In discussing l’affaire Letterman, the question was asked: Why is Sarah Palin’s family a target for Leftoid attacks?
To be perfectly fair (I hate it when that becomes necessary) Palin’s family is a strong point of her appeal. In fact, one of the main reason the Leftoids have to deal with a stereotyped construct is that their heads threaten to explode if they are ever forced to consider the reality.
Stereotype: Womyn® are good Progressive Democrats.
Reality: Sarah Palin is a Republican.
Stereotype: Only Democrats give power to Womyn®
Reality: Sarah Palin is not just a Governor, she’s Governor of a State where the Governor has real power.
Stereotype: All manly men are part of Teh Patriarchy, dedicated to preventing Womyn® from achievement and deeply resentful of anything resembling a subordinate position.
Reality: Todd Palin is a manly man with a manly occupation; nevertheless he seems quite cheerful and accepting that his wife’s occupation is much higher on the social scale than his.
Stereotype: Good Progressive Womyn® are supposed to abort their babies to prevent career difficulties, especially if they might have medical problems.
Reality: Sarah Palin has several (three?) children, the latest of which has Down’s Syndrome, and seems perfectly capable of handling her duties as Governor despite any child-care difficulties.
Stereotype:Patriarchal manly men don’t participate in child-rearing; they force the Womyn® in their lives to do it all, which is why Progressive Womyn® have to avoid childbearing if possible.
Reality: Todd Palin apparently participates wholeheartedly in child-rearing.
Stereotype: Winger dupes of the Patriarchy are supposed to be disgusted with childbearing out of wedlock, call such girls “sluts†etc., and cast them out.
Reality: Bristol Palin is an unwed mother. The Palin family (all of them, including Todd and the grandparents) has been supportive.
There is more, but you get the idea — the whole Palin family is a direct challenge to the Leftoids’ bigoted (yes, that’s what it is), stereotyped notion of what a family of right-wing God-botherers should be. Just one aspect of that, the legions of Womyn® who left child-bearing off until later and now have psychological problems with it, cannot be borne in any way and must be rejected in toto.
Now, in point of fact, down here among my gap-toothed redneck neighbors, Palin’s family looks a lot more like “us†than anything found within the DC beltway. I know lots of families where the woman makes more money or has a more powerful job than the man; unwed mothers are all around, and they get family and societal support, including from the church(es); men in manly occupations — firefighters, welders, construction, and the like — tend more often than not to have wives who are teachers, managers, or other higher-status jobs.
B Moe notes:
It’s that way across most of the country…
Yes. This is the real appeal of Sarah Palin, and from the Leftoids’ point of view it must be countered. Too bad (for them) they have so little knowledge of how things go that much of what they do to (putatively) counter Palin’s appeal turns out to be counterproductive unless addressed to the choir.
B Moe further notes:
Palin’s only chance is to start playing exclusively to that audience. When she gives speeches, give them to us, not the party elites or pundits. When she does interviews, talk to us, not the media hack across the table. Just talk right past the nay-sayers and directly address the voters. If she connects she has a shot.
Which is precisely what she’s doing at the moment, but she isn’t playing off the outrage! at such a vile joke — she’s cleverly and cheerfully pointing out that such attacks are a cultural problem for everybody (though not in those words) and pointing out the double standard in terms that anyone reasonable who’s watching can’t help but see it. You can tell it’s working by the hysteria among the Leftoids.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by cranky-d on 6/12 @ 6:43 pm #
Nice Ric, as always. I encourage you to post more of your long comments here.
Comment by Danger on 6/12 @ 8:08 pm #
Awesome stuff Ric
Comment by Danger on 6/12 @ 8:10 pm #
Thanks Ric awesome stuff
Comment by Twilight Vanquisher Nishi on 6/12 @ 8:22 pm #
Lol…Reihan said Palin’s “wonderful sprawling messy American family” was one of her good points…BUT no way was she a feminist heroine.
