I have to admit, I'm a bit naive--I like to think that even wingnuts have standards. Maybe it comes from being a bigshot in my country-club Republican high school despite the fact I was known to be an outspoken liberal. So I somehow thought that the New York Post's front-page trashing of Chelsea Clinton's new baby daughter, Charlotte, would be too much for Free Republic. After all, when Pat Robertson suggested the 2010 Haiti quake was brought on by Haiti embracing voodoo, the Freepers kicked him up, down and sideways.
Well, so much for getting my hopes up. When a Freeper posted a link to a conservative blogger tut-tutting us for our outrage over that front page, the Freepers joined right in on the sliming. Here are some of the comments:
And the IQ continues to decrease.
Oh, the Clinton-manity.
I’d like to see if the baby has grandpa’s lips.
It would be funny if someone came out and said that they were able to get DNA samples from Bill and Chelsea (or the baby), and claim there is no match between them.
Then watch people go crazy to prove that there was.
Same thing with Obama and his "half brothers" back in Africa.
I’d like to see if the baby has grandpa’s lips.
We'll know if she starts spouting lies before she can actually speak.
How long before Bill is whistling at the baby and making passes at it?
Rosemary’s baby is alive.
At least one commenter had some semblance of decency. He said, " I’m sorry I can’t support mocking an infant, I don’t care who her parents and grandparents are." Sadly, he was in the minority.
The really sickening thing about this? If there had even been a rumor that Chelsea was considering ending the pregnancy, "witch" would have been one of the nicer things she'd have been called.
I look at this, and I shudder. To think I came close to turning into a winger after getting suckered into a hypercharismatic Christian group at Carolina. And I could have sounded like this. Yuck.