“This is standard operating procedure for the left: don’t debate your opponents; destroy them.” – Rush Limbaugh
“Democrats are a party of women, and nothing drives them off their gourds like a beautiful Christian conservative.” – Ann Coulter
It is amusing not just to read what certain liberals have to say about Sarah Palin, but to listen to them talk about her. They call her unqualified to serve as President of the United States (or in any executive capacity whatsoever) yet remain clueless about her record (save what she said in an interview with the anchor of some news show with rapidly declining ratings. The define her as a “whack job” or its equivalent, yet when pressed on why they find her so extreme mumble something incoherent or repeat some mantra based on inaccurate, incomplete or just plain dishonest reporting.
I think a lot of people in this part of the world (i.e., Hollywood) delight in expressing their hatred of this good woman because they know it will endear them to their peers, kind of like raving about the Lakers just after they won the Championship. Interesting how so many on the left find common ground through shared hatred–while at the same time accusing conservatives of promoting hate.
Now, while I grant any public figure is fair game for criticism and do believe the outgoing Alaska Governor is far from perfect, having made several blunders in office and on the campaign trail, I remain astounded and amused at how the mere mention of her name sends some liberals into uncontrollable fits of apoplexy. Don’t just take it from me, take it from one of the most adorable Palin critics, the Malcontent’s Robbie who calls her an “inconsequential figure” lacking “qualifications for office“:
I still adore Sarah Palin. I can’t help it. Not for her political brilliance, mind you, but for her curious ability to drive certain misogynistic, anti-semitic lunatics right off a cliff. . . .She drives all the right people crazy in all the best ways.
And like us, he finds the anti-Palin hysteria says more about the hysterics than it does about her:
I’ve long thought the criticisms of Sarah Palin were always far more about her detractors than about her. Listen closely to the people who hate her most, and it doesn’t take long to find their insecurities and bigotries bubbling to the surface.
There’s quite a bit of that happening in the wake of her resignation, and countless experts are certainly spending entirely too much time on this inconsequential figure explaining why their neuroses are justified entirely by the vaccuum of knowledge they seem to have accrued about the woman.
Read the whole thing
I thought Her Honor consigned herself to oblivion when she resigned. Why are we still discussing her?!?
Peggy Noonan’s latest anti-Palin screed. Noonan isn’t criticizing Palin as much as she’s indirectly defending her support for Obama, implying we could have done much, much worse. Tough sell, honey. And of course this blog post is about defending the identification of a non-existent misogyny. Another tough sell.
It took a full court press by the combined media to tear down Sarah Palin. I am struck at how successful the right has been — tacking into the wind of the MSM Obamaganda machine — at tainting Sonia Sotomayor as a bigot and a mediocre intellect. (Helped in no small part by the fact that Sotomayor is a bigot with a mediocre intellect) The media hagiography of her as a Latina from the projects inadvertantly plays into this scenario; when the hype is about the life-story and not the legal acumen, the public is bound to pick up on that.
Freed of the constraints of party and government, Sarah will have ample opportunities to redeem her image, which she may or may not take advantage of. But Sotomayor’s image as a left-wing activist affirmative action hire will be reinforced every time she votes in lock-step with the gruesome twosome of Ginsburg and Breyer.
I think Sarah Palin is smarter than Sotomayor. Sotomayor reminds me of one of those judges on daytime TV who awards angry landlords their back rent. She doesn’t seem to be particularly insightful. I wonder why her Latina-accent is charming and Palin’s northern accent is dumb.
I wonder why her Latina-accent is charming and Palin’s northern accent is dumb.
Why does the left glorify urban gang-bangers and look down on rural good ol’ boys?
What has affirmative action brought us in the good old US of A. A President who cannot speak without his teleprompter to the point of reading information about his wife that is wrong (oops!!). An Los Angeles Mayor that only spends about 10% of his time actually working on city business (information obtained from his Honor’s actual day timer). Woo Hoo!!! Get ready for more bean counting idiots that cannot make logical decisions.
I’m still curious. If Obama/Biden are qualified, just what the hell are the qualifications one needs to be president anymore? How can one be told twice by the voters that he’s not qualified, but he’s good enough to be one heartbeat away?
“… the mere mention of her name sends some liberals into uncontrollable fits of apoplexy …”
Such fun to watch!
Sarah Palin is like the ex-girlfriend the left can’t get over.
Liberals fear Sarah Palin because she’s got a 72% approval rating after a year’s pounding by the liberal State-Run Media. She also has the voters’ attention. To wit:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071609/content/01125107.html
Regards,
Peter H.
Even if, IF, what I constantly hear about her hating same-sex lovin’ folks were true (which I don’t for one minute believe), I would much rather be hated for who I sleep with than be hated for believing in the constitution and un-ashamedly loving my country like I am by the far-left (the new mainstream).
You betcha! (had to say it! )