dealing with a mother of five and soon-to-be grandmother, wouldn't have been so
quick and would even have considered it reckless to advise her to take on a job
as well, let alone one of such importance."
By Jordan Mejias
Translated By Ulf Behncke
September 4, 2008
Germany
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There is absolutely nothing
wrong with ultra-conservative Republicans, amid their otherwise steadfast
evangelical certainly, to make a U-turn. In the past for instance, when dealing
with a mother of five and soon-to-be grandmother, they wouldn't have been so
quick and would even have considered it reckless to advise her to take on a job
as well, let alone one of such importance. In the past, she would have been
allotted a kitchen stove.
Sarah Palin, perhaps the next
Vice President of the United States of America, has caused a reversal of
opinion that takes one's breath away. She is the determined, although until
recently unknown standard-bearer, of good-old traditional America. Now suddenly,
people are confident that in addition to her enormous family duties she will be
capable of handling this all-consuming role; all this despite the fact that
even her most ardent supporters admit - she still has to learn a thing or two.
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But this is only one of the
radical reversals that can be attributed to the Wonder Woman from Alaska. With
her seventeen-year-old daughter five months pregnant, the situation could have turned
awkward for this born-again Christian and opponent of school-based sex
education. In the era of Palin, however, like magic this has been turned into a
conservative trump card. Such a pregnancy, Palin fans exult, is proof of just
how genuinely American this family's life is. And the fact that the daughter
didn't even consider having an abortion, but is looking forward to marrying the
father of her child who is the same age as she is, is making a majority of
traditional values voters somewhat ecstatic.
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Former Vice
President Dan Quayle: Have Republicans taken a U-Turn since 1992?
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If you recall Dan Quayle, one
of Palin's predecessors, who with the support of his
Republican Party comrades railed against the TV character Murphy Brown
for having an illegitimate child, and accusing the creators of the series with threatening
the fabric of American values, then you'll realize just how far the Republicans
have come. Or perhaps not.
Because to accuse them of
re-igniting the "Mommy Wars" for the sole purpose of mounting a
strategic defense - since nothing can be won otherwise - is not only tempting but
may well be closer to the truth than any real change of heart by stalwart
ideologues who now rave about a "conservative feminist." In any case,
the reality of this for Sarah Palin won't begin until next year.
[Editor's Note: In 1992, Vice
President Dan Quayle said: "It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has
Murphy Brown—a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly
paid, professional woman—mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child
alone, and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice.'"]
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