I kind of wish they could too. It’s unhealthy, this degree of obsessiveness. Unseemly.
Mommy issues, I’m guessing.
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Dear Lex,
My problem is that I am not a Palin fan – while I adored how she tore into “The One” during her acceptance speech and even more how, for at least a couple of days during the campaigns of last year she was the only one who got into Obama’s head before the media made it clear to him he need not get his hands dirty – they would destroy her for him – life was bliss. Yet the more I’ve seen of Gov. Palin the more I think of her as a talented, natural politician who has no profound intellectual heft or well enough developed view of the world to be President (frankly, I also feel that way about Pres. Obama, even though he speaks better and is likely somewhat smarter than Gov. Palin).
But the above is a qualifier for what I’m going to say now – I have never witnessed the left (and even many “moderates”) generate a more nauseating, disgusting and noisome amount of bile in their relentless, petty, mean-spirited juvenile attacks on any other figure. It is their bone deep hatred of Gov. Palin, driven in seemingly equal parts by misogyny at women who feel comfortable as women, class-based snobbery (in a country where almost all of us are only a couple of generations from peasants), and thoroughly unhealthy obsession with Gov. Palin’s charisma, that leaves me torn. On the one hand it is hard not to rejoice that the masks are off and all the progressive folks who proclaim their love of women, the socially disadvantaged and the handicapped are revealed to be the women-hating, perverted social climbing snobs and abortion-loving murdering eugicists one always suspected they were. On the other hand, as the left gets in touch with its weirder, more sick pathologies and deep hatred of anything not like itself, I fear the results will not be pretty. I don’t think I could hope for a Palin presidency because I don’t think she has the heft to manage the office(but again, neither does The One or his one man gaffe-machine and second fiddle whose undisciplined mouth should rightly raise questions about his intelligence). But as a red flag that makes the left mad to the point of revealing who they really are, she is a priceless national resource and one that makes me deeply proud to be a Republican.
ps: the links above go to material that should make any rational person full of contempt…
As my old OSCS-SW buddy will say, what do you expect from a pig, but a grunt?
Well, the left has been drinking from Sarah’s spittoon. They found once they started they just couldn’t stop. Whether it be Trig trutherism or intellectual ‘light weight’ Sarah (after all, she didn’t graduate from one of the elite eastern halls of indoctrination), they have found that Sarah is their shining beacon of fire, one which they continue to pour gasoline, hoping by pouring it on, her flame will go out. Pour it on!
Any red blooded American male, who can look at this, and say he wouldn’t look forward to coming home to such a comely lass, is, well…
Even you, Skippy, PDS patient zero that you are.
Oh sure-its like any relationship built on a shallow understanding of the woman beneath the make-up. She looks fine when you go to bed with her.
Its having to wake up to her the next morning that’s the problem.
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Derangement is in the eye of the beholder.
In that regard, she’s the most dynamic figure in the GOP. The enthusiastic (cynics would say rabid) nature of her support base–just remember the scene that unfolded at her rallies as the ’08 campaign progressed, with people showing up to hear her, not McCain, drawn by her dynamism (with supporters generating an energy that sometimes spilled over into a xenophobic anti-Obama craze)–would certainly help her raise money.
But the big question is step two: can she grow that base into a winning coalition? As Purdum points out, the Wall Street and national security wings of the GOP wouldn’t get behind her, and her near-even split of 45/44 favorable/unfavorable among all Pew respondents proves her divisiveness.
Bill Kristol-who created Sarah Palin as a political figure, does not like the article. That’s all the endorsement I need to go buy a copy of VF.
Skippy-san/
Remember, one of the supposedly “greatest” Presidents we’ve ever had, FDR, had success predicted for him upon his first election by a prominent Democrat who described him as having: “a ‘second-rate’ intellect, but a ‘first-rate’ personality.” I would contend that at her worst, that description aptly characterizes Palin as well. That combination worked for FDR and the nation, didn’t it? Why not our gal Sarah–the Governor of Alaska?
