What Do Sarah Palin and Jesus Christ Have In Common? (Whose side is Red State on, anyway?)

Red State ^ | 14 Jan 2010 | Erick Erickson

[GOP_Raider]

I don’t know what it is about Sarah Palin that sets people off, but there is very little in between. The reaction people have to Sarah Palin is very much the reaction many people have to Jesus — both offend and disgust the secular values of some and with others failing to embrace either sends you straight to hell. Judging by my conversation with Governor Palin a few weeks ago when I asked her why the left has more compassion for Al Qaeda than for conservative women and minorities, I think she gets it and finds some humor in it.

--snip--

I understand that a great many of Palin’s supporters, myself included, have felt on the defensive for a while. The media genuinely hates this woman. The left is more revolted by Palin than they ever were by Bush.

I get that.

But I also get that there are Republicans who like — even love — Sarah Palin who think some of her handlers might not give her the best of advice or think she should or should not do one thing or another. And i’m finding, both from personal experience and the experience of friends, that when those points are brought up, the person raising the point is often inappropriately attacked as a Palin hater.

[GOP_Raider]

I've been asked by Virginia Ridgerunner to post a new thread concerning this particular article at Red State. I may not be able to comment a whole lot about this until very late tonight, so I'll ping the Palin list keepers and they can go from there.

[GOP_Raider]

In terms of categorization, do you want this in News or Bloggers?

[GOP_Raider]

Ping!

[Uncle Ivan]

the left has more compassion for Al Qaeda than for conservative women and minorities

This is actually pretty true.

[US Navy Vet]

Sarah loves G*D(Jesus) and G*D(Jesus) loves Sarah! Sarah puts G*D (Jesus) at the center of her life unlike Barak who puts himself at the center.

[Never on my watch]

And Sarah doesn’t think she’s the Messiah.

[pnh102]

Gov. Palin is great and all but comparing her to Jesus is a bit much.

[SoCalPol]

Red State, Erick Erickson snarkey comments re Sarah Palin
due to Sarah not jumping onboard the pro Romney CPAC train.

[anymouse]

Both walk on water.

To be fair, it is usually frozen when Sarah does it. ;)

[DJ MacWoW]

I think the point is that both seem to engender a “foaming at the mouth” response from the left.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

(((PING))) for discussion. Please read the entire article before posting, if you are so inclined. This is a carry over from another related thread, and my response is here.

[FrankR]

The left - by their very nature and reason for existence - are evil to the core. Everything they do, from cheating at elections to ramming legislation down our throats that we overwhelmingly do not want, is an evil enterprise. They are cold and calculating, and their intentions for our beloved country are involve socialism/communism and absolute rule.

To the democrats, our "Bill of Rights" is but a "checklist" of what to destroy next. They're already working hard on shutting us up, and that rumbling noise you hear is plans for gun control...those two rights alone prevent them from total ravage of our great land.

In the past couple of decades America seems to have dwindled from bad to worse regarding her leadership...true patriots have become fodder for a fratboy media, and they are helping elect the worst that America has to offer. They are helping elect other "frat boys" who just want the rest of us to finance their never-ending parties.

They've finally moved out of their parents' basements and are weilding a little power they don't know how to control, and the country is in havoc. The idea that we become like Europe (where most of them have never lived for more than a week)is exciting and exotic in their eyes, based on movies they've seen, I guess.

Along comes Sarah...she represents the parent threatening to restore order and rules to stifle the wild parties of the leftist movement. She's a big threat to their plastic banana, good-time, rock'n'roll existence...and she has the support of the American people backing her.

Of course the left is all wee-wee'd up over that...to them, she's a "police raid" ready to take the worst offenders to the woodshed and restore all the govenment furniture to an upright position.

She's got a better plan, with the details in big, letters that everyone can see and understand while the lefties hide in back rooms and print in zero size type in legalese before anyone has a chance to read anything...then they want us to blindly sign on the bottom line. These people are mentally ill.

With Sarah, you know what you're getting...she has a track-record, and she has morals...something the left has to look up in the dictionary everytime it's mentioned.

Sarah is not Jesus, but she does build her life around His teachings and trusts him to lead her. The left shudders because they're afraid that like Jesus, if Sarah would be in charge their "sins" would be exposed and the party would end with a raid and a trip to the pokie.

