Candie's Foundation Statement on Bristol Palin Compensation

"We know that Ms. Palin's work has had a positive effect on teens."
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The leftists and their media lapdogs have their panties all in a bunch over the fact that Bristol Palin was well paid by The Candies Foundation as a teen ambassador. In response to their whining, the foundation has released this statement:

For ten years, The Candie's Foundation has been working to prevent teen pregnancy by producing and funding celebrity-driven print, television, radio and online public service announcements. Ms. Palin was compensated for her work with the foundation, which included appearing in video and print PSAs, two town hall meetings, and numerous media interviews.

The message of the foundation about teen pregnancy prevention has generated more than ONE BILLION media impressions – tremendous reach for any teen pregnancy prevention campaign. We know that Ms. Palin's work has had a positive effect on teens. In a recent independent national survey of 1,000 teens that compared a Bristol Palin PSA with those of another national teen pregnancy organization that use non-famous teens, more than twice as many teens (57% vs. 27%) said Bristol's PSA "got my attention", three times as many (41% vs. 11%) said it was "powerful", and more than twice as many (38% vs. 16%) said it was "memorable".

Bristol Palin is one of dozens of celebrities who has worked with the foundation. She has been a courageous and powerful partner to the foundation as we attempt to discourage teen pregnancy.

Curious, is it not, how the left loses its mud because a non-profit organization, which depends on donations freely given, paid Bristol Palin in six figures. Yet these same leftists think it's all right that millions of dollars of taxpayer money is being used to kill innocent infants in the womb. That's what passes for morality on the left these days.

- JP

Mitch Daniels is no Sarah Palin

Not a good start for the Daniels campaign
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We don't always see eye to eye with Rick Moran, but we're in full agreement with his latest post on the American Thinker Blog:

Governor Mitch Daniels is a great wonk, a good governor, but it appears that he isn't much of a politician.

Earth to Mitch: You don't start out a presidential campaign by alienating 1/3 of your base:

The other day on Laura Ingraham's radio show, Daniels re-iterated his call for a "truce" on social issues while America gets its economic house in order. He now says he'd like to "mute" those issues for a little while.

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If Daniels gets in the race you can be sure that some other candidate is going to call him out on this. Whoever does it first will immediately endear himself or herself to social conservatives nationwide. Who's going to do it?

OK - we get it. Fixing the deficit is titanically important. But you don't ask voters - especially when it comes to issues that touch their conscience in very personal ways - to turn off their emotions and engagement just to achieve some nebulous "peace" on social issues. First of all, it takes two to make peace and it is doubtful that the other side would be quite so accommodating. Secondly, it would be like ripping the heart out of the Republican party.

[More]

Moran points out that despite his lackluster campaign, John McCain would have made the 2008 presidential race a much closer contest had he only sharply defined the difference between himself and Barack Obama on social right issues. And despite naming Sarah Palin on his ticket, millions of conservatives still stayed away from the polls on election day -- far fewer than those who turned out to vote for Bush.

There has been a pro-life plank in every Republican Party platform since at least Ronald Reagan, but prior to 2009, there was not a pro-life majority to support it. But all that changed in May of 2009, when Gallup polling began to reflect a shift in the attitudes of Americans in favor of the protection of innocent life. Why should Republicans abandon this principle when they finally have the majority of their countrymen on their side on the issue? But Daniels wants to turn his back on that majority and on the conservative base.

Sarah Palin would never even consider abandoning social conservatives on the issue of life. It is part and parcel of the Declaration of Independence, which defines life as the first of three "unalienable Rights" with which the Creator has endowed us. Without life, there is no liberty nor the pursuit of happiness. Gov. Palin has been a consistent and tireless defender of the innocent unborn. And she has lived by what she advocates, giving birth to child which she knew before his birth would be a Down Syndrome baby.

Mitch Daniels is no Sarah Palin, and by giving short shrift to what has been one of the most important planks in the GOP platform for decades, not much of a conservative nor a Republican.