Skippy, when any Palin supporter is as deranged as Mr. Grumpy who graced our pages earlier today, then you might have a point. When noted journalists start fantasizing things like Sasha and Malia are really Bill Ayres’ love children, when photoshops of Nancy Pelosi’s kids show up, then you could have a point. Until then, when it comes to meanness, no one holds a candle to the left — and these despicable photos are just the latest examples.
Some one is going to have to explain to me why the photoshop of Eddie Burke into a picture that gets the point across is “despicable”. Especially when leading conservative bloggers are guilty of exactly the same thing.
She’s a public figure. If she is going to play at this level, she’s going to take some fun in the press. Both sides are guilty of exactly the same tactic. Kind of proves the point doesn’t it? The pattern is inescapable: she takes disagreements personally, and swiftly deals vengeance on enemies, real or perceived.
Skippy – the problem with your analogy is that Malkin went after Obama himself – not his kids.
I don’t like public figures much.
I would on the other hand love to see a comparison of the ONE and Palin’s:
SAT scores?
ACT scores?
College Transcripts?
High School Transcripts
Any substantive writings such as Palin’s resignation from the Alaska State Institutional Corruption Board and ANYTHING from Obama viz his time as President of harbard law rebeiw or his time as a practicing lawyer, any sign he ever passed the bar? Any of his writings and opinions as a community organizer in Chicago, etc.
It is the 75th anniversary of the Night of Long Knives. I dare to say I know who most closely resembles a merciless killer of opponents but what gives Obama away?
Remember how all of a sudden sealed divorce records of his opponent for senate were revealed to the enthusiastic press? And what happened during his first and second run for Congress?
I know I wouldn’t want to fly on Air Force 3 with Hillary or anywhere with Bill Clinton or Bill Ayres; they’re dead men walking. Methinks they knows too much.
There AHA!!! I can rave like the worst of them.
“Especially when leading conservative bloggers are guilty of exactly the same thing.”
You are going to compare “Obama Fingers” to superimposing a talkshow host’s head onto the body of a one year old with Downs Syndrome?
It’s like the Special Olympics or something.
Pretty selective defense there, Skippy. Don’t choose to defend the indefensible? Or scarier yet, maybe you don’t have a problem, since it all is just “some fun in the press”?
She may be a public figure. Her baby isn’t. Rational people understand the difference. Left wing ideologues don’t.
Whatever helps you sleep at night. It was never, ever, about Trig. He just happened to be the baby she was holding at the time. Bring in the stunt baby and shoot the picture again-would that make you guys happier?
Time to bring in the big guns.
Other than her being a first-rate piece of ass, I’m at a complete loss to explain the Republican love affair with Sarah Palin. As you might remember, the very same people that yelled from the rooftops that Barack Obama was unqualified for the presidency also loudly asserted that Palin was at least as qualified as Obama. Seriously, I can come up with better endorsements than that without thinking really hard.
Palin governs a place where no reasonable people live, has no taxes whatsoever, runs it like a welfare program, and so-called “conservatives” pretend that she walks on water. It turns out that a Jesus fetish goes a long way in the modern GOP. The nicest thing I can say about Sarah Palin is that she’s Dan Quayle with a surprisingly tight body for someone who’s pregnant every twenty minutes. At worst, the living representation of everything politics has become, which is American Idol without the seriousness of purpose.
That becomes pretty clear in Todd Purdum’s article on Palin in the upcoming Vanity Fair. Republican bloggers are actually s***ting themselves with indignation over it, just as they didn’t over the same journalist’s profile of Bill Clinton during last year’s Democratic primaries. The consistency never fails to amaze, does it?
I’m glad to see you have a semi-private room there in the PDS wing. The fact that you find that cogent, credible political thought, is quite astounding.
And just another voice to confirm David Curp’s observations.
The fact that you don’t find it cogent is what is disturbing. If you read the whole thing he points out why the article is believable. That Palin may be a rising star in the GOP-now that’s what’s truly astounding.
The fact that you and your fellow sufferer, can find credence in 9,000 words, without a single named source, is the first astounding part. The second is that you can’t see hate speech when you see it — and in fact, repeat it. Funny? Yea, in a snarky, puerile, sixth grade kind of way. But your side is so loving of personal destruction, that to expect anything else is too much to ask for. Object of left wing hatred? No attribution required, no family member off limits, no gutter too low. (sound familiar, xairboss — shamelessly stolen).
