We know that JFK could be an inspiring leader. We also now know that he was a womanizer who cavorted with naked beauties in the White House itself when Jackie was gone. Leftists keep telling us that they love women. Since they have taken Kennedy as a role model, perhaps we must conclude this is what they mean.
“As we strive to live up to Kennedy’s sense of character,” Lichtman tells us, “we not only become better citizens, but a more moral and more purposeful country – an example to the world.” Doesn’t that just make you glow inside? A man who cheated on his wife, and sexually exploited so many women no historian would ever be able to count them, is still revered by the Left – that feminist-empowering faction – as a moral exemplar.
Of course Lichtman is not talking about the long-dead president’s marital fidelity. As a new, Republican-dominated Congress convenes, he is admonishing us – via those long-ago-spoken words – to “…begin anew – remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.” Meaning that the Republicans must be civil by letting Democrats go on setting their agenda, and that GOP sincerity is always subject to proof. Just in case we miss that this is what he means, he comes right out and tells us. “Five decades later, [Kennedy’s] words speak to a current Congress…”
We must weigh the sincerity of leftists, however, in their worshipful words about fallen Democratic icons like JFK, with how they speak of contemporary women in politics. People – you know – like Sarah Palin.
We’ve heard the leftist media call her vapid, vain and stupid. They’ve castigated her for every sin – real or imagined – any mortal might possibly commit. I don’t think I need quote any of it here, as we have all heard enough of it already. But now – perhaps to distract us from the new Congress, or maybe so nobody will bring up the sainted Kennedy’s sexual peccadilloes again – we are being treated to a new “scandal.”
“For Sarah Palin,” a Yahoo News article trumpets Thursday, “The Bad News Just Keeps Coming.” The gist of the story is that 2011 is not starting out to be a good year for Gov. Palin. The writer – a self-described “moderate” – recounts the blame widely cast on her for the Tucson shootings. He makes sure he tells us this immediately after saying she “is often speculated to be considering a run for president in 2012 as a far-right conservative…”
....Haven’t feminists lamented for years that Father can get away with anything, while Mother gets the blame for everything? Does the Left not champion equality for women? Why, then, has Sarah Palin – perhaps the most gifted and promising female politician of her time – been relentlessly pelted with mud by these same feminist champions?
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