Sarah Palin wonders aloud what everyone else is thinking, and the two-minutes hate crowd explodes.
They just wish they could quit her.
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Speaking her MindBy lex, on December 9th, 2009
December 9th, 2009 | Tags: politics | Category: Politics and Culture
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Two minutes? I wish. You must be crazy…. (apologizes to Orwell & Lex)
PS: Try full-court press 24/7/365.
PPS: ‘Course Lex is probably right, it’s 24/7/365 all right, but in 2-min segments in seriatium.
The best thing about Sarah Palin is the every time she speaks the reaction from the left is so over the top that any rational person has to say: “What could possibly be that interesting?” and proceeds to tune into the Sarah Palin channel which, even if she’s not totally your cup of tea, comes across as a reasonable sort, especially in comparison to her tormentors, who are found writhing in the corner, foaming at the mouth, and generally making asses of themselves. As a bonus the so called “women’s movement” groups get exposed as, not all that interested in promoting women at all seeing how their silence at the obvious attacks on a leading WOMAN go strangely unanswered.
So no matter what you might think of Sarah Palin you’ve just got to love the apoplexy she causes on the left. If she didn’t exist somebody would need to invent her for the cause.
TC6Flyer … Yes, “the apoplexy” Sarah causes on the Left is fascinating to me, partly because she actually *is* everything that the feminist Left has always advocated and said that they wanted, but because it is this beautiful, vital, high achiever of a woman who has actually done it without assistance, they have to find fault. I think it’s because she diminishes their own achievements and their opinion of themselves. She’s not supposed to have done all that!
But boyohboy, I’m sure glad she did!
Marianne
MM, just think what Sarah could do if she were an intellectual.
Gotta love the reaction she causes the Left/Democrats/Socialists.
Where Sarah Palin is concerned, the Left utterly redefines what it is to be Pavlov’s Dog.
OT6 nails it that this crowd falls over itself in an effort to maliciously malign someone who in so many ways defines normal and common sense.
Marianne, help me out here. Do the ‘liberated’ women hate Sarah because she’s successful, or because she isn’t going around leaving the footprints of a spiked heel in the middle of people’s backs? Just curious?
I vote for the spiked heel theory. Cuz the left loves to hate and that at least is a rude gesture. Cuz for the left to admit she is successful would be for them to abandon their narrative – and they can’t do that.
Spike heeled jackboots?
I find the ‘apoplexy’ (I thought I was the only one who still used that) of the left over her audacity is interesting. Because she is out of office, she isn’t allowed to comment on AGW. But the Profit Al, who is out of office and made oodles of money on Oxy Oil, can drive policy. Cn you say double standard? I knew you could.
(Sarah in thigh high, spike heels…..hmmm….)
Geez. I shoulda known better with you around. he he he
I meant to comment on Pavlov. All he proved was that every time a dog salivates, a behaviourist psycologigist has to ring a bell.
OT6p and Marianne, you stole my word for it- “apoplexy”. Anyway, those people ought to just go out and blow a cranial gasket. Todays Liberalism/Progressivism is a form of dementia. I used to think it it was merely a form of intellectual dyslexia (apologies to Lex). No longer.
No Mongo, they only hate her because she’s a person “on the right.” If she were a member of the Donkey Party or a card-carrying member of the ACLU instead of the NRA they would be singing her praises and accomplishments to high heavens. Same as with conservative blacks like Justice Thomas who “leave the reservation” for the conservative “plantation.” and are given the approbation of “House Nigger” (and are not ashamed to be public about it) by the black power structure–only in this case it’s functional equivalent is applied to Sarah.
It’s interesting that today Rush makes the same point about Tiger Woods. Notice, he said, the deep reluctance the MSM had to publicize the John Edwards story–even when a baby was involved–they had to be brought to the story a day late and a dollar short kicking and screaming. Likewise with Clinton the MSM made every excuse in the book for him and slimed every women who surfaced–even when, as in the case of Jenifer Flowers–she had tapes.
By comparison the MSM was IMMEDIATELY all over this story–couldn’t get the story out fast enough. And the veracity of NONE of the statements of the various bimbos is even seriously questioned–all are repeated ad naseam verbatim as if ironclad testimony.
Could it be, Rush asked, that Tiger has right-leaning political views? Or, alternatively is it–as has already been wondered aloud about by the AP–that he is married to a white blond, and all his bimbos were also white? And, I would add, could it also be that he steadfastly, absolutely REFUSES to be pigeon-holed as “black” despite the attempts of the black community to “claim” him? Which grates on not only much of the black community, but many “progressive” leftists as well? Isn’t this furor over Sarah and Tiger as much about cultural politics as anything?
Inquiring minds…..
I can’t believe you would write such RAAAAACIST drivel.
What do you have against white women?
QM, you should know better than to proffer such a question. Why, the answers practically write themselves (“My lips!”) and do not qualify for print on a family-friendly blog such as this.
