Brunswick Beacon, 09.12.24
Five American presidents had no biological children: James Buchanan, James Polk, Andrew Jackson, James Madison (the “Father of the Constitution”) and George Washington, who was too busy winning our independence and being the “Father of His Country” to sire any children of his own.
Washington, like Kamala Harris, was also a parent to two stepchildren. That’s not enough for Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, who says America is run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
Vance has attacked Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg by name, although each has two non-biological children.
The Wall Street Journal called Vance’s remark a “smart-aleck crack” that insults women. Vance doubled down, saying “I’m sorry, it’s true” and insulted women again with yet another smart-aleck crack: “I’ve got nothing against cats.”
Vance accuses childless teachers of “trying to brainwash the minds of our children. And that really disorients me and it really disturbs me.”
Vance’s attitude is so offensive that Fox News host Trey Gowdy introduced Vance by praising the work of “Catholic nuns, childless, dedicated to God, [who] love this country, living lives of service to others. And it’s not just Catholic nuns. Some of the finest people I know don’t have children — teachers and guidance counselors and lawyers and doctors and they love other people’s children enough to teach and guide and protect and minister to them. Some people choose not to have children. Others desperately want them, but they can’t.”
If the idea of childless nuns teaching children “disorients” and “disturbs” Vance so much, he must be really deranged by childless Jesus, who said, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.”
Larry Widman
Leland
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