Sarah Palin and the narcissistic wounds of the Left

American Thinker ^ | September 02, 2008 | James Lewis

[neverdem]

Former Democrat national chairman Don Fowler admitted to ABC News that he rejoiced at the prospect of Hurricane Gustav hitting New Orleans during the Republican National Convention.

"The hurricane's going to hit New Orleans about the time they (the GOP) start. The timing is -- at least it appears now that it'll be there Monday. That just demonstrates that God's on our side. [Laughter] Everything's cool." 

In customary Leftist fashion, Fowler half-way apologized when he was caught on tape.

"If this offended anybody, I personally apologize," Fowler told ABC News. "It was a mistake, and it was a satirical statement made in jest. And one that I clearly don't believe ... One doesn't anticipate that one's private conversation will be surreptitiously taped by some right-wing nutcase," said Fowler. "But that's the nature of what we're dealing with."

"If this offended anybody?"  I wonder if a million people fleeing New Orleans felt offended. But it wasn't Don Fowler's fault, you see. It was the fault of "some right-wing nutcase" who caught him saying it on videotape.

You see, Senator O is entitled to the presidency. You may not think so, but millions of Leftists do. He's black, he's cool, he makes the Left drool. As the fringe likes to say, "It's only justice." Think about that word "justice" and try filling in "revenge."  "Social justice" means the revenge of the poor against the rich, of the radical women against the men who've stood them up and hurt their feelings all their lives, and the revenge of black people finally doin' down the whites -- as Jeremiah Wright makes so abundantly clear.

"Social justice" is the revenge of the psychologically oppressed against people who look happier and more satisfied with their lives.

The Left always counts its presidential chickens before they're hatched. They did it with Algore, they did it with Kerry. They think they have victory in their grasp, and when reality says otherwise they feel robbed and betrayed. They have to find dark plots and conspiracies to explain the impossible; the Supreme Court was corrupt in stopping the Al Gore assault on the election rules in Florida. Ohio's voting machines were hacked to give George W. Bush his win there. Today, Algore is still bulking up with rage, eight years after Florida. Kerry still thinks he was "swiftboated"  -- when his Swiftboat chain of command finally got its chance to tell the truth. Rapper P. Diddy was on YouTube yesterday going "Alaska? Alaska?" and "McCain, you're getting the *** out of town."   

It's the gangster theory of electoral democracy. They're all counting on victory.  It's theirs already. Like the Obama campaign keeps telling us, the election is just a formality. We have a new president, and his name starts with an O.

The Left is entitled to power, because in their own eyes they have Truth and Morality on their side. They are Mahatma Gandhi, they are Dr. King, they are the vanguard of the marching proletariat. It's not just Big O who has the incomprehensible egomania. His inner circle and vast numbers of his supporters do, too. Entitlement, grandiosity, narcissism: In psychiatric thinking they all suffer from secret feelings of inferiority, narcissistic wounds to their self-esteem. Every time they lose, those nagging feelings come up again. So they are always overcompensating, trying to bully reality into the shape they need.

So shrewd old McCain picks Sarah Palin for Veep, and steps on the Obama victory with devastating timing, the day after the launch. No big bounce in the polls for O.  Within hours the Left feels cheated and betrayed. Why? Because they are entitled to victory. Because they have been in a rage for the last eight years and can just feel that aching need for revenge. Because Governor Palin is a traitor to her gender, in their eyes, just as Justice Thomas is a traitor to his race. This is the language of the Klu Klux Klan and the Nazis, of course; "race traitor" was their name for whites who supported civil rights for blacks. But it's ok to be a racist if you're a liberal. In fact you are supposed to be a racist, a sexist, and a heterophobe: It's practically mandatory to take on all the sins of racial fascism as long as you flip the targets.

What's more, Sarah Palin is pretty, well-spoken, smart, athletic, normal and middle aged. She made it to the governorship of Alaska on her own, bringing down corrupt Republicans on the way. But the Left has the exclusive rights to all the good-looking young women (or men) in Hollywood. You may think that's mad, but they secretly really believe it. Madonna told the world that O is just like Gandhi. You may think that's funny or annoying, but millions of her Obot fans fall for it. They are emotionally immature, to say it nicely.

Senator O's campaign started with an attack on Sarah Palin, but caught itself fast and backed off. Attacking the lady without careful planning would have been disastrous. Instead, unattributed rumors are circulating in the Leftosphere: Palin's Down Syndrome baby wasn't really hers, there is secret corruption in her past, and more. These wild, vicious slanders are trotted out mainly to satisfy the emotional needs of their authors. The nasty, vicious quality is a signal of irrational, narcissistic rage.

The saner Left, including the O campaign, is trotting out lines of more plausible attack: Inexperience? Heart-beat from the presidency? Can she be intimidated like Dan Quayle, who was media-whipped to the point of stuttering incoherence? "Fix and destroy" is the old Alinsky rule.  The attack-hound media will try its damndest over the next two months.

Governor Palin can probably handle it, but had better bring along that big-game hunting rifle to the campaign. There are Leftie grizzlies out there waiting to ambush her, regardless of her gender.

Suddenly the Left cares about competence in a woman. Hillary never needed it. Eight years as First Lady qualified her to be Senator from New York. Obama never needed to show foreign policy experience; he could get away with amazing gaffes.

