Posted on 01/01/2010 10:56:47 AM PST by Brugmansian
Abstract
For more than a year, Sarah Palin has been a national Rorschach test. The views expressed about her reveal the distinctions and conflicting perceptions of often antagonistic groups of Americans—the religious and the secular, the conservative and the liberal, the urban and the small town, the elitist and the populist.
And now, with the publication of her autobiography, Going Rogue, and Matthew Continetti’s The Persecution of Sarah Palin, the Rorschach tests are being administered anew, and with increasing fervor.
For her conservative admirers, she continues to exemplify independence, moxie, common sense, the superiority of the common American over the nation’s elites, and the embodiment of modern womanhood and Christian faith.
For her detractors, both conservative and liberal, she is uncouth, unschooled, a hick, anti-science and anti-intellectual, an upstart, and a religious fanatic. There is no group so firmly in the latter camp as American Jews. And there is much to learn in their reaction to Palin, both about her and about the sociological makeup of American Jewry today. While Palin enjoys support from some prominent Jewish conservatives, it is not an exaggeration to say that, more so than any other major political figure in recent memory (with the possible exception of Patrick J. Buchanan), she rubs Jews the wrong way . . .
Ask an average American Jew about Palin and you are likely to get a nonverbal response—a shiver, a shudder, a roll of the eyes, or a guffaw. Naomi Wolf, the feminist writer, sputtered that Palin was the “FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal,” articulating the mixture of contempt and fear that seemed to grip many Jewish women.
The disdain is palpable and largely emotional. While 78 percent of American Jews voted for the Obama-Biden ticket, it is fair to say that most did not harbor animosity toward or contempt for Senator John McCain; the same cannot be said of their view of Palin . . .
When you and others award a superlative to another FReeper’s comment, like dumbest, stupidest, lamest, etc., I’m jealous because my stupid comments have only gotten me nominated for those superlatives, not actually awarded. That was supposed to be sarcasm.
Then I entered my desire to see other’s opinions as just that. We don’t need to tell someone that we believe they are the stupidest FReeper ever, we need to tell them why we believe their opinion is severely flawed. We’re not in 8th grade anymore, though some of us obviously could learn more about syntax.
You’re suggesting we’re doomed already, then?
Kudos to you Winged Hussar thanks for the update.
Not a particularly big Allen fan here, but that is a good one.
Thanks.
They hate her because she is a Christian true believer and a conservative.
That motivates liberal Jews more than anything..even more than Muslims.
She does have a few Jewish supporters....Kristol-Levin.
You can win without the Jewish vote, we’ve done it over and over since 1980 ...the last time Jews voted (R) I think in a slight majority.
But it will make for a rocky ride in the media and Hollywood as we can already see.
It’s a shame but it is what it is. They (the liberal ones) are a lost peoples....and they continue to follow the wrong path...God gave them his covenant...why they ignore it baffle me.
then you must not follow much...her known views are what aggravates the left and the Jews in question here so much
that is hilarious...do you write your own material?
r u conservative or orthodox....or messianic?
Maybe on the surface it looks that way. But Commentary Magazine and Rubin aren't in that business. I think Rubin is writing to Jews, suggesting they tone it down a bit and not become associated with the lunatic left. The left uses the "hate" label everyday attacking Palin, Rush and others. I have no problem with Rubin and Commentary tossing it back in their faces. Good shock treatment for the snots who think they are so tolerant, so enlightened. Seen the mainstream media back off the attacks in the last two months. The hate directed at Palin went too far and the mainstream left knows it now. Creeps like Letterman, Perez Hilton and that kindergarten aide in Alaska have made people wonder if Palin critics are sexual maladjusted mental cases. When I hear a critic I first off think of some loser guy in his 20s who has mental problems. Or a creepy old man like Letterman. Believe Rubin and Commentary are sending out a warning not to get tagged with being in that group.
Jews supported Reagan to the tune of 40% in 1980(Carter got 45)....over Carter’s olive branch to Arabs
they voted heavily against Magnus in 1984
yes...I think the older Hollywood Jews of Reagan’s era liked him but more importantly were more conservative anyhow than this new bunch....can you imagine Harvey Weinstein or Peter Guber or Mike Medavoy throwing cash at Reagan today?
if the past is anything to go on, I doubt Palin would pull over 15% of Jewish vote...Goldwater only got 10
most Jews I know outside of here loathe Christian conservatives and view traditional values dogma as Torquemada’s diatribes...
one has to wonder what happened, the tribe has been leftish since the Ashkenazim supplanted Sephardics here post-Bellum but nothing ever like this that i remember .. Jews are as left today as in New Deal era..I think anyhow....so are a lot of young folks too come to think of it
all u conservative leaning Jews here can take a bow...I know it must suck having to defend yerselves all the time...I can not imagine...as a white Southern Protestant..my family get togethers are 99% echo chamber meets pagan funeral when Obama is discussed..lol
here’s a link on Jewish votes:
Chassidic.
Let me guess...you watch nothing but CNN. Repeat a lie often enough....
Cool.
I like Palin just fine. I think she has good instincts.
I also think the media has damanged Palin so badly that she probably cannot recover, as Jewish people (and many others who weren’t paying attention) cannot overcome the impression the Democrat propagandaists put on her.
” stirring up the trailer park crowd army to take away their Mosaics.”
What a Mosaic in this context? I had to look up the word and got” “images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.”
Sorry, English not my first language.
“Lyndon B. Johnson” was a good friend to Israel.
Probably the first and last Democrat to be a friend of Israel.
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To my knowledge, no Jew has ever run for US President on a major ticket.
But really I meant that they see embryonic stem cell research as being scientific humanitarianism and the Palin religious right crowd as uneducated Bible thumpers imposing their religion on them. I will only add that Bush's veto of this was generally very politically unpopular, except with this one group, as was Bush.
Terri Shivo was another one, even worse because that one conflicted with the constitution. So some of us conservatives question that one too.
“They hate her because they suspect she is a believing Christian and they hate serious Christians.”
Nonsense. I love anyone who loves the G-d of Abrham, and that includes pretty much every serious Christian I have ever met.
“They hate her because they are enamored of the culture of infanticide and they cannot forgive her for not killing her Down’s Syndrome child.”
Absurd.
“They hate her because she has a boy in the ARMY and virtually none of them do, considering it an institution for goy suckers and losers.”
As a veteran of both the US and Israeli military, I call baloney on this. Jews, on a per capita basis, have had the highest participation in the US military since the Revolutionary War.
“They hate her for her unabashed love for America, a place about which, even two and three generations removed from the E European shetl, they harbor a deep ambivalence.”
This is partially true, and partially false.
“They hate her because she supports Israel, a place that now embarrasses them and offends their progressive sensibilities.”
This is increasingly true.
“Jewish women hate her because she is so good looking.”
LOL. Here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382059/posts
“There are lots of Jews who are hostile to Christianity, especially unabashed Evangelical Christianity.”
You should see how JINOs react to religious and/or Zionist Jews.
It has nothing to do with “Christianity;” it has to do with dislike of religion, in general.
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