- JP

Paul Kengor: Texting for Bristol Palin

Bristol had now given the left two reasons to hate her
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Political Science professor and author Paul Kengor writes at The American Spectator about Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin and the sanctity of life:

As Bristol trots to victory after victory, the pressure cooker that is liberal America rises and rises and rises, boiling over with customary ferocity.

What's really going on here? Let's cut to the chase: The roots of this indecent, unhealthy rage by liberals is -- first and foremost -- a lashing out against Bristol and her mother for the political/cultural sin of standing, unwaveringly, for unborn human life. That stance also explains why liberal women in particular despise both Bristol and the mother who gave her life. The Palins' devotion to the pro-life life infuriates pro-choice women.

I'll never forget the moment Sarah Plain first walked onto that stage with John McCain. The initial salvo had already been fired, not because of anything Palin said but because of what she had done. As far as liberal women were concerned, Palin had already drawn a line in the sand when she chose to give birth to a child pre-diagnosed with Down syndrome, choosing to do what some 90% of women don't do when given that diagnosis.

Even more galling, Palin, in one fell swoop, thereby decapitated the entire pro-choice narrative.

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Their response has been pure vitriol.

The most lasting manifestation of that, in my mind, was shown by the downright mean "Retarded Republican Babies for Sarah Palin" T-shirts that compassionate liberals were selling on the web during the 2008 campaign. The shirts featured a little GOP elephant blowing a balloon. They were a slap at the face of Palin's innocent little Down's child, Trig.

What had Trig done wrong? Wasn't he deserving of sympathy? Not to the enraged and deranged. To them, Trig was Sarah Plain's child -- the product of a misbegotten choice. He merited contempt.

Alas, that's where Bristol comes in. She, too, being a child of Sarah Palin, is disliked by the left by her very birthright. But then, however, she mushroomed their resentment to nuclear levels when, she, too, committed the cardinal sin of choosing life.

[More]

- JP

Sarah Palin speaks to crowd of 1,200 at Houston church

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Gov. Palin was the keynote speaker Wednesday night at a pro life event held at First Baptist Church. Here's the package KRIV-TV (Fox 26) aired on its late night newscast:



KRIV's story is here.

Updates: More local coverage from KTRK-TV, KPRC-TV, KHOU-TV and the Houston Chronicle.

- JP

Dallas Area Catholics: A good night out with Sarah Palin

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The Dallas Area Catholics blog, calling Sarah Palin "one of the most influential personalities in American politics," is urging its readers to turn out to see the governor when she visits the Metroplex in November:

Here’s the Catholic angle – Heroic Media raises money to engage in pro-life advertising, specifically targeting women who may be contemplating abortion. Billboards, magazine ads, etc. So, even if you find Sarah Palin the most dangerous woman in America, you might still want to go just to help the pro-life cause. Me, I think she’s pretty good, though she’s showed some questionable judgement at times regarding political endorsements. But, I also recognize that she is a captivating speaker and someone who holds views that align pretty well with Catholic moral doctrine, especially that regarding life issues. This isn’t my kind of gig, but I’d still consider going to see her speak and help out this pro-life media effort. Anyone that can field dress a caribou on the Alaskan tundra deserves some respect, and not the weird violence-tinged sex kitten fantasies projected on her by the left.

The full blog post is here. More event information, including links to purchase tickets and sponsorships, is here.

- JP

Gov. Palin delights crowd of 5,000 in Waco

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From Waco Tribune-Herald staff writer Wendy Gragg:

Sarah Palin applauded Care Net on Tuesday night for its anti-abortion efforts in Waco, and the crowd of thousands at the Ferrell Center returned the favor.

The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, as the keynote speaker at Care Net’s annual fundraising banquet, spoke about politics, being anti-abortion and her own personal experience with pregnancy and having a special-needs child.

Care Net Pregnancy Center of Central Texas helps women through crisis pregnancies.

Palin bonded with the crowd over talk of Baylor University basketball — she said she’s a fan — and Dr Pepper hour, and even the school’s bear mascots, Lady and Joy.

“Baylor — the bears. I’m all about mama grizzlies,” she said, though Baylor’s bears are North American black bears.

