Posted on 07/10/2009 12:12:20 AM PDT by militanttoby
Sarah Palin's early retirement from Alaska's governor's mansion has been called erratic, unhinged, and irrational, which isn't surprising: Her ten-month career as a national figure has been marked by erratic, extreme, and unhinged behavior, most of it emanating from the other side.
How rational is it for a once-noted blogger to obsess for months over Palin's gynecological history, insisting that her younger son, born in April, 2008, was really born to her 18-year-old daughter, although the daughter was already pregnant with her own child, born eight months later, in December of the same year?
How rational is it for a reputable pundit to call her a "cancer" on the Republican party, for reasons he seemed to feel deeply (they had something to do with not reading Niebuhr), but couldn't exactly describe?
It was rational to critique her lack of experience, (though Barak Obama had less as a senator), and her lack of knowledge of foreign affairs (which was typical of most governors, and could be assuaged with tutorial sessions); but the real objections to Palin were of other kinds.
A McCain-style maverick, who fought her own party and put social concerns on a fairly back burner, the moose-hunting mother of five was transformed within days to a backwoods fanatic, who banned books when not burning them, opposed contraception, wanted rape victims to pay for their treatment, wanted Alaska to secede from the Union, believed, (said Yuval Levin) "that the Iraq war was mandated by God, that the end-times prophesied in the Book of Revelation were nearing," and that the world had been made in six days.
None of this was true, but this failed to bother the "fact-based community," for whom her actual record didn't exist. In fact, her record was never brought up by her most intense critics, who focused instead on their inchoate feelings.
"Palin became the embodiment of every dark fantasy the Left [and part of the Right] had ever held about the views of evangelical Christians," said Yuval Levin. Oddly, the main complaint leveled at Palin was that she was not tolerant, and she disdained logic and reason for appeals on the purely emotional level, geared to primitive yearnings and fears.
And how tolerant was it to "gun for her children," as Peggy Noonan and others have said? A comedian joked about her 14 year old being "knocked up" at a ball game, and then explained it by saying he meant the 18-year-old daughter instead.
Her husband was portrayed on Saturday Night Live seducing his daughters. She was mocked as a slut, hung in effigy, and called a fit subject for rape by a number of feminists.
And the special-needs child? Don't ask. Pictures were photoshopped that showed him with the head of a freak or a monster or criminal. Critics said she had cornered the "retard' vote; which she would have done anyhow." She said that the "world needs more Trigs, not fewer," complained one blogger recently.
"Her first act as President: To introduce a Pre-K lunch buffet that includes lead paint chips. Sort of a large HEAD-START program...Her policies will increase jobs because Wal-Mart is building new stores each day and someone has to be the greeter. This will lead to smaller government because fewer Americans will have the cognitive ability to hold a government job."
It's class all the way with these wonderful people. Perhaps she's resigning because her husband was getting an ulcer, repressing his impulse to shove them through walls.
Part of this descends from the Clintons' "nuts and sluts" strategy, and part from the campaign in 2004, when Mary Cheney emerged as a culture war issue, because, in the words of the Democrats' fixer, she was "fair game."
Now everyone is fair game to the party of reason and tolerance, which may finally have pushed things too far. They'll have Palin to kick around a bit longer, but from the top of a pile of money, free of their lawsuits, and perhaps with a microphone or two in her arsenal.
She's not quitting, just shifting the terms of the battle. Nixon survived a disjointed "farewell," and he became president. Twice.
Last week, a student in the school where I work as a counselor, asked me my opinion of Palin. This student knows my conservative leanings, and he often asks my opinion, because he leans to the left.
Before I could even respond, another counselor said "Thank GOD she's going away" with a tone of disgust. This same person was going on about how awful it was that a certain singer who slept with children passed away.
I don't agree with Palin on some things, but at the very least she seems like a good mother and a conservative--two great qualities in my book. I think her leaving office is a signal that she's had enough of the incessant attacks, which I believe are entirely about abortion. She not only believes in the right to life, she lives by that belief when she knew her baby would be born with serious health problems. Her greatest sin is that liberals can't call her a hypocrite, and for that they cannot forgive her.
With all due respect her greatest sin is twofold:
1)That she wants to take down the Messiah
2)She wants to sabotage the radical takeover of the Federal government that was 40 years in the making
Everything else is window dressing.
Nail on the head.
“Nixon survived a disjointed “farewell,” and he became president. Twice.”
Not the best example. He was destroyed.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out later that Sarah Palin was not going to run for re-election but had planned to serve out the full-term, but for the overreach by the Obama war room who constantly lobbed volleys in her direction through its surrogates in the nutroots, MSM, entertainment industry and the Alaskan anklebiters.
You could say that Obama and his merry men and women were hoisted by their own petard.
I would compare Sarah’s resignation to MacArthur’s retreat from the PI to Australia during the Second World War and his subsequent return to take back the PI from the Japanese to Sarah’s new mission to travel throughout the lower 48 to pick up IOU’s, give speeches and fundraise.
Sarah even invoked MacArthur by saying she ‘is advancing in a different direction’.
Nixon was the classical career politician while Sarah Palin is more of a citizen patriot.
Nixon was a man for his times and Sarah is a woman of the 21st c. I would even say without the Internet, right-wing web sites and professional conservative bloggers touting her credentials in the summer of 2008 and helping her finish first or second in multiple internet polls she would not have been selected by McCain.
And for certain without maverick living up to his name Romney for sure would have been the GOP nominee in 2012 and the conservative movement in America would be now royally pissed off right now without any viable conservative candidate to back.
Yup.
They did such a good job it’s another bullet in the leftist agenda’s foot.
Now Palin is not boxed in anymore and is a moving target.
The leftists do best if they can shoot fish in a barrel.
LOL now they will soon be saying, “Oh nos, what has we done?”
Absolutely right on post #3 and probably right on post #6.
They were gunning for him ever since the Alger Hiss thing.
They never forgave him for taking down Alger Hiss, or for beating Helen Gaghan Douglas (Commie symp-Cali) for Congress.
They has to watch and wait and plot and it took a long time, but in the end they got him.
With all due respect her greatest sin is twofold:
1)That she wants to take down the Messiah
2)She wants to sabotage the radical takeover of the Federal government that was 40 years in the making
Everything else is window dressing.
ROTFLMAO!
Sarah is doing something the NEW WAY! Obama beat the Clintons by doing something the NEW WAY, and Sarah just baffles the old bulls like Rove and all the other cautious pundits! GO SARAH!
So who thinks Rahm & Axelrod are burning some (more) midnight oil these days?
tahDeetz
Since a socialist Democrat takeover woke the sleeping people. Go too far to the left and the pendulum will swing back right.
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