That’s how it was in my corner of Texas. The GOP headquarters in 2008 was perpetually empty and had virtually no foot-traffic, but once Palin was announced, the place exploded with people and excitement. Palin tapped into something I hadn’t seen since Reagan’s days. Regular people finally felt they had someone who represented them, both ideologically and culturally.
What a non-surprise that the GOP-E sided with the Libs and their vile media minions to try to extinguish all that, with an endless smear campaign. Just like they did once again with the Tea Party.
Conservative populism from flyover country scares the HELL out the ruling-class elites. They’ll do absolutely anything to kill it, whenever it pops up.
“Conservative populism from flyover country scares the HELL out the ruling-class elites. Theyll do absolutely anything to kill it, whenever it pops up.”
I agree. The media elites have had some success limiting the Tea Party by portraying it as a uncool bunch of senile racists. Somehow using pop culture, conservatism has to be taught to the young to get around the liberalism that is public education.
Conservative populism from flyover country scares the HELL out the ruling-class elites. Theyll do absolutely anything to kill it, whenever it pops up.Rather than start another Palin thread, I'll post this here.
It seems an appropriate response to your statement.
Posted by Evan Sayet at November 2nd, 2012
It just happened again.
I spend a fair amount of time at my local coffee shop. I like to do my writing outside and, besides, it gives me an opportunity to try and initiate political conversations with the people who pass by my hope always being to begin to enlighten them as to what conservatives really believe (and not just what the leftist media tells them.)
Today, the conversation turned to Sarah Palin and my latest acquaintance blurted out: Oh I hate her. Since she did not yet know my politics, and since we were in Los Angeles, it is clear that she expected to hear back what you usually hear back in this city: Yeah, I hate her, too. Instead, I asked her why.
At this point I could have predicted her response because its the same response you get from liberals no matter who on the Right youre talking about: Because shes stupid. I replied: Being stupid is no reason to hate someone, but tell me, which one of her policies do you disagree with? It wasnt hard to predict her response: All of them!
I continued to push. Well, then, if its all of them, it should be easy for you to name one. Her reply? Theyre too many to list.
So dont list them, just give me one, I said.
This went on for awhile until my new acquaintance finally admitted that she didnt know any of Ms. Palins policies. Before she ran off Democrats always run off when asked to provide facts to justify their hatred for Republicans I looked her in the eyes and said, If you dont know any of her policies, perhaps you should look into them. She promised she would. She wont. If there are two things you can count on with Democrats, they are filled with hate and empty of facts.
But it got me to thinking. Given that these people dont know any of Ms. Palins political positions, what is it about her that they hate? It has to be her life story. Now, to all decent people, Ms. Palins life story could not be more laudable. She married her high school sweetheart to whom she remains married and with whom she is apparently still in love. In the harshest of climes, she and Todd started a small business which, apparently, they ran well enough to purchase a home and raise a family. Despite the long hours required to run a family business and raise children, when Ms. Palin saw that the public schools were not doing a good job in educating her children, she joined the local PTA and was so effective there that the people who knew her best and in small towns like Wasilla there are very few secrets elected her to be their mayor.
Apparently, Ms. Palin was so effective in that job that the mayors of the other small towns and big cities elected her president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. After a highly successful stint as chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, she ran an uphill battle against an entrenched Republican governor and was elected to the top position, Governor, of the largest state in the nation. She did that job so well that her approval ratings despite having ruffled the feathers of the leading political family in Alaska bordered on 80 percent.
As Ms. Palins political horizons continued to grow, she found out she was pregnant with her fourth fifth child, a baby with Downs Syndrome. Despite knowing in advance that this child would require even more attention and care than other kids, Ms. Palin opted to give her child Trig life.
So, given that those who hate hate!!! Ms. Palin know nothing more than these facts about her, what is it about Ms. Palins life story that generates this blind loathing? The answer is that, at every turn, Ms. Palins story debunks the myths of victimization and self-centeredness that is at the heart of the modern liberal ideology.