– Max
Donkey party…as in party of asses?
That I can believe.
I wonder if Sarah’s middle name is Dagny.
My belief is that a high % of the Palin-hatin’ comes from people whose identities are closely tied to their educational credentials. For someone to succeed on as high a level as Palin has *without* these credentials is a serious psychological threat.
Very much like a European aristocrat of a century or so ago when confronted with someone who made a lot of money “in trade”…except the aristocrat would probably have usually shown his disdain in a less rabid manner.
I totally agree, david, what we have here is “credentialism” of the first order, seen as a gloss on everything else. Someone once labeled such people “Atlantic Coast Provincials” (whether they reside in Madison, Palo Alto or Austin) to reflect the mainly Ivy League, northeastern “cosmopolitan,” “internationalist” mind-set. And David, why should you be surprised at the “rabid” nature of these people? Totalitarians ALWAYS react that way–such people cannot, just CANNOT stand to have their world-view, their philosophical utopian edifice, challenged. Not only is their entire psychic make-up–their very essence and existence–wrapped up in their belief structure, but they take alternate viewpoints as an intellectual affront. After all, are not these “progressives”– like the Gnostics of old–in the SOLE possession of “the word”–of the “truth?” And must not all who challenge such views perforce be knaves and fools–base and evil creatures? For else what other sort of person could POSSIBLY, once “scientific” “truth” is revealed, fail to rally to the side of truth and light? Alternate views are virtually unimaginable and seen as truly evil. Or, as one Muslim Islamicist in Iraq said: “Why do we need a Constitution when we have the Koran?”
With Greenies, as with Communists and Islamic fundamentalists we are talking a totalist mind-set here, sports-fans–one that worships at the alter of Gaia and claiming “scientific” certitude as fervently as Lysenko believed he could genetically transmit the changes in men’s minds/beliefs brought about by environmental/cultural influences across generations to create a “New Soviet Man.” We are talking religious certitude, here. We are waaayyyy beyond reality–which is why all the “Climate-gates” in the world matter to them not one whit.
Liberals are some of the most provincial people you will ever meet. People on the right, the least.
The business about Nixon winning and some idiot in NY saying they didn’t know how Nixon won. They didn’t know anyone that voted for him. Later the left said that no one would admit to voting for him. Everyone I knew that did, certainly admitted it. I was one of them.
QM, that was the New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael. And it was TRUE! NO ONE that traveled in her circles–the “upper west-side” crowd–voted for Nixon for sure. It is the same mentality best exemplified by that famous 1976 New Yorker map cover (the US as seen from 9th Ave) that had the west coast of the US ending just across the Hudson river. See@
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/72-the world-as-seen-from-new-yorks-9th-avenue/
I notice in the map on the New Yorker that Utah is south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and southwest of Nebraska. I have to ask why Nebraska is even noted, given nobody in New York gives a darn about the Cornhuskers.
Oh, wait. Ever see a Cornhuskers game? As they say, “Go Big Red.” The stadium is a veritable sea of red jackets, red blankets, red coveralls, red uniforms, red bloodshot eyes… Looks like a pep rally for Joe Stalin. So that might explain the interest.
There is a large somewhat-phallic-shape near Nebraska. I can only assume that is supposed to be Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. Either that, or I missed out on the uncensored “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” broadcasts during that time.
– Max
David, there is an interesting parallel in your claim with respect to language. German, I am told, is a language where credentials are held in high regard and one is to be addressed in order of rank. Hence, one might refer to a medical doctor as Herr Doktor and to a professor with a Ph.D as Herr Doktor Professor. Eventually we wind up addressing Herr Doktor Professor Slacker or some such.
It just sort of makes me wonder, in a region where social status was based upon rank and wealth it makes sense that language would form to identify those deliniations. I merely wonder if the reverse is true, in a society with a language that stresses status and achievement, would it be an affront to be lectured to by one with fewer honorifics?
– Max
She knows enough, and can express it well enough, to speak for me.
Of course the lying scumbag members of the a$$ party don’t care what I say, so it just tickles me every time Palin says something that triggers their apoplectic responses.
Go, girl, go!
Sarah Palin/Liz Cheney 2012 would work for me. And they may be able to undo some of the damage being inflicted by the present unqualified occupant of the White House.
Virgil and Mongo … Virge, I love the word/concept of “credentialism.” I think that’s part of the hatred. If you don’t have my “credentials” or seem not to be impressed by them, then I automatically have to hate you, because you have diminished me.
