It seems the reason we don’t like Sarah Palin is that we are all deeply grieved by the abortions that we had/performed/caused. You think I’m kidding?
The New Republic’s Kevin Burke has figured it all out.
The Palin Trig-ger
Looking behind the hostility.By Kevin Burke
Some of the very personal and often uncharitable criticism of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her family may have a relationship to the collective grief, shame, and guilt from personal involvement in the abortion of an unborn child. Because abortion is usually a deeply repressed sensitive area of complicated grief, when a news story touches on abortion related issues, the common response is often one of the following: