Posted on 10/07/2008 1:31:24 AM PDT by markomalley
"If Sarah Palin is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, so am I!"
These words spoken by my friend Janet were true. But Janet hasn't put herself in Palin's position by running for office. She's made films and renovated houses, cushioned by inherited money. And since she doesn't have any kids, it's hard to say what would have gotten in the way if she'd wanted to be in politics. She didn't, though, any more than 99% of my women friends and acquaintances; she believes in cultivating one's own garden.
Most women I've talked with about Palin--all certified members of either the media elite or the just plain elite--take her nomination personally. Their animus isn't explained just by her politics; none of them hate Condoleezza Rice, though they disagree with most everything she's done. Nor, for that matter, do they even dislike John McCain. Typically they "respect" McCain but find him too old or too erratic or simply adore Obama.
It's as though Palin were an average girl from their boarding school class--or, frankly, from the public school down the road--who unexpectedly won a big prize. "Why not me?" is the subtext, and it's one I've never heard from men talking about male politicians. Many New Yorkers hate George Bush, for instance, and say similar things about his and Palin's lack of intellectual capability and curiosity about the wider world. But they don't view him as a personal rival.
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The lesson of Sarah Palin for privileged women is to try harder. And that may be the hardest one to hear.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
...”The lesson of Sarah Palin for privileged women is to try harder. And that may be the hardest one to hear”...
This is true, however, I have wondered for many years why people who inherit big money are nearly all liberals when that is the sure path to eventual communism or some kind of terrible unrest in one’s nation. I have concluded that they do feel above the masses, above the law and even superior to God and they do not want to lose their power at the top of the ladder. Therefore, they do not want a system from which someone without their inheritance or monied status, can rise to challenge that position. I believe that is why they want a system of government which keeps people dependent and encourages slothfulness. Keeping people down also takes away the time required for most to truly become educated about the world because those people have to work hard every day to rear families and get by. (How many times since Sarah came on the scene have we heard that she should stay home and take care of her kids?) I think it is as simple as that. They are the true controllers of all that is government through their proxies and they mean to keep us common folk in our place. Sarah escaped enought to gain visibility and when people saw her innate, insightful, intelligence which is a gift no less than an incredible gift of music or some other kind of art, they loved her. There is a world of difference in someone gifted in music from birth who really needs no lessons and someone who has to study for years to learn just the basics of what that person does naturally. This is why they hate her. She IS superior and they fear that her “breakout” might pave the way for others outside their belief system and that horrifies them.
Correct. The “ladies who lunch” aren’t fit to clean Sarah’s rifles (and would probably shoot themselves in the process anyway).
This is called class and cultural prejudice. The culture of the American West is more casual, more innovative, more robust and more enthusiastic. People talk with a different accent. They prize individualism and decisiveness. Outside of metropolitan areas, they tend to live in societies that are more homogenous as to race and ethnic make-up, but which may have a greater diversity of individual opinion. Eastern elites like to think of this as provincial so that they can discount people who may have different beliefs than they.
The more they put down Palin for her Western ways, the more they reinforce their own superiority and place at the top in the natural order of things.
I agree wholeheartedly, though is it wrong for this native “Easterner” to get annoyed at all the “casualness” that pervaded Seattle when I lived there?
Sarah did it, without the trappings of NOW, self-absorption, "feminism," and abortion. And they loathe her for that.
We haven't had to dodge bullets or bombs in a while, thank God. Our troops got that done and we could get used to it being calm like this. LOL
Hillary wanted to be an “elite woman” when she almost dodged pretend sniper fire, and she even fooled herself into thinking that she was.
I guess Joe Biden wanted to be an "elite woman," too. :)
Have a great day!
This kinda reminds me about a scene in some movie about a New York upscale woman with an expensive fur coat telling someone “Do you KNOW how many MEN I had to screw to pay for THIS!”
In similar fashion they hate Bush for not projecting the sophistication they imagine they posesss, and which they therefore demand in someone representing them.
Ironically, these self-styled feminists are purely emotional when it comes to politics, seemingly proving every patriarchal stereotype true.
You might as well be talking to a woodchuck about quantum physics.
Line of the day! (Night, yesterday, tomorrow?)
Why, thank you! :)
'Tis lunchtime here. Coming up on 1:00 p.m Tuesday.
It will be a battle for the soul of the nation. Our very existence hangs in the balance.
I think you are mistaken. The author is using “elite” more along the lines of privilege and snobbery as you allude, and is not referring to high performance or achievement.
Among the Right (of which I consider myself) the adjective “elite” has two distinct and separate meanings depending on context, one pejorative, one praise.
This one was pejorative.
What I don’t understand is who are the ones defining “elite”? My wife, her friends & colleagues are Ivy League educated professionals with advanced graduate degrees. While they don’t necessarily agree with all of Palin’s positions, they sure as heck prefer her to Hussein.
The lesson of Sarah Palin is not to diet harder, jog more often, work harder, or get a new hairdo, - and certainly not to indulge raw ambition - the lesson of Sarah Palin is the liberating power and example of her faith.
That's why they hate her.
My husband calls me a "closet snob", does that count?
What we are seeing is a phenomenon that only women knew about before now. The truth is that women are catty. They hate women that are not like them, and no one will ever measure up. I admit, I am like that, although Sarah has stirred something in me I didn't know existed. She actually is like me. She is mid America, struggling through life's hardships, but never letting them slow her down. She still puts her family first, and even when she is in the spot light, you know, her family (and the First Dude) are never, ever out of her thoughts.
She may be "interviewing" for the most powerful job a woman has ever held, but you know just by listening to her, she isn't doing it for herself. She is doing it for her family, for her God, for her Country, and that is the reason the women hate her. She is selfless. She truly is the identity they ran away from. For them, the "elites" it is only about themselves, and not everyone else. They can't stand the thought that the world will no longer revolve around them!
I agree
I agree
I found this to be a very thoughtful article surrounding the issue of “why you? (as in Senator Palin) as coming from the Dem femme circles, according to the authoress. While her friends were pursuing their “happy”, Senator Palin was toiling in the “fields.”
Good point about why the "elites" do not raise the same questions about politicians like Deval Patrick.
Unnngh. It’s 6:30 a.m., Tuesday, here, and still dark.
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