Sarah Palin panders to the Irish this St. Patrick's Day. And uses Ronald Reagan to do it.

Picture at top of Palin's Facebook post.

Courtesy of the Stoned Blarney Spewer's Facebook page:  

Top 'o the Morning on this happy St. Patrick's Day! May the luck of the Irish continue with us through election day this fall! And to the Sheeran leaf of our family tree – may your Irish eyes keep smiling!

She uses Todd's heritage to pander to the minorities. Trig to pander to the pro-life movement. Track to pander to the military. And now her family's ancestors to pander to the Irish.

She even uses the image of Ronald Reagan to stimulate the nipples of the conservative necrophiliacs.

Not an ounce of shame in that one.

I wonder if anybody has told her that the Irish were the Hispanics of their day?

Here is a little history: 

The Irish were ostracized from American society for many things besides just being newcomers. The Irish were ostracized for being Catholic. Many Protestants and "native" Americans were distrustful of a religion that was, as they viewed it, highly irregular with its beads, meditative prayers to Jesus' mother, oils, saints and statues. The Irish were also categorized as angry, alcoholic beings--( the term "don't get your Irish up", stemmed from a stereotypical belief in the volatile Irish temper) who drank all the time in saloons and had regular bar brawls and parties filled with revelry and debauchery. They were illiterate, greedy,--therefore desperate to make it "Micks on the Make"--their families were too clannish, bred like rabbits, and the Irish were entirely figured to be a stupid servant race by the Bostonians and most of "native" America. These images were portrayed in the daily Boston and New York newspapers, photographs, and other media of the time. Those looking to escape these stereotypes and rise above them to be part of American society like Joseph P. Kennedy, had to work hard and take many knocks before any change was rendered.

Sound familiar? 

Yet now many of the descendants of these people, who fought so hard for acceptance, are vilifying those who are following the same path.

Remember both Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly are of Irish descent, and yet they feel no sense of hypocrisy in damning the Hispanic community for attempting to gain the same sense of belonging that the Irish fought so hard for in decades past.

And of course neither does Palin.

But fortunately for the "new Irish" there is a man of Irish descent in a position of power who WILL stand up for their cause.