Sarah Palin, Small-Town America, and the Democrats' Ongoing Arrogance Problem

US News & World Report ^ | 12 September 2008 | Andrew M. Langer

[Terrence DoGood]

There was a map of the United States produced after the 2000 and 2004 elections, showing the presidential campaign victories on a county-by-county basis in blue and red. America was a sea of red, with clusters of blue for the most part relegated to major urban areas in the East, West, and scattered in between. The Democratic Party is an urban one, focused largely on urban problems and constituencies.

But in order to win in 2008, Democratic leaders knew that they needed to woo small-town America. The time was ripe, the theory went, with an unpopular president, an unpopular Congress, and a Republican Party that had somehow lost its way. So the Democratic machine went to work, bringing Barack Obama to places like Montana, hoping that he could build on that dissatisfaction and show that the Democratic Party cares about Main Streets across the U.S.A., no matter how rural or sparsely populated.

Which is why the attack on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and her prior experience of being the mayor of a town of 9,000, is both strange and troubling.

[Terrence DoGood]

This story is a couple of weeks old but more relevant today than ever.

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

And this...shows why perhaps the prisoners of governemnt who are trapped in the big cities maybe should only get one half vote per person>>>>>http://www.esri.com/industries/elections/graphics/results_2004_lg.jpg

[PGalt]

Those 2000 and 2004 maps told a story, a story with an important lesson. It had appeared as though the Democrats had learned it, but this new bit of arrogance shows that they have not.

Very good article. Thanks for posting. The arrogance of socialists/criminals knows no bounds.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Democrats have an elitist edge to them, which turns off lots of small town voters.

Democrats tend to be too liberal when running for pres. anyway. A footnote to the 2000 and 2004 elections were that there was a state with many more registered Dems. than Republicans that went Republican each time. That state is West Virginia. Those Democrats in West Virginia tend to be socially conservative, though supportive of Democrats running in state and local elections. So they have switched to vote for Republicans for president in big enough numbers to swing the state.

I mention West Virginia too, because while they have only 5 electoral votes, it was enough to tip the election to Bush in 2000. If Al Gore had carried West Virginia, the whole circus in Florida would not have mattered, because Gore would have won the election anyway.

Heck if Gore had carried his own home state in 2000 he would have been president. Tennessee also has lotsa Democrats but they are not so far out liberal/radical like the national Democratic party has gotten to be.

[PGalt]

And this...shows why perhaps the prisoners of governemnt who are trapped in the big cities maybe should only get one half vote per person...

Get rid of the vote fraud in the 'rat controlled big cities and they would fall apart.

[gridlock]

I was at a dinner on Monday with a bunch of East Coast professional types. They went on and on about how stupid everybody else in the country was. They just don't get it. They are all graduated of the Dale-Carnegie-In-Reverse, How to Insult Friends and Alienate People.

[littlehouse36]

This talking point about the population of Wasilla, Alaska, is insulting—to the millions of Americans who live in small towns, to those who have done the hard work of serving the public in governance of those small towns, and to the intelligence of all of us by trying to confuse the real issues of experience and judgment with phantom ones.

Great piece. Thanks for posting.

[caseinpoint]

Democrats have, as political strategy, talked so long and so often about taking care of the “little people” that they actually believe everyone but the Democratic elite comprises the “little people” who cannot be trusted with their own money, let alone the reins of power. Democrats doubtless feel their objections to Palin differ only a little from what their objections would be if a five-year-old were given the car keys and told to drive himself to school.

[patriot08]

Email McCain. Tell him he has an obligation as our candidate to get off his duff and fight back. Hit the Marxist/Muslim hard with Ayers, Acorn, Violation of Logan Act, Campaigning for Odinga!!

MCCAIN WEBSITE
http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
_______________________________________

Is this sheer insanity or what? Letting a black Obama supporter and Obama book author have control of the one and only vice presidential debate??

And here’s the e-mail address of Janet H. Brown, Executive Director of the Debates Commission: jb@debates.org
FREEP HER OUT WITH PROTESTS. DEMAND IFILL BE REPLACED.
_________________________________________

Go here
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html, read ‘The Making of a fuerher’- the best explanation I’ve found about the Obama worship insanity.

[PGalt]

:) Exactly.

[cookcounty]

Well HERE’s something fresh from this morning:

Boston Globes’ LEAD Editorial:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/10/01/wasilla_made_rape_victims_pay/

This rape “story” has been debunked and redunked over and over, but the Globe just can’tresist a delicious LIE. They just cut and paste rumors ver there, they can’t even Google!

[ScreamingFist]

.

[Wonderama Mama]

The great thing is, that if Barack looses, these people will get even nastier and start calling people who didn't vote for him stupid and racist. It's like clockwork.

They never stop to think about who they continually support and place on the top of the ticket. It's always someone elses fault, which is the basica philosopy of the left.

[irish4]

I wonder how many people live in cities and towns of 20,000 or less in the United States. I'm not sure if the information is readily available, but if it is a big number it could frame a nice talking point for Sarah Palin and the relevance of having someone like her on the ticket.

[jcon40]

Time for the Red County Revolt !

[Jerry Attrick]

I took the time to read through all the minute of the bill passed in Alaska in 2000...and not ONE mention of Wasilla or Sarah Palin. There were four towns that were listed as placed that it occurred...again, not listed was Wasilla. If they were so outraged at Sarah Palin making victims of rape pay for their examinations, why wasn’t she or her town listed...???

There is also NO record of anyone ever being charged in Wasilla for the rape kits.

The Communistic, Fascist, Nazi-like media in this country are empty souls at best and absolute evil at worst

[bitterdfwrepub]

I think the key to Republicans winning this election is Sarah Palin. No, I am not talking about scoring points in the debate.

There is a very deep, but slowly awakening current flowing through America. It is the absolute disgust the people feel towards their elected representatives. They are tired of these people pouring out their hard-earned money they have been forced to pay to the government, as if it was an endless supply of water. A 10% approval rating for congress should be telling us this. Nobody gets this low in approval for so long unless there is monumental antipathy towards them.

The people are tired of being spit on by the likes of Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi. They are fed up with double-talk from legislators who pull in enormous sums of money from lobbyists and mysteriously fail to ever reform anything not to the lobbyists’ liking.

The average citizen is the most underrepresented constituency in the country today.

Palin’s big message needs to be the one she is starting to use-that with her the people will have a voice in the White House.

People will respond. Even some of the Obamanuts who are not too far gone may be persuaded to come over if they have misgivings about the little o.

She needs to immediately launch a bus tour or its equivalent after the debate, doing interviews every day with local radio and TV stations, (local stations tend to be honored, and don’t view her as a target like the self-appointed big shots at the networks) at least three a day, doing speeches every day, at least two or three a day to various groups in battleground states until she has wrung absolutely every last vote out of the populace.

I think she pulls some of her strength from her family. They need to accompany her on the bus.

[MrB]

Since a liberal is made up of arrogance and ignorance,

if you take away their arrogance,

all they’re left with is ignorance.

[Edgerunner]

A long, but illuminating read!