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Why does the left fear Sarah Palin?
The Yuma Sun ^ | July 3, 2011 | Cora Lee Schingnitz

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.


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2012; davidmamet; democrats; pages; palin; sarahpalin; thesecretknowledge
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.

And that answers the question why the GOP establishment fears Sarah Palin.

21 posted on 07/03/2011 5:23:52 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They fear the truth.

They fear the Bible.

They fear life in the womb.

They fear not being able to spend your money.

They fear losing power.

They fear Conservatives.

THEY DO NOT FEAR GOD!

22 posted on 07/03/2011 5:29:21 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Doc Savage

Don’t worry, they will.


23 posted on 07/03/2011 5:30:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
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To: Moonman62

BTTT!


24 posted on 07/03/2011 5:36:42 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( The Palin Party: The Party of Patriots.)
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To: Gondring
They only sound like personal attacks. :-)
25 posted on 07/03/2011 5:39:53 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
26 posted on 07/03/2011 5:42:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's the Obamacare, stupid! -- Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because they are TINY little people and nothing more.


27 posted on 07/03/2011 5:43:11 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: unkus

It’s simple: Evil hates and despises good.

That is it in a nutshell.

She also can’t be controlled and the elites on both the Left and Right are scared to death of that.


28 posted on 07/03/2011 5:50:43 PM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (Game On)
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To: conservativesister
The “they” that control things, know that she will not allow that control to continue and they are scared stupid!
Very well put. And 100% correct. This is THE reason they hate and fear her as much as they do.
29 posted on 07/03/2011 5:51:18 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She is one of US not one of THEM.


30 posted on 07/03/2011 5:52:04 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: jmj3jude
Sarah Palin owes no one nor is she owned by anyone, for this she is hated and feared.
31 posted on 07/03/2011 5:52:25 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Islam is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Because they know she’s inevitable.

They knew it the first time they saw her.

It's why they go insane every time they think of her.

ineluctable

32 posted on 07/03/2011 5:53:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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To: Doc Savage

“They fear the truth.

They fear the Bible.

They fear life in the womb.

They fear not being able to spend your money.

They fear losing power.

They fear Conservatives.

THEY DO NOT FEAR GOD”

Perfectly stated! Very wise words.


33 posted on 07/03/2011 5:59:32 PM PDT by GoldwaterChick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The holy grail of politics for liberals is the Supreme Court.

The thought of Sarah Palin anywhere near the process of selection of SC justices is just more than the liberal sensitivities can endure.


34 posted on 07/03/2011 6:05:13 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: jmj3jude
...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!

Indeed!

35 posted on 07/03/2011 6:16:45 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx; trisham
BTTT !
Run Sarah!

36 posted on 07/03/2011 6:22:19 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw the Rats and RINOs out!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If she was an ugly Bull Dyke she would be a shoo-in.


37 posted on 07/03/2011 6:23:46 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah has humility. She’s truly humble. I love how she responded at the opening of THE UNDEFEATED in Pella, Iowa, when she said, “It’s NOT about me!”

History has never been kind to the humble, but they make their mark in spite of the haters.

Hopefully, just maybe, Sarah’s humility will be her ultimate armor.
The principle-over-personality humility she embodies will protect her.


38 posted on 07/03/2011 6:26:50 PM PDT by b9
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To: Migraine

That’s part of it. But the left knows they have overreached and woken up the nation to the fact that the ruling class is operating outside the limits of the constitution. If a true conservative gets elected with a majority in the senate and the house, along with majorities in the State Legislatures and Governorships, and has the power to appoint federal judges and Cabinet Officials, it is much easier to follow the constitution than to work your way around the constitution in order to contravene the plain meaning of the constitution. A true conservative, as opposed to a compassionate conservative, could do more damage to the causes of the left than they could stand.


39 posted on 07/03/2011 6:27:15 PM PDT by ngat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The left knows that Palin will kick their “messiah’s” ass if she is our candidate.


40 posted on 07/03/2011 6:37:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
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