Sarah Palin and the Haters of American Normal (Elite "Left" & "Right" are the problem)

American Thinker ^ | Monday December 13, 2010 | By Stuart Schwartz

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We are just south of Christmas, and the nation's insiders -- self-proclaimed blue-bloods by birth and/or worldview -- have declared open season on Sarah Palin.  Crazed left and sclerotic right have united in common purpose -- "hellbent," as Politico put it -- to rid this nation of the possibility of a presidency that would most assuredly end in "apocalyptic disaster" after which "the survivors will envy the dead" (or so says that fading leftist icon, The New Republic).  Stop her now -- or we may end up with a normal American at the helm.

Sarah Palin is just too dumb to understand how lousy it is to be in this materialist and fascist society, this hateful America, the Atlantic tells us.  Scorn laces the left as New York Times opinion writers let us know that behind the deceptive Palin smile "lies anger" and an unwillingness to accept the decline that those who know better have visited upon us out of wisdom and necessity.  Shut up and bowl (or hunt or fish or tailgate, they say, and leave the decisions to us. 

Meanwhile on the right, MSNBC's house conservative, Joe Scarborough, says it's time for Republican insiders to "man up and confront Sarah Palin."  She's poison for responsible (read: insider) government.  Bush consigliere and FOXNews analyst Karl Rove is leading the charge to stop this outsider, whom he regards as "unsuitable" for the presidency, which is a job best left to those who brought us porous borders, intrusive regulation, and exploding government spending.  (In some respects, the Obama reign is simply the Bush presidency on steroids.)  From left and right, insiders all, the anger is palpable at what James Lewis of American Thinker terms "American exceptionalism in the flesh -- and downright attractive flesh at that.

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Facts are tough.

I have no idea what you are trying to say. Have mercy on an old man that has voted for every President since Reagan, of corse some were losers. Because I live in California my vote doesn't matter, but if McCain had not picked Palin I would have done a write in, I refuse to vote for the lessor of two evils ever again. I am too old to sell out my Principles now, I will die happy if Palin cleans their clocks. Because I believe she will really take a broom and Mop with her. If she doesn't then as John the Baptist asked as his life was ending. Go ask Jesus, are you the one we seek, or do we seek another? I will leave the last part of that quote for your entertainment.

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If we could somehow eliminate envy from the human genome, there would be almost no reason for the left to exist.

If it wasn't for envy we would still be naked eating grubs from a stick. Envy is what ignites tribal warfare and is the special evolutionary force that drives human evolution. Humans will always self-divide into enviers and the envied. Even if we could eliminate our current batch, the enviers would spontaneously reform.

This chapter about "Envy and Its Transmutations" was well done: http://www.as.uky.edu/academics/departments_programs/Psychology/Psychology/faculty_research/faculty/richardsmith/Documents/Smith2004chapter.pdf