She elicited roars from the crowd with hunting stories and by drawing parallels between Alaska and the Lone Star State, with their “independent and pioneering spirit.”

Her speech was riddled with stabs at the “lamestream” media and instances in which she said they have gotten the story wrong. Then she moved into her personal story of having a baby with Down syndrome and her daughter Bristol’s teen pregnancy.

KWTX's Eli Ross reported:

"Sarah Palin knows how to work a room. There is no doubt about that."

"Palin delighted around 5,000 people Tuesday night at the Ferrell Center, during a fundraiser for Care Net Pregnancy Center of Central Texas."

KYTX also covered the event:

Palin started with a very light tone, joking about the similarities and differences between Texas and Alaska.

She quickly turned, though, to her main reason for speaking.

[...]

Palin drew sharp comparisons between groups like Care Net, that she says empower women, and pro choice groups, that she says bring women down.

KCEN's package for the 10 PM newscast:


- JP

Gov. Palin is speaking in Central Texas tonight

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Sarah Palin is speaking at Care Net of Central Texas tonight. If she stays true to form, she'll mostly eschew talk of politics and speak on the pro-life movement at the banquet, as she has done at other pro-life events this week. Deborah McGregor is CareNert's CEo, and she said tonight's event is the culmination of years of work:

"We started working with Governor Palin's office two years ago when all of us saw her struggle with her own daughter's crisis pregnancy and then also learned she had had a child diagnosed with Down's Syndrome," McGregor says.

Palin will be speaking to about 3,000 people, including big supporter Carol Waddell. "She's a strong, conservative woman who really sticks to her principles and for her to come to Waco to an event like this is really exciting. I was really excited for Care Net to get her to come speak."

And McGregor is hoping Palin's speech will do more than just sound good, but will strengthen their pro-life movement. "Our hope is that she will, that this will be a catalyst for change for Waco, that the culture will change, that rather then being a town where we take life, that we're a town where we nurture life."

KCEN-TV's news department contacted the Planned Parenthood in Waco, but says the pro-abortion group had no comment on the fundraiser or Gov. Palin's visit.

- JP

Sarah Palin Speaks to Pro-Life Crowd in Kansas City

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Sarah Palin spoke to a crowd of 1500 in Kansas City Monday at the annual fundraising dinner for the Vitae Foundation, a pro-life organization. The first woman to be the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate shared her experiences as the expectant mother of a down Syndrome baby and voiced her strong pro-life convictions:

She says that the issue of abortion is one that makes the country seem upside-down.

"My daughter can't get her ears pierced without parental consent, but she can get an abortion," said Palin, who then said that changing the laws isn't her prime mission, but to change the hearts and minds of those who are faced with an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy.

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The ex-governor of Alaska then said that she learned that nearly 85 percent of babies diagnosed with Downs Syndrome in the womb are aborted, which is something that the Vitae Foundation says that they are trying to prevent.

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Palin says choosing life isn't always the easiest, but she says it's always the right path.

In her keynote speech, Gov. Palin mostly avoided talk of politics:

But there was one exception: She acknowledged Jacob Turk, the GOP nominee for the 5th Congressional District seat now held by Democrat Emanuel Cleaver.

Palin said Turk had given her a business card that said elected officials must “listen to all, lead with integrity … and champion opportunity. That’s leadership, not politics.”

“I love that motto,” Palin said. She talked briefly about the growing influence of the tea party movement across the country and complained that the mainstream media were seeking to undermine the movement’s momentum.

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Other than that, Palin remained focused on the anti-abortion cause. She challenged audience members to help change American culture to one more focused on the sanctity of life. That means encouraging adoption and foster families.

Sitting on the sidelines, Palin said, no longer is acceptable.

In a line that drew ringing applause, Palin added, “We should be our brother and sister’s keeper — not government. Since when has government ever run a business or charity or anything else better than the private sector can? Let’s not look to government on this.”