She was cynically chosen as means of harvesting Puma votes, and spent all all her campaign time either lashed to McCain’s side as a stage prop or being exploited as an attack dog saying things McCain was too politically cunning to say himself.
And in result, McCain got invited to the WH while Palin got snubbed when she tried to reach out to Obama post-election.
The GOP Patriarchy just used her like a two-dollar whore.
AND she signed on to it.
That argues to me that she isn’t terribly bright.
Comment by Ric Locke on 6/12 @ 9:11 pm #
Of course not. She went into politics voluntarily.
Compared to a guy who can’t speak in public without a TelePrompter® and apparently believes the Arabs invented “Arabic numerals” she comes off pretty well.
Unprepared? Unprepared for national campaigning I’ll give you. Prepared for the duties of office? –again, compared to a guy who’s never so much as supervised the graveyard shift at a fast-food restaurant, a sitting Governor looks pretty good.
Regards,
Ric
Regards,
Ric
Comment by geoffb on 6/12 @ 9:49 pm #
My thanks also.
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Comment by ccoffer on 6/13 @ 1:54 am #
I commend you, Ric Locke. And thank you.
There is, however, another component, and it’s the attractiveness dealio. Being butt-ass ugly, for whatever reason, confers a certain legitimacy to a woman’s political pronouncements in modern day America. It’s a stereotype that goes beyond the family thing and goes directly to being a woman.
Comment by John Bradley on 6/13 @ 2:11 am #
Naah, attractiveness doesn’t matter. All that matters is the letter after their name.
* hot lefty chick (e.g. random hollywood types): deep, committed political thinkers all, well deserving of higher office
* not-hot lefty (e.g. Hillary, Pelosi, etc.) – gravitas, baby
* hot righty (Palin, Prejean) – ignorant slut
* not-hot righty (whats-her-name, the Fla. elections certifier person from 2000?) – ugly old skank.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 6/13 @ 2:12 am #
Can we please agree to banish the trolls from this type of thread? I really don’t want to slog through the idiocy of the barely literate calling an extremely accomplished, competent woman “not terribly bright”.
Comment by trentk269 on 6/13 @ 2:14 am #
It sticks in the craw of most Leftards to admit that this gal has moxie and brains. It also illustrates what the American left really thinks about women.
Comment by Pablo on 6/13 @ 2:32 am #
Fantastic, Ric. For the record, she’s got 5 kids. Which makes her even worse, I suppose.
Keep an eye on that Piper one. She might could take over the world.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 6/13 @ 2:39 am #
Great stuff, Ric.
Comment by cynn on 6/13 @ 3:01 am #
Rob C. wants to ban trolls so he can sit unmolested in his corner, muttering to himself.
Comment by LTC John on 6/13 @ 3:14 am #
Indeed – I suspect if you stacked Kate’s resume and accomplishments against Gov Palin’s, you might see a wee bit of disparity – hence, she has to denigrate her to feel better about herself. Fits right in with what ic has saidhere..
Comment by LTC John on 6/13 @ 3:15 am #
cynn,
No, he probably wants to avoid the “contributions” like yours in #4. s usual, you add nothing to the discussion..
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/13 @ 3:41 am #
“Comment by cranky-d on 6/12 @ 6:43 pm #
Nice Ric, as always. I encourage you to post more of your long comments here.”
Dittoes.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/13 @ 3:43 am #
“That argues to me that she isn’t terribly bright.”
No, nishi, you’re the fucking idiot here.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 6/13 @ 4:08 am #
Nishit walked right into that one, didn’t she?
Comment by Steve Canyon on 6/13 @ 4:17 am #
You hit the nail on the head Ric …..
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/13 @ 4:21 am #
Excellent Ric, as always!
