Our Sister Sarah Palin's Anti-Elitist Charm

New York Post ^ | 9/20/08 | Ralph Peters

[4BoysMom]

I KNOW Sarah Palin, and so does my wife.

Neither of us ever actually met the governor of Alaska, but we grew up with her - in the small-town America despised by the leftwing elite.

One gal-pal classmate of my wife's has even traveled from New York's Finger Lakes to Alaska to hunt moose with her husband. (Got one, too.) And no, Ms. Streisand, she isn't a redneck missing half her teeth - she's a lawyer.

The sneering elites and their mediacrat fellow travelers just don't get it: How on earth could anyone vote for someone who didn't attend an Ivy League school? And having more than 1.7 children marks any woman as a rube. (If Palin had any taste, her teenage daughter would've had a quiet abortion in a discreet facility.)

[4BoysMom]

Wonderful piece on how Sarah is one of us and the media and leftist elites just don't get it. Peters hits the nail squarely on the head regarding her popularity and how the elites sniff at her as they peer down their bony noses at us all. A bit of Bush bashing at the end... but overall a great read.

[goldstategop]

We're just a bunch of dumb rubes. I went to a state school. I guess not having gone to Harvard makes me Barney Fife's deputy. I can't think of a better insult!

"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

[4BoysMom]

I’m with you on that... Fresno State is my alma mater!

The elites, as they gaze down at us from their self erected ivory towers, seem to forget that the vast majority of Americans did attend state schools, and are thrilled that one of us is succeeding in shining the light on their arrogance and hypocracy. You go girl!

[jwparkerjr]

I grew up in a small cow town in South Florida. My dad managed a cattle ranch that was owned by his brother-in-law, a state representative from Palm Beach County Florida. My dad used to make sure he never missed a chance to portray life on the ranch, and in our little town, as terrible. Insects, snakes, alligators, long drives for a store, hurricanes, droughts, no fire department for 20 miles, virtually no TV reception except late at night and using an expensive external antenna with rotor, limited access to health care, everything closed on Wed. afternoon but open ‘til nine on Sat., the list went on and on. I asked him why he was so negative once and he told me “It keeps the riffraff out!”

Small town life is certainly not for everyone, but for those who it's intended there's nothing better.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

America has not seen this type of leader since John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. A leader that captures our imagination and inspires us to dream and be great. A leader with a view that America is truly a great country. A shiny city on a hill.

[Desdemona]

Well, I live in a decent sized city about seven blocks from and Ivy League wannabe. Honestly, they have no concept of anything outside their own sphere and no desire to know, either.

Go, Sarah. Show the world who really lives and works in the USA and keeps things humming along.

[libertylover]

Our country can't afford another one of these clowns. Harvard isn't the answer - Harvard's the problem.

AMEN! Harvard and The New York Times.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

When they smear her, they're smearing every American who actually works for a living,

Out of the park, Ralph!

[MuttTheHoople]

This is the latest chapter in our nation's struggle to trust our leadership to professional politicans, or to extraordinary people who are ordinary citizens.

Even back during the days of the Founding Fathers, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson fought over this. Adams and Alexander Hamilton thought there should be a professional class of politicians, while Thomas Jefferson favored ordinary citizens running the government.

Here in Mississippi, despite the reputation we had for being a bunch of racist yahoos (Democrats like James K. Vardaman, Theodore Bilbo, and Ross Barnett), Mississippi politicians are actually rather mild-mannered and bland. We prefer our public servants to be professional politicians, going to Ole Miss/Jackson State, being in a prestigious fraternity (Sigma Chi/Alpha Kappa Alpha), going to Ole Miss law school, having connections to the politically powerful in Washington as Pages/Clerks/Chiefs of staff, being State Representatives, and eventually getting promoted to elected office. This system makes for excellent Representatives and Senators who can take orders (Thad Cochran, Roger Wicker, Trent Lott when he's not in charge of anything) and for winning big government contracts, but makes for horrible leaders. That's why the only President we've ever had was Jefferson Davis.

Personally, I can't stand that Mississippi politicians are so "polished". We rely on Government pork too much to boost our economy.

A "maverick" State like Alaska (along with wild west States like Colorado, Wyoming, and Arizona) makes for improbable stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

[syriacus]

I'd like to learn a little more about Palin's home state. Here's a start

[syriacus]

Libs like a moose...as long as it's on a book cover

It's so nice to be able to enjoy a little touch of nature, right on your own bookshelf.

[Mrs.Z]

The Ivy Leagues are important in their own minds.

I had an uncle who went through Yale all the way and taught at Michigan State for over 30 years.

He said the only difference between the Ivy’s and a decent state school was the degree of difficulty getting in.

[yldstrk]

LOVE IT!!!!!

Harvard is the PROBLEM!!!!

YES, indeedy. You got it. That ivory tower bull hockey is not convincing. I disahree with him on Bush II but I totally agree on Bush I not finishing off the Revolutionary Guard and definitely on that criminal Clinton, but his problem wasn’t from the Ivy League school he conned them into admitting him into.

McCain is the real deal and so is Sarah. AUTHENTICITY is the quality, not artifice like Obama. The man and woman of steel is what this country needs, not someone who bends with every breeze and gets tossed and turned with every breaker.

[SnarlinCubBear]

History Channel ran a great piece on Alaska last weekend. Check it out - they may re-run with interest high.

[RayChuang88]

I think what drives the Left particularly crazy is that Governor Palin is NOT an Ivy League graduate, so they think she doesn't have the "sophistication" to be Vice President.

Only one thing though: we don't want nuanced, "sophisticated" people to be President, because their elitist attitude makes them woefully "out of touch" with real people concerns.

[No Socialist]

I’ve been saying all along that Sarah will appeal to the blue collar workers in all the battleground states. My father owned a manufacturing company in PA. The first day of deer season may as well have been a paid holiday. Why do the dems always pretend to be hunters??? Kerry looking stupid and Hillary claiming she hunted. All the dems accused Sarah of being a pander to the women, I think she speaks volumes to the Hillary supporters in the big battleground states, woman or not.

[anniegetyourgun]

Leftists are so parochial.

[tillacum]

I remember Barbara Streisand from many, many years ago, on Hugh Hefner’s tv program. She couldn’t put a sentence together and had no tv presence. She was a high school graduate, with no college, but she could sing. She still can’t put a proper sentence together, but she can sing and raise money for democrats.

[SantaLuz]

When you think about it most of the leftist elites are parasites. Lieyers live off the blood and hard work of companies, small businesses, and individuals. Hollywood types take ticket money from the very people they despise and disparage. Union leaders can bring any business enterprise to its knees, and then scream when it limps away to another state or country. Leaders of the bureaucracy suck the incentive, and dreams slowly from our pursuit of happiness like blood sucking vampire bats. Then they all have the gall to criticize the very hosts they live off of. No wonder vampire books and shows are in vogue. Leftist can so relate.

[Grampa Dave]

Below are two reasons the Now Hags, HoH (Hussies of Hate), and rabid mouth foaming homosexuals pretending to be journalists are so insane re Sarah Palin: