Posted on 10/31/2008 12:57:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Yogi Berra famously observed that "you can see a lot by looking." I know exactly what the great New York Yankee meant. You can hear a lot by listening, too.
Over the homestretch of the presidential campaign, I've been spending a lot of time at a rehabilitation hospital with someone very close to me as she recovers from back surgery. Much of the conversation in this microcosm of the urban health-care system is about Barack Obama and John McCain. Most of the doctors are white men, the physical and occupational therapists and nurses are mostly white women, and the aides and technicians are usually immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. The patients come in all colors, and the bills will be paid by private insurance, Medicaid and Medicare. Something of a pollster's dream.
The conversations can get candid and surprising, and nothing strikes sparks like the mere mention of the governor of Alaska. I expected the black women to show a certain sympathy for the governor's pregnant daughter, but they're the most outraged that an unmarried pregnant teenager was presented to us, as one angry nurse put it, as "a role model deserving sympathy" when she should have been rebuked.
"I don't care if she is the daughter of a governor, white or black what she did was wrong, and it was the wrong time to nominate her mother for vice president. Teen-age pregnancy is a problem, and just because a governor's daughter is unmarried and pregnant doesn't make that an equal opportunity problem."
Another nurse's aide was offended by the pressure of public opinion to compel the two teenagers to marry. There's considerable speculation that if Granny goes back to Anchorage, there won't ever be a wedding.
These first-hand impressions of public sentiment are nothing to the fear and loathing in the mail from white liberal professional women, whose remarks are neither as reasoned nor as insightful as those of the women at the rehab center. An abundance of bile and rage makes up for style and substance. One woman, a distinguished professor of English literature at one of our elite universities, reaches over the top for a cliche to describe Sarah Palin as "someone beneath contempt, an ignorant vicious woman who would have been ideal for the Hitler rope lines in the Sudetenland."
The vitriol aimed at Palin is difficult to figure. The drag queens of West Hollywood, no doubt envious of being the real thing, hang her in effigy ("all in good fun"); the scorn and mockery in the media continues relentlessly. But the anger among the women who you might think would cheer her pluck and smarts descends into the hysterical and the mindless. Maybe the feminists think she stole their revolution; she has done what they couldn't do. She's a self-made woman, with a family of five, who took on the old boys in Alaska and beat them at their sordid game while holding onto her femininity. She didn't chip away at her convictions just to get where she is.
Pro-choice feminists pay lip service to the idea that it's all right for a woman to refuse an abortion to live up to her moral values, but there's usually a little snickering on the side, suggesting that she just doesn't know any better. Palin's choice, to spurn an abortion to give birth to a Down syndrome child, makes the moral clarity of her decision unassailable. She accepted the full consequences of choice. The most malicious remark I've heard is the suggestion that she wouldn't have had the child if she weren't a prominent politician, pandering to her base.
Joseph Epstein, writing in The Weekly Standard, tells how the faces of the liberal women he knows take on a purplish tinge at the mention of her name: "'Moron' is their most frequently used noun, though 'idiot' comes up a fair number of times." Cliches are much loved on the left.
Though questioning the governor's range of experience is fair comment, it's astonishing to me that those who think she's not ready to play second banana in Washington have no qualms about voting for Barack Obama, who has less executive and administrative experience than she. In fact, he has none.
Sarah Palin, if she is not the vice president, is likely to move quickly beyond defeat to other chances to demonstrate that she's the real thing, leaving her bitter critics to stew in the juice of their own frustrations. Yogi might say that when she came to a fork in the road, she took it.
Very funny, the supposed remark by Yogi Berra, at the end...”when she came to the fork in the road, she took it”!
Sarah is so difficult for the left to define. Everything they say or do comes back in their face and as of this day, she still has not run back home, crying about how they’re treating her! She goes goes right on, in their face, as if they said nothing. That has to hurt their pride, that she is not offended, nor has she made a big deal about it. The more they try to make her look like an idiot, the more it reflects on them! Go, Sarah!
Is it envy?
Some people theorize that they feel guilty about past abortions. I’m sure some of it is envy, too. Also, Governor Palin is “country” and many city people don’t like that, either.
If a wolf, a full-grown moose or a bear doesn’t scare her, why would the harpies and limp-wristed metrosexuals of the beltway?