First, Ms. Palin is married with children. The Democrat Partys treasured storyline is that women with children especially those who take care of them themselves are oppressed, victimized and doomed to a life without personal fulfillment. Ms. Palins life proves them wrong and the Democrats hate her for this. If Ms. Palin were a Democrat she would have offed the last child before he was born so that she could have more me time to pursue her own wants and pleasures. There is clearly something very wrong with this woman who allowed her special needs child to live. They hate her for that.
One of the most obvious demographic differences between the Left and the Right is that people without children those too self-centered and jealous of others stealing their attention, angry and hate-filled feminists, radical homosexuals and school children too young to have started a family are just about guaranteed to pull the lever for anyone with a D next to their names. Those married with children are just as assured to pull the lever for someone from the Right.
And Sarah Palin ran a small business. Democrats dont run businesses. In fact, Democrats dont do anything. If you eliminated from the voting roll everyone who did nothing other than talk the academic, the newscaster, the actor, the politician and those who game the system, collecting welfare and years of unemployment benefits and workmans compensation and food stamps, how many people would be left voting Democrat?
Lets put it this way, if having had a job having done something that required either physical labor or risking ones own money were a prerequisite to work in the White House, Barack Obama would have to fire 94 percent of his top advisers. Thats a real number. Ninety four percent of Obamas top advisers have never done anything like run a small store, paint a bridge, wire a house for electricity or anything else other than flap their lips.
This is the genesis of the notion that Palin is stupid. Liberals are convinced that theres something the matter with people who have jobs. This is what they mean by Whats the Matter with Kansas, Kansas being a place where people work Hollywood, Cambridge Massachusetts, the TV studios in Manhattan are places were people talk. To the liberal, anyone who has a job must be stupid, after all, not everyone is as good a talker as they are, but surely everyone can find one excuse or another to sit at home and collect welfare.
In fact, to the modern liberal, anyone who has a job is not just stupid, he (or she) is dangerous. These people cling to their guns and their religion because they toil for their reward. These people are constantly on the verge of violence, whether its an attack like the one they caused in Tucson (according to the leftist script) or just by going home and beating their children. Consider the lyrics of the working mans troubadour by Bruce Springsteen:
Early in the morning/factory whistle blows
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes.
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning line
Thats the work, the workin, thats the workin life.End of the day/Factory whistle cries
Man walks through them gates with death in their eyes.
And you just better believe, boy, somebodys gonna get it tonight.
(Why?) Cause thats the work, the workin thats that workin life!
Sarah Palin is stupid and dangerous because, well, to those who have made their millions by doing nothing other than talking, thats the work, the workin thats the workin life. Just in case you think thats just one example of Springsteens take on anyone who has a job, consider the horrors of his daddy who worked his whole life, for nothing but the pain. In this song, Adam Raised a Cain, daddy, of course, beats his children, now he walks these empty rooms searching for something to blame. And, in fact, it gets worse because, clearly, a child who is beaten is going to continue that cycle of violence and beat his child (you inherit the sins/you inherit the flames). So, even to the most sympathetic leftist like Springsteen, not one, not two, but three generations are destroyed all because daddy had to go to work.
And they hate Sarah Palin because she joined the PTA and made things better. No, no, thats not supposed to happen. Schools (read: the teachers union) need more money, only more money will solve the problems in the schools. Sarah Palin must be destroyed!
And, finally, they hate Sarah Palin because she was a successful mayor and governor. The Democrat Party narrative is that the American people are too stupid to successfully govern themselves and need Harvard and Yale elitists to dictate to them how they should live their lives. If a graduate of the University of Idaho can successfully run the biggest state in the union, then so can a kid who graduated from Texas A & M or even a kid with a degree from Eureka College.
If Democrats disagreed with Ms. Palin on the issues that would be one thing. But they dont merely disagree with her, they hate her and they hate her without caring one whit about where she stands on the issues. They hate her because she is living proof that everything about the Democratic Party narrative is a lie and for this reason she cannot be allowed to be liked because if Democrats liked her, they might actually listen to her policies.