This needs to be mailed to EVERY! RethugliKKKan in Congress, Palin herself, and the RNC-so that those ass-hats can figure out how to approach the media hit/hate machine that is attempting to preemptively savage her public image…
And, we all need to keep these very strong points in mind for our individual discussions with folks. Not so that we are all parroting the same line, but so that we can keep the discussion focused when they throw up the strawmen and throw out the red herrings…
Thanks again Ric…
Comment by CJ on 6/13 @ 4:47 am #
Ric, you left out the most galling aspect of Palin’s career: she started in politics because she wanted to change things, went ahead and did it BY HERSELF. Alaska’s Senator Murkowski only got the job because of her father, Clinton owes her career to her husband and Pelosi’s father was a Congressman. Many people who thought Palin as a national politician was laughable seemed to have no problem with Caroline Kennedy. In others words all those “independent” women all needed a male relative to run interference for them and give them a head start.
How dare she actually do all those things her opponents give lip service to!
Comment by Hi, I'm thor on 6/13 @ 6:23 am #
Sarah Palin is fun to make fun of because she’s an airhead, a ditz and a hypocrite.
Proof I’m afraid of Sarah the Cuda!
Yeah, OK. I’ll have to look up and post some Palin jokes so as to keep my fear alive.
Comment by cthulhu on 6/13 @ 7:29 am #
You forgot one very important piece of the hatred. She’s cheerful.
Totalitarians HATE cheerful people. They want everyone cheerless and depressed, the better to be controlled. Having a laugh means someone might just try something for the hell of it — or question the status quo.
Which is amply shown up by the vicious, over-the-top nastiness that passes for “humor” among the statists.
Comment by Rusty on 6/13 @ 10:52 am #
She divides soccer moms. The left counts on soccer moms.
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Comment by Hi, I'm thor on 6/13 @ 12:17 pm #
Gee, I’d like to add something to the conversation, especially seeing how LTC John is divining the discussion with his signature christening of just who and who doesn’t, he believes, add to a discussion.
One should use quotation marks when quoting someone.
This (…) is an ellipses while this (..) is two meaningless dots, in other words it adds “nothing to the discussion.”
As promised:
“People all over the world are celebrating Barack Obama’s victory. In fact, Sarah Palin watched the Russians celebrating from her house.” David Letterman
“Sarah Palin made three campaign stops today: Saks, Nieman Marcus and Bloomingdales.” Jay Leno
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Comment by Kram on 6/13 @ 1:07 pm #
“This (…) is an ellipses while this (..) is two meaningless dots, in other words it adds “nothing to the discussion.â€
This (…) is an ellipsis. These (…) (…) are ellipses.
Nice try looking like an educated person.
Comment by LTC John on 6/13 @ 1:28 pm #
Actually, I’m just having keyboard trouble. ” #4. s usual ” was supposed to be “#14. As usual” and the two periods were to be one. Or three, if elipses make you feel better.
cynn still adds nothing.
Comment by SGT Ted on 6/13 @ 1:56 pm #
It is fun watching the “progressives” turn into absolute sexist pigs when confronted with an accomplished selfmade outspoken conservative woman.
Comment by serr8d on 6/13 @ 2:03 pm #
A great post, Ric.
More, please!
Comment by serr8d on 6/13 @ 2:08 pm #
(Re: #27
If this little thor had actually managed to write a best-selling book, I suggest the alternative title must be “Blowhard”. Of course, if our little thor wrote it, there would be no ‘bestseller’ descriptors.)
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 6/13 @ 2:31 pm #
Great post, Ric. The proof is in the comments from nishi the girl with daddy issues and the thor the guy with too many issues to name. Of course, cynn’s incoherence is always fun to laugh at, too. Anyhow, a great rundown of the positives for Palin and nicely juxtaposed (in the comments) with teleprompter jesus’ more glaring issues. I
Comment by JHo on 6/13 @ 2:49 pm #
thor citing comedians. Priceless. Point MADE, thor, and with every milligram of the intellectual heft we’ve come to expect from you.
Great piece, Ric. More, please.
tw: sprained attaboy. Heh.
