The Meaning of Sarah Palin (Excellent Analysis)

"I think he's nailed it" - Clioman

Better than that, he's provided an intellectually superior discussion of how both the left's and right's mindset of 'intellectual superiority' is anti-American.

Unfortuneately, those who are vacuously full of themselves will never deign to give the perspective a second thought.

Their intellectual dogmatism is the real bone of contention.

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Awesome catch Clioman.

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You have to remember that the intellectual Democrat elites, while constantly looking down their noses on the unschooled peasantry, also consider tax evasion an embedded part of their hypocritical lives - because, after all, they ARE smarter than us.

For instance, Rahm Emanuel has a nice tax dodge going on his Chicago mansion:

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It's an extremely interesting article that mentioned a fact that I've had at the back of my mind, but not examined much.

BOTH Democrat and Republican "intellectual elites" let Palin have it with both barrels. I had a hard time wrapping my mind around why Noonan, Parker and Brooks so had it in for Palin, but I think this article helped me finish the puzzle.

Most Leftist "intellectuals" make me laugh, because they have cheap, second-rate product rubber-stamped at a university diploma factory. Most of their faux-intellectual chatter, oral and written, bores me because it's not mentally stimulating - it's like cotton candy for the mind. There are exceptions, like Paglia and Kit Hitchens.

Now, I've always tried to keep up with the writings of the conservative intellectuals because "they're on my team", and perceive the world in many of the same conservative ways that I do. However, several of "our guys" went feral in the last election because of Palin. I didn't. I love Palin and her conservative thought.

I believe now that when the intellectual elites get together at the university indoctrination camps of Leftist Thought, even the conservatives get their minds tainted.

I'm intensely intellectual, but the difference between me and the indoctrinated elites is that I actually like to do things other than get paid for my intellect.

This is why Palin resonates with me, and p*sses them off to no end.

How DARE she trespass on THEIR territory!!!

Airheads. That's why I believe also that the economy's going down for the long count. These "intellectually gifted" jagoffs actually thought (and still think) that they could (and still can) handle a Gordian Knot as big as the US & world economy.

All I can say is - make sure you have lots of canning jars and lots of ammo on hand at your country retreat.

Sarah Palin - you the woMAN!

Thanks—this was a well written article that explored why Palin received such animosity.

And it rightly showed that McCain could not capitalize on the huge opening Palin opened for him in the mind of the electorate.

When McCain went to DC and suspended his campaign, you could almost hear the air deflate from the momentum of the campaign. That boneheaded move was McCain’s alone.

The, McCain got another gift in Joe the Plumber—and he again could not capitalize on that.

Palin, I believe, worked under the constraints that the McCain handlers placed on her. She was a good soldier.

That’s why I have even more contempt for McCain, because he would not even publicly defend her after she was castigated after the election and ridiculed. Cindy McCain and their daughter also didn’t rally to Sarah’s defense.

Real honor in the McCain family.

But there is no doubt there was a concerted effort to DESTROY Sarah completely, politically and personally, so she would never, ever, darken the political stage agian or dare to do so. And that palpable hatred came from both the Left and the Right.

So now the victorious RINOs have achieved their long term ambition of having almost perpetual minority status in the Congress, and now that the economic future of Ameirca is about to be ruined because of their incompetence in fighting for power, our only hope is someone like Sarah.

Like many of us, we are now outside the Republican Party. We are the true mavericks now. And Sarah is the only candidate that will get us back to the America we once knew.

She is wiser now in the ways of the world, but she is centered, so she will not bend to every political wind that blows her way. Without the constraints of McCain and his wacko handlers, she will be the most formidable candidate the GOP can hope for in 2012.

I doubt that the GOP masters will agree. Well then, we can form a third political party behind Sarah and the RINOS can be the Whigs of the 21st Century for all we care.

Great post Talisker - it is YOU who has nailed it!!

If Alaska manages to win sovereignty, I’ll be one of the first to petition for citizenship.

Of everything written or said concerning Gov. Palin, both sides have missed the most important fact of her leadership. she did foresee trouble coming in the financial markets and prepared accordingly.

I fully anticipate the Obama administration to take out their loathing of Palin out on the state. As they’ve done in Utah, I can see the administration stripping Alaska of drilling rights/leases and even going so far as closing down the pipeline as well as natural gas and oil exploration and production.

Palin should have been offered a post in the new administration. We know that Palin is NOT a Tax Cheat, unlike many of the other nominees (did I mention that all the other nominees are Democrats [except one Republican], and many of them are Tax Cheats [except for the one Republican, of course]).

There seems to be a plethora of Democrat Tax Cheats (but I repeat myself...). :-)

Oh, did I also mention that Harry Reid's pet project, Democrat "Senator" Al Franken from Mexesota, is a Tax Cheat, too?

You probably figured that out immediately after the word "Democrat"...