Posted on 09/05/2008 4:07:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
"The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?" -- NBC correspondent Amy Robach
"How dare they question whether Sarah Palin has enough time to spend with her children and be Vice-President. How dare they do that. When do they ever ask a man that question? When?" -- Rudy Giuliani
Since Sarah Palin exploded onto the national scene a week ago, the American Left, including Obama's press team AKA the mainstream media, has engaged in a bizarre orgy of sexism, misogyny, and grotesque attacks on her family. Let's see, we've heard accusations that Sarah Palin, while she was governor this year, actually faked a pregnancy to cover up for her seventeen-year-old daughter Bristol -- no, really, liberals pushed this story for days. Then after Palin revealed that Bristol is pregnant now and therefore couldn't have been pregnant earlier in the year, the mainstream press spent a week cruelly using a 17 year-old-girl as a political pawn to get at her mother.
Then there were the Left's claims that Palin had posed for nude pictures and their suggestion that her first son must have been born out of wedlock. Of course, we also can't forget the fake bikini shots.
Additionally, the Left has also focused on Palin's husband and brought up a drunk driving conviction he had 20 years ago (We have heard more about that from the MSM than the fact that Obama has done cocaine) and the Associated Press went so far as to say that Palin's family are valid targets because they're in photo-ops.
All this is on top of the fact that we've been treated to a full week of claims that a woman who is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama is too inexperienced to be John McCain's Vice-President and worse yet, we've heard loud mouths opining that Sarah Palin can't both run for Vice-President and be a good mother.
On top of all that, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of conservatives seemed to be absolutely thrilled with the selection of Sarah Palin, liberals spent much of the week running "when did you stop beating your wife stories" speculating about whether Palin had been vetted or whether McCain would drop her from the ticket.
That's quite a change from the near worshipful coverage Barack Obama has gotten from the media for being the first black man to head the Democratic ticket or even the fawning reportage that Nancy Pelosi received when she became the first female Speaker of the House, isn't it?
But, a conservative woman makes history and next thing you know, her pregnant 17 year-old-daughter is a front page target only a short time after the very same media spent weeks blacking out stories about John Edwards having a love child behind the back of his cancer-stricken wife.
Is the sort of treatment Palin has received a surprise? Regrettably, not to anyone who has been paying attention to how liberals attack women on the Right. Let me tell you what happens if you are a conservative woman who catches the attention of the American Left.
You are going to have liberals openly discuss gang raping you. You'll be photoshopped with a fishhook in your mouth while liberals publicly call you the worst, most obscene things you can imagine. You will be photoshopped into pornography, you will receive death and rape threats, you'll get strange stalkerish emails, you'll receive demeaning, sexualized hate mail, and if they can find out where you live and where your children go to school, the info will start showing up on left wing blogs, comment sections, and forums before you can say, "We know where you live, lady." These sort of attacks are not unusual or out of the ordinary; to the contrary, they are standard operating procedure on the Left when they go after strong, conservative women.
But, what about the liberal feminist blogs? Don't they stick up for the conservative women? Oh, sure they do -- just like they stuck up for Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey. To the contrary, the thing I have heard again and again from female bloggers is that the "feminist" blogs at best, turn a blind eye to the most grotesque smears aimed at conservative women and at worst, are leading the pack.
But, how can it be that liberals, who constantly pretend to be tolerant, enlightened supporters of feminism, regularly engage in this sort of crude sexism and misogyny?
There are three reasons for it.
First off, liberals believe that by virtue of being liberal, they can't be sexist, even when they say sexist things. Combine that with the feminists' willingess to turn a blind eye to misogynistic attacks on women who don't share their views and liberals feel like they have a free pass to say absolutely anything about conservative women. If you are a liberal, you can call Condi Rice "Mammy," say Sarah Palin can't love her children and be Vice-President, and post the home address of a conservative woman on your blog -- and you won't have to pay any price for it whatsoever on the Left. In fact, attacking conservative women based on the fact that they are conservative women will earn you nothing but plaudits and plugs from other liberals for "fighting back" against those bleeping conservatives.
