From Bryan Fischer, Idaho Values Alliance

1. Proof that Sen. McCain’s pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate is an inspired one can be found simply by watching the left wing media bloviate, hyperventilate and mutilate Gov. Palin. The Media Research Center identified no less than 11 all-out assaults on Gov. Palin from leading lights in Big Media yesterday alone.

The simple fact is that left has gone into hysterics because, blinded by rage and animus toward conservative values, they have virtually come unhinged in their mindless attacks on Palin. This is indisputable proof that they are in actuality terrified of Palin and what it may mean for the elevation of conservative values in the public arena. They wouldn’t bother to attack her, let alone with such viciousness, if they were not in a full-fledged panic over her impact on electoral politics.

2. A second proof comes from the sudden and remarkable discovery of family values by the Big Media. Suddenly, the left has become obsessed with the issue of what kind of mother Gov. Palin is, whether she provided adequate prenatal care for her new-born baby, whether she can be the kind of mom her kids need if she holds down an important job, and whether she should even think of working outside the home with children under her roof.

This intense concern for family values is certainly welcome, but will strike the objective observer as profoundly and wildly hypocritical after hearing from these same voices for years that there is a horrible glass ceiling in America, that all conservatives want all their women to be nothing but barefoot and pregnant, and that it is in fact possible for a working woman to have it all.

3. It’s bizarre to see the left wing fretfully wringing their hands over the private sex lives, not of the candidate, but of her daughter, after hearing these same voices stridently shout for years that what a candidate does with his sexuality – let alone what the members of his family do with theirs – is irrelevant to his qualification for public office.

4. Members of the left, Sally Quinn in particular, are hammering Palin for violating evangelical standards for marriage and the family. This also is bizarre, as it amounts to subjecting Palin to a religious test for public office, something they always remind us we are not allowed to do under the Constitution.

5. More proof of the wisdom of McCain’s choice comes from the electricity that has surged through the Republican Party in response to Palin’s selection. Columnist Jonah Goldberg says he has never seen this kind of enthusiasm and energy among party faithful in any of the six GOP conventions he has attended. Palin’s speech tonight, I submit, is the most eagerly awaited speech from a vice-presidential nominee in our lifetime.

6. The enthusiasm around Palin’s nomination is a cautionary one for the GOP. There was simply no male nominee who could have produced the kind of remarkable energy she has generated. The GOP has failed to produce a crop of unapologetic pro-life, pro-family leaders who happen to be men. Palin may have more moxie and courage than the rest of both tickets put together.

Students of history and the Jewish Scriptures will remember that one of the most prominent political leaders in ancient Israel was a woman by the name of Deborah. She is identified in Jewish history as “a wife and mother in Israel.” The historical accounts make it clear that she was elevated to a position of civic leadership because of the cowardice and weakness of the men in her nation at the time. No man could be found with the strength of convictions and the courage necessary to provide national leadership.

The men of her day wouldn’t even go out to battle unless she went with them. Thus they exposed this woman to unnecessary risk due to their own cowardice, and as a consequence, the leader of the army was told, “Because of the way you are going about this, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will hand (your enemy) over to a woman (Judges 4:9).”

7. Ultimately, the decisions a family makes about what a woman does outside the home must be made by the husband and wife together. In my premarital counseling as a pastor, I always encouraged young couples to make financial plans from the beginning of their marriage that would make it possible for the wife to be a full-time mom if that’s what she wanted to do.

Many young couples depend on two incomes from the very beginning of their marriage, making it difficult for the woman to choose to stay home even though she may in time desperately want to. I spoke with the young brides-to-be about the possibility that they may find the nesting instinct a much more powerful instinct than they could have imagined, and that the time to make decisions which would enable her to give her full attention to her children was at the very beginning of their married life together.

But I was always careful to make sure that they understood that this was not my decision to make for them, but one they had to make together. It was, in the end, nobody’s business but theirs how they chose to handle such issues.

Thus it is ironic to a humorous degree to see the left suddenly insisting that it is their right to make this decision for the Palin family, and indeed for the entire country.

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