Because they are the recognized..by liberals and conservatives as the conservative “elite”. Sarah threatens them because she is a person of the people. She threatens all the establishment people who live in the right places, go to the right schools and the right cocktail parties. She is not on of them. None of them could get elected...and wouldn’t take the chance of ruining their position.
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.
Why Will and the Kraut would be so ambitious to let us know how deep their religious bigotry goes is amazing. Maybe their mothers engaged in inappropriate toilet training or something ~ that always comes out in your declining years!
BTW, I'm just observing this stuff. Those who've followed me know I have my own concerns with something much more serious, to wit, the Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born (and its various permutations, particularly those who don't believe in doctors and let their kids die of treatable illnesses).
People like Will and the Kraut have no interest in such matters ~ their concerns end with the way the service is conducted, and if the kids are going out the backdoor into graves next to the sidewalk that takes you to the peyote chewing shed, they frankly don't care.
You hit the nail on the head. From the article:
That Wasilla mayor is not only not at the parties, she doesn’t even want to be there.
My opinion FWIW - Palin’s name gets print. If you want to sell (yourself) you have to use HER. This pisses them off, so they show their cards. All to their own detriment.
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.