Posted on 09/03/2008 8:10:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Much has been written why Palin both brings strength to the McCain ticket and is a gamble at the same time. Why then the growing wave of popular sentiment in her favor?
Various reasons, but one I think is that millions of Americans are simply tired of being lectured at by smug elites. Jetting Al Gore made tens of millions finger-pointing at us about our global warming. Obama's America, apparently unlike Rev. Wright's Trinity Church, is a cruel, downright mean and dysfunctional place. John Kerry's United States is one of the half-educated in need of Ivy-League enlightenment and tutorials.
So along comes someone (unlike Biden's vastly inflated middle-class biography) who really is from the working class. She likes it—and finds snowmobiling, hunting, fishing and living in small-town America not as a wasteful use of carbon-emitting fuels, cruelty to animals, gratuitous depletion of our resources, or proof of parochial yokelism. Instead it is a life of action in an often harsh natural landscape, where physical strength is married to intelligence to bring us food, fuel, and progress.
Palin's symbolism is the antithesis of the metrosexual wind- or body- surfing politican, and hair-plugged, neurotic TV pundit So at this time, right now, millions apparently like Palin's atypical 19th-century profile. Again, it's a pleasant change of pace from Harvard Law School, DC politics, "community organizing" and the can't-do, 'they raised the bar on me' collective complaint.
If she can beat off the frothing Newsweek/MSNBC/New York Times inbred rabid wolves, and do it with the grace she has shown so far, she will fill a deep yearning among Americans for someone like her. A lot of Americans, if they watch reality shows, prefer truckers on ice or Bering Sea crab fishing to endless psychodramas of thirty-something suburban whiners.
So apparently they are eager to see a rare politican who is unapologetic about America's past achievements (cf. Obama's "tragic history" and need for more "oppression studies"), and who reminds us with pride that a muscular world of action, not community organizing, creates the bounty that others use and take for granted but so often sneer at the methods of its acquisition.
Right now, there are millions rooting for her in a way not true of Biden—and many who are criticizing her don't have a clue why that it is so.
Because liberals hate her.
Because she’s the real deal.
Good enough for me. I might also add that she has never betrayed us.
mark
Why Do We Like Palin?
Because we want to be like Palin, and ARE like Palin.
I am a to-the-bone, socially and fiscally conservative woman. I love Palin because I LOVE a strong woman who can throw a punch. Palin reminds me of other, strong conservative women- Thatcher, Schlafly, COulter and the late, great Barbara Olsen. There is nothing better than a woman who KNOWS the issues (as opposed to female group- think nags on the left), I will argue until I die that women control the culture and guide men where they want them to go. I have never, ever been involved with a man who started left and didn’t finish right. I have fought the feminists and have been proudly part of the group that has diminished them everywhere but academia (we’re still working on that).
I will be working for Palin and fighting FOR her. I love a woman who HUNTS!
If she address the MSM attacks tonight in her speech, McCain loses, if she totally ignores them they win, if she addresses them she validates them and the conversation is now controlled by the MSM. I wish I could get this advice to her, it’s over if she even hints at the attacks.
“She knows where she’s from and what she’s for.” ~ John McCain
Why do we like Sarah Palin? Because she is the sister, or the daughter, we could be so proud of. She manages to be the prom queen without the cattiness, the mother who bestows her love unstintingly and without qualification upon her family, the professional woman who never forgot her roots, the wife who accentuates and makes her mate the very best that he is.
If Gov. Palin keeps coming up clean, people will fall in love with this lady.
Governor Sarah Palin!
Triple Dittos!
Didn’t Buckley say that he would rather be governed by 20 people randomly chosen from the phone book than by the Harvard faculty.
The fact that she is not ‘one of them,’ makes me like her more and makes them like her less.
She’s the real thing. And by comparison, she will make the likes of Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, et al, look like the shameless and shrill political harpies they really are.
America is about to see what a real woman can do in Washington.
More than just libs. She’s not part of the old boys or old girls club. That’s even worse.
Yes and unlike Obama, Biden, Kerry, Edwards, Clinon, Dukakis, Benstsen, etc. They are NOT lawyers.
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