[2ndDivisionVet]

Wow!

[xcamel]

Sarah Palin's pending nomination for Vice President is exposing the depth of the cultural depravity of the leftists who have taken over the education, media, and cultural establishment of our country.

There, fixed it. (Normal needs no explanation)

[bray]

The Establishment media elitists can’t stand real American women so they lynch a 17 yr old girl to hurt the mom. They must be so proud of themselves. Their parents must be proud too. She is what America is about.

Pray for W, the Palins and Our Troops

[snowrip]

Interestingly enough, laughter is often a dead giveaway, a glimpse into the pschological state of the person doing the laughing... it’s what many people do when they are nervous.

[johnny7]

Sarah Palin's pending nomination for Vice President is exposing the depth of the cultural divide between Middle America and the leftists who have taken over the education, media, and cultural establishment of our country.

And it is solely for that... that they must destroy her.

[reefdiver]

I hope She has a good night. I don’t like the look of the poll numbers the last few day’s.

[Eye of Unk]

This description of Sarah Palin is exactly how many viewed Abraham Lincoln in his day.

[GT Vander]

I was fortunate enough to live in Alaska during the late 70’s. (My first assignment in the Army). Murkowski and Stevens were, even then, major players in the political scene in the state. Politics in Alaska then, as now, is a full contact sport not for the faint of heart of weak willed.
When warned by a McCain staffer to expect attack after attack against herself and her family Gov. Palin smiled and asked the staffer, “Do you know the difference between a Hockey Mom and a Pitbull?” The staffer said no. She replied “Lipstick.” You underestimate her at your peril.

[Tolik]

Thomas Lifson:

... She has the rarest of qualities: authenticity. Media and Beltway types can't fathom what that is. It goes right over their heads. Not even on the radar screen. Her multiple facets -- beauty queen, moose hunter, mother, member of an Assembly of God Church, and ferocious reformer of corrupt politics may baffle sophisticates, but ordinary Americans see all the pieces fitting together, and they recognize a type of person they know and love.

... Sarah Palin is the ultimate All-American Girl, beautiful but not glamorous, powerful but unpretentious, high-powered but down-to-earth, a reformer who speaks up while others cower in fear of rocking the boat. Like Ronald Reagan, she can reach right through the television camera into people's minds and hearts. We recognize one of us.

... The left, so wrapped in artifice and fakery, are driven crazy by this. Her behavior appears bizarre, inexplicable. In their minds, she is a disaster and they pretend to be gleeful, asking when McCain will dump her. All while panicking, because they can see the energized GOP base and the failure of Barack Obama to garner the ten-to-fifteen point post-convention bounce to be expected after his speech before the multimillion-dollar Greek temple set and fireworks at Invesco Field only 5 days ago. Those who planned the classical Greek theatrical stage never for second contemplated the possibility of a deus ex machina named Sarah.

... Republicans are thrilled by what they see in Sarah Palin. Reform Republicanism with a younger generation in charge could knock the left out of power for a generation. The genius Bobby Jindal, out to reform Louisiana as Palin reformed Alaska, awaits the 2012 VP nomination with Sarah at the top of the ticket, if McCain wins this election. Suddenly the Republicans have a claim on being the vote for change.

... Ronald Reagan never let the contempt of the cultural, literary and journalistic elites bother him. He simply spoke over their heads directly to the American people. And changed the world. In Sarah Palin, we may well have a figure able to do the same. All eyes will be on her tonight

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[HereInTheHeartland]

This gets to the core of what I have observed. People that actually do something and accomplish something are looked down upon by the political elite.

You are only someone if you have an Ivy League degree and have worked in politics in DC or some large city.
Your hobbies must be something that you do not get dirty doing.

Palin is refreshing, I hope we can take her to the finish line.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Great article. It highlights EXACTLY the mentality of the left, i.e. that THEY, sitting and admiring their Ivy League shingles while sipping $6 lattes, are the only ones capable of understanding what the little people need.

Military brat turned fighter jock/ex-POW John McCain is just TOO OLD to understand and Gov Palin, well, she is, in their opinion, just barely above white trash, are just too unsophisticated to understand the nuances of the penumbras of the emanations of the Constitution.

[Tax-chick]

Great article.

[Huck]

Think of Marge Gunderson, the fictional chief of police of Brainerd, Minnesota in the Oscar®-winning movie Fargo, taken as a comic send-up by the swells in New York and Hollywood, with her Midwestern twang (shared by Sarah Palin), funny hat, and kitsch-artist husband. The kind of woman who probably rides snowmobiles with her husband, for crying out loud. Yet in the end, Marge Gunderson solved the murder despite the sneers of her betters in the Big City (Minneapolis), and won the hearts of movie audiences. Americans like their heroines full of common sense and spunk.

That's a good comparison. Great movie. And let's not forget, Marge was PREGNANT in that movie.

[goldstategop]

The real divide in America is cultural, not economic. It has to do with values rather than dollars and cents. The Left thinks the reason Red America votes as it does it because of materialism. They couldn't be more wrong!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[WashingtonSource]

This hits the nail on the head.

[The Toll]

This woman’s nomination has caused the entire democrat party to go Archie Bunker on women in the workplace over night!

[Cymbaline]

This exposes yet another hypocrisy of the left. What was the constant refrain, the mantra, that we heard all through the 90s from the Left with regard to Hillary Clinton? “You Right-Wingers just don’t like a ‘Strong Woman’”. “It’s only becuse she’s a ‘Strong Woman’ that you’re opposed to her.”

Now, here we have an ACTUAL strong woman, who’s achieved more in her life than Hillary who got where she got strictly and solely because of who her husband is, and the first thing those same leftists want to to do is tear her down.