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Just Because: Analyzing the Psychology of Palin-Hate
Renew America ^ | 11-17-09 | Paul A. Ibbetson

Posted on 12/17/2009 9:48:13 AM PST by ibbetsonusa

“I hate Sarah Palin, I… I just hate her!” That is not an uncommon outburst from some when it comes to feelings about one of the most polarizing figures (in “liberal” minds) in the political arena. As I write about the political happenings of the former governor of Alaska, I am continually amazed at both reader responses and callers to my radio program, Conscience of Kansas, when it comes to the level of hatred that Palin generates from some in the public. So, who are the real Palin-haters? Is there a common factor that binds people who find their blood boiling when this woman’s name is mentioned? Is their argument for Palin-hate justified? I hope to create a discussion that may illuminate why some politicians just appear to be “hate-magnets.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: feminism; ferraro; liberalfascism; obama; operationleper; palin; pds; romney; romneyantigop; romneyantipalin; sarahpalin; waronsarah
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1 posted on 12/17/2009 9:48:15 AM PST by ibbetsonusa
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The writer did a great job of laying out the phenomenon but bails out at the end. Its simple - they hate her because they sense she's got wide appeal and ultimately threatens their plan to dominate society.
2 posted on 12/17/2009 9:54:34 AM PST by skeeter
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Seems a pretty complex way to say that they are simply nuts. I know plenty of liberals and the ones who really really hate Palin are all dopers (weed and hash). Take that as you will.


3 posted on 12/17/2009 9:58:06 AM PST by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
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To: ibbetsonusa

I love Sarah, but hate Todd, because he’s between me and Sarah. Like I ever had a chance. . .


4 posted on 12/17/2009 9:58:33 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Maureen Dowd is right. I DON'T like our President's color. He's a Red.)
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I’ll mention your comment to Sarah tonight as we sip wine and plot the destruction of liberalism and whisper sweet nothings to each other.


5 posted on 12/17/2009 10:00:07 AM PST by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: ibbetsonusa

President Palin....has a nice ring to it!..................


6 posted on 12/17/2009 10:01:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Obama - The first ever elected lame duck..............)
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To: Seruzawa
Seems a pretty complex way to say that they are simply nuts.

She brings out the worst in my "favorite" kind of libtard...the pro-choice, anti-hunting crowd. Anyone that's that conflicted is pretty easy to send into a tizzy.

7 posted on 12/17/2009 10:02:20 AM PST by gundog (A republic...if you can keep it.)
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To: skeeter

Part of the problem is that series of skits done on SNL. I have actually heard some people quote the dialog on the SNL skits as if they actually came from Sarah and not that silly what’s-her-name braindead liberal................


8 posted on 12/17/2009 10:04:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Obama - The first ever elected lame duck..............)
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To: ibbetsonusa

Sarah Palin exposes the feminist lie by how she lives her life. She has all the things that women supposedly can never have without being feminists - especially happiness. As a result, her very existence exposes the entire feminist tyranny as a fraud, and shakes the hold the feminist tyrants have over their liberal female mind-slaves.

Thus, her very existence causes feminists to shriek with literally hysterical rage.


9 posted on 12/17/2009 10:07:14 AM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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Typical. Libs did the same thing to Reagan, Quayle, etc.

It comes as no surprise they have trouble separating fact from their own wishful thinking.

10 posted on 12/17/2009 10:08:18 AM PST by skeeter
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To: ibbetsonusa
"“I hate Sarah Palin, I… I just hate her!” "

Of course they "hate" her...she's everything they are NOT.

But wait...I thought all the "hate" in America was on the right? /sarc
11 posted on 12/17/2009 10:11:41 AM PST by FrankR (oBAMA: I'd rather pay higher premiums and live, than sit before your Death Panels and die.)
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To: Talisker

Evil instinctively knows who to hate. You can tell if someone is good just by the level of hatred they receive, if the world loves the person (like Obama last year) be very suspect.


12 posted on 12/17/2009 10:14:16 AM PST by Lets Roll NOW
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To: ibbetsonusa

Every once in a while I like indulge myself and think about how the media would have treated Sarah, considering all she has accomplished by merit and not marriage, if she had been a liberal Democrat with a string of abortions and no church affiliation.


13 posted on 12/17/2009 10:15:41 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Lets Roll NOW
Evil instinctively knows who to hate. You can tell if someone is good just by the level of hatred they receive, if the world loves the person (like Obama last year) be very suspect.

"If the people of this world hate you, just remember that they hated me first. If you belonged to the world, its people would love you. But you don't belong to the world. I have chosen you to leave the world behind, and that is why its people hate you. Remember how I told you that servants are not greater than their master. So if people mistreat me, they will mistreat you. If they do what I say, they will do what you say. People will do to you exactly what they did to me. They will do it because you belong to me, and they don't know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin."

- John 15: 18-22

14 posted on 12/17/2009 10:19:53 AM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: ibbetsonusa

Calling Mitt Benedict Romney,
please pick up the white courtesy phone.


15 posted on 12/17/2009 10:21:27 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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“Sarah Palin exposes the feminist lie by how she lives her life.”

I think that’s most of it right there. She’s the antithesis of everything they hold dear.


16 posted on 12/17/2009 10:35:11 AM PST by Pessimist (u)
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To: ibbetsonusa
They hate her ... because they fear her.
17 posted on 12/17/2009 10:35:53 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: ibbetsonusa

I think it’s simpler than all of that. They hate her for the same reason they hated Reagan: she’s conservative and happy at the same time.

Liberals are not happy. And they hate happy people.


18 posted on 12/17/2009 10:36:36 AM PST by lurk
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To: ibbetsonusa

Most Palin haters are gay radicals.


19 posted on 12/17/2009 10:36:41 AM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: lurk

People who don’t like her are among the same ones who scream “Bush destroyed the world” but really have nothing to back that up with. Or the ones who don’t like Cheney because he was a rich oil man, or nonsense like that.


20 posted on 12/17/2009 10:38:56 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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