Sure am glad we didn’t elect a moron to be VP.
It isn’t hatred………….it’s fear.
Hmm. “…who has no profound intellectual heft…” Same comment was made about Truman, and also about Reagan. They kinda turned out to be pretty good for the country.
There are so many elements, most of which do not lend themselves to being quantified, that go into making a good (or great) leader that it is laughable for so-called, or self-proclaimed, “intellectuals” to think that “intellectual heft”, whatever that means, is of prime importance.
God save us from “intellectuals” such as our new Senator, Mr. Franken.
Dear Ron,
Actually, I agree that intellectuals often make a hash of things, and that leadership is at least as much about being a good judge of character and having the ability to draw out and empower the best efforts of others as it is intellectual candle power. I don’t think Gov. Palin would be a disaster (in a way that say Joe Biden looks to be a disaster – because there comes a point when it is one gaffe after another that someone has to ask – how together is Joe, really? – and what does it mean that he is one heartbeat away from the Presidency). Still, I think that the first choice of Republicans should be someone with charisma/natural political gifts (which Gov. Palin has in spades), leadership ability (seems to be some good signs of that – certainly worlds more than our President showed prior to his inauguration or is currentl demonstrating) and intelligence too (I actually admire Pres. Bush the younger in many ways, but until I see the secret, declassified documents in which he lays out, in perfect Hindi, Russian, French, Farsi and Spanish, how the invasion of Iraq is part of a master plan that would encourage electoral unrest in Iran and cause both Kim Jong Il to overreach, I’m going to have to conclude he screwed up royally in a number of ways). I’ve been a Republican all my life and I remember all of the amiable dunce talk about Regan, even now when we have his letters and other such things that demonstrate he had a keen intelligence (and I’m also an academic who works around people with degrees from the Ivies and other top 20 schools), so I really am with you in not dissing someone as a rube just because of his/her intellectual pedigree. Still, I don’t see her as the Republican Party’s best choice in 2012, and I really, really don’t want The Lightworker 4 more years to develop his own cult of personality and try to hope and change us into another kind of country.
David Curp/
Four more years to “develop” a cult of personality? Yea Gods, man, how much more “development” do you think he needs? Looks to me like he’s already got a case of full-blown, narcissistic ego-centricly driven “El Cid” complex working for him in the here and now.
(BTW, “Dr. Sanity” has been doing a great run down of all the dysfunctional psychological traits and maladies he’s been exhibiting over at her site for some time now–if you haven’t visited her site, you really ought to.)
Sarah Palin has been well and truly smeared. Having run out of every kind of off color remark about her family, the left now wants to claim through “anonomous sources” that she is actually mentally ill! It kind of sounds like the Soviet Union to me (put her in a mental hospital!)
Sarah Palin must be smothered in the crib. She advocates pro life for God’s sake! She is an attractive and successful governor of an energy state, ready and willing to bring energy supplies to the country. She speaks plainly and advocates her positions without hedging. She cannot be allowed to continue!
McCain’s ilk should look to his stand on illegals and health insurance if they want to understand why he lost.
The continued smearing of Palin is really very pathetic by the Dems.
Virgil,
One of the things about studying East European history is that “it can’t get worse” is one of those phrases I never say…
David Curp/
LOL. Sigh, I know, I know. I’m already lying here at night wishing Hills were President–a previously unthinkable thought around the Virgil household. OTOH, that alternative is a lot like the choice between between being blown up by an 81mm mortar shell or an 82mm
one–the end result is the same, it’s only a matter of degree…
“They said, ‘Cheer up, things could always be worse,’ and so I did, and sure enough, they got worse!”
Holy Christ, when did the entire blogosphere become the Chris Crocker to Palin’s Briney Spears, anyhow?
Whoa Skippystalin, you’re not saying that Kos and Firedogpuddle are in the tank supporting Palin are you? That would imply a seismic shift of global catastrophic earth shaking magnitude as the scales fell from their eyes. Next thing you’ll be back all outraged that “everybody” listens to Rush.