For the moment all the attention is off Obama and McCain. McCain, they thought, would be an easy target. A normally sane leftist friend of mine literally screeched "Old! Old! Old!" about John McCain, like an enraged chimp doing a threat display. If he'd had any bushes within reach he would have pulled off the branches and brandished them, or thrown them around in his personal fireworks display. "Old!" was going to be the line of attack on McCain, ageist prejudice considerations be damned. The Left can be as ageist as it wants, because they have the higher morality, you see. They were sure it would work. They earned the right to have it to work after all these years of impotent rage.

This is going to be tough election for the Left, barring suprises. They don't handle the uncertainties of a neck-and-neck race very well. They have too much of their sizable emotional needs riding on the outcome. That's why they looked forward to Hurricane Gustav drowning New Orleans again.

Rarely has the inner life of the Left been so exposed to public view. Look for a lot of uncontrollable rage if the McCain/Palin ticket sweeps to victory.

I don't enjoy watching people go Daffy Duck-style mad with rage -- but given the track record, who deserves it more than our buds on the Left? But watch your step, or they'll chew up your nice new carpet.

James Lewis blogs at dangeroustimes.wordpress.com

[GVnana]

They just don't get it, do they?

Look at this obnoxious blowhard Fowler.

Now try to imagine a remark like that coming out of the mouth of Sarah Palin. They will never understand.

[Darkwolf377]

While I do believe Obama still has the edge (I wish I didn't believe that, but I face reality), it's certainly do-able for McCain, who's a lot better at this than I thought.

But the key is nothing WE will do--it's Obama's character. I think the debates will reveal his stunning lack of ability and achievment, and his frustration that we don't just GIVE him the presidency because, darn it, George Bush is BAD and he's GOOD.

[jonrick46]

This piece is so insightful, I am going to save it to my documents. It is everything that I have been thinking but too cluttered to put down in a cogent way. A must read.

[Apollo 13]

Why do I believe that the Democrats placed a heavy wind machine on a secret spot to create Gustav?

[Salamander]

“because, darn it, George Bush is BAD and he’s GOOD.”

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

[Isaiah 5:20]

That being is anything but ‘good’.
It terrifies me that so many are blind to that.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

bookmark

[Irishguy]

what a great article

[Darkwolf377]

You gotta admit, he sure has convinced HIMSELF that he’s good—I’ve never seen a politician who bought into his own press so completely.

[Pajamajan]

Ha! I like your tag line.

[DB]

I haven't bookmarked something here for a long, long time.

This I bookmarked.

Excellent analysis.

We finally have something worthy of defending. The harder the left pushes, the harder we will push back. The left is going to fail this election cycle spectacularly IMHO.

[South40]

A typical leftist/democRAT voter...

[DB]

The dem’s are destroying themselves before your eyes.

The hate and rage will not be lost on the general public, particularly women.

This is now McCain’s to lose.

The final hurdle is the debates. If Sarah does well there this is over.

[Darkwolf377]

I am ALMOST with you--I just have this suspicion that the MSM's recent on-air hijinks show they are not even going to care what anyone thinks of them anymore--they will do ANYTHING to get BHO elected. And on election night they'll look in the camera and say "Yeah, we overstepped our bounds and made up stuff, but so what? We won, you lost, deal with it."

I have high hopes, though.

[Herakles]

Just listened to another leftist(are there any other types) MSM commentator wondering how the the “scandal” of Sarah's daughter's pregnancy is going affect the Republicans.

How odd that everything, including someone giving birth, is a scandal - they are either desperate or completely NUTS - I suspect the later.

According to the wacko Democrats, if being pregnant is a scandal, then the whole human race should be something shameful; but you know, this is exactly how these nut job sickofants think!

[BossLady]

"watching people go Daffy Duck-style mad with rage"

Cue: Benny Hill and 'Yakety Sax'

Somebody needs to do a video with footage of the Dims to that song...hahaha...

[Yossarian]

Great article - late night / early morning bumperoo.

The Left always counts its presidential chickens before they're hatched.

Naw, the Obamamessiah would never do that, would he?

[GOP Poet]

Great article! Teased out those nasty lefty snarls quite accurately and with a touch of humor.

[jonrick46]

"It's the gangster theory of electoral democracy. They're all counting on victory. It's theirs already.

"So they are always overcompensating, trying to bully reality into the shape they need."

"You see, Senator O is entitled to the presidency. You may not think so, but millions of Leftists do. He's black, he's cool, he makes the Left drool. As the fringe likes to say, "It's only justice." Think about that word "justice" and try filling in "revenge." "Social justice" means the revenge of the poor against the rich, of the radical women against the men who've stood them up and hurt their feelings all their lives, and the revenge of black people finally doin' down the whites -- as Jeremiah Wright makes so abundantly clear."

The Left complains that conservatives are so judgemental and sanctimonious. When you have such a deficit of morality as exibited by the Left, their ears should be ringing with the cries of moral outrage at their performance. Not only have they slumped down to total moral bankruptcy, they are now courting Fascism, Naziism, and Communism. They are evolving to the mentality of street thugs.

[Salman]

New Orleans largely spared by Hurricane Gustav
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080902/D92UGE2G0.html

Well now.