Gold Rush In Alaska

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public, H.L. Mencken once said. Terribly elitist fellow, that Mencken. If only he were alive to witness the phenomenon of Sarah Palin, whose biography validates every cynical thought that ever found expression in his prolific prose.....

Meanwhile, getting real, can we stop pretending that Palin is interested in anything other than her own ambition?

Can we also stop nodding assent every time she says the media are to blame for her self-inflicted wounds? The media invented Sarah Palin. Before the media shined their light on those no-place-like-home slippers, does anyone recall ever wondering what a governor of Alaska was up to?...

"Let's face it, she just doesn't really want to govern, and she's doing what's best for her," said a Republican campaign strategist who has worked with Palin.

"This is a win-win," said another. "It's a win for her because she is not politically viable, and now hopefully she can make a lot of money, have balance and affect culture in a positive way. It's a win for the Republican Party because she was the female version of [George W.] Bush in some ways. She is not intellectually curious. We need and have smart, competent alternatives."...

Palin's laughing all the way to the bank? She's deep in debt.

The Post is going all Orwell on us.

The only people I see laughing all the way to the bank are Al Sharpton and the Jacksons as they squeeze all they can out of Jackson-mania.

Then there's Al Gore and assorted Dem politicians making money hand over fist off of the Global Warming hysteria.

The Socialist get rich blackmailing through regulation and supporting social causes that elicit intense sympathy from overly emotional idealists who champion the endless economic rape of productive taxpayers.

So many elitist women wish they were at least something of Sarah Palin in so many ways. They hate her because they can't be her and she makes them to know how much they suck.

Real close. So many of the feminazi elistist types are so perfused with man-hate for the guys they had to either scuttle or get a leg up from they have a hand full of 'victim' cards from the experience.

Here comes Sarah Palin, who has worked alongside her husband and supported him in what he does and been supported by him, with a passel of kids, who has broken the glass ceiling and succeeded in complete contradiction to the feminist career woman/no time for family/antiman crowd, who not only does not fit their mold of what a successful woman is supposed to be like, she completely invalidates their paradigm.

Every iota of anger they may have at themselves for being taken in by the feminazi camp will be magnified and redirected toward the messenger, the one who has shown them their core catechism is a fraud.

As for the mewling nancy-boys of the MSM, they hate her because she successfully engages in far more manly pursuits than they have stomach for.

Beneath it all is a healthy dose of the snobbery which the cosmopolitan and urbane have reserved from those folks who have lived or worked out beyond the end of the sidewalk.

Of course they will villify her at every turn. She is successful, intelligent, popular, attractive, and not one of them.

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