Yes, I still like Sarah Palin!
By Camille Paglia
Nov. 12, 2008 | [excerpts]
“...Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover.
The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology — contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.
I like Sarah Palin, and I’ve heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is — and quite frankly, I think the people who don’t see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma.
So she doesn’t speak the King’s English — big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes.
She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns — that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.
As for the Democrats who sneered and howled that Palin was unprepared to be a vice-presidential nominee — what navel-gazing hypocrisy!
What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John Kerry’s nod for veep four years ago?
And Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, for whom I lobbied to be Obama’s pick and who was on everyone’s short list for months, has a record indistinguishable from Palin’s.
Whatever knowledge deficit Palin has about the federal bureaucracy or international affairs (outside the normal purview of governors) will hopefully be remedied during the next eight years of the Obama presidencies.
The U.S. Senate as a career option? What a claustrophobic, nitpicking comedown for an energetic Alaskan — nothing but droning committees and incestuous back-scratching.
No, Sarah Palin should stick to her governorship and just hit the rubber-chicken circuit,.. Step by step, the mainstream media will come around, wipe its own mud out of its eyes, and see Palin for the populist phenomenon that she is. ...” — By Camille Paglia
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/11/12/palin/print.html
Palin is such a threat to the liberal establishment there seems to be at least four to five hit pieces on her a week, I think Palin would be wise to call them on it.
I don’t think there was 1/100 the amount of hit pieces on Dan Quayle in 1993 and he actually was a vice prez for four years previous.
The are afraid of Pain for one reason and that is this:
“When Sarah Joined the Ticket before the RNC and after her speech at the RNC the jump in the polls for McCain whom was handpicked by leftists alarmed them and scared them to death, They were genuinely frightened that the loser they hand picked might actually win against the anointed one.”
If she could cause such a jump in the polls then she could be the one that could usurp the anointed one in 2012, thus the numerous hit pieces.
Either Palin can ride the storm like a Norse Thunder goddess and clean in house in 2012 or she acts as a great decoy taking the fire and hits from the liberal mainstream while we get another true conservative in Office in 2012.
In either role, i am sure Sarah Palin is up for it.