- JP

A.W.R. Hawkins: She is Palin, Hear Her Roar

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A.W.R. Hawkins comments at Human Events on Sarah Palin has taken the lead on the pro-life issue. She is building a coalition of supporters who are traditional, Christian women "who believe the womb should be a safe haven instead of an abortionist’s laboratory." They are moved by her love for her youngest son Trig, and they rally to the way she combines being pro-woman with being pro-child:

Her chief opponents—non-traditional, pro-Patsy Schroeder type women who believe it’s okay to treat the womb as a killing field—mock her every speech as vapid and express unmitigated outrage at the fact that she dares to imagine a world in which both women and children have rights to life and liberty.

Palin has snatched control of the pro-life vs. pro-death dialogue from increasingly obscure groups like the National Organization for Women (NOW) and brought it into the light.

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Palin’s ongoing appeal to a substantial segment of American women doesn’t just offend leftist women but leftist men as well (I use the word “men” loosely). The usual suspects—Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Matt Lauer—either go out of their way to speak derisively of Palin or have guests on their shows to speak derisively for them.

But it’s all to no avail. For the more insulting they are toward Palin, the more protective conservatives will become of her.

It’s the same principle that’s at play behind Palin’s popularity: The more willing the left becomes to kill our unborn children for convenience sake, the more conservative women will flock to Palin’s message of keeping those children away from the abortionist’s scalpel.

Though the 2010 midterm elections will be preimarily about jobs and the economy, Sarah Palin proves that some social concerns, like the right to life, are non-negotiable.

Read the full A.W.R. Hawkins op-ed here.

h/t: roy y

- JP

Quote of the Day (June 18, 2010)

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Sharron Angle:

"Sarah Palin’s decision for life — bringing Trig into the world — had the greatest impact on the pro-life movement."

- JP

NewsBusters: Post Buries Article on Palin's Call for 'Conservative, Feminist Identity'

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Newsbusters managing editor Ken Shepherd was "disappointed but hardly surprised" that the Washington Post "buried" a story written by Amy Gardner on Sarah Palin's call for pro-life women to form a "conservative, feminist identity":

While the 10-paragraph article in itself didn't raise any bias alarm bells, I was disappointed but hardly surprised that the Post buried the story on the last page of its A-section.

Gardner's article focused on how Palin, "[s]peaking to a breakfast gathering of the Susan B. Anthony List in downtown Washington on Friday" observed that liberal pro-choice feminists are hypocrites for on the one hand insisting that women can hold fulfilling careers while being mothers but at the same time those same feminists hold out abortion for young women who might feel their unwanted pregnancies are an inconvenience obstacle to career or educational goals.

Gov. Palin's calling out of liberal feminists for their hypocrisy, observes Shepherd, was the stimulus for the Post's Jonathan Capehart, a Palin critic who took the trouble to attend the SBA List's Celebration of Life Breakfast fundraiser to see her speak. In his column, Capehart conceded that the first woman ever to be the vice presidential candidate of the Republican Party had made "a very interesting point."

Read Shepherd's full NewsBusters post here.

- JP

Quote of the Day (May 4, 2010)

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Patrick Archbold:

"Palin was giving a speech to a pro-life group... [She] made the media purchase tickets to the event and the proceeds went to the pro-life cause. That is sweet. The lefties are losing what is left of their little minds. This goes in the dictionary as the definition of win-win."

- JP

More coverage of Austin's Evening With Sarah Palin

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James Armstrong, who blogs at The Austin Declaration was in the audience last night. Here are some excerpts from his post "An evening with Sarah Palin":

Her address began with a few brief remarks about Obamacare, complimenting Attorney General Greg Abbott for taking the health care mandate to court and calling on us to remember the pro-life Democrats who "caved at the last minute."

Concerning the pro-life movement itself, Palin found encouragement in the new Gallup poll results that for the first time showed pro-life respondents outnumbering pro-choice respondents. For years, she said, pro-lifers have been told to "Sit down and shut up," and that their cause was futile. Luckily, they decided to "Go rogue" and keep up the fight.

During the Q/A session, author Raymond Arroyo mentioned a recent New York Times article about the kind of rationing to be expected under the new health care law, the very thing that lead to Palin's "death panel" statement last year. Palin followed up on Arroyo's comments by saying she "feels vindicated" on the matter, and that rationing will [affect] those deemed "less productive."