Next up, the Left has a creepy, Stalinesque approach to individualism and politics. Unless you are a straight, white male, the Left does not seem to believe you have a right to hold an independent political opinion. Whether you're talking about blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, gays, you name it -- if you're not a liberal, they're going to try to intimidate and browbeat you back into line or drive you out of the public arena altogether. If you're black, you're a "race traitor," if you're a Jew, you're a "neocon" who's loyal to Israel first, if you're a woman, then you're a sexually repressed Stepford wife who's not qualified to hold office, etc., etc.
Last but not least, because liberals don't think that anyone other than straight, white males should be able to get away with having political opinions that differ from Ted Kennedy or Howard Dean, they do everything within their power to absolutely destroy any prominent examples, that blast their stereotypical view of the world, to tatters. That's why the Left reserves their blackest hatred for people like Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and now Sarah Palin; it's because they're living, breathing, inspirational examples of people the Left is supposed to "own," who don't want or need liberalism to be a success. That, most of all, is why liberals hate and fear successful conservative women.
well lemme see...
on the conservative side theres Ann Coulter, Michele Malkin, Laura Ingraham, and now Sarah Palin
on the liberal side theres Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Helen Thomas, Maureen Dowd, Gloria Steinem, etc. (why izzit that when I think of these I think ‘botox’?)
There are more of the same in the Senate and House, cooky cutter botox creeps, one and all. You could add them all up and it still would not match the intellect of Sarah Palin.
Gloria Steinem recently said the only thing Sarah Palin has in common with Hillary is a chromosome. I agree with Ms. Steinem on that, and I consider it a tremendous plus for Governor Palin.
In Russia, the Government poisons and kills its journalist. In American our journalists poisons and kills by character assisination our conservatives women and blacks.V’s wife.
Why Liberals Hate and Fear Conservative Women
A very long article to answer a question that has a very short and simple answer.
Hate and Fear is what they Liberal/Socialist party lives on. Its is what they use to drive the fringes (hate) and the core (fear). Without hate and fear they have nothing to offer anyone.
I read blogs both conservative & liberal. I have never seen such fear (expressed as the tactics that you note) about Palin. The leftists are very afraid of Palin and the boards and columnists have been very active, more active than I have seen in such time because of this fear. They see that she is connecting with voters and they fail to understand why due to their snobbery (anyone who doesn’t think like themselves is stupid). She was an excellent choice for this campaign.
I have first hand experience from my primary race for the 1st District US Congress seat here in 'South-by-God-Carolina' in June. Jenerette for US Congress
It's easy to see who the true party of equality is. The Liberals don't believe that women can really do anything without a males help.
"People see the world the way they are, not the way it is."
Go! Sarah!
Katherine
Underlining the key word.
First of all where do they get off calling themselves 'Liberals'
Thomas Jefferson was a Liberal. This crowd is nothing but leftist filth.
>>Unless you are a straight, white male, the Left does not seem to believe you have a right to hold an independent political opinion.
Mr. Hawkins is wrong here. The left does not believe that straight, white men have an independent opinion either. They believe that opinions of the mass are determined by sex, race, and class, and that only their opinions are detached from sex, racial, and class moorings. When they utter a sexist comment, they think they are a) appealing to the base instincts of the mass to further the correct political ends, or b) being ironic. At least that is how they defend themselves among their cohort.
Thank you for your spirit and tenacity.
You have to remember that the leftists have disordered, warped, and twisted minds. They are an unhappy, whining bunch, with a lot of money and backing from billionaire leftists determined to frame a world into their idealistic vision, even though communism/socialism/fascism/etc. has a track record of 100% failure. But then they have disordered minds. Nothing else explains their bizarre behavior.
I went back and looked at a few clips of Hillary.
The I watched Palin.
Hillary is probably very sad and even more angry.
Hence, her real problem.
Liberals, intolerant? Yeah right. Next you’ll be telling me Islam isn’t a religion of peace.
Not one of these folks have accomplished anything in their trivial lives which compares favorably with that of Sarah Palin.
The Governor has been doing this for the past 14 years. She was a PTA, Town Council, Town Mayor, Energy Commissioner and now Alaska's Governor. She has done it for over half of her adult life.
Or, they're just simply evil.
As long as minorities and women are not prominent in the GOP, the left can pretend that they champion diversity and criticize the GOP for being an all white male clique.
But when prominent GOP minorities and women appear, the left reveals that it doesn’t really champion diversity at all. It only counts when you march lock step to a liberal drumbeat.
This is about the best, mostinsightful analysis on this issue that I’ve seen. Thanks.
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