Posted on 09/07/2008 7:28:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Maybe I'm a sucker for a frontier myth, the narrative of a person who rises up in a frozen, faraway place by making her own rules.
I have a dirty little secret.
I really like Sarah Palin. It's kind of embarrassing, because I was a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and because I live in a liberal bubble in Brooklyn, N.Y. I'm not sure what's wrong with me, but the more my friends and media colleagues attack Palin for being a lightweight or a hick or a lunatic, the more I like her.
I liked her the first time I saw a picture of her, nearly a year ago in this magazine. It illustrated a story about how women leaders like Palin and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano were gaining power at the state level. Palin, BlackBerry in one hand, Red Bull in the other, checked her messages as she crossed the street, seemingly oblivious to her youngest daughter, Piper, who trailed along behind her, jumping rope in the crosswalk. Now that's my kind of working mom, I thought.
I liked her even more after her speech at the Republican convention, and not just because she gave a masterful performance. I am riveted by her family and struck by what appears to be her complete confidence in the choices she's made. Women both liberal and conservative may be locked in combat about whether she went back to work too soon after Trig's birth or whether she should be making a run for national office when her teenage daughter is pregnant. But if Palin is agonizing about her decisions, it doesn't show.
Which does not mean that I would do what she did—or that I will vote for the McCain-Palin ticket, because like many former Hillary supporters, I would not step over Roe
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This is why it’s called the “chattering class”. Only can hope that there is a mental sea change occurring in the collective feminist mind that will just take time.
It’s OK Kathleen, we have a big tent. Stick around for the election but then you have to go home.
Wow. A deftly written hit piece. Thank God this isn’t the way they decided to attack her from the beginning.
But that’ss what Liberals, and apparently, you, Ms Deveny don’t get...She *didn’t* make up her own rules. She followed the Golden Rule.
She needs to join the PUMAs!
This is simply their latest strategy.
It’s the “Isn’t Sarah nice...but I could never vote for her” plan.
If it doesn’t work, then they go back to the 24/7 Slime Attack.
Do not be fooled by the mainstream media. They are sold out socialists, and the only non-socialists who get admitted to the club are accidents that they didn’t catch onto soon enough.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
You got that right!
Read this close......its a hit piece!
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31135_Palin_Has_Not_Pushed_Creationism_As_Governor
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gV5jvU52RD3WBflzbmSu5l6zwOqAD92V3VQG0
Sarah Palin is a 'carefully crafted political image'??? Yeah, and 9-11 was an inside job.
Somebody is in love.
I think she just has a crush on Sarah. LOL.
I’m not surprised one bit by this piece. Poke around some of the Hillary blogs, and you’ll find a large number of her supporters are now rooting for Sarah Palin. Let’s hope they translate into votes.
The short version:
“She’s pretty feisty, but I’d like her better if she killed babies instead of moose.”
I’m just sorta curious - just WHAT would Gov. Palin be doing IF she were to drop out because of her pregnant daughter? Boil water? Bake cookies? I know of no working woman who has put her entire career on hold because a daughter was pregnant, yet they cast the illusion that Sarah Palin is somehow “bad” because she doesn’t.
Just part of the “death by a thousand papercuts” strategy I suspect.
Now the back stabbing knive turning putdowns. Keep it up and McCain will be a twenty point winner
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