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Weird

Barry MacDonald — Editorial

The Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, Tim Walz, aimed the word “weird” at Republican v. p. candidate J. D. Vance.

The word “weird” leaves a mark. It is a potent smear.

Democrats accuse opponents of being haters, racists, etcetera, etcetera. They exacerbate and demonize in the tradition of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

Never apologize, always accuse — these are effective techniques.

Another technique is to lie.

Candidate Tim Walz talked about his family’s struggles with fertility. He said that in-vitro fertilization (IVF) allowed he and his wife to have children. He accused J. D. Vance and the Republican Party of the desire to limit IVF. “If it was up to him, (J. D. Vance) I wouldn’t have a family because of IVF,” Walz said in a campaign speech.

The question of how to treat the creation and disposal of frozen embryos is a thorny ethical question that reflects on the proper respect due to human life. Technology verges into the sacred. The care of embryos is worthy of debate. Different states will come to various conclusions, just as various states will come to different conclusions on the gamut of issues that arise with abortion.

Vance has said that he supports continued access to IVF, so Walz mischaracterizes Vance’s position.

Walz is quite crafty. He appears vulnerable and sincere on stage when he confides that IVF enabled him to be a father. He cries and elicits sympathy from his audience. He also points a dagger at Vance.

But the fact is that Walz repeatedly and deliberately lies. He and his wife didn’t use IVF to conceive children. They used intrauterine insemination (IUI), which is less controversial. Walz lies to gain political leverage. He uses his children as talking points.

What kind of parent reduces his children to talking points? One who is weirdly similar to President Biden.

Biden often claims that his son Beau died in war when he actually died of cancer. At solemn ceremonies that honored the deaths of soldiers who died in battle, President Biden falsely claimed that his son Beau died in battle. Biden horns in on the grief of Gold Star parents.

It is curious that denizens of the sinister Left employ a simple trick to confuse and deflect Americans from the truth: The sinister Left does exactly what they accuse their opponents of doing.

Their accusations are a blame shield that deflects attention away from their own horrible intentions and policies.

Democrats use lawfare against Donald Trump and his supporters, while they accuse Republicans of being threats to Democracy. Democrats categorize and stigmatize people by race and ethnicity, while they accuse Republicans of being racist. Democrats smear conservatives with charges of extremism, while they impose gender ideology on primary school students, while they imprison people for praying outside of abortion clinics, while they sic the FBI on parents who protest at school board meetings against gender ideology and critical race theory in the classroom.

A branch of Planned Parenthood opened in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood to deliver free abortions and vasectomies. These services were timed to coincide with the fanfare of Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

The American Left does all it can to devalue motherhood, fatherhood, and the family. That is just plain weird.     *