Comment by ThomasD on 6/13 @ 2:53 pm #
They hate her because she is successful and yet more us than they could ever hope to be. They have no desire to be like us and deeply despise us. Her mere presence on the national stage is a constant reminder of this, and poses the constant risk that ever more people will come to recognize the depths of their disdain for us.
Comment by Sam Hall on 6/13 @ 5:02 pm #
I’ve just figured out what bothers me about Nishi. She claims to be a serious scientist, and assumes that the intellectual gravitas that goes with that adheres to her arguments. But I can’t take her seriously as a scientist until I’ve seen her published work. Does anyone know what she’s published?
Comment by Ric Locke on 6/13 @ 5:39 pm #
Sam, Kate (“nishi”) has never explicitly claimed to be a “serious scientist”, only to have association with same and a “scientific attitude”.
Judging from internal evidence, I suspect that she’s a lab assistant (or similar) at at a private company doing in vitro fertilization and stem cell research somewhere in Southern California. As such she would get to hear the water-cooler discussions and repeat them to us.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Sam Hall on 6/13 @ 5:44 pm #
Huh. That does seem to make more sense. Although I await Nishi’s proof to the contrary with an open mind.
Comment by ushie on 6/13 @ 7:09 pm #
Well, thor’s freaked out by Sarah because she’s not a powerless young Russian girl whom he can exploit for sex, and nishi…(ellipsis), no matter where she posts, she’s a remarkably stupid person, the poor thing.
Great post, Ric. Truth always cuts a little too close to the bone for comfort.
Comment by section9 on 6/13 @ 7:27 pm #
Palin’s fine.
I can tell by reading yet another hysterically off the wall post on her from Andrew Sullivan, professional turd, that she is pressing all the right Pavlovian buttons on the Obamist Left.
What she is doing is connecting with the average person. The Left does not get this and never will. And what’s more, the average guy likes an underdog who succeeds against the odds and does great things with his or her life.
Palin just roped Exxon into her oil pipeline deal with TransCanada. This is a major triumph for her. Everyone is now on board with her project. This is the largest private pipeline project in the world and it’s her baby.
A year from now, when Oil is north of $100.00 a barrell and the libtards are reduced to making spluttering excuses fro Teh Won and sex jokes about Palin, Sarah will look like the prophet from Alaska.
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Comment by cs on 6/13 @ 10:09 pm #
It’s worse than you wrote… She has 5 kids. Track (in the military), Bristol (young mom), Willow, Piper, and Trig (Downs).
5 kids, family support, successful governor, cheerful Christian. Could she be any more opposed to the Lefty stereotype?
Comment by greg on 6/13 @ 10:14 pm #
Excellent analysis. It should be pointed out here that Letterboy’s attack came just 2 days after Palin drew over 20,000 to an event in Auburn NY, 1 day after she received a warm welcome by 12,000 participating in the Autism walk on Long Island, and later that day received an award from Independent Group Home Living Foundation for helping to raise awarness of those living with disabilities. It also came later the same day that Palin announced that there would be big news regarding the pipeline deal. If Letterboy had not attacked when he did we would be analyzing Palin’s highly successful swing through NY, AND the fact that she help cement the deal between Exxon-Mobil and TransCanada to get the pipeline project underway, something that every governor of Alaska has talked about, but failed to achieve.
We can’t forget that Palin has essentially been on a roll for the last few months dating back to her highly effective speech at the Right to LIfe event in Evansville. Following closely on the heels of that, several of the bogus “ethics” complaints were dismissed, she took Notre Dame to task for inviting 0bama to address their graduating class, she spoke out in defense of Carrie Prejean, she condemned the murder of George Tiller, and the next day condemned the killing of Pvt Long, and drew attention to the fact that Pvt. Long’s murder was being ignored by the media, while Tiller’s murder was being extensively reported. Oh yeah, throw in the announcement that she got a big book deal.
Comment by Matt Harris on 6/13 @ 10:21 pm #
Actually, she has 5 kids – two boys and three girls. I think that is part of why the left hates her – the more kids a woman has, the more she is being oppressed. Yet Sarah Palin has more than the acceptable 2 children and is clearly not oppressed.
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Comment by Desiderius on 6/13 @ 10:36 pm #
“She divides soccer moms. The left counts on soccer moms.”
We have a winner. Palin-hate is about class. The Left narrative has achieved such electoral success because it provides issue after issue upon which the insatiable moral vanity of the upper-middle class can gorge itself, providing the means by which we (yep, I’m upper-middle too, just not happy with this turn of events) can differentiate ourselves from the middle-class (and lower) from whence we came and to which we fear dreadfully to return.
Check out a bookstore in an up-scale mall. Not just on the coasts.
Teh Church Lady now runs Huffington Post.
Comment by yyysguy on 6/13 @ 10:36 pm #
The left wants to control people who don’t think like them.
People like Palin are confident and articulate – a real threat to lefties and liberals.
Remember the teleprompter loss during Palin’s acceptance speech? She ad libed perfectly, versus stupid and idiotic comments made by Obama when his malfunctiones.
She is Christian, moral as well as intelligent – a triple threat. Palin belongs to us. We love her type.
Lefties beware! The revolution has begun.
Comment by John Bradley on 6/13 @ 10:39 pm #
Instalanche!
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Comment by Assistant Village Idiot on 6/13 @ 11:41 pm #
Perhaps it’s an advantage I don’t know the M.O. of the various commenters here. I did note that nishi’s guess as to why Palin was chosen “…cynically chosen to harvest Puma votes…” amounts to mindreading. Always a bad sign.
Comment by Karen on 6/13 @ 11:58 pm #
Let’s mellow out and laugh at this. In fact, let’s try to come up with some funny stuff ourselves.
Top 10 CLUES DAVID LETTERMAN IS A PERVERT
1) R. Kelly is his favorite actor.
2) At his son’s preschool, the “naughty chair” is Letterman’s lap.
3) When Letterman’s viagra kicks in, he yells “Amber Alert”.
4) Letterman thinks Myle Cyrus is past per sexual peak.
5) Letterman’s hero is Roman Polanski.
Need 5 more
Comment by anonymouse on 6/14 @ 12:56 am #
Actually, Palin was chosen to solidify the base. I am a middle aged, white business owner and I wasn’t about to vote for McCain. But I held my nose and did it when he picked Palin as his running mate. Let’s face it, every complaint the left has about her is non-substantive. They don’t like how she talks, or how she dresses, or how happy she is. All issues of style. Guess what? I don’t think she is a great orator either. None of that has anything to do with being right on the issues. And given the unwillingness of the left to engage her on that basis I can only conclude that they feel they will not win that sort of argument. Indeed, that is why they put an empty suit up for office. A man of no accomplishment whatsoever to that point in time, whose legacy will now be that he intended to loot 49% of the country to buy the votes of the other 51% but ended up bankrupting the treasury for generations instead.
But hey, at least we were saved the spectacle of an American president dropping her g’s. That Obama is one cool cat!
Comment by Rich on 6/14 @ 2:01 am #
I liked Palin because she was Fresh and did not pretend to know it all. She is not Stupid as they try to make out she just does not have the big formal education from a name school. Who cares! For the record I have a PhD and believe me half of those people would not be able to manage a two person shop where they are one of the two.
She has managerial skill, learns quick and delegates when necessary. That is what you want in a leader. Second spot was good because she would be well set to take over afetr 4 years. Now it will be harder but as said if she just works on connecting to the average person she can win.
Comment by A.C. on 6/14 @ 2:15 am #
You wrote: “Stereotype: All manly men are part of Teh Patriarchy, dedicated to preventing Womyn® from achievement and deeply resentful of anything resembling a subordinate position.
Reality: Todd Palin is a manly man with a manly occupation; nevertheless he seems quite cheerful and accepting that his wife’s occupation is much higher on the social scale than his.”
