Well, my ex-girlfriend hated Palin but I think mostly she just hated her.
Mrs. 2ndDivisionVet is a recovering liberal, but she LOVES Sarah Palin and wore several Palin T-shirts last year. I think there are a lot of women out there that’ll vote for her at the top of the ticket, especially since Mr. Obama is f***ing up the country by the numbers and women hate to see anyone’s kids attacked.
Actually, that’s kind of interesting. Did your ex manage to explain just WHY she hated Sarah?
I had some great arguments with my Mom over Sarah. Mom’s an old “libbie” and Gloria Steinem fan, Her late mother, whom she took in and supported in her final years, was a proper depression-era FDR democrat who impressed upon her the William Jennings Bryan/Wizard of Oz zero-sum economic model that anyone who makes a lot of money in this life has to have taken it from the mouths of the proletariat, etc., etc., ad inf, ad naus.
I asked Mom how she could stand to see these blue-stocking, Park Avenue elitist types crudely smear a working-class, Midwestern (Slate Magazine did have great article about the lack of an official “Alaskan” accent) woman who was genuinely devoted to her children when she, herself proudly came from a similar background and never really bought into the culture of abortion.
Mom did not have a satisfactory answer, beyond furiously defending her own proletarian, Midwestern (Helena, Montana) origins.