This is a blatantly anti-Palin article without a “BS alert.”
Why?
Steven Chapman,Kathleen Parker,closet liberals.
Whereas one isn't required to resort to obliquity to insult country folk. People come together in the cities to work, plus there's a grass is always greener phenomenon that affects the young. Many return when and if they can. One could almost consider the movement into cities to be an emigration, like the Irish did in coming to America.
I will add my front row two cents here and thats because I actually live in Wasilla, Alaska or if you want to split hairs 11 miles north of it. But for reference sake I say I live there because thats where all my mail goes to, there is no home delivery where I live, its in Wasilla proper.
In Alaska its been said for many years, there is Anchorage and then there is Alaska or Alaska starts outside the Anchorage city limits.
Well thats very true because I have briefly lived in Anchorage and its a real city, it has bus routes, mail, cable TV and city water and sewage. I however must use a well and a septic tank, I bet that concept gets a lot of undies in a bunch.
Sarah Palin is well known on an up front personal level, many knew her back when she was in high school, I have met her personally and drank beer with them, they are as close to many here as if they lived next door.
Living next door in Alaska very well means your neighbor may be over 50 miles away. But you never the less know them better than you would say the apartment complex in the city.
Sarah is the neighbor like that, the one that drives by and loans you a tractor, an air compressor or helps you haul wood, can most city people make claim like that? I would argue to say its not likely because people that live closer together build thicker walls to defend their borders of privacy, rural people have no real fear of that with the few holdout exceptions of the really weird ones we sometimes have.
I am glad I live away from the city, I have my own water, I have a generator, I fear no riots burning my house of threatening me.
The most important factor in this election is the fact of we the people are voting for a leader to represent us, its that obvious fact that makes Sarah Palin the the choice, at least for me.
All you city dwellers can adopt the muslim-messiah to be your cult leader and after he is elected you can give your lifes earnings to him because he will surely take it and all the while you will have that warm feeling up your crack because thats where you are getting it in return.
Tough choice there.
Steve Chapman jumped the shark a long time ago...he has some serious issues and probably needs some mental medicine. I’m going over to Townhall to watch the ObamaMorons flock to the comments.
What is wrong with Townhall authors? Last week Parker, and now this?
Steve Chapman lives in the Chicago area and is generally speaking, a conservative. He attended Harvard University and at times, it tends to show.
Note to Steve Chapman:
Praising one segment of the population does not denigrate the rest. Just as when I praise my son for his good grades, I'm not telling my daughter her grades are inadequate.
I've heard such similar sentiments voiced by the Left regarding those who live in flyover country. The Left referred to this area as "Jesusland" the day after the 2004 election.
10 most liveable cities lists include PROXIMITY TO NYC among the requirements.
And of course there was Carville's crack about dragging a twenty dollar bill through a trailer park even though Paula Jones did not live in one.
And one more...
Democracy Alliance memo details Dem plan to "educate the idiots" and target minorities (October 1, 2008)
Seems like someone peed in Steve Chapman’s Wheaties.
ROTFLOL
Maybe, maybe not. But Obama has asserted any number of times that limo liberals are superior to conservatives in every way. But of course, the liberal media wants us to forget that.
Palin was just fighting back and her message is resonating with the non big city (liberal voting ) types
The small towns and country types have been getting dumped on and been the butt of jokes by the Big City elites for decades And if the boob that wrote this article doesn’t know that it is because he is one of the elites
Well, that's true if there are not the high paying jobs ( or jobs period ) within rural America; because States like mine are unfriendly to Big Business, so business is attracted to "another state or country (Ireland) more friendly". Infrastructure and access to easy access airports also come into play in attracting BB. Graduates are more often "pushed out" of a more rural state to make their living. A search for adventure is also expected at this "age of the game".
However:
Again, a specific "Age Group" comes into play, as many older Americans return to more rural areas "in population, closer to the cherished dreams and memories of their roots; etc, after having achieved success, and tired of a "subdivision" Orange Cty lifestyle mentality. Lifestyles often found not affordable; as Peter has been robbing to pay off Paul for so long, for this empty suit stressful kind of success..well we know, in most cases; all about what happens there.
Then there is "relaxation time or back to reality" residency; as I like to call it, which would show different numbers. Diane Feinstein, for example, may service her constituents in California; but where might you find her "out fishing"?, in the more rural state of Maine. I could name many other notable city mice joining their country brothers and sisters escaping to for vacations and even buying homes in these areas to "recharge"or retire. Log and timber homes offering that flavor of country living are now "the vacation home to build" if a celebrity or power broker. Tom Brokaw and wife own a rural restored barn free of most what most would expect to contain luxury amenities. Brokaw says he still "remains connected to the place that raised him". He and wife Meredith returned to South Dakota to celebrate their 40th Anniversay. Brokaw wrote in his memoir: A LONG WAY FROM HOME: Growing Up in the American Heartland- "As a man who could afford to celebrate this event anywhere he chose, it is fitting that he returned to his roots for this."
Remember back to the 1930's, the "grand old camps" of the Adirondacks were owned by great Industrialists. How often does one hear, "Go pack up the kids, Honey, we're going to the city for some R&R!
Even County music has become more popular than ever; with crossover rock/pop artists joining their ranks $$$, so can't get more "down-home" in message than that.
As far as the use of drugs and alcohol come into play, I guess you have to "define" rural: "Connecticut is burdened by the issues of alcohol and drug trafficking and abuse. According to the Alcohol Epidemiology Program of the University of Minnesota, substance abuse is one of the youth's problems in Connecticut. Alcohol specifically ranks as the most accessible to young people."
One State's rural might be another State's "suburb". One local police official told a friend, also educator, that it's not often he has to worry about trouble coming from kids living in our farm families. Many Hollywood hucksters, the Internet, celebrities, for example; can highlight and promote a "cool" and "edgy" lifestyles of living fast and playing hard.It's just more "redundant copy" by those oblivious to their own hypocrisy, more often placing the blame on Conservative leaders for "dividing Americans".
But all the "funded" studies in the world, and all the 60 minute-type investigative television newsmagazines will not take away the fact that most Americans still continue to live under the old "grass roots" teachings that grandmother would refer to as, "Use Your Head" or "Common Sense".
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The liberals snub her as being from a small town and laugh that makes her unqualified to be President. If there is any snobbery it is from the left. Fact is, she is not Ivy League and pro-life, so they hate her.
As someone who was born, raised, and has lived in big cities his entire life, I agree with Sarah. Just got back from visiting my girlfriend up at their family farm in central NY. Nothing but small towns around there. The people everywhere are some of the nicest, engaging, generous, and just real people I’ve ever met and have made me feel incredibly welcome. Meanwhile, I’ve lived in city apartment complexes with hundreds of people in close proximity, and I’ve never met my neighbors. That being said, I still like living in cities, but because of the conveniences they provide, not because of general populace.