Well, he just doesn’t know that he deeply resents his subordinate position. It will probably take years of counselling by a correctly liberated psychotherapist to
brainwash himenable him to discover this.Comment by Hanoi Paris Hilton on 6/14 @ 3:37 am #
Yo, Rich… Not to dispute your points, but your Ph. D. sure as hell ain’t in English.
Comment by Twilight Vanquisher Nishi on 6/14 @ 4:06 am #
You guyz are nuts.
The GOP and Team McCain screwed Palin like a two-dollar whore, and now they are frantically trying to scrape her off their shoes.
You know though…..you have the power.
The base CAN make Palin the 2012 nominee!
Start now!
Comment by Twilight Vanquisher Nishi on 6/14 @ 4:09 am #
They are frantically trying to scrape her off their shoes before the next election.
Are you going to stand for that?
No way….tell Newt and the GOP wideboiz who your candidate of choice is!
Tell ‘em, open wide!
Run, Sarah, run!
hahahahaha!
Comment by Synova on 6/14 @ 4:51 am #
So… 59 and 60 is Nishi?
Take away the obvious sarcasm and those two posts are almost 100% right on.
McCain or McCain’s staff screwed Palin. She won’t campaign with a staff she’s not in control of again. Left to her own she’s doing great and doing all the right things.
What some entity called the “GOP” wants is irrelevant. In fact, what the GOP wants is probably a counter-indication of what conservatives should DO if they want to win elections. But mostly, the GOP isn’t the boss of us.
Which brings me to my contribution of why Palin is the target of so much lefty hysteria (pun intended.) Conservatives aren’t looking for a “boss”, no matter how much the left likes to talk like we’re all looking for a father figure or authority figure… it’s projection. When you’re looking for government to solve your problems and a leader to take care of you, those Ivy League creds are comforting.
I recall an editorial after Sarah was announced last fall that started out all positive how Sarah Palin made the writer realize that anyone could grow up to be president, that *she* could be President… after all… she had a Journalism degree TOO. The reader was supposed to realize that only special people who are much better than us regular folks should be President.
I realize that Ric was focusing on her family and why her *family* is the subject of so much political bile that usually is reserved for opposition politicians themselves. He’s right on all the way.
Comment by peter jackson on 6/14 @ 5:44 am #
When you’re looking for government to solve your problems and a leader to take care of you, those Ivy League creds are comforting.
Syn wins the thread .
Likewise, when the only things required to bring about desirable social outcomes is political will and government power, the leader of the government becomes super-duper awesomely important; that is where the will meets the power. When the left accuses conservatives of needing a supreme leader, they are indeed projecting—their premises.
yours/
peter.
Comment by peter jackson on 6/14 @ 5:47 am #
By their premises ye shall know them.
Comment by DerHahn on 6/14 @ 6:05 am #
#48 – Right on.
My formerly strong Republican Sis-in-Law absolutely loathed Palin, and she is the distilled essence of upper-middle class overachiving soccer mom.
It’s all about who is winning the mommy wars.
Comment by malclave on 6/14 @ 6:12 am #
“Reality: Sarah Palin has several (three?) children, the latest of which has Down’s Syndrome, and seems perfectly capable of handling her duties as Governor despite any child-care difficulties.”
Five children, three of whom are minors; the eldest is in the military. The Left’s hatred of the Palin family combines well with their loathing of the military, as there were claims made that he enlisted only to avoid jail.
Comment by papertiger on 6/14 @ 6:34 am #
Long ago,
before I heard a rivetting campaign acceptance speech under the most difficult advisarial media bombardment I have ever witness (this including the Nixon years),
before Michelle Malkin started linking to the nominate Palin website,
before I heard about a family with values deeper then politics,
before I saw a picture of a miss Wassila beauty contestant,
I read a news blurb from Alaska announcing that the governor was planning to file suit against listing the polar bear as an endangered species.
She had my vote from that point.
I sent her office an email that day, pledging to help her if possible, and cheering her for taking the fight to the Gorites head on.
