Spotted at the Republican Convention during McCain’s Speech

So I’m half watching the McCain speech when I see this flash across the screen:

And besides making me sick to my stomach, I’d really like to know why? Why should special needs parents support Sarah Palin? Just because she has a little boy with Down syndrome is not reason enough to blindly throw your weight behind her. Because if you stop and look at the facts (I know, I know, I keep bringing those damn things up), you find things like this. And I can’t help but think about President Bush walking down the White House lawn to declare that he was going to support a Federal Marriage Amendment at the same time that his VP Cheney’s daughter and her lesbian partner were celebrating their pregnancy and soon after, their parenthood. See, that’s how they do, those Republicans. That’s why there’s a slogan that says It’s Okay If You’re A Republican. They take care of their own.

But if you don’t fit into their power structure, then they pretty much say “screw you.” It’s a rampant hypocrisy — Sarah Palin’s all for abstinence-only education but her daughter’s pregnant. Shrug. Bush/Cheney want to keep your same-sex partner out of the hospital if you get in an accident and think teh gays shouldn’t be adoptive parents, but Mary and Heather’s kid will never want for anything and is lovingly accepted into their arms. Shrug. Because IOKIYAR.

But work for me and my family? Not if all you’re talking about on the healthcare front is John McCain’s tax rebate and loosening restrictions on health insurance companies. Barack Obama’s plan will hopefully give more people access to healthcare, dropping actual premiums and prices — oh, and he’s also (so he says — and at least he’s saying it) going to work on not allowing insurance companies to discriminate based on existing conditions, like, say, Down syndrome. ‘Cause you see, Sarah, if you ever were to lose your sweet-ass governor job that comes with taxpayer-paid socialistic health coverage and have to buy insurance, you’d quickly find that little Trig wouldn’t be given coverage by anyone. Which is why my insurance company, in the middle of this recession, raised their rates for my family by 26% this year and all I can do is eat it. Because even the crappy insurance we’ve got is better than no insurance at all.

So don’t think that Sarah Palin feels your pain — she doesn’t. Like I said below, her pain and empathy receptors were removed (if she had any to begin with) when she joined the McCain ticket. Don’t believe me? Ask Trig how many times his mom has held him in the past week. Ask Trig why he’s been in an auditorium full of screaming banshee people late at night for the last two nights when the tiny four-month-old should be alone with his parents and siblings as they try to help him figure out this crazy world he’s been thrown into. Hell, ask Bristol Palin how she feels having her mom announce her pregnancy and engagement to some hockey-playing high-schooler in front of the whole nation. Or ask Sarah Palin herself why she thinks it is that women — girls — should have to give birth to babies and then when they need help, find that the funding for aid to teenage mothers has mysteriously disappeared.

Oh, wait, that’s right, you can’t ask her, because she’s not taking questions.

So then ask yourself if Sarah Palin’s actions (and her party’s actions) back up her words, no matter how sweet they sound, no matter how nice it is to find that your little community is suddenly on the nation’s stage.