Posted on 07/03/2011 4:58:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I have long wondered why people are so hostile about Sarah Palin. Women in general and everyone on the left bring to the table their stock jibes, their ad homonym attacks so filled with bile it's palpable. I have come to expect it with regard to George W. Bush, but why is Sarah Palin such a threat? Author David Mamet in his “The Secret Knowledge” explains a lot.
According to Mamet, Sarah Palin is a threat for several reasons. One is she's a woman, and the left really doesn't like women. “How do I know? Look at Monica Lewinsky and Broadbent, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, and Mary Jo Kopechne, and all of these people who were in various ways vastly abused, and in one place, killed by liberal men and the left said nothing about it,” Mamet writes.
Oddly enough, feminists share the left's contempt for the feminine. And for all her accomplishments, Palin is feminine, an attractive woman, mother of five with a handsome and devoted husband, so she is attacked as a kind of freed succubus.
However, Mamet says the animus against Palin is not so much her status as a woman or as a conservative, but as a worker. “There was a time when the American left was made up of workers, factory workers, people who fix lawn mowers. The left today is the cheese and white wine guy, the Malthusian type, who talks about a greedy world with too many people getting in their way.”
Sarah represents much too clearly that portion of the population that gets in the way. She is an actual worker, a commercial fisherman “like Harry Truman she knows hard work, she knows of what she speaks.”
Mamet suggests that Palin's story is part of the American Myth. She is the living embodiment of those Hollywood myths: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Contender, The Farmer's Daughter, The Candidate, Bulworth. “The myth is played out over and over again and when the left sees that in real life, in someone who is not on their side, someone who has not been indoctrinated, someone who expresses herself well and is unusual and attractive and funny, it scares the hell out of them.”
So what can they say? “She's stupid.”
If she is so stupid, how did she become so wildly successful at everything she does? She worked her way from town councilman to small-town mayor, to state oil and gas commissioner to state governor, to vice presidential candidate in a little over 15 years. She took on the corrupt good old boys in the Republican Party.
She sold on eBay the Westwind II jet her predecessor had purchased against the wishes of the Alaskan taxpayers, and cut down on the staff in the governor's mansion, holding meetings in her kitchen Golda Meir-style, while caring for her family and in her spare time helping her husband fulfill his fishing contracts. Yes, Sarah Palin has it all — beauty, brains and brawn, and it's driving the left wild.
Thank you, David Mamet, for helping me understand the animus of the left that believes that big government is the answer to all our problems. They are threatened by “We the people” and our desire to manage our own lives, and Sarah Palin is “We the people.” She is the embodiment of what it is to be an American.
bttt
Palin ‘12!!!
The “they” that control things, know that she will not allow that control to continue and they are scared stupid!
Because she represents everything they despise. I think they hate her at least as much as they fear her.
why does the Wizard of Oz fear Toto?
Palin is optimistic, thankful and happy. Plus, she has low body fat and clear skin.
All of these are unforgivable. She must be stopped.
I love it!
They fear her most because sh represents an existential threat to all they have been building in this country (or should I say, tearing down in this country) for the last 50 years.
She is preparing to kick the hell out of them. They see it and are panic stricken, as is the GOP Establishment. why do they fear her? Simple: Why does baloney reject the grinder?
In short, she is not one of the elite.
As Stephen K Bannon noted, they fear Palin for the same very specific reason they feared Reagan—because she has proven she will do what she says she will do.
And she will fight corruption.
The “they” that control things, know that she will not allow that control to continue and they are scared stupid!
Second that.
Johnny Suntrade
Yes, how can she be so stupid and yet accomplish so much.
The dems have Michelle. What a contrast for the Dems.
I’d be jealous to. Sadly, I believe the dems hate her
so much, they would come out in droves to vote
against her. She may be the last chance we have to save
our country, but I am afraid we wouldn’t come out in the
droves to offset the haters. Hate is a STRONG emotion,
but in this case it is just pure envy & jealousy which
turns into hate. God Bless Sarah, though.
I do not have access to *our* BTTT GO SARAH or to her photos!
Oh! Oh! I know this one!
Toto pulled back the curtain, and exposed the Wiz as a fraud!
Can I have a cookie now?
I believe a lot of liberal women hate her because they were told in order to be successful in life and in the business world, they needed to put off children. Maybe even eliminate the child through abortion if it got in the way of their career. They were also taught to hate men and that they were the cause of not breaking through the so called glass ceiling. Now along comes a Conservative women that had 5 children, did not have to abort any children, even had a down syndrome child to boot. Had a happy married to a man who supported her career. She’s not just a career women, she was a mayor, a Governor, a vice presidential contender and possibly the First Woman President of the United State, you can’t break the glass ceiling any higher than that. And she never followed the script woman have been given from the left. It truly exposes the sham the left have sold to woman over the years. They need her to be gone or they are exposed to woman all over the world as the obvious frauds they are!
Because she represents everything they despise. I think they hate her at least as much as they fear her.
It’s simple: Evil hates and despises good.
Are you trying to say Sarah’s a dog? LOL!!!
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