Posted on 12/17/2009 1:35:33 AM PST by militanttoby
It's tough to take seriously a literary critic who doesn't know the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb.
On the flip side of that,
I know libs who are so strongly adherent to their one hotbutton issue that they can’t concede ANY other more basic concept because it will cause the house of cards to collapse around their one issue.
I couldn’t tell my transitive verbs from my incontinent participles. But then again, I don’t take myself seriously.
Indeed, the author seems to have been time-shifted to the present from the era before radical leftists threw the liberal movement over the port side of the ship.
- JP
Not to worry. Like Sarah said in her book, her children keep her grounded.
- JP
The adoration she’s received in recent weeks is very seductive. If she veers in the direction of rock stardom then she’s doomed and a bunch of us will be very disappointed.
We know she can handle personal attacks and all that stuff but how will she handle success? She must be very satisfied with herself now.
The only problem is that he/she doesn’t seem to undestand that liberals aren’t on the same team we are. They cheer the destruction of our country while we try to build us up.
You are so right. That is why I included consideration of finding and avoiding that hot button.
You never know what it may be but if you can isolate it and set it aside much of simple conservatism will appeal if presented in the right manner.
Go read the comments at HuffPo and you will see that the author of this piece is whistling in the wind.
Most of the “enlightened progressives” would never question their own prejudices because (in their minds) only Conservatives have prejudices.
They think Palin’s book is a lie by a narcissist, and her political aspirations a malignant lust for power from a smalltown mayor and governor of a state with a tiny population thinking she is important enough to be President.
Of course, Obama, and Edwards, et al, are exempt from the same characterizations ...
Thanks CondoleezzaProtege. An op-ed like this an 50 cents will buy ya a cup of coffee. The usual party-line unthinking unblinking mean-spirited nastiness of the trolls of DU swills down through the comments on that page.
Ya’ll weren’t kidding about the comments.
Ye gods.
The interesting thing to me is that a bigotted lefty admits he is bigotted and read Gov. Palin’s book in an attempt to get beyond his bigotry. That makes him somewhat of old line liberal. One that rather than calling everyone he disagrees with names, actually admitted his prejudice and tried to look deeper.
Not surprisingly, as a religious convert to the Church of the AntiCarbon, he reacted in a knee jerk way to all of the solutions that will lead to Palin beating Obama in 3 years. But we already knew most on the left are so invested in their religious beliefs that they rule out most commons sense solutions to problems, like cutting taxes to spur private sector growth and drilling for more oil and gas.
Yeah, they’re quite a bunch of ignorant bigots and loons.
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“Reading Going Rogue makes me understand that Sarah is not the ruthlessly ambitious and cutthroat caricature we feared; she is a woman who has befriended Democrats personally and professionally, shown real leadership in fighting corruption, and taken a more nuanced position on several issues in which she seemed far more polarizing. She seems quite sincere in her desire to serve in whatever way the universe calls for that service.”
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