Posted on 09/16/2008 11:08:31 AM PDT by goldstategop
How to destroy Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin?
That’s the quandary of the left, of the campaign Democrats and the bloggers and other commentators who camp with them.
She sailed through the first two tests — her introduction to the nation as John McCain’s running mate and her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention — with an easy self-confidence that alarmed adversaries expecting a deer-in-the-headlights revelation of the former small-town mayor’s unpreparedness for the duties ahead.
One of her greatest tributes came from an independent-thinking feminist and Democrat, Camille Paglia, a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Writing on Solon.com, she admitted being wowed by Palin at the convention as “a tough, scrappy fighter with a mischievous sense of humor.” Continuing:
“Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities in ways that I have never seen before. And she was somehow able to seem simultaneously reassuringly traditional and gung-ho futurist.
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"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
The right needs to FIGHT back....BOYCOTT ADVERTISERS AND MEDIA.
Camille’s description of Sarah has me grinning. Wow. Great perspective.
I don’t believe the left will be able to destroy her, she is just TOO REAL
They have to take her down now, because if McCain loses the election Palin's future as a national candidate becomes tenuous at best. A McCain win and Palin becomes a top contender for the White House. Among all the other reasons the left hates Palin, the possibility of the first woman president being a Republican is like poison ivy to them.
I believe that’s her greatest appeal, her authenticity.
The left obviously doesn’t know what this is, and therefore has no idea how to deal with it.
Here’s a hint to lefties:
JUST BE YOURSELF, let us know what you really believe, we’ll be able to tell when you’re being authentic. I really believe, if you just come out and tell us what you really believe, America will be the better for it.
[snicker]
Dims fool with an ex fighter/bomber pilot and a moose hunter team at their own risk.
“What she represents is a serious threat to their power. “
I think that needs to be expanded upon. What Sarah Palin represents, and illustrates, is that a woman can be conservative, traditional, feminine, and STILL be successful. That runs counter to what the left teaches. The left tells women they have to be manly, angry, and reject tradition. Just catch Dee Dee Myers on Morning Joe sometime, you’ll see what I mean.
This is a major franchise the left doesn’t want to lose.
I’m no Michael Savage fan but he has given us a truism that should be etched in stone: “Liberalism is a mental disorder”.
The arrival of Governor Palin on the scene sucked all of the oxygen out of the Obama campaign. The “enthusiasm gap” used to be a McCain campaign problem, now it’s an Obama campaign problem. Obama’s campaign has to knock Governor Palin down off the pedestal we’ve put her on. The problem is every attempt to do so makes them seem mean and desperate which energizes us further and alienates some of their more rational supporters. The Obama’s campaign’s “Attack Palin” strategy is a loosing effort.
The second aspect of their attacks is that they serve as a distraction that keeps Obama from having to talk about real issues. The more people learn about what he wants to do as President the less likely they are to vote for him. In this respect I think the Obama campaign is being more successful.
Sarah Palin is the AMERICAN EVERYWOMAN, exactly what Dems have said for 40 years that a woman could be.
And now that THAT woman has arrived, she must be DESTROYED, and the cause of “Feminism” set back DECADES, because she doesn’t chose to butcher her own children.
(And oh yeah... She’s a REPUBLICAN! HOW HORRIBLE!!!”)
Nonsense. Assuming Palin continues to do a good job on the campaign trail, even if McCain loses, Palin becomes one of the top contenders for the GOP nomination in 2012... perhaps the front-runner. This is historically the case. Muskie in 72. Mondale in 84.
They “destroyed” Dan Quayle and it gained them nothing.
Palin is the real deal. They’ll smear her big time and still lose.
jw
Your post ( #6 ) is 100% DEAD ON
Sarah Palin can do the same thing, in her own way. Like Ronald Reagan, she is authentic and people respond to her positively. She must not start backing away from her perfectly logical conservative positions, and I doubt she will. If she did try to water down her conservativism, she would never convince the hard left to accept her and she'll totally lose the right. I would assume this is obvious to the McCain-Palin campaign team. I hope so.
The Charlie Gibson interview only helped Governor Palin. Gibson's palpable condescension annoyed many viewers, especially women. Palin needs to do more TV, showing Americans that she is authentic, intelligent, witty and a far better choice than that pompous hack, Joe Biden and especially a better choice for the White House than the shallow, phony, hard-left ideologue Barack Obama.
Governor Sarah Palin even made the devils tremble, and I was amused.
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