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On Sarah Palin and Her Critics
Pajamas Media ^ | July 7 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/07/2009 2:54:03 PM PDT by AJKauf

In short, if Palin is a “nutty puppy,” these Washington and New York insiders are a deranged pack of rabid dogs. Why, though, the venom?

Let us count the ways in which Palin enrages:

False Consciousness

1) The sophisticated elite “sees” the real world behind the middle-American façade-how the mob is led, fooled, mesmerized-exploited and manipulated through addiction to idiotic things like Wal-Mart, wall-to-wall carpeting, tract houses, Yukons, etc. Can’t smart people see that Palin’s naugahyde family is a reification of all this middle-class, mindless consumerism, without style, erudition, nuance and skepticism? How infuriating to sit here in New York and think that a winking tart could ever be elected, when seasoned sophisticates like Joe Biden and cosmopolitan metrosexuals like Barack Obama, who see it all, might not have been.

Powermen-Not Powerful Men

2) Twenty-first century power women do not marry men like Todd Palin. Looks, physicality, practicality, courage even-all these are nineteenth-century virtues that now mean nothing in a post-modern, post-industrial society. The fixer in finance, law, academia, politics, or the media-geek, nerd, wimp, who cares?-is the new Alpha male....

(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; notmitt; palin

1 posted on 07/07/2009 2:54:04 PM PDT by AJKauf
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2 posted on 07/07/2009 2:59:12 PM PDT by jessduntno ("We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction." - Sara Palin, quoting MacArthur.)
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To: AJKauf

He nails it again!!!!


3 posted on 07/07/2009 3:11:19 PM PDT by SueRae
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To: SueRae

Why is there never a chance to vote for a Victor Davis Hanson for anything?


4 posted on 07/07/2009 3:18:45 PM PDT by SoCalRight
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To: jessduntno

We are not retreating......

Actually, it was not MacArthur, but another general, who made this quote. She got it wrong, but we get her point.


5 posted on 07/07/2009 3:20:21 PM PDT by mono
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To: AJKauf
Sarah Palen is a "nutty puppy?"

What was Cindy Sheehan when you were making her your poster child, MSM? What a bunch of morons.

6 posted on 07/07/2009 3:22:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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To: mono

I thought it was Gen Puller, but I might well be wrong.

“”Retreat Hell! We’re just attacking in another direction.” (Attributed to Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Korea, December 1950.) “
http://www.3rdmarines.net/Marine_Quotes.htm


7 posted on 07/07/2009 3:27:20 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: AJKauf
I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke-and more of the latter whom I’d trust not to bankrupt the country and let down our defenses than of the former.

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8 posted on 07/07/2009 3:28:41 PM PDT by AHerald ("If you love me, you will keep my commandments." -- Jn 14:15)
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To: SueRae

More and more VDH is climbing way over Krauthammer in my favorable opinion... the last paragraph is the absolute best.


9 posted on 07/07/2009 3:39:32 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: mono

“We are not retreating......” Actually, it was not MacArthur, but another general, who made this quote. She got it wrong, but we get her point.

Ummmmm....no, it was MacArthur;

http://www.toinspire.com/author.asp?author=General+Douglas+MacArthur


10 posted on 07/07/2009 3:39:45 PM PDT by jessduntno ("We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction." - Sara Palin, quoting MacArthur.)
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To: AJKauf
He nails the idea of the "19th century male".

The last novelist to make a habit of creating male characters who were honest, decent, honorable, "manly" men was Anthony Trollope. Mr. Harding, Archdeacon Grantly, Dr. Thorne, even Rev. Crawley . . . all good men that you would be honored to have in the family.

If you haven't read any Trollope, I highly recommend him. Barchester Towers is as good a place to start as any.

11 posted on 07/07/2009 3:41:32 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: jessduntno

It has been quoted as a General Puller and a General Smith at other sources. As I said, we get her point. If she was incorrect others will make sure to blast her for it.


12 posted on 07/07/2009 3:43:17 PM PDT by mono
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To: AJKauf

He’s still stubbornly off about her running in 2012, which is what I believe she is doing and should be doing.


13 posted on 07/07/2009 3:52:00 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: AHerald
I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke-and more of the latter whom I’d trust not to bankrupt the country and let down our defenses than of the former.

Just needs to be posted over and over again. The same can be said for the Washington insiders and media elites on both coasts I have met through the years.

The lack of intelligence, wisdom and practical knowledge running the halls of those great big buildings in DC is scary. Its no surprise we get TARP, nationalized car manufacturers, Cap & Tax and a healthcare takeover being seriously considered by the intellectual giants in Congress and the occupied White House.

14 posted on 07/07/2009 3:52:58 PM PDT by Kandy Atz ("Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want for bread.")
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To: 9YearLurker

Here is an absolutely wonderful youtube of Sarah.
I think it should be played everytime she makes an appearance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMj1Rg5YHCA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsteamtravel.ning.com%2Fprofiles%2Fmessage%2Fshow%3Fid%3D245715668%


15 posted on 07/07/2009 5:03:40 PM PDT by yellowhorse (6 good horses, 3 good women (my wife, my momma and my sister))
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To: yellowhorse

That was great, thanks. Loved the picture of Soros.


16 posted on 07/07/2009 5:10:44 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: yellowhorse

Thank you for the Man Eater video link.....excellent...


17 posted on 07/07/2009 6:52:00 PM PDT by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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