ONE NEWS NOW.com: "CUBAN-AMERICANS 'ALLERGIC' TO OBAMA-TALK" by Chad Groening (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Cuban-born author and anti-Castro activist says Barack Obama won't make any inroads with voters in the Cuban-American community by pushing a wealth redistribution message. That community, he says, is all too familiar with the consequences of such a policy.") (October 30, 2008)
These elitists are disgusting. They live in their own little stratosphere and think that the hick Sarah Palin cannot possibly be smart or savvy, since they don’t know her from the Ivy League or their insider cocktail parties.
Their failure to identify with ordinary Americans is the ignorant part. Let’s trade and send all of those snobs to AK for the winter! (With apologies to AK.)
I guess the bottom line is, SHE DRIVES THEM CRAZY!!
Regardless, Sarah Palin and her family are angelic compared to Joe Biden and Obama.
The most shameful thing above all else is media's refusal to expose all the dirty laundry of Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
In fact, it's a downright crime MSM has comitted on the citizens of the USA by trying to steer- by vicious attacks, one sided propaganda- the outcome of this election.
In some other countries, the people behind this attempted coup would be hung or shot by firing squad.
...and then there's the fact that Sarah is an attractive, fit lady who is married with five children, along with being the VP nominee. It must strain the necks of liberals, constantly looking up at her.
She is a mirror to these women, and they don’t like what they see staring back.
IMHO what there’s another factor at work regarding the ‘elitist’ hatred towards Gov. Palin. She is the only real outsider in this election and with the Congress/Politician unfavorables at extemely high levels, Gov. Palin is the alternative to ‘none of the above’, she’s the true gamechanger in this election and they know it!
But define her they will, and conservatives will have to deal with it and protect her.
Otherwise they will do for her what they did for Newt, Rush, and Dubya, and what they tried to do to Ronnie.
Dubya is Exhibit "A" for what the 'Rat Media will do to you if you don't fight back, if you "refuse to descend to their level", which is, we are told unctuously, "what destroyed Richard Nixon". Yeah, well, fellas, it's heads we win and tails you lose with those guys.
Just ask Brent Bozell at Media Research Center. He tried to warn the GOP leaders what was coming, immediately after the "Republican Revolution" in 1994. But the Pubbies couldn't get their heads around that kind of hatred -- it was truly a campaign of destruction. Remember Newt's "Man of the Year" cover photo on TIME magazine? Pure loathing and hatred went into that cover. And they ruined him.
Oh -- and the term of art, "Clinton hater" was coined by a TIME hack during that campaign, as the presstitutes fought to protect and insure Bill Clinton's re-election by destroying the GOP. It worked.
Their hatred is molten, inventive, and never-ending.
Look out, Sarah. Look out, Sarah supporters (and I include myself).
It’s quite simple. ‘Good vs. evil’. These women are demoniacally possessed. Srsly.
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“When you come to a fork in the road, take it” is the title of Yogi Berra’s autobiography.
Also the directions to his house, it was a traffic circle and it didn’t matter what fork you took, you ended up on the same road.
OTOH, my wife and a co worker were discussing how disappointed they were in both presidential candidates, and that they would both vote for McCain, just so that they could vote for Sarah Palin. (Yes, guys, eat your hearts out. I married a good one.)
I am in Tallahassee, FL working for the McCain / Palin campaign. After a 6 hour drive to get here, I was paired off with a very nice young man from ENGLAND! We canvassed a neighborhood.
He works in public relations for conservative parties in Brittan. He said after he heard Sarah’s acceptance speech he knew he had to work for her. He traveled here at his own expense!
Sarah touches something in the common sense of average peoples. The left lives in a fantasy world of how life ‘could’ be while the rest of us deal with life as it is.
There is also a lady from Colombia working the phones. It is amazing! The positive energy in the HQ is electrifying! Kids in their early teens are making calls, military wives, retired teachers, college students, every race is well represented.
Sarah Plain has made this happen! She brought McCain’s campaign back to life and we can never let him forget it!
In short, they got bamboozled, and Palin is a reminder that they got bamboozled.
Your post is right on and I will repeat what I said here the other day. Our side has to play smash mouth on every play from here on out. Win or lose (or whatever combination) on Teusday, we better get a new attitude going on our side of the aisle.
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