Nope. Just doesn't look like the same ole Sarah without it
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Will Mike Huckabee ever speak to Sarah Palin again? Colleagues at FOX certainly
stick together (like Hannity and Coulter, who lives under Hannity's desk for
sure), but after Sarah's faux pas at the NRA on Sunday, Rev. Huckabee will
likely be distancing himself from her.
Palin and all those who cheered her sacrilegious jibe ought to be ashamed of themselves. For us Christians, baptism is the entry into new life. Palin invoked it to celebrate torture. Even if you don't believe that waterboarding is torture, surely you agree that it should not be compared to baptism, and that such a comparison should be laughed at.
And then she manages to go one step further. She invokes torture in the context of a Christian sacrament. Not since the Nazis' Deutsche Christen have we seen something so disgusting and blasphemous in the morphing of Christianity into its polar opposite. Mercifully, some Christians on the right have managed to say something.
Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition
For anyone to confess Christ as their savior and to compare one of the means of God's grace to an act of torture is reprehensible.
Like
backtracking on Cliven Bundy, Palin Tea Party/NRA supporters are struggling to
put a brave face on a bad situation, but Palin, in her usual way, will no doubt
shrug off the critics with an "aw shucks, this is what I meant, don't be
so damned serious." Remember her defense of the gun site/get Gabriels
Giffords campaign? She sloughed it off as a "surveyor's mark." Such
implausible explanations have followed her "rogue" career without her
batting an eye. But how can she get out of this one? Can she get a witch hunter
like Rev. Muthee to pray over her? Can she rely on Franklin Graham or John Hagee
for support? Pamela Geller, maybe, but not Pat Robertson.
Oh, she could write a book about it all, but her last literary effort, Good
Tidings, Great Joy, Protecting The Heart Of Christmas, failed to stir even the
mildest of Scrooges or the most clueless right wing Christian.
Palin's Deadly Sins
Perhaps the most egregious error in the NRA speech was made later:
"When a kid in school is cussing away like any character in any Tarantino movie, nobody bats an eye," Palin said. "Ooh, but a kid saying a prayer in school, those hypocrites lose their minds."
Palin was capitalizing on a non-event: the publisher of
FOX News' Todd Starnes' book on "Traditional Values" suspiciously
broadcast that his little girl was not allowed to pray in school. The school
vehemently denied the charge.
Besides lying, Palin's violent rhetoric was so off the mark, that she seemed to
be barely Christian in her attitude: Jake Tapper (below), notes that it may
have been suitable for the NRA, but not suitable for the rest of America. The
discussion, in fact, focused on Palin's viability in the political arena: it
has shifted to "does anyone take Palin seriously anymore?" Palin's
future career was pinned down to innocuous poseur. Poor Sarah.
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