Why They Hate Her [Best article on left's reaction to Palin]

Weekly Standard ^ | 9/15/2008 | Jeffrey Bell

[Tennessean4Bush]

This is the best article I have read putting the left’s reaction in a historical context.

[mel]

later

[lesser_satan]

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[avacado]

As one bumper sticker stated which I saw in my neighborhood recently: Annoy a Liberal: "Work, Succeed, Be Happy"

[jveritas]

Excellent article. Palin really drives the left crazier and more hateful than they already are.

[Retired Greyhound]

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[skeeter]

If this analysis is correct, the single most important narrative holding the left together in today's politics and culture is the one offered--often with little or no dissent--by adversarial feminism.

I'll have to give this some thought... but at first blush it appears to explain an awful lot.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Here is the "money" paragraph, imho:

This is a rare talent, one shared by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. For this quality to have even a chance to develop, there must be something real to serve as an emotional backdrop: disproportionate, crazy-seeming rage by one's political enemies. Roosevelt was on his party's national ticket five times and Reagan sought the presidency four times. Each became governor of what at the time was the nation's most populous state. It took Roosevelt and Reagan decades of national prominence and pitched ideological combat to achieve the gift of enemies like these. Yet the American left awarded Sarah Palin this gift seemingly within a microsecond of her appearance on the national stage in Dayton, Ohio. Why?

[TheBlueMax]

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[InABunkerUnderSF]

How galling it will be to Sarah Palin's many new enemies if she survives this assault and prevails.

And it's up to people like us to help make sure she does.

[nathanbedford]

They hate her for the same reason that the first mate hated Billy Budd, for the same reason that vampires find the cross so repugnant, for the same reason that the majority leader hates Senator McCain, for the same reason that Joe Biden hated Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.

[ari-freedom]

she is a threat on so many levels
1) pro-life. but she’s not some old man or the “Church Lady” who doesn’t relate to modern families. She gave birth to 5 kids, one has down’s and another is pregnant.
2) global warming/ANWR. Sarah actually knows what ANWR and the glaciers look like
3) guns. She’s a mom with a gun.
4) capitalism. She’s not some hot shot CEO for the democrats to use in a class warfare campaign. She’s a commercial fisherman and her husband is a union member.
5) missile defense/national security. She is on the front lines across from Russia. Biden is just a few miles away from Washington DC.
6) education. PTA remember? Her father was a science teacher

[Integrityrocks]

“....the left gradually realized, was that socialist economics had become an albatross. Increasingly, the democratic parties of the left in Western countries downplayed socialism or even decoupled from it, leaving them free to pursue the anti-institutional, relativistic moral crusade that has been in the DNA of the left all along...”

Bingo

[nathanbedford]

If you are interested in this theory you will find it extremely well expressed here:

http://www.newtotalitarians.com/PsychicIronCagePartII.html

[Paladin2]

"...pursuit of its anti-institutional goals..."

I have some of those; BATF, IRS, State Dept, Congress, 'Rat Party, Community Organizers, Historic Districtization of my neighborhood, Diesel Taxes, MSM, etc.

[birddog]

bump for later....

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

They hate her for the same reason that the first mate hated Billy Budd, for the same reason that vampires find the cross so repugnant, for the same reason that the majority leader hates Senator McCain, for the same reason that Joe Biden hated Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.

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My thoughts exactly. Evil inherently fears and hates Good. The reason that reaction has been so immediate, so irate, so vitriolic and so devoid of logic. She touched a nerve and the libs are in full seizure mode. And they can’t even articulate WHY they are so irate - it’s a thing of beauty to behold.

[MrB]

Yeah, it was “in context”,

but it was a “way too long a way of saying”:

to achieve totalitarian communism, the family as an institution must be destroyed, and the family institution is the primary target of the left today.

[mick]

Agreed. Jeff Bell is brilliant. In 1978 he ran in the NJ Republican primary and toppled RINO Cliff Case. But lost the general to Bill Bradley We got rid of a lot of RINO's that year.The first battles in the coming Reagan take over of the GOP in 1980.