It is amazing how much she is hated. Especially by the misogynists. I know a few of them. Their reason for hating her is “Because she’s stupid”.
I still ascribe it to what Orwell projected in “1984,” using the character of Goldstein. The ruling governmental elite cultivating a daily, intense hatred/demonization towards an individual, channeling all that anger and those dangerous emotions away from themselves and their ruling order. These elites and their slavish media have utilized Palin as their deliberate object of cultural hate, ever since she appeared on the scene.
Since the media has pretty much morphed into full-partnership with Obama and his statist agenda, the whole country is lurching into a one-party nation, opening the door to tyranny, spelling its doom. In many ways, it was that first initial treatment towards Palin that really clued me in on how close to the edge the country has now gotten. If the GOP had had a spine and fought this right away, fought alongside both Palin and the tea-party, instead of cowtowing and capitulating, I might at least have had more optimism that America will survive.