Posted on 11/09/2010 7:29:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
"Sarah Palin represents an America this is absolutely, definitionally white, that's very much rural America."
That's how The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan summed up the former Alaska governor in his appearance on the November 7 BBC Radio 4 "Americana" program.
Echoing Peter Jennings' infamous description of the 1994 midterms, the liberal British-born blogger added of 2010 voters that they had "had a panic, a tantrum."
For his part, Washington-based "Americana" host Matt Frei reinforced Sullivan's analysis, labeling Palin the "Evita of the North" and generally failed to question Sullivan's analysis.
"Despite all the kind of hullabaloo about the Tea Party, and they did have a very energetic campaign, and we were all fascinated by them, they didn't do that well, not as well as they thought they would," Frei helpfully offered Sullivan. The Atlantic blogger agreed, adding, "Without [the Tea Party candidates] the Republicans would have won the Senate. I think that's quite clear."
Sullivan rebuked both liberals and conservatives for having "misjudged" Obama.
"The Left wanted him to be this iconic transformational figure, and the right needed a bogeyman, so, he's stuck in the middle," Sullivan protested.
Of course in doing so, Sullivan completely neglected the fact that Obama and his campaign surrogates sold the then-candidateto the 2008 electorate as precisely an "iconic transformational figure" and that conservatives have legitimate grievances over his policies, such as ObamaCare and stimulus spending.
Sullivan, however, did predict a silver lining to the midterm shellacking that Obama and the Democrats suffered:
I happen to think that in the long run, the middle will work, and the more tempestuous American politics becomes -- especially when it's gridlocked -- the more people seek some sort of calm guy in the middle of it all.
Perhaps Sullivan thinks an Obama figure is needed for America's long-term decline, which he also predicted:
MATT FREI: Do you think the American people are aware of the power of India and China and what this could mean to the supremacy of this country?
ANDREW SULLIVAN: I think they are at a nervous, subliminal level. I don't think they've really faced up to it and addressed it, which is hence this, what I would call almost neurosis about continuing to say America is number one when America may not be number one anymore. I'm just not sure that this isn't cyclical, this isn't the new normal, this isn't the recessionary economy we're always going to live in and that's a hard thing for Americans to adjust to. They do not want to ackowledge that their elevator up has stalled.
“Racist” Palin IS MARRIED TO A NATIVE AMERICAN”!
I believe her name is spelled “Sarah” not “Sara” FRiend.
Sadly, so do many FReepers. Be on the look out. We need to purge them as we did the Romneybots and Paultards.
Sadly, so do many FReepers. Be on the look out. We need to purge them as we did the Romneybots and Paultards.
It’s Alaska short-hand we that live here use for ‘Former Govenor” - think of it as a term of endearment.....
I agree, this just another anti-Palin “hit piece.”
God, I just absolutely hate that kind of smug liberal condescension, the reply that arrives with a fake serious visage along with, “Gee, you need help... you’re really troubled... you have issues.”
What it means is that Andrew Sullivan treats a large number of his neighbors with contempt.
My own response to these kinds of people is also served with contempt, a knowing look that penetrates their sense of entitlement, and this statement: “You really have a skin color fetish. How sad.”
Since he’s in England, let’s just say he needs to be gobsmacked.
So, I take it you knew how to spell “Murkowski” last Tuesday?
So what?
I can't wait until the British muzzies do him wrong personally. They don't like gays.
The culture of big city blacks is in a death spiral. I can’t save the world.
Nonsense. She is white; many of us are white. Beyond that there is nothing to be inferred. He should get over it, or invent a new crime, “supporting constitutional government while white.”
LOL! If they could hear what my black coworkers think of gays...
“Palin Represents ‘An America That Is Definitionally White’”
Sullivan’s dope-addled brain must be incapable of owning up to the fact that Palin endorsed two black men (Col Allen West in FL and Tim Scott in SC), a black woman (Star Parker in CA), a Latina woman (Susana Martinez in NM), and a Punjabi woman (Nikki Haley) in SC.
Not to mention that she married a man of Native Alaskan heritage (Yup’ik Eskimo), making all five of her children part Yup’ik.
Silly Sully is a flippin fool.
- JP
Andy,
You might also have mentioned that, unlike you, she represents an America that is heterosexual.
ROTFLOL Like they didn’t try to make it that way.
SHe married a guy who is part Native American, her own children and grandchild are Federally recognized Native Americans, yet she is “definitionally white” in some post-racist racial euphemism that means absolutely nothing to the insulted but is understood language code to those who bide their time on earth fostering diversion and divisiveness amongst the populace.
The white people with their black slaves and Chinese railroad workers and Mexican ranch hands, right sparky.
The Left hates Palin because she is 1) unabashedly Christian, 2) conservative and articulate in a combination we have not seen since Reagan, and 3) a child, not of some elite, but of ordinary, decent Americans.
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