Read James' complete post here.

Dave Montgomery, the Fort Worth Star Telegram's Austin Bureau Chief, covered the event for his paper. A few excerpts from his story:

About 1,500 people gathered at the Austin Convention Center to hear Palin, who is often touted as a potential presidential contender in 2012.

"I think she's a big crowd draw, a neat lady and a real asset for the Republican Party," state Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, said as he arrived for the event.

Today, Palin will be in Dallas as the headliner at a gala at the Fairmont Hotel to benefit the Uptown Women's Center, a health and wellness resource center serving professional and collegiate women in the North Texas community. The appearance is being coordinated by Dallas' Downtown Pregnancy Center, which served 787 women in 2009.

Palin's Texas appearances were expected to further energize anti-abortion groups who rallied behind Perry in his successful primary race against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, while also bolstering Palin's popularity as a champion of Tea Party activists and anti-abortion groups.

The governor described Palin as "a great patriot" who is working hard to "protect the unborn across the nation." Perry, who is seeking re-election to an unprecedented third four-year term, also sounded a strong anti-abortion theme and renewed his support for legislation that would require pregnant women to be presented ultrasound images of their unborn child before receiving an abortion.

Palin at times blasted Obama's healthcare policies and denounced the administration for not pursuing policies to help women find abortion alternatives. But her speech was largely devoid of trademark political attacks and she instead sought to boost Heroic Media and similar groups.

Reporting on the speech for the Dallas Morning News was Christy Hoppe. Excerpts from her report:

Sarah Palin slammed the federal health care bill in a speech Thursday night that was peppered with politics but largely devoted to her personal journey of finding the strength to become the mother of a special needs child and a pregnant unwed teen.

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She told the 1,500 people gathered that they should remember politicians who fight abortion and they should continue working to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortions.

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Palin took a jab at President Barack Obama, saying there are some politicians who believe abortion is an intellectual debate over constitutional rights, "or those who say the argument is above their pay grade, but that's a cop-out."

In 2008, Obama was asked when a baby gets human rights and replied that there are theological and scientific answers, but "answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade."

Excerpts also from Peggy Fikac's article in the San Antonio Express-News:

Palin and Perry both took sharp aim at the Obama administration over abortion, with Palin calling him “the most pro-abortion president to ever occupy the White House.”

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Perry blasted Obama's action last year to overturn the “Mexico City Policy,” which prevented U.S. funds from going to international family planning groups that do abortion referrals.

“America is in the business of exporting abortion. I'm not happy about that,” Perry said, adding that he was proud of Texas' efforts to protect unborn children.

“Too bad we can't protect them from the federal government,” he said.

Finally, a few excerpts from the story filed by Asher Price for the Austin American-Statesman:

She linked the new federal health care law with abortion, telling the crowd that "we will remember the names of those who caved" on stopping the bill.

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She told the crowd that Giddings, where she has been staying this week, has "become a home away from home."

She said she felt comfortable in Texas because she is "surrounded by patriotic Americans."

"You're not afraid to cling to your guns and to your religion," she said.

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Many of the attendees said they were pro-life and Palin supporters.

Eric Graham, 46, who lives by Lake Travis, brought along his 15-year-old daughter, Rebekah, who said Palin "is one of my role models because she stands up for what she believes in."

- JP

Sarah Palin speaks to pro-life crowd of 1,500 in Austin

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According to The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's PoliTex blog, the turnout was "approximately 1,500 people."



Austin television station KVUE's story pegged the crowd at "about a thousand" and said Gov. Palin spoke for 40 minutes:

"It's always good to be back in Alaska's little sister state," Palin told the crowd. "You're not afraid to cling to your guns and your religion."

Governor Perry introduced Palin. The two met at a Republican Governor's Convention. Palin repaid the favor by raising many of Perry's campaign talking points. She complimented the state's budget, cited job creation and housing statistics, as well as touting states rights and the 10th Amendment.

"There are so many things to admire about your governor," Palin said.

