Posted on 01/05/2011 8:44:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Ive noticed that George Will and Charles Krauthammer have taken time out of their many TV gigs to trash Sarah Palin. Other prominent conservatives seem to relish dissing the former Alaska governor. David Frum, Joe Scarborough, Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, Chris Christie; dont forget Kathleen Parker, who parleyed her Palin envy into a CNN talk show that no one watches.
This is not an attack on these conservatives. I read them all and often find a lot of worth in what they opine. I dont understand why they actively, often unprompted, go out of their way to bash Palin. I dont recall in the past unless you count Ronald Reagan a steady drumbeat of prominent vocalized opposition, and off-the-wall bashing of previous presidential hopefuls large and small from within the party (Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes, Richard Lugar, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney ) The rationale is usually that Palin has no chance of winning and that her poll ratings are low. The latter point is conceded but given the regularly savage treatment she receives from the political class and the popular culture, she merits credit for being a survivor rather than a casualty. More classless commentary (favored by Brooks, Noonan, Frum and Parker) is that shes not smart or sophisticated enough to be taken seriously.
I think a lot of the criticism from the right is arrogance disguised as disdain. I doubt Sarah Palin reads Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, George Will or even Charles Krauthammer. Thomas Sowell, Mark Levin, Walter Williams, Victor Davis Hanson, David Limbaugh, Mark Steyn, Cliff May, S.E. Cupp, Star Parker, and other new conservative writers I suspect are her guides. It grinds on somebody like a Noonan, or a Brooks, who have reached the traditional heighths of their careers, to be ignored by a mere Palin after theyve been flattered and courted by so many for so long. That Wasilla mayor is not only not at the parties, she doesnt even want to be there.
Look, Im not claiming Palin is perfect, or she will win if she runs in 2012. I think its ridiculous to dismiss a potential candidate who worked hard to oppose the big-government assault Democrats launched in 2009 and campaigned hard to help the GOP gain the U.S. House. She is the spirit of the Tea Party movement, even while Mr. Frum grumbles that Republicans are doomed if they listen to her.
Can Sarah Palin win in 2012 if she runs? Shes tough enough to compete and shell need to be because shell have most of the political class with many righty snipers and 99 percent of the cultural class opposed to her. On the other hand, I recall the 2008 debates, and although its moved through the memory hole Palin was the most impressive of the four candidates.
They are Establishment Republicans solidly behind the New World Order plans and the Agenda 21 Program.
The first list, and many here at FR don’t wish to see her succeed because it flies against intellectualism, which often is a disguise for elitism, snobbery, arrogance and pride.
Sarah resonates with the middle class working social conservatives who may not grasp all of the arcane nuances of conservatism we argue about here but know their core values when they see them, just as they recognize that Obama, et al do not represent them.
A few days a go, a certain butt head (can’t remember the name) posted that “in order to win we have to nominate candidates who aren’t savaged on Leno or Letterman.”
Yep, I lit em up.
These people are inside out liberals is all, anyone who says anything that stupid can’t possibly be one of us.
I think the liberal elites can’t get over Palin because they are flat-out jealous as hell. Look at her - she went to nondescript state schools, has a traditional marriage with a caring husband for a partner and lots of kids, is part of a big, loving family, is a national superstar, and now a very wealthy and powerful woman.
In short - she has EVERYTHING they don’t! And in most cases, the reason they don’t have it is because they “sacrificed” marriage, family, children (not to mention their souls) to scrap and claw their way to the top of some little pile, to graduate from ‘the right school’, get a job where they have some national attention, and earn decent money.
It’s JUST NOT FAIR ;-) In their world, people like Palin deserve to be barefoot and pregnant, working minimum wage jobs and shopping at Wal-Mart. Palin is bigger, richer, and more powerful than they are and they hate her for it.
She did not graduate from an Ivy League school.
She isn’t part of the Washington, D.C., circle of friends.
She’s a woman and isn’t trying to be a man, but neither does she hate men.
I’m sure there are other reasons, but those will do for a start.
If, for some reason, she decides not to run next year, she will be the social conservative version of Oprah before she turns 50, with all that that entails, mark my words.
A lot of the Republicans who dislike Sarah are neither conservative or elite, but they are establishment sluts who are threatened by Sarah, the Tea Party and real conservatives. They fear irrelevance, even though they already are.
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I doubt it too, unless she has a Pompous Ass reading list.
None of that matters to your high church types (Epi-scopals, Reform Jews ~ including self proclaimed Atheists, ECLA members, etc.) All they care is that you belonged to a church where people jump up, wave their arms in the air, dance in church, and so on. You do that and you're off their list forever.
Than you for a very insightful analysis. I am certain that religious bigotry from the elites is a factor in their disdain for Sarah Palin.
The libs know what they’re doing: They trash those whom they recognize as potential threats. They did it to Quayle. They did it to Newt. Sarah is good, and they know it.
Why? Because that’s what they always do to the self-educated even if a genius! The 2 mentioned are probably jealous because she may not have a higher I.Q. than either according to the tests they took, but she does have more power to influence than they in their own world of commentary. That is all they are, commentators. HA!
Because she and Todd gave birth to Trig. Liberals hate them for it.
wait....after listing to George Will, do YOU think he’s a conservative?
The New media says he is....
His words are not. He reminds me of the “old guard” republican school.
The Eyore schoold of economics, and full of Pooh on social issues.
And so-called ¨conservatives¨ do to.
I think you are right.
The U.S. is typically thought of as a classless society, but here is an example of sheer arrogant classism.
They denigrate her because she never attended the elite east coast Ivy League, they disdain her because she is unembarrassed to be from the hinterland of Alaska.
Their reaction to her says NOTHING about her, and scads about these self-righteous proud smug arrogant HAS-Beens, they are of the past, she is of the future.
Why anyone listens to any of these pundits is a real curiosity.
Me either; so I am going to take a big leap of faith and say they are not conservatives.
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