Mongo — I love that you think of me as an expert on “liberated” women, since I began my post-college working life in 1952, when today’s liberated women think we were all living in the dark ages. But there have always been lots of us out here who have in actual fact been liberated, freed from self-doubt by the kind of upbringing that taught us we could do anything we could do well enough to swim with the big guys and hold our own. The difference between us and today’s somewhat self-conscious “liberated women” is that we didn’t expect a paternalistic government to run interference for us so the ladder upwards would be easier. Sure, sometimes things were “unfair,” and we had to solve problems by moving to another job, another field. But so do men have to do those things. It’s a battleground out here, and sometimes you lose the battle, whether you’re a man or a woman. But you don’t have to lose the war. And if you are smart, and persistent, and know who you are, like Sarah Palin, you succeed.
I guess the reason that I love and respect the free enterprise system so much is that, in its purest form, it abjures paternalism, and expects you to get out there and battle for what you want. That’s the way Sarah Palin was raised and that’s what she does. And I love her for it.
Marianne
There are days when I yearn for those ‘dark ages’. The problem solving mindset, in spite of obvious near term shortcomings, rendered a far greater result long term, IMO, than the patronizing ‘kiss it and make it better’ expectation of today.
I’ve learned so much more from my failures and battle scars, than any win could ever provide. Not that I eschew the wins, mind you. To win is good. Just ask the Bronx Bombers.
Guys there are things that Sarah Palin can’t do. And if you read her book (I’m about half way through) you’ll find one of them. Her husband is a four time winner of the Iron Dog several hundred mile long snow machine race in Alaska. As she tells it, she thought that she might like to compete in the Iron Dog one day her own self. Her husband asked her, “Can you lift the back end of a six hundred pound machine out of a ditch when you are standing in knee deep water?” Answer “No”. Question: “Can you change out the engine on the machine at night in the dark, and can you fix a broken suspension with tree limbs from the trail?” Answer: “No” Statement: “Go back to sleep Sarah”.
Make the time to read her book. It’s an interesting one. And I don’t doubt that she had “help” in writing the book, just as all of these politician’s tomes are done. Doesn’t mean that the book isn’t a good read. It’s worth the time.
On the idea of having help writing a book, I believe even Winston Churchill employed a personal secretary and part of her duties were the transcription of his utterings which later formed some of my favorite books. Editors clean things up, the proofs are checked by the author and others, eventually it’s published.
Anybody who thinks a book flies off a typewriter and is printed and bound by a publisher without going through professionals every step of the way is an idiot. Or lives with his parents and dreams of being the next Tom Clancy earning millions in royalties on his Great American Novel rather than, you know, getting a job.
Because Clancy was an insurance salesman, Stephen King once wrote letters for a men’s magazine, and even the prolific Asimov worked in a candy store and later taught chemistry. Our Hero Author isn’t dividing his time like that, thus he simply must be better than them. Letting others alter your artistic work is so, you know, stifling.
– Max
I have to say that the article by Doug Brady at conservatives4palin.com is less than impressive. It is three parts cheer-leading to one part adulterated junk science.
In this respect I am a genuine skeptic (one who refuses to deny or accept without proof) with respect to AGW. What the other side self-evidently fails to understand is that -while the “Climategate” data tend to undermine the solidity of the AGW position- it does not falsify it. One may say at best that the AGW position is less than solid. Anyone who claims that the hack “proves” that AGW is a hoax is at least as guilty of dogmatism as those who promoted AGW as irrefutable fact. The only solid data point Mr. Cheerleader Brady presents is the Darwin Airport record. The rest of of his post is generic tribal “bash the other side” bilge.
Ms. Palin, on the other hand, demonstrates a higher level of understanding. She points out that the argumentative basis for AGW has -for the moment- been adulterated enough that “action now” policies are not supported by the facts. This would include current Congressional cap’n'trade legislation as well as the Copenhagen conference itself. A wise position.
As Jerry Pournelle pointed out several years ago, the intelligent response would be performing a Bayesian analysis to determine the cost of information with respect to global warming. Bjorn Lomborg is probably one of the more rational voices in this debate.
As a post script, was struck by the title of a “Featured Post” on conservatives4palin.com. It was On the Rise of the Cincinnatus Blog; certainly an intriguing title (considering I was born in Cincinnati), so I followed through the link. Alas, it was just another cheerleader puff-piece for the site. It never even mentioned Cincinnatus, who he was, what he did, or why modern libertarian/republicans (as opposed to Republicans) might consider him noteworthy. Feh.
MaxDamage…my high school German teacher, who was herself a German and was married to a professor, said that in Germany, the proper address for her would be “Frau Professor Doktor Lindemann”
If I keep reading all the intelligent and witty repartee on this blog will I earn some sort of credential? I would certainly deserve it.
Unfortunately the kind of certificate chez Lex might issue would only be recognized in dive bars, drug dens, houses of ill, er, “suspected” repute and mental facilities (by the patients–not the staff.)
A sense of perspective: I met my wife in grad school where she (an RN) was getting her MS in Abnormal Psych. Advised my friends: “Better hang on to that one–only someone trained in handling abnormals could put up with you!”