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Why Do They Hate Sarah Palin So?
Townhall ^ | September 9, 2008 | Andrew Tallman

Posted on 09/09/2008 2:15:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"But it’s more than just doctrine. It’s that so many people on the left have condoned abortions, helped others obtain abortions, or even had abortions themselves in the very same circumstances under which Sarah Palin chose life. Honest people are an affront to liars. "

It's the post-abortion trigger for liberals. So many of them have had abortions. Seeing a mother witha FIVE children, a newborn, and a pregnant daughter with another on the way, flips them out. They fly into a rage. It may also be , "Oh, damn, we didn't pick Hillary! Now the Republicans might get the first woman VP." It's too much for them. They were already whooped up in hysteria with the Obama messiah cult worship stuff. Not likely they would act rationally.

61 posted on 09/09/2008 4:00:35 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They were totally caught off-guard and unprepared and played absolutely no role in the choice. They were shocked by the fact that they weren’t consulted or needed. McCain did an end run around them and scored a touchdown.

Secondly they were absolutely shocked that the choice was met with such enthusiasm and overnight their choice was shoved off to the sidelines after he had put on such an elaborate show fit for a king. After 19 months of hard work and careful planning it became obvious to them that Obama was finished, beaten by an Alaskan hick mayor/govenor, NRA member, Christian and a church going unpretentious gal who knows how to be a mother, a wife, a woman and a leader at the same time and do it without a law degree or having DC experience on her resume. They lost big and resent it.


62 posted on 09/09/2008 4:08:47 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: Jonah Johansen
“They hate us”. Exactly! All of the elites. The news media the Dems and even some Repub politicians. The educators the bureaucrats. The Hollywood crowd. They really despise us ,as we cling to our guns (evil) and our religion (even more evil).
63 posted on 09/09/2008 4:17:04 PM PDT by rsobin
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To: MamaB

Amazing isnt it ? She has taken the country by storm and the left has to tear her down ,cant say ONE good thing about her. Reminds me of the Democrat Party as a Whole , They cant suceed unless the Country is going to Hell ,they wish for disaster everywhere just to gain power . So they have to tear a Good woman down .
Here is to hoping the Good Lord looks after her and the American People see through all this and sweep her into the office of Vice President


64 posted on 09/09/2008 4:31:34 PM PDT by ballplayer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think it’s simple. Sarah Palin blows apart their standard conservative stereotype “racist-sexist-homophobe” mantra.

They sure-as-hell can’t dismiss us as “sexist” anymore and it pisses them off.


65 posted on 09/09/2008 4:46:22 PM PDT by Zman516 (socialists & muslims -- satan's useful idiots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...they react as any devastated schoolgirl with a crush would. Her speech stated every major flaw with his candidacy ... And since their deepest fear is that everything she said about him is right, the only option to reconsidering their betrothal was to destroy her.

Very insightful.

The left disdains reason for feelings. When Obama loses, there will be mayhem, possibly on a grand scale.

66 posted on 09/09/2008 4:55:47 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good article..

Leftists are mentally ill by definition.


67 posted on 09/09/2008 5:06:00 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: TASMANIANRED

They don’t hate, the emotion is fear. Pure unadultrated fear.

By extrapolation of fear they quickly come to a stat eof mental death. They fear death.


68 posted on 09/09/2008 5:10:40 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
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To: red irish

Pretending that you are a victim is more emotionally comfortable than being lazy or stupid.

Being a victim means you don’t have the power to do anything about your situation.

Recognizing that your “failure to accomplish” anything is your own fault is deeply painful. It requires for you to get up and do something about it.


69 posted on 09/09/2008 5:11:02 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; VigilantAmerican; All

The hypocrite must hate the radical.


70 posted on 09/09/2008 5:25:49 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: Zman516

They sure-as-hell can’t dismiss us as “sexist” anymore and it pisses them off.
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Reality doesn’t enter into their thought process ,, we will continue to be sexist , racist , homophobes etc. etc. in their thoughts.


71 posted on 09/09/2008 5:29:43 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The more the moonbats attack and hate Sarah Palin, the more I like her. She is doing a good job pissing them off. This will be the moonbats road to perdition.


72 posted on 09/09/2008 5:33:55 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Bunnies=Sodomites)
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To: Popman

They are addicted to hate. They feed off of hate, like Fred Phelps and Osama bin Laden.