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Following the fundraiser, supporters [said] both both governors had a good message.

"I thought they were fabulous representations of how people who are pro-life really feel about this issue and think about this issue," said Patricia Fanning, a Palin supporter.

Speech excerpts from the Houston Chronicle's Texas Politics blog:

Palin and Perry both took sharp aim at the Obama administration over abortion, with Palin calling him "the most pro-abortion president to ever occupy the White House."

She praised Texas and its record, saying it has "so many prolife pro-family legislators" and touting "my friend Rick Perry."

"You're not afraid to cling to your guns and your religion," she told the crowd.

More from the Chron blog here.

Update: Austin's KTBC (Fox 7) aired this video package:



We will update with more reports as they come in...

- JP

Sarah Palin: "What is NOW afraid of?" (Updated)

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Sarah Palin comments on the efforts by National Organization for Women and other pro-abortion groups to persuade CBS to pull a life-affirming ad featuring Tim Tebow which is scheduled to air during the Super Bowl. The former Governor of Alaska also answered questions from FOX News' Greta Van Susteren on the Tea Party movement and the National Tea Party Convention.



h/t: America's News Today

Update: Good analysis by Doctor Zero here 

- JP

Sarah Palin: NOW is looking at the pro-life issue backwards

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On her Facebook Notes page Tuesday night, Sarah Palin called out NOW and other women's groups for their protest of a pro-life ad that is scheduled to air during the Super Bowl game:

Women's Rights Groups: Your Double Standard is Showing

Women’s Rights groups, like NOW, commendably call out advertisers and networks for airing sexist and demeaning portrayals of women that lead to young women’s diminished self-esteem and acceptance of roles as mere sexed-up objects.

What a ridiculous situation they’re getting themselves into now with their protest of CBS airing a pro-life ad during the upcoming Super Bowl game. The ad will feature Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mom, and they’ll speak to the sanctity of life and the beautiful potential within every innocent child as Mrs. Tebow acknowledges her choice to give Tim life, despite less than ideal circumstances. Messages like this empower women! This speaks to the strength and commitment and nurturing spirit within women. The message says everything positive and nothing negative about the power of women – and life. Evidently, some women’s rights groups like NOW do not like that message.

NOW is looking at the pro-life issue backwards. Women should be reminded that they are strong enough and smart enough to make decisions that allow for career and educational opportunities while still giving their babies a chance at life. In my own home, my daughter Bristol has also been challenged by pro-abortion “women’s rights” groups who don’t agree with her decision to have her baby, nor do they like the abstinence message which she articulated as her personal commitment. NOW could gain ground and credibility with everyday Americans, thus allowing their pro-women message to be heard by more than just their ardent supporters, if they made wiser decisions regarding which battles to pick. They should call attention to and embrace the Tebow’s message, instead of covertly and overtly disrespecting what Mrs. Tebow, Bristol, and millions of other women have chosen to do (in less than ideal circumstances).

My message to these groups who are inexplicably offended by a pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life message airing during the Super Bowl: please concentrate on empowering women, help with efforts to prevent unexpected pregnancies, stay consistent with your message that for too long women have been made to feel like sex objects in our “modern” culture and that we can expect better in 2010. But don’t let your double standard glare so vividly as to undo some of the good to which you could contribute.

And CBS: just do the right thing. Don’t cave. Have the backbone to run the ad.

To the Tebows: thank you. America is listening. We appreciate you.

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Sarah and Bristol take pro-life message to Oprah's show (Updated)

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Sarah Palin leaves no doubt about what she wants the main topic of discussion to be when she and daughter Bristol appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" today:

"Bristol&I r getting ready 4 Oprah interview this am,it's 37th anniversary of DC's March 4 Life so will discuss peaceful,hopeful msg of LIFE"

Update: Gov. Palin also posted this reminder on her Facebook Notes page:

Talking About Life Today

In light of today’s March for Life in D.C., which promotes a positive, peaceful, hopeful message concerning the sanctity of life, Bristol and I are being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey to talk about choosing life. The show airs today, and you can check your local listings for details.

