Hating Sarah

Insight ^ | Sept. 3, '08 | Rich Lowry

[T.L.Sink]

Palin-hatred is an artifact of who she is rather than anything she's done. Joe Biden famously rose from the workng class to the Senate. Palin became governor of Alaska, but never left the working class - with her beehive hairdo and librarian glasses, with a husband who is a commercial fisherman and works on a North Shore oil field, and with her hobbies of hunting and fishing. If there's ever been an exemplar of rural America that, in Barack Obama's telling, "bitterly" clings to its guns and religion, it's Sarah Palin. It's her misfortune to be a pioneer with the wrong ideology. So much bile was directed at Clarence Thomas because he was the "wrong" kind of black. Pro-life, pro-gun and a down-the-line, if populist, conservative, Palin is a traitor to her gender and thus encounters the sort of fury always directed at apostates. A popular liberal talk-radio host calls her a "bimbo," a Washington Post columnist compares her to Caligula's horse, and the left-wing blogosphere goes on a demented jag about how her fifth son, Trig, is really the son of her 17-year old daughter, Bristol. The lunacy forced the Palins to issue a statement that Bristol is pregnant, setting off a feeding frenzy from the same press that went out of its way to protect the privacy of John Edwards.

[T.L.Sink]

Lowry also makes these observations: "Here were traditionalist conservatives hailing a very busy working mom with five kids, including a handicapped 4-month-old. But the same feminists who ordinarily dismiss stay-at-home moms as betrayers of the sisterhood now question whether Palin can juggle her family and political responsibilities. Washington doyenne Sally Quinn worries about putting 'the mother of young children in a job outside the home that will demand so much of her time and energy.' The Obama campaign is loath to admit she's governor of Alaska, pretending instead she's still mayor of tiny Wasilla, and the outraged commentary in the press makes it sound like the vice presidency is an office of such import that it would be better if the newcomer were at top of the ticket and the wizened pro at bottom - just like the Democrats. She has no less political experience than John Edwards when he was a one-term senator who had never before held elected office when he was Kerry's running mate in 2004." [We know politics is a dirty game which is why so many decent people don't become involved. But the scurrilous personal attacks and vicious smears against Palin and her family seem to be reaching new depths. Not only because there's no "There! there," but because it's so transparent that the liberal MSM is orchestrating a shameless character assassination campaign.]

[Spok]

A true champion for those of us who are clinging to guns and religion. (Assuring our security in both this life and the next one.)

[steveo]

Sarahphobes

[feedback doctor]

Would love to see someone photoshop the o’s head in place of dukakis in that tank!

[marron]

Bush and Palin both remind me of people in my own family in terms of their personality, their views, their way of looking at the world.

I never forget that the hatred these people feel toward Bush, and now Palin, is rooted in their fear and loathing of people like me. If I were to step forward they would do a quick calculation; if I were any threat to them at all they would go after me with the same level of hysteria.

[jeffc]

setting off a feeding frenzy from the same press that went out of its way to protect the privacy of John Edwards

This needs to be repeated almost daily to the press. Keep throwing it in their faces even past when they say, "No more, please!".
Hit them, and hit them hard.

[trad_anglican]

She has no less political experience than John Edwards when he was a one-term senator who had never before held elected office when he was Kerry's running mate in 2004

This is a pretty good point and it probably wouldn't hurt to inject the breck girl back into the mix.

[MrB]

Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
John 3:20

[ozzymandus]

I have high hopes that the naked hatred the MSM is showing for Governor Palin will backfire on them, bigtime. Middle America is getting a valuable lesson in how their news media are run by the far-left fringe.

[Kevmo]

Bitterly clinging to my guns & religion.

Sung to the tune of “Oh! Susanna, don’t you cry for me.”

“Oh, no Bama, please don’t lie to me... for I’m off to Free Republic with a keyboard on my knee.”

I come from Minnesota with my keyboard on my knee;
I’m goin’ to Free Republic my true love for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry;
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Obama don’t you lie.

Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I come from Minnesota,
with my keyboard on my knee.

I had a dream the other night,
When everything was still;
I thought I saw Obama dear,
A-coming down the hill.
The smearing lie was in Duluth,
The tear was in his eye,
Said I, I’m coming for the truth
Obama don’t you lie.

Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic,
with my keyboard on my knee.

I fight in my pajamas
It’s plain for all to see
I aim to be the next Buckhead
The media all hate me.
I fell in love with Sarah
When my sister bit a moose
The Guvnor’s family ate it up
And then they set it loose.

Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic,
with my keyboard on my knee.

I soon will be in Hawaii,
And then I’ll look all ‘round,
And when I find his birth record,
I’ll fall upon the ground.
But if I do not find it,
This Freeper’ll surely die,
And when I’m dead and buried,
Obama don’t you lie.

Oh! No Bama, don’t you cry for me;
I’m off to Free Republic with a keyboard on my knee

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2073903/posts?page=6#6

[ought-six]

“I never forget that the hatred these people feel toward Bush, and now Palin, is rooted in their fear and loathing of people like me.”

I hear you. It’s time we squished the pukes like the noisome insects they are.

[just me]

You have a good point.

[colorado tanker]

I think the attacks are now so over the top there will be a blowback.

[livius]

I never forget that the hatred these people feel toward Bush, and now Palin, is rooted in their fear and loathing of people like me. If I were to step forward they would do a quick calculation; if I were any threat to them at all they would go after me with the same level of hysteria.

That is a truly excellent observation.

[FreedBird]

People hate those who look different than the President’s on the Dollar Bills. They also hate people who look like the people on the Dollar Bills. People love to hate.

[sport]

I have long held that a child molestor has more principles and better character than a member of the alpabet news agencies.

Each day the alpabet news agency members re-enforce this belief.

[ought-six]

“Hit them, and hit them hard.”

And continue to hit them, even after they cry “Uncle.” They have no qualms about destroying us, so we should do no less in our dealings with them.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bttt.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

she's the object of the cultural disdain of a left that loves the working class in theory, but is mystified or offended by its lifestyle and conservative values in reality

So damn true.

[Kirkwood]

Seems to me that being the Governor of Alaska would take as much if not more effort than being VP.