Like Jesus, people who actually know Sarah are NOT afraid, moreover, they are comforted by her presence as they feel they can put their trust in her...something the democrats will ever be able to do again after obama and this congress. The democrats will be the party you listen to with one eyebrow raised in suspicion of every word they utter...because looking back, the names Carter, Clinton, and obama are all synonyms for "lying".

Sarah is not "Reverend Moon", and she is not out there trying to "convert" anyone, she is simply living her life based on her convictions and enjoying the freedom of Religion guaranteed by a Constitution she fully supports.

But those on the left tend to wallow in glee if any muslim mentions "allah's" words, and somehow they don't have any problem with public muslim prayers, wearing burkahs to public school, and observing muslim holidays. That tells most of us one thing, if they condemn and try to prohibit Christianity, and melt at all things muslim...they must all be muslims. It follows. When to the car burnings start?

So, if Palin and conservatism intimidates the press and the lefties, then so be it...no one is whining about it but the "fratboys" (and girls) dreading having to upright all the furniture and act like adults.

[DTogo]

I was on the Morning Joe last week and was asked about Sarah Palin. I made a point I have made repeatedly. In 2008, Obama and Palin were, to many people, empty vessels into which people poured their hopes and dreams without really knowing anything about either. Obama admitted as much about himself in his biography.

I said this again yesterday on a podcast with Dr. Melissa Clothier. I’ve also added repeated (and I’ve used this comparison frequently) that with Obama, most people are coming away disappointed in that who he actually is is quite a bit different from the hopey-changey vessel of good tidings people assumed he was. With Palin, a lot of people got it right — she’s a solid Christian, a real agent of change, a threat to the secular left and feminist movement because she can carry a baby and think at the same time, etc. That’s the benefit of being an honest Alaskan instead of a Manchurian candidate.

A very accurate statement by Erick.

[cricket]

Both walk on water. To be fair, it is usually frozen when Sarah does it. ;)

LOL. . .that said; always thought GW 'walked the walk'. . .and we know he paid a huge price for doing what he did; and paid as well, for just being 'who' he is. . .a price extracted with pleasure from his many enemies; who are America's as well.

[cricket]

Both walk on water. To be fair, it is usually frozen when Sarah does it. ;)

LOL. . .that said; always thought GW 'walked the walk'. . .and we know he paid a huge price for doing what he did; and paid as well, for just being 'who' he is. . .a price extracted with pleasure from his many enemies; who are America's as well.

[MrB]

Without being sacrilegious, they DO have some points in common. After all, one of the essential doctrines of the Christian faith is that Jesus was 100% human (as well as 100% God).

They both are very divisive.
They both are/were disdained by the academics of their time as being “untrained”.
He said we’d be persecuted for following Him. We’re seeing that alright.

[george3547]

I like your reply. I think you are right on.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, evangelist Perry Stone likened the McCain/Palin ticket to the Book of Esther in the Bible. When Queen Vashti defied her husband and was banished, a new queen had to be found. Essentially, a beauty contest was held and Mordecai introduced his niece Esther to the King and the court. After that, the contestants went away for three years to learn how to be queen.

Perry Stone saw the 2008 campaign as John McCain, an old man, introducing Sarah Palin to the Country. After that she would go away for three years to learn, and then come back. As he said, I don’t know, but could history be repeating itself?

I once heard that what God will do, He has already done!

I can only hope that God will give me enough time to see President Palin signing Executive Orders that will undo the mess that president Obama has put on this great nation, for the sake of my children and grandchildren.

[cricket]

As much as I admire Sarah; do not want to see the same kind of ‘adulation rising’ from those who support her - that we see with the Obama factions.

[RobbyS]

Erickson should realize that Palin doesn’t necessarily want to be president. In any case, she is going to do it HER way. Listen to her on Beck. She wants to prove she is not greedy for office, that the message coms first, that right now she is acting as tribune for her followers, not for the Party, and is trying to bend it in the direction they want it to go.

[allmendream]

The subtitle makes me laugh.

Apparently Erick Erickson didn't wax eloquently enough with his ‘listen, I love Sarah Palin...’ bit.

The subtitle emphasizes one of his articles main points; that Sarah Palin supporters (and I am one of them) need to back off a bit on labeling any criticism at all of Sarah Palin, no matter how well intentioned or peripheral; as “hate-Sarah” speech.

I think the zealotry on her behalf is a bit overblown, and makes those who engage in it look as if they are not basing their support of Palin on reasonable criteria, because they become so unreasonable to anyone who they think is not sufficiently “on their side”.