Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
Posted on 07/11/2009 4:39:02 AM PDT by Syncro
You took a fine time to leave us, Sarah. Can't you imagine Kenny Rogers singing about it? We've had some bad times/ Lived through some sad times/ But this time your hurtin' won't heal.
Sarah Palin's detractors, and there are lots of them, pile on the lower-class comparisons, ridiculing her as more country than cool: Barbie with a gun, whose got the moose on the run. They're right. That's why she has fans for being just that, among both men and women. She's authentic when a lot of pols rely on manufactured authenticity.
Stereotypes cut several ways. For conservatives who groove on family values as their primary issue, she added pizzazz to the frumpy look of the "traditional" woman in a hemline below the knee and hair headed in the wrong direction. She wouldn't have been John McCain's running mate, as Vanity Fair observed snidely, if she had looked like Susan Boyle. She plays against type, like Reese Witherspoon in "Legally Blonde," emphasizing in pink the femininity of the Valley Girl and whose brains shock the socks off the dull gray Ivy Leaguers in faded Dockers and Birkenstocks.
Sarah is our female Crocodile Dundee. She demonstrated how a woman could wrestle an alligator and look good doing it. She preferred being a "pit bull with lipstick," but both descriptions go to the heart of her appeal. Here was a conservative woman with a sense of humor, who could hang out with the boys and hang tough on "Saturday Night Live," where candidates go for their screen tests. By resigning as governor of Alaska, she forfeited the image of the dark mare racing to the White House, but that was our fantasy, not hers.
We've lost the delicious anticipation of a debate between Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, if not next time, maybe in 2016, assuming Hillary could make it that far. Hillary was more independent and certainly more influential as first lady than she is stuck in the State Department bureaucracy, carrying out policies made at the White House. The two women probably won't make the first all-female run for the White House, but at 40 to one, the odds are greater against a successful second chance for Hillary. We can put the odds at about eight to one against Sarah getting to a presidential debate.
We should give the speculation over Palin's political future a rest.
As a pro-life wife and mother of four, and still an ambitious professional, Sarah can change women's lives by encouraging them to expand their options as feminism continues to adapt to the real-world wants and needs of traditional women.
Professional women with children have always been able to abandon a job without suffering diminished ego. Men can't do that. Besides, Sarah has a book contract, earns high fees for speeches and attracts larger audiences than almost anyone else (including Barack Obama). When men leaving the arena say "they want to spend more time with the family," we assume it's only euphemism. We're likely to believe a woman.
Feminism hasn't changed any of that. Sarah said she got the unanimous vote of her children to leave the office of governor. That sounds like the birthday party took priority over the Republican Party, proving that there's more than one event to celebrate with balloons.
In her first out-of-state speech this year, to several thousand women at a Right to Life dinner in Evansville, Ind., two months ago, she made a surprising confession. She said she was out of town when she learned from the amniocentesis results that she was going to have a baby with "abnormalities." She confessed to a fleeting thought that she could "just make it go away, and get some normalcy back in life."
She didn't get an abortion, of course. She embraced life. Maybe that's what she's doing again, only this time actually getting some "normalcy" back. Maybe the actual lyrics of Kenny Rogers got it right:
When the drinks finally hit her
She said I'm no quitter
but I finally quit livin' on dreams.
I'm hungry for laughter and here ever after
I'm after whatever the other life brings.
Suzanne Fields is a columnist with The Washington Times. Write to her at: sfields1000@aol.com. To find out more about Suzanne Fields and read her past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
Stereotypes cut several ways. For conservatives who groove on family values as their primary issue, she added pizzazz to the frumpy look of the "traditional" woman in a hemline below the knee and hair headed in the wrong direction.She plays against type, like Reese Witherspoon in "Legally Blonde," emphasizing in pink the femininity of the Valley Girl and whose brains shock the socks off the dull gray Ivy Leaguers in faded Dockers and Birkenstocks.
Although Fields is a bit off in a couple of areas, this is a good article
The left likes thier women piable and stupid. Any woman{or black for that matter} that strays from the Left is a traitor or a uncle Tom. They cant tolerate anyone who goes against them.
I think Sarah is going to run from POTUS in 2012. She’s probably taking a coupla weeks off to think things thru and do some soul searching, and then she’ll begin the runup to her campaign.
She has unfinished business in Washington DC.
We've lost the delicious anticipation of a debate between Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, if not next time, maybe in 2016, assuming Hillary could make it that far.Speak for yourself.
I don't have any "delicious anticipations".
I just want our country back. I look to Palin to help with that. In a big way. From the White House? Maybe, maybe not. But that's irrelevant, because my expectation (not anticipation) is that she will start doing that very soon, long before 2012. Helping us get our country back, that is.
Thank you, Palin, for being there for us.
She is right on Susan Boyle look alike would never have been chosen...agreed. She got the number of children wrong...she said four...she has five. Conservatives love to use caribou Barbie. The Reece Witherspoon comparison is a bit weird and not sure I agree with. Bottom line...Sarah is purdy and that is a fact!!!!!
Suzanne....she has 5 kids, not 4. And you have written her off, politically......WHY....she is the ONE who people are interested in.
I think so too.
(I'm assuming your meant "for" and not "from")
But I take her at her word, and from what she says now that is not a big concern for her right now.
If she continues just being Sarah Palin I imagine it will hit her in the next year or so.
PLUS.....MANLY men,so few left these days, would LOVE to vote for Sarah....she’s not a shrew and she gets her hands dirty WITH her man.
THREE CHEERS!
Hip Hip Hooray!
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Seems like everyone gets it except the pointy headed pukes who worship at the echo chamber idol of the “Beltway”.
Yep, the writer doesn't quite get it.
They all seem to have to throw in some of their inbred nonsense because Palin is such a threat to their indoctrination.
Well yea, but I liked it!
I think the point is that the Witherspoon character was completely written off because those that wrote her off couldn't see past their own prejudices and fears. And lack of abilities.
I quite enjoyed the movie Legally Blonde.
I needed to comment on that statement also.
I agree completely, and I think that is the way she is thinking at this time also.
She is one smart cookie, you betcha!
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
“We’ve lost the delicious anticipation of a debate between Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton”
I, for one, NEVER want to see hillary clinton on a national stage again in life. Or ANY stage, for that matter.
The author of this article sounds like a late jumper on to the bandwagon trying to sound relevant and trendy. She seems to have not the slightest clue about Sarah Palin...(which is probably a good thing.)
When Sarah steps out, and she will, NOTHING they can do will stop her....because they don’t know real, can’t deal with real, and will not be able to handle the truth.
Americans are truth starved and will run to it as surely as night turns into day. This will be epic.
Palin talked to Dick Cheney about her decision and that’s enough for me.
It would be nice to let Sarah retire to the background for a while and let her plan during these 3 years left for 2012.
When Sarah steps out, and she will, NOTHING they can do will stop her....because they don’t know real, can’t deal with real, and will not be able to handle the truth. Americans are truth starved and will run to it as surely as night turns into day.
Yep.
This will be epic.
I hope that is prophetic...
And she has stated that she is going to fight.
Now.
For our Country.
She is beyond anyone “letting” her do anything.
That's what has got all her enemies flamboozled
They had her in a box as Governor of Alaska, and are freaking out now that she is on the loose!
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