What Drives the Fear and Loathing of Sarah Palin?

Pajamas Media ^ | Nov. 19 | Victor Davis Hanson

[AJKauf]

The AP supposedly hired 11 fact-checkers to discredit Ms. Palin’s memoir (Did Fox News hire 11 to question the very questionable things found in the two Obama memoirs?)

Bloggers post on Palin’s live interviews minute by minute; few, if any, opponents of Barack Obama do the same.

Every statement she makes is parsed, to prove she is ignorant or parochial—though most of her so-called lapses are the sort of things Biden and Obama are accustomed to committing weekly.

So what?

The list could go on, but two fundamental questions arise:

1) What drives this fear and loathing?

2) How does one, then, assess the Palin phenomenon?

Question one is easy, and we can be systematic in our exegeses:

1. Why does she create hysteria?

i). Feminists are enraged that her can-do, have a Down’s Syndrome child in her 40s, shoot-moose persona will be used as a paradigm of a liberated women. She is quite attractive, fertile, and married to a Jack-Armstrong 19th-century man.

Her success as an independent female, who was an up-from-the-bootstraps small-town council member, mayor, state regulator and governor, is antithetical to doctrinaire feminism.....

[Billthedrill]

Yep, I'm glad I read that one all the way to the end. VDH picks up steam as he goes on and finishes with a stunner. "My Own Views?" is a just a little outside FR's excerpt limit but probably should have a thread of its own.

In other words, I would trust the judgment of someone with Palin’s background on matters of Iran or Honduras or Putin far more than I would someone of Obama’s resume.

That is not the view of Putin, Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Zelaya, Ortega, and Kim Jong Il. That ought to tell us something.

[patriot08]

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The biggest reason they hate her is because she’s beautiful.
Simple fact.

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[mo]

She’s not part of the Ivy League Oligarchy of narcissits that run the country. they are so in love with their ideas that someone from “outside” with better policy support threatens their very selves. They hated Reagan with the same intensity.

[Zman516]

Absolutely correct.

If Sarah was overweight and homely RATs & their Media buttboys wouldn’t pay any attention to her whatsoever.

Shows how shallow lefties are.

[mo]

She’s not part of the Ivy League Oligarchy of narcissits that run the country. they are so in love with their ideas that someone from “outside” with better policy support threatens their very selves. They hated Reagan with the same intensity.

[patriot08]

Right. I believe it.

[RichInOC]

What Drives the Fear and Loathing of Sarah Palin?

“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.”

[dennisw]

What spooks liberals is Sarah Palin's actual upright and moral life more than her politics. They also are subconsciously jealous of this woman who

• has had five children  (a large family these days)
• has a good marriage to one good ol boy who is not a damn lawyer or something similar
• likes good clean fun...outdoors activities like hunting and snowmobiling
• is Christian
• pro 2nd Amendment and hunts

in contrast the liberals who go crazy over her tend to be 

• often unmarried
• have zero or few children
• have relationship problems and play around whether married or not
• have aborted a baby or two
• live in cities and cities breed socailists
• are over educated college grads who majored in squishy subjects and think they know everything