Posted on 09/22/2008 2:51:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With George Bush off the front pages for much of the last few months, the political pathology known as Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) took an unexpected summer hiatus.
BDS sufferers - liberal Democrats seething over successive presidential election losses and hamstrung by a Republican president confidently wielding wartime authority - failed to transfer their enmity to Sen. John McCain, largely because they couldn't bust his "maverick" brand, but to a larger extent because they assumed Sen. Barack Obama was going to win in a laugher.
That presumption ended when Mr. McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. Before Charlie Gibson could even grill the Alaska governor over her "hubris" in accepting Mr. McCain's historic invitation, the raw rage that focused for eight years on the 43rd president of the United States transferred in a flash to a former "Miss Congeniality" and Anchorage suburban mother of five who immediately swung the momentum to Mr. McCain's side.
Palin Derangement Syndrome, a more irrational variant of the Bush contagion, doesn't require sufferers to know anything about the subject of their hatred. Anonymous, unsourced rumors fuel the fire (book banning, speaking in tongues, creationism, etc.). Lovely family photos hacked from a personal e-mail account displayed on commercial Web sites push more buttons. Asterisks from Mrs. Palin's biographical sketch - "moose hunter," "small-town mayor," "wife of champion snow machine racer" - cause excessive sweating and irregular heartbeats. She even fired a guy who Tased a 10-year-old. (Oh wait, she didn't.)
What will happen when they find out she shops at Wal-Mart?
Predictably, the celebrity left - ridiculous enough to form a strong opinion based on unreliable data points and narcissistic enough to broadcast it - has taken to stage, television, newsprint and blogs to express its extreme ire at the Thrilla from Wasilla.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
"For many, gay marriage is a key issue.
Yet none of these gilded-ghetto living haters point out that their savior, Mr. Obama, stands against gay marriage, too. Is that change Melissa Etheridge can believe in?
Like President Clinton, who supported regressive anti-gay-rights legislation such as "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act, Mr. Obama gets a massive pass from the activist gay left and their stenographers in the mainstream media.
The never-reported political reality is that both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama understand that key components of the Democratic Party - the black and Hispanic blocs - hold views that Brad Pitt would deem "homophobic."
For these minority groups, and for many other religious Democrats, gay marriage is a nonstarter."
“Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
It is also a mental disability characterized by indiscrimination and the inability to think rationally.
I can’t understand the hate. I’m no Bushie, but he seems like a decent, sincere man. Why not attack his policies and not the person?
She even fired a guy who Tased a 10-year-old. (Oh wait, she didn’t.)
That line can be so twisted by the left wing. She didn’t even fire a guy who tased a 10year old! Can you believe that? Which would be true too if you leave our all context
The Thrilla from Wasilla!
I like that!
They DESPISE her because she’s a CHRISTIAN....a PRO-LIFE CHRISTIAN......all the leftist women who have had abortions HATE her because she brings up BAD MEMORIES for them......and the leftist men HATE her because she has more balls than they do.
Excellent description of the celebs!
Leftists are PO’d. Palin Obsessed.
That’s because the dirty little secret that they won’t admit is that they know Obama isn’t really against gay marriage. As soon as the election is over, if he were to win, he’d reverse course and suddenly support it, and the gay activists and their supporters know it.
In other words they prefer someone whose word cannot be trusted.
Always a bad bet.
Palin has CHARACTER - and is viewed as intolerable by those who do not possess it.
Governor Sarah Palin doesn’t play by the left’s rules. She’s her own person unbeholding to any special interest group. She made a mark for herself independent of liberal friendship and generosity. She is who she is; a confident woman with uncompromised values, a republican in her politics and a Christian. Ultimately she is a nuclear threat to any and all liberals.
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