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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.
Your country needs you.
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Her strong Evangelical Christian background/belief is another reason she is hated by the left. Probably why some Jews and Catholics wouldn’t like her, either.
...and the answer is that she does NOT fear them! :)
Yes, hate IS a strong emotion, as is LOVE. We HATE barry and LOVE Sarah.
I understand your point, but I believe the opposite of what you stated will happen. We all HATE the direction our country has taken. Even those who don't even like Sarah must choose between barry or Sarah. If they HATE Sarah, but don't want barry in the WH, they will stay home.
I believe 2012 will be an historic election.
Amen! Damn fools. The ONE thing we should all fear, they poopoo.
You are precisely right!
I cannot imagine the disappointment if Sarah does NOT run.
THEY FEAR HER BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT FEAR THEM!
THEY FEAR HER BECAUSE THEY ARE TERRORISTS
AND FEAR IS THEIR ONLY WEAPON.
THEY FEAR HER BECAUSE THEY FEAR US
AND SARAH IS US.
Agreed. I call it Billy Budd Syndrome. Evil is infuriated by goodness.
And there is real, true hate for her. All the women I know either love her or simply despise her. When I ask the haters why their negative feelings are so strong, they cite her stupidity, her resignation, and her neglect of her family for her career. It’s very clear that the McCain campaign allowed the media to control much of what America learned about Palin in the first weeks after she accepted the VP nomination— and those voters have done no objective investigation of their own.
Now add it all the women who’ve made bad choices. Palin’s happiness and success are a slap in the face to them. They are very bitter about how their own lives turned out. To support Palin is to say they were wrong or foolish or selfish. That’s tough to admit to yourself and most won’t do it.
Palin has to find a way to reach out to those who did not have her good instincts and get their support. I think she can do it by showing her human side and continuing to speak to them about how she plans to make their lives better.
Amen, Amen, amen and amen!
Ditto that. I’ve been preaching that or a close variation of it for many months now. Her so-called negatives will look very different in the harsh light of a clear and inescapable choice between her and Barry. Whosoever wins the GOP nomination will have before them an open raod to the White House.
/raod = road/ dang spell checker lied to me again - um, not.
They have always been stupid, but are just learning (again) to be scared.
Lots of good candidates out there, and the best is yet to come!
Nor could I. If that were to happen, I believe it is God saying "you made your bed, now lay in it".
If she does run, which I believe she will, it will be Him giving America one last chance.
Sarah Palin, Anti-Illuminati! :o)
No studs, rings, nor tattoos, either.
And spell checker will never flag that one!
You’re analysis is very, very good.
Sarah has her work cut out for her. In order to do what you say is necessary to get their support, and I totally agree with you, she is going to actually need to overcome the influence evil has over those people.
Evil is alive and well in the world today and too many are not aware of that fact or are in denial of it.
It’s extremely frustrating.
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