This one is about standards, conservatives
September 23rd, 2009 by Rightwing Czar at 5:34 pmQuick side note: I haven’t updated in a long time. This isn’t out of pure negligence, though. I take the LSAT this Saturday and haven’t really had the time/energy to event think about blogging for the past couple months. Expect the rightwing czar to return post-Sept 26.
I haven’t been up to date on all the good news lately, but a quick browsing of Hot Air caught my eye. It was about Sarah Palin’s recent speech in Hong Kong:
For a speech that some on the left stupidly maintained was an elaborate “prank,” it sure does seem to have been treated pretty seriously by those who were there (seriously enough, in fact, to inspire two Palin-haters to walk out in a huff).
I don’t have much to say about her speech because I didn’t watch the clip (nor do I plan on it), but I do want to say this: Since when are conservatives okay with Americans, particularly famous Americans, dissing America overseas?
This has been a sore point for conservatives and Republicans over the recent years because of the seemingly never-ending amount of America-bashing (Bush-bashing) that liberals have done overseas. From the Dixie Chicks to Barack Obama himself, we have maintained that political dissent on American soil is one thing, but taking the fight overseas is unacceptable.
Is it now okay that we have someone America-bashing (Obama-bashing) overseas because she’s one of us and we agree with her? Absolutely not. As soon as we leave American soil we should all become defenders of our country and leave the bickering at home. It’s the same reason that husbands and wives might be fighting about something but relentlessly defend each other to anyone who might ask about it. We aren’t perfect and we screw up, but how about we handle our domestic problems, domestically, instead of blathering about it overseas.
Finally, I’m not sure who was in attendance at Palin’s speech, but let me be clear about one last point: I don’t care if she was talking only to Americans or foreigners as well. This speech was billed as her “Hong Kong” speech and it absolutely has the appearance of Palin taking the our domestic spute outside the house.
And I, for one, think that’s unacceptable, which is a viewpoint that many of my conservative friends shared when it was the Dixie Chicks and Obama – will they stick to their standards when it’s Palin? It doesn’t seem likely.