Just a Girl Who Couldn't Say No

By Baxter

We cats normally don't pay much attention to worthless opinion pieces by right-wing religious nutbags, but this latest column by Cal Thomas takes the cake — or, we should say, the souffle.

We were mildly surprised to find the professionally pious Cal critical of conservative darling Sarah Palin. He takes her to task for resigning her office and for not being substantive enough.

But here's the line we love best.

"It was unfair to Palin to have been selected as McCain’s running mate so soon after the birth of her youngest child, especially one with Down syndrome, and the pregnancy of her teenage daughter."

"Unfair"?? Hel-LO? Cal, we hate to break it to you, but there's a little concept known as FREE WILL. Perhaps you've run across it in your religious studies, or in the pages of Milton? But then again, maybe not. After all, you're acting as if Palin had no choice.

Sarah Palin could have turned McCain down. Perhaps this is a foreign concept for the right wing because to them, it's simply impossible for a woman's political ambitions to supersede the needs of her children. Why her conservative base hasn't criticized Palin for this, we have no idea.

We cats don't know if Sarah Palin is a fallen souffle or, having made the dark choice, a fallen conservative angel. We can only watch now as she plummets to earth.