Palin confused again: forgot conservatives hate political correctness

It’s hard being Sarah Palin. Although she generally represents what social conservatives love: she’s an abortion hating married woman with folksy mannerisms, she has that problematic sticking point of a child with Down’s syndrome. And as we all know, American social conservatives love wallowing in ignorant hate for the disabled and disadvantaged.

Palin still hasn’t quite figured out how to walk the line between pleasing political-correctness hating conservatives and loving her son. Palin recently called on Obama to fire his chief of staff for using what she regards as the “crude and demeaning” term retard, but has refrained from giving a clear reaction to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh using the same word. Limbaugh has railed against those calling for a rebuke of the chief of staff, stating “our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards.”

What I find especially amusing about this story is that it so clearly represents the cognitive dissonance required of social conservatives to maintain positions of vitriolic hate for the disadvantaged of the world when faced with the realities of life. Palin is a conservative who has had to face the question “what if your kid was disabled?” Now imagine Palin and her ilk faced with similar situations in which the term “disabled” is replaced with “poor,” “gay,” “pregnant and endangered by it,” “registered as a sex offender,” “being held without charges,” or “a third striker.”

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