The fact that she answered the email I sent that day, with a cheerful thanks for my support, was just the cherry on top.
You know I haven’t received a return email from my own governor, ever.
Comment by John Skookum on 6/14 @ 2:18 pm #
“She was cynically chosen as means of harvesting Puma votes, and spent all all her campaign time either lashed to McCain’s side as a stage prop or being exploited as an attack dog saying things McCain was too politically cunning to say himself.”
If you recall, the reason she was lashed to McCain’s side was that she had become a supernova that totally eclipsed him. Her rallies routinely drew much larger crowds than when McCain appeared alone. It was beginning to reflect poorly on McCain himself. They had no choice.
And the role of “attack dog” is one that has ALWAYS been filled by the VP nominee, to maintain the perception of above-the-fray gravitas of the Presidential candidate himself. If you condemn Sarah Palin for this without saying the same about scores of male VP nominees who preceded her, it’s either historical ignorance or rank sexism.
Comment by Nishi Champion of Ulduar on 6/15 @ 3:58 pm #
Why don’t you learn something instead of whining about how unfair it all is?
John, I agree with the traditional role argument.
But the result was McCain got invited to the WH and Palin didn’t.
She doesn’t seem able to learn from her mistakes.
Comment by Nishi Champion of Ulduar on 6/15 @ 4:01 pm #
link
Comment by Chuck Whole on 6/16 @ 12:50 am #
You are a bunch of wackos! Sarah Palin is a wacko!
Repubs need to quite prescribing to everyone their righteous ways and oome to the middle of the road, otherwise you will NEVER be back in power to drag down this country like “W’ did in just 8-years! USE YOUR BRAINS!!!
Comment by sdferr on 6/16 @ 1:46 am #
We don’t have brains Chuck, we’re wackos, idiot.
Comment by B Moe on 6/16 @ 1:51 am #
The kid really doesn’t have any sense of irony at all, does she? I mean not a fucking lick.
Comment by Marc Malone on 6/18 @ 9:02 am #
They hate/fear Gov. Palin, because she is Alpha-Female. In today’s society, in theory anyway, that means she gets to be Alpha-Male. If her hubbie was some wimpy guy, they could soothe their own fears in some way, call her bitchy or such, but he is a manly-man, and “dishy”. That he is, really puts a point on it. The Left fears Alphas, because they have few, if any. Some women loathe her, because she’s Alpha. Those who love her, love her because she’s Alpha. This is why she’s so “polarizing”.
Comment by Irma La Douce on 6/19 @ 9:10 pm #
I think the commenters who noticed the Class Warfare aspect of this are onto something. I work in Manhattan, in the advertising business. A huge agency. My colleagues, almost to a person, are Lefties (there are a few dissenters, but they live like Christians in Caligula’s Rome).
They react to Sarah with a visceral loathing, and it’s all loathing of her lower-middle-class roots and style. They ridicule her accent, her college education, her syntax; her church (fundamentalist Protestant! HISSSS); her tacky fecundity, her small-town mayoralty, and her cheerful beauty-queen demeanor (the gays in particular hate this about her–jealousy, anyone?). These are the things that draw the most fire from them.
So they attack her because they know she has charisma to equal that of the Jackass-in-Chief, and appeals to all her Tacky Supporters, in Flyover Country/Jesusland. She is the symbol to them of the culture war they’ve been waging against the rest of us for several decades.
Yes, they fear her. Or they did last year. Now, triumphant over the vicious success of their “politics of personal destruction,” they are jeering and spitting and flinging poo whenever they see or hear of her.
They attack her: they hate US.
Comment by RC on 6/27 @ 1:22 am #
Cynn finally draws the Trollhammer. I always have kept her around because on rare occasions she would utter something worthwhile but enough is enough. One of the great things about Trollhammer is that it strikes at the jerks where it hurts the worst, they effectively cease to exist. There used to be a Nishi and a Thor around here but I never see them post any more, guess they fell off the earth or something.
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