UPDATED: Focus On The Family's Pam and Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad

These are the two ads run by Focus on the Family featuring Pam and Tim Tebow that aired before and during the Super Bowl. To say they are tame is a major understatement. When you think back to all the shrill comments made by the pro-abortion groups, you begin to see just what these people are truly afraid of.

What the pro-abortion side is worried about is that the pro-life message is becoming mainstream. Just last month Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol were on the cover of In Touch magazine with a big fat pro-life message. The pro-abortion side is fearful of these pro-life messages becoming mainstream because they are very hard to counter. Consider the ad above. It is positive; it is uplifting and makes a profound point in the gentlest way. Now try to imagine making a pro-choice message with all the same elements, pretty hard to do without being absolutely perverse. 


UPDATE: Associated Press mis-characterizes Tebow ad


The blog Power Line catches the Associated Press totally making stuff up in their description of the Focus on the Family ad. Here is how AP describes the ad:

And a commercial by conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, perhaps the most anticipated ad of the night, hinted at a serious subject although it took a humorous tone too. Heisman winner Tim Tebow and his mother talk about her difficult pregnancy with him and how she was advised to end the pregnancy--implying an antiabortion message--but ended with Tebow tackling his mom and saying the family must be "tough."

Did they see the same ad?

Via: Memeoranum
Via: Hot Air
Via: Power Line

Why they hate Sarah and Trig

Over at Legal Insurrection, William ponders about what causes the left to hate Trig Palin. He closes his post with this statement:

If Sarah Palin had aborted Trig, the left would have been okay with it. If she hid Trig offstage and out of sight, all would be good. But treat the child as you would any other child, and that cannot be tolerated.

There is something about a Down syndrome child in plain view, which has exposed the moral and emotional bankruptcy of the left-wing of the Democratic party. And they hate Sarah Palin because deep down, they hate themselves for being who they are.

William is close, but not quite there. The reason why they hate Trig and Sarah is because the two of them force people who believe in abortion to confront their actions.

A look at Sarah Palin’s circumstance before giving birth to Trig, one finds that she had all of the touted reasons for having an abortion. Palin was in her forties, had four children already, a very big and demanding job and her son to be was diagnosed with Downs Syndrome. Palin even acknowledges her temptation to change her circumstances in her Pro Life speech in Evansville, IN. As we all know, Palin chose life and unlike what Obama and many other pro-abortion supporters believe, Palin wasn’t punished for it. Instead Palin is happy, happy with Trig, happy with her life and happy with her new circumstances. Furthermore, it did not slow her down either; she went on to run for VP as well.

Now imagine women with lesser circumstances than Palin and they aborted their child for any of the circumstances above. When they look at Sarah and Trig, there may well be feelings of doubt, shame, guilt or selfishness. These are very hard and ugly emotions to confront themselves with. However, in our blame free society, it is far easier to lash out at Sarah and Trig for causing these questions to be raised.

For those who promote abortion, they see Sarah and Trig and must realize that they may very well be promoting a very painful lie. Again, it is easier to lash out at Sarah and Trig than to question their promotion of abortion.

Unlike many conservatives who can only argue for Pro-Life, Palin and Trig are physical proof of the Pro-Life argument. For the left, there is no physical answer to them, thus they hate.