Admire the woman who stands by her principles

SINCE Sarah Palin has been chosen as John McCain’s running mate she has been subjected to the most personal and unwarranted attacks regarding her private life and family.

Not just by the usual Democratic attack dogs who turned on her so viciously that even Barack Obama felt obliged to call them off, but also by the media.

The child she herself bore two months ago has Down’s Syndrome — a fact both she and her husband knew well in advance of the birth.

In keeping with her pro-life principles, abortion was never a consideration. This is surely something to be admired, not condemned.

It turns out that her 17-year-old daughter is also pregnant. Again, in keeping with the Palins’ pro-life principles, her daughter’s unborn child will not be aborted, but welcomed into a loving home. Again, this is to be admired, not condemned.

Yet this so-called ‘scandal’ has been on the front pages not just in America, but in Ireland. Where on earth is the sense of proportion?

And where is the outrage at this incredible treatment of a woman who has a fighting chance of becoming America’s first female vice-president? And who knows, perhaps thereafter America’s first female president?

Unlike Hillary Clinton, she will have truly made it on her own, and not on her husband’s coat-tails.

James McGrath

Birchgrove

Hollyford

Co Tipperary