[Clioman]

I think he's nailed it.

[Ballygrl]

Ping!

[nickcarraway]

Bump

[Stentor]

Yep.

[Ellendra]

I can’t read the article, half the text is hidden under the sidebar ads, could someone copy/paste it for me? Pretty please?

[Eye of Unk]

It brings back to mind scenes from the movie “Titanic” where the Elite or the “better half” will get the lifeboats first.

Here is to Sarah. may she be the unifier of America.

May Alaska declare sovereignty.

And here is hoping that we can build a gas pipeline infrastructure to support future Alaska, like our flag we look North to the Future.

And here is thanks that we have our natural borders, climate and location that buffers, protect and ultimately weeds out the weak who come here and believe they can persist their parasitical lifestyle.

[Jacquerie]

“Her greatest hypocrisy is her pretense that she is a woman,” wrote Wendy Doniger, a professor at the University of Chicago. “Having someone who looks like you and behaves like them,” said Gloria Steinem, “who looks like a friend but behaves like an adversary, is worse than having no one.”

Feminists happily bust nuts, but are worse against women more politically effective than themselves. They will abuse Palin as long as they think she is a player for the Presidency.

[texmexis best]

A delightful must read.

The best analysis yet of the failed candidacy of McCain.

The reliance of the left on the Cultural elites is long term and is awful. They are quite provincial, urban rubes, if you will.

[Retired Greyhound]

bump for later

[Rockiette]

Keep in mind that many of these Ivy covered grads are the same people who lost tons of greenbacks investing with Madoff the Pig. Ironic isn’t it!

[SuziQ]

"Palin became the embodiment of every dark fantasy the Left had ever held about the views of evangelical Christians and women who do not associate themselves with contemporary feminism, and all concern for clarity and truthfulness was left at the door."

It was elitism on parade, pure and simple. She couldn't possibly be smart, because she didn't go to the right schools, know the right people, or have the right views according to the effete liberals in DC and NYC.

[Talisker]

I think he's nailed it.

Depends on what you mean by "nailed." If you mean the perfect Leftist spin-framing for the further political undermining of Sarah, then you're right. But if you mean an accurate summation of her political power and abilities, you're sadly mistaken.

This article carefully distances itself from the rabid attacks first used, but just as carefully sets up the next stage of aggression against her, by arguing that her popularity is similiar to Obama's inexperience and mindless adulation and McCain's impotent neutrality. As well, even though it deplores the savaging of Sarah's intelligence, it spends a lot of effort trying to accomplish the same thing through faint praise and the subtle demeaning of the seriousness of her accomplishments.

And it even tries to justify these opinions as fair and balanced by creating - at the beginning and then again at the end of the article - bizarre political definitions and equations that suppose constitutional conservatism is merely a groups of balancing opinions against supposedly equally reasonable leftist state domination theories.

No, this piece is the sharpening of knives. And as far as a hint as to who might be behind it, the following quote from the article gives a bit of a clue: "Indeed, most of this elite’s prominent members hail from middle-class origins and not from traditional bastions of American privilege and wealth. They can speak of growing up in Scranton, even as they raise their noses at dirty coal and hunting season."

Now let's see... just which "prominant, elite" political figure with "middle-class, anti-dirty coal and hunting season" roots going back to "Scranton" might be threatened by Sarah?

Hmm?

[sonofagun]

This appears to me to be a backhanded "compliment" to Palin.

She's certainly not been a "mirror image" of McCain, just a loyal running mate.

Her "inability in interviews to offer coherent answers"??

This piece is as much a hit piece on Sarah as any liberal rag. You just have to wade through the entire essay.

It elevates McCain above a level most conservatives view him and gives her no credit for rejuvenating the Conservative base to the point of almost pulling this election out of the muck for McCain.

[Just another Joe]

One of the best analysis on the phenomena that is Sarah Palin that I have read to date.

And they are correct.
It was not Sarah's job to give a plan for America, it was McCain's job to do that.

Sarah is the only reason that Oboma didn't get 75% of the vote.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Overall, a decent evaluation of the Palin phenomenon, marred by several false premises. Criticizing her for slip ups in interviews that were blatantly hostile and edited to produce the most negative image the media could concoct is disingenuous. Sarah Palin was so feared by the elites, in and out of politics, that she had to be marginalized by any means possible, and therefor, the unprecedented scrutiny and hatchet job.
Simultaneously touting Obama’s affirmative action appointment to the Harvard Law Review as evidence of his superior intellect, while ignoring almost every glaring deficiency in his character and allowing him to go unchallenged on the details of his allegedly superior education is further evidence of bias.
Anyone that needs evidence of the fallacy of the superiority of Ivy League educated idiots in government need only look at the current flock of asshats debating the most evil pork barrel leftist wet dream legislation ever offered for consideration in Congress. Those that support this bill are evil corrupt usurpers, and those foolish enough to believe it can be amended in any manner to make it useful are liars and fools.

[plsjr]

"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.


(sorry...)
Awesome catch Clioman.

[an amused spectator]

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:

Details #1

Details #2

[an amused spectator]

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!

[exit82]

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.