Comments on the liberal orgy over Ms. Palin’s pregnancy:

I posted this as a comment over on Barbara O’Brien’s MahaBlog, and liked it so much I just copied and pasted it here.

While I’m enjoying all this as much as anyone else, I think we have to be very careful. If the Republicans spin this right — and remember that their spinmeisters are the best around — they can make all us liberal, family disruptin’, baby-hatin’, abortionist fags look pretty bad to their constituents.

Remember that many of those folks don’t care about the pregnancy and the facts surrounding it. All that many of them will see is the good little family, Mom standing by her kids, taking care of business and doing her all to make their world a better place while her hero son goes off ta fight them heathen terrorists in Eye-rak.

Teenage pregnancies don’t bother these folks. If they did, they wouldn’t fight tooth and nail to keep their kids from having coherent information about sex. (Wonder if “the condom broke” with Bristol and swain, or if they just lacked the necessary information?) Lies obviously don’t bother them: look at how they justified (a religious term, by the way — look it up) Bush’s with regard to Iraq and a variety of other issues. As long as the kids get married and keep on squirting out little Republican Fundamentalists every year or so, the Right will forgive all.

They’ll forgive Gov. Palin as well. (You really must look up “justification.” It’s an education in itself.) She’s one of them. The more we dig, the harder they’ll dig in. The media, us liberal and progressive bloggers and others with a leftist axe to grind need to be very careful, attacking on issues of substance only, and bearing down hard, not attacking circumstances that could happen in anyone’s family.

That’s not smart. Not smart at all.

Yet another thought.

Let’s say you’re one of a young — or not so young — couple whose lives were permanently changed by a moment of carelessness in the back seat. Whose family stood by you. Who are having a hard time, and maybe just beginning to think that Barack Obama and the Democrats might have some of the answers to make your life a little bit easier.

Then those same Democrats start raining on a family that is going through exactly what you went through. Who would you be liable to identify with?

I’m telling you, it isn’t a smart move. Not smart at all.