Thomas Sowell: Palin a threat to intelligentsia's vision of the world

Bay Area News Group via CoCo Times ^ | 2/27/9 | Thomas Sowell

[SmithL]

fyi

[GQuagmire]

later ping

[exist]

We lost single women, young women badly. Goes to show women are catty. I knew tons of chicks that wouldn’t vote for her not because of issues— but because they didn’t like her accent or thought she was too bubbly. Catty.

[PGalt]

Pragmatism tells you nothing about extremism.

OUTSTANDING article by Thomas Sowell! Thanks for posting.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

True but she won't win a national presidential election.
So maybe a run for Senate is what they are looking at.

[SlowBoat407]

I know a woman who, ostensibly conservative, voted for Obama because she was convinced that:

A. Both McCain and Obama were likely to not survive their term in office, and hence she wanted a VP with “experience”.

B. Palin should not have been running around campaigning because her kids needed her at home.

She told me recently that she was afraid our country was slipping into socialism, and my simple response was, “You contributed to it by voting for Obama.”

[techno]

Thomas Sowell is a beacon of hope in the conservative community. He would not compliment Sarah if he did not really believe what he is writing.

[jessduntno]

“But there are conservative Republicans who voted for Barack Obama...”

I think there may be some people who either say they are or THINK they are, but no conservatives who voted for the Kenyan.

[throwback]

Went to a Palin rally during the campaign, and it as my last positive feeling about this country. She lit the place up. Sowell is a pearl of great price.

[Gaffer]

Your friend is neither conservative nor very morally grounded. She is, in plain fact, an idiot.

[SolidWood]

You should have pointed your finger at her face, laughed hysterically and told her that she’s been punked and everything she’ll get crammed down her throat by the Obama regime is her own fault.

[hopespringseternal]

I knew tons of chicks that wouldn’t vote for her not because of issues— but because they didn’t like her accent or thought she was too bubbly.

The vast majority of us have never had to face the world in such a way that it made us grow up. Witness the current spectacle. Anyone with a brain cell should be horrified, but most Americans are little more than mildly annoyed.

[Jim Scott]

Thomas Sowell nails the Palin phenomena and cogently compares it to the Obama ascendancy and why so many 'intellectuals' on the Right and Left love Obama or hate Palin. The elist ('not one of us') pose that intellectuals, especially pseudo-intellectuals (most liberal commentators) fall victim to when someone like Sarah Palin emerges on the national political scene is eminently predictable and just as tedious. This is why the left jumped to mock Palin as soon as she was seen to have connected with 'ordinary' Americans.

I don't know what's in Sarah Palin's political future but while she clearly disturbs 'intellectuals', she relates nicely with the rest of us, and in a politician, that is almost unstoppable. Most Americans can identify with Sarah Palin. They see themselves reflected in her in many ways and don't like effectively being sneered at and mocked by pointed-headed, over-educated elitists. Sowell has it right.

[yankeedame]

Way,way back in the 18th century William Thackery wrote: "Even as the worst enemy of the Irish are the Irish, so to the worst enemy of women are women."

The more things change...

[SolidWood]

The media attacks against her will backfire enormously. They made her the Anti-Obama when a majority of Americans was enamoured with Obama. In four years Americans will beg for an Anti-Obama. Obama's disastrous policies and his dependance on his "star status" which will have worn off by 2012, will sink him. He can't run on Hope and Change again.

The only way they could win is through massive fraud.

[mojitojoe]

I don’t know one person the went to see Sarah that didn’t become a huge Palin fan. She inspires people and that’s why the Dems hate her. She scares the hell out of them. She is their worst nightmare.

[marktwain]

“We lost single women, young women badly. Goes to show women are catty. I knew tons of chicks that wouldn’t vote for her not because of issues— but because they didn’t like her accent or thought she was too bubbly. Catty.”

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It is worse than that. Single women elected Obama. If they would have split evenly, we would have won. I am far from convinced it is because they voted against Palin.

I think they voted for Obama because:

He is handsome and young.

He stood for more freebees from the government, and many single women have substituted the government for a man in their lives.

Single women, as a group, are less sophisticated about politics than any other group, IMHO.

[SlowBoat407]

...and everything she’ll get crammed down her throat by the Obama regime is her own fault.

Not only that... she works for a conservative talk radio station, so I told her that the fairness doctrine is looming large for her.

[Chewbacca]

I prefer Ron Paul.