God Have Mercy

My sense is that you more typically see this kind of thing as a protest against liberal events:

It’s a reminder that there seem to be several schools of thought on Sarah Palin among the folks gathered here:

1. The activists think she’s great.
2. The single-issue anti-abortion activists think she’s the greatest thing ever.
3. The cynics and professionals — strategists, journalists, etc. — think she’s probably a bad idea, though some cynics think a low-odds wager is the right move for McCain under the circumstances.

But anti-abortion activists really, really, really love her. To me it’s kind of a sign of the odd psychology of the issue. After all, though she’s an anti-abortion dogmatist she’s hardly the only dogmatically anti-abortion statewide officeholder in GOP ranks. There’s some special attraction to the idea of a youngish woman with so many children who also holds the conventional right-wing view that really drives the forced pregnancy crowd wild.