What lessons – if any -can one glean about the direction of the Republican Party from its embrace of an ultra-conservative working mother with a daughter pregnant out of wedlock? According to Jordan Mejias of Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, it may indicate a change in course best highlighted by harkening back to the infamous Dan Quayle-Murphy Brown episode of 1992.
“Republicans in the past, when dealing with a mother of five and soon-to-be grandmother, wouldn’t have been so quick and would even have considered it reckless to advise her to take on a job as well, let alone one of such importance. In the past, she would have been allotted a kitchen stove. … If you recall Dan Quayle, one of Palin’s predecessors, who with the support of his Republican Party comrades railed against the TV character Murphy Brown for having an illegitimate child, and accusing the creators of the series with threatening the fabric of American values, then you’ll realize just how far the Republicans have come.”
By Jordan Mejias
Translated By Ulf Behncke
September 4, 2008
Germany – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – Home Page (German)
There is absolutely nothing wrong with ultra-conservative Republicans, amid their otherwise steadfast evangelical certainly, to make a U-turn. In the past for instance, when dealing with a mother of five and soon-to-be grandmother, they wouldn’t have been so quick and would even have considered it reckless to advise her to take on a job as well, let alone one of such importance. In the past, she would have been allotted a kitchen stove.
Sarah Palin, perhaps the next Vice President of the United States of America, has caused a reversal of opinion that takes one’s breath away. She is the determined, although until recently unknown standard-bearer, of good-old traditional America. Now suddenly, people are confident that in addition to her enormous family duties she will be capable of handling this all-consuming role; all this despite the fact that even her most ardent supporters admit – she still has to learn a thing or two.
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