73 posted on 09/09/2008 5:34:39 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Bunnies=Sodomites)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She is a conservative cultural icon arising from the middle class and the working class. They tried to ridicule and marginalize her. When the numbers rallied to her, they were confronted with the fact that she resonates with a large cultural majority that has not yet been tapped in this race. It alarms them when they realize that they culturally occupy only a small corner of the fabric of the country and the sleeping giant is awakening and will soon marginalize them.


74 posted on 09/09/2008 6:31:14 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They hate Sarah because she is the antidote to the poison the far left has been dishing out.

They hate her because she is the wake op coffee to the sleeping America that the far left has drugged and hypnotized.

They fear her because she threatens the ultimate plan of introducing Islam into the culture, lifestyle and laws of the United States of America.

The could care less about McCain.


75 posted on 09/09/2008 7:10:41 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (14 years living in Wasilla, Alaska, now its in all the news!)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
There is alot of pent up rage in alot of women. They bought into the abortion for their own good mantra...and then, silently, many are remorseful and depressed. They can't undo what they did--regain what they lost--so they feel better by 'helping' other women make the same choice. Misery loves company...and guilt loves comparison (I'm not so bad, I only had one; Sue had three). Publicly the vitriol is released. Privately, many of these women are a emotional mess.

I wish there were some way Palin could expose that. Probably can't safely happen until after the election (too bad, since it'd be nice to have a Republican sweep in Congress) but I would like to see a woman with the bully pulpit say something like:

"I know that millions of women look at my children and think I want them to be consumed by guilt, or that I'm going to stick my bible in their face. I want no such thing, and I will do no such thing.

"Any woman who thinks Barack Obama will offer fodder for her guilt, and it will leave her alone, is half right. Barack Obama will be more than happy to feed the guilt, but it as sure as night follows day it will be back meaner and hungrier than ever.

"I offer something better: instead of feeding the guilt, expose it. Tell anyone who's considering an abortion of the pain and anguish you've suffered for your own. Help them find an adoption referral agency. Exposing your guilt will negate its power over you, and as the children you save grow and thrive, the guilt that once controlled you will wither and die.

"I won't pretend it's easy to vanquish guilt. It's not. But I hope you will recognize who wants to cure your guilt, and who wants to exploit it to perpetuate their cause.

I'm probably not much of a speech writer, and I don't know if someone like Gov. Palin could manage the right tone to make the speech work, but a speech of that sort, properly delivered, could destroy the pro-choice movement.

(nb: Yes, I know there's a somewhat awkward shift from third-person to second-person. I think the lure really needs to be third person, to avoid prematurely triggering people's guilt defenses, but the hook really needs to be second person. Third-person language would sound incredibly flat ("By exposing their guilt, women can negate its power over them.")

Can anyone think of any scenarios where such a speech might work?

76 posted on 09/09/2008 9:35:20 PM PDT by supercat
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
It's the post-abortion trigger for liberals.

See my #76. The visceral reaction in some cases is so strong, 'guilt trigger' seems the most reasonable explanation.

77 posted on 09/09/2008 9:37:45 PM PDT by supercat
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To: bjc
I think the reaction is so very strong because all three arguments are in play and they amplify each other.

There are many rational reasons for liberals to fear Obama, but I think the real issue is abortion, an issue which unfortunately conservatives have consistently bungled. Many people think that the only way to avoid being consumed by guilt over the slaughter of innocents is to feed the guilt with ever-growing blood. As the supply of blood looks to be dwindling, the people are getting desperate.

See #76 for my proposed solution.

78 posted on 09/09/2008 9:41:16 PM PDT by supercat
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It is post-abortion rage. It's too much for them: FIVE children, choosing to have the handicapped child, the daughter choosing to have her child (for pro-abortion liberals this is too much). For those who have had one or more abortions, they fly into a rage.

Seeing post-abortion rage in person is quite amazing and a little frightening. Sad.

They have to try to destroy her because she represents a direct challenge to all of the pro-abortion propaganda of the liberal feminist movement. Guilt, rage, hysteria. There is a bit of that in the attempts to demonize and smear Palin.

79 posted on 09/09/2008 9:45:58 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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The feminazis don’t get even a whiff of man-hating from Sarah. She doesn’t envy and resent men as the feminazis do. 5 children - it’s kind of obvious that she doesn’t spend a lot of time wishing she was a man...


80 posted on 09/09/2008 9:49:24 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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