To everything there is a season...........

And the CPAC weekend is certainly a season. It used to be called "Silly Season" but we are not supposed to use anything that might incite the well-honed sensibilities of the PaeleoCon community. 

They don't mind questioning the legitimacy (in several senses of the word) of the President of the United States. They don't mind claiming that the members of the United States military are willing to break their Oaths of Enlistment or Commission at will. They certainly don't mind calling for the overthrow of the American government by force and violence.

On the other hand, when a cartoon show writes a spot for a female character who is assertive, who is confident, who is quite capable of dealing with the world at large, and, oh yeah, has Down Syndrome, the CPAC attendees and speakers (paid and otherwise) rise as one to claim the whole thing is an Anti-Christian plot. As closely as can be determined, when the character tells her date that her father is an accountant and her mother is the former Governor of Alaska, the writers were mocking Sarah Palin, her youngest child, her daughters, any future children, any and all people with Down Syndrome, everyone who has made the choice to carry a Down Syndrome fetus to term, and (because this was secretly written to mock Sarah's objections to an off-the-record comment by Rahm Emmanuel) a sneaky way to continue the Jewish oppression of Christians so prevalent in the United States.

So even though she is not present at CPAC, Sarah Palin manages to  remain part of the story. Isn't that nice? Of course, the cartoon episode was written months before she decided to chastise the Chief of Staff for using a word common in Right-Wing Talk Radio, so that doesn't work. Similarly, the actress (who has Down Syndrome) who did the voice for the character didn't have a problem (in fact, she did a swinging open letter pointing out the need for Ms. Palin to grow a sense of humor whilst she chastised the way that she (Palin) used the child as a prop). And the off-beat goes on.