Columnist: ‘Palin should beware of exploiting youngest child’
February 14th, 2010Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker says Sarah Palin’s failure to reprimand Rush Limbaugh for his repeated use of the “R-word” serves to demonstrate that she has been “using her child as a political tool.” An excerpt:
Might Trig someday read his mother’s abortion thoughts and find them hurtful?
… Celebrities who embrace causes are valuable players in raising awareness and advancing policy. That said, the degree to which one uses another’s circumstances to achieve those ends requires a studious self-awareness that seems lacking in the equation of Trig and his mother.
Perhaps the erstwhile governor still thinks in first-person plural, viewing Trig as part of herself. But he is also a separate individual deserving of privacy, if unable to say the words she needs to hear: “No more, Mama, please.”
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