All In The Family

Do you remember when Obama was running for POTUS and somebody somewhere took a rhetorical potshot at Michelle or something?  And do you remember Obama, standing up in righteous indignation, condemning whoever it was that raised the issue?  I don't recall who it was, but I actually agreed with Mr. Obama.  One's family should be off limits. 

The problem is, the left squeals like little piggies when it happens to them, but delight in trying to drag up dirt about a Republican's family.  Remember how they raided every waste bin in Wasilla looking for anything on Palin and her family with nary a peep of outrage from Obama?  Some dweeb named Andrew Sullivan (who gets paid a whole lot of money to write crap) still instists that Trig Palin is somehow Bristol's kid. 

All politicians parade the wife and kiddies.  That's what they do.  In essence, they  ALL try to pass themselves off as a "family values" kind of person at some level.  However, the left cries foul if you attack a family member, but sees no wrong in trying to attack a Republican's family and such is the case with Scott Brown.

First they dug up some photo spread of him posing nude 30 years ago.  OK, fair shot.  It was him, not his family.  Not many people cared.  We all probably did a lot of things thirty years ago we would rather not talk about.  Personally, I thought his participation was tasteless, but it happened thirty years ago.  People change a lot in 30 years.  As a young airman in the seventies, it was not uncommon on any given night to find me with my buddies, knee-walking, commode-hugging drunk.  Do I do that today?  Not even close.  Am I proud of doing that 35 years ago?  Not really. 

Next the left digs up some cheesy music video from the 80s that featured his wife.  She actually wore a *gasp* bikini in it!  And they dug up some  more recent family photo of his daughters in a bikini in Hawaii.  All of this is intended to make Mr. and Mrs. Family Values think twice about supporting Senator-elect Brown.  Note to the idiot left:  We don't care. 

The point is that it seems that family members are fair game only if it is the liberals who do it.  If we do it, it's wrong.  The truth is, it is wrong - for everyone.

It's gutter politics.  As I sit here and think about this, a question comes to mind.

Since this is the holy seat of Kennedy that Mr. Brown will soon defile, Can we bring up Chappaquiddick and what Teddy might have been doing 30 or 40 years ago for comparison? 

Just wondering.

VW

Comments

[BobF]

Only the left would try to make a big deal that his wife looked good in a bikini 25 years ago. Heck, she looks good now and may so in a bikini.

Actually, conservative women are much more prettier than liberals.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=72178

[Rusty]

Oh please. When the left does it the right whines, when the right does it the left whines. Please drop the holier than thou attitude. btw, Andrew Sullivan is a conservative, so in this case it's a conservative (you) whining about another conservative.

[Violence Worker]

Rusty,

I condemn anyone who pulls that trick. If you cared to read it and try and comprehend it, you would know that. Second, Sullivan left the fold awhile ago. If there is anyone out there (besides you) that considers him a conservative anymore, I don’t know about them.

On the other hand, you seem to be OK with dragging family into the fray. Tells me what a slimeball you are.

VW

[Rusty]

Name calling is all you really have, isn't it. You remember my first post here when you called me out for calling people "tea baggers" and said that stooping to calling people names just showed how weak my argument must be? Isn't the same true for you?

And when did I ever say I was ok with bringing families into it? Show me? Go ahead, cut and paste the part where I said it was ok and I'll never darken your doorstep again.

What I said is that you are being hypocritical (again)when you imply that it's only the left that whine about it when family is brought up. Both sides bring family into the mix and both sides whine when the other side does it. Liberals are no better/no worse than conservatives in this arena.

As for Sullivan - he left the republican fold, yes, but he did so because he felt they had gotten away from traditional conservative values. He's a libertarian. He wants less government in our lives. If you think that's a liberal point of view then we need to talk.