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Liberals mock Sarah and Bristol Palin for choosing life

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In LiberalWorld, where infanticide on the scale of 50 million innocent babies brutally killed over the past 35 years doesn't even raise an eyebrow, a magazine cover photo of two moms and the babies they gave life to is something to be detested and mocked. Colleen Raezler of the Culture and Media Institute has published an excellent op-ed on this at NewsBusters.org. Excerpts:

Sarah and Bristol were "schlepping those babies around like crazy," said Joy Behar. No friend of the Palins on any day, on the Jan. 13 edition of her show Behar predictably found fault with the magazine cover and complained of Palin's youngest son, Trig, "That baby, they passed that baby around more than a joint at a Grateful Dead concert." To her guests, liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller and Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff, she asked, "Is she going to bring that baby on the set of Fox?"

Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon.com called the cover a "jaw dropper" and questioned the appropriateness of showing the Palins on it. "Hey, we're all for mothers loving their babies, but if it's not 1984 and you're not in a Wham! video, [in which George Michael wore a shirt that said "Choose Life"] you might want to reconsider whether that sentiment is appropriate in a pop culture context," she wrote in a Jan. 14 post.

Later in her rant, Williams noted, "It's interesting, nonetheless, that the Palin women chose a magazine that chronicles the dating habits of Pussycat Dolls and provides makeovers to the cast of ‘Jersey Shore' to express their heartfelt rhetoric on the joys of motherhood."

And at Air America, the [failed] liberal radio network, a headline maintained that by posing with her children and grandchild, "Palin Pushes Pro-Life Policy On In Touch Cover."

Cassandra Gaddo, managing editor of Today's Chicago Woman, accused Palin of "deifying her own choices and using her resulting happy endings as proof that everyone should (be forced to) choose her choice."

Are the inmates in charge of the asylum in LiberalWorld? You betcha!

- JP

Danielle Bean: Sarah Palin Makes a Statement. Again.

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Danielle Bean blogs on the National Catholic Register's website:


Well... it might as well be a bold pro-life statement that gets her into trouble this time.

She and daughter Bristol are featured on the cover of... In Touch Weekly which hits news stands today. I like the simplicity of the mother-daughter message:

“We’re Glad We Chose Life.”

I don’t often look for much cross-over content between magazines that specialize in celebrity gossip and Faith & Family, but this cover even a Catholic family magazine would be proud to print. Two pretty moms with their smiling cutie-pie babies, proudly declaring their joy at having chosen to give these children life..


- JP

Sarah Palin's Life-Affirming Message

- by Lisa Graas
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Today I shared some analysis of Sarah Palin in terms of life issues via email exchange with a pro-life group. I submit it below for readers.

With respect to the voice she brings to all those who are affected in life issues, the power of Sarah Palin is in the fact that she is a pro-life mom and career woman. Though she has never sought to make these things the core part of her public message, her status as both a political giant and a pro-life mom are unquestionably the reason that the 'news' most generated in our pro-abortion culture continues to center around stories that seek to cast some sort of doubt on her motherhood. Palin, just by virtue of who she is and who she can become in our society, has the power to utterly destroy the argument that women must kill their babies if they are to have any hope of greatness. Merely by being a life-affirming, successful woman, Palin exposes the lie that abortion liberates women. Even further, she has embraced a child who has a disability which prompts roughly 90% of other women in the same circumstances to reject the child. Either consciously or unconsciously, pro-abortion forces who now dominate America's public discourse, in contrast to America's true underlying culture, seek to destroy Sarah Palin because of her clear and shining example that their ideology is, in fact, oppressive to the dignity of both women and children. If the notion survives, whether through Sarah Palin herself, or perhaps in years to come in the achievements of a young lady now inspired by her, that a life-affirming woman can achieve great things, the pro-abortion argument will lie in ashes in the pages of history.

If you are experiencing a crisis pregnancy, please contact Priests for Life, Alternatives to Abortion. Oh, and this is for you, too.

- Lisa

Lisa Graas is editor of the Palin Twibe Blog and several other websites. She is a regular contributor to Texas for Sarah Palin.