Posted on 09/11/2010 11:23:34 PM PDT by ransomnote
The left’s obsession with Sarah Palin is one of the most interesting political and social phenomena of our time. The degree and volume of venom directed at her staggers the imagination. It is unprecedented in recent times especially for someone who does not currently hold office.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagoboyz.net ...
Everyone hates Palin, she is who we used to be. AMERICA!
Yeah doesn't make much sense does it? :o)
I think that’s the view of the New York feminists profiled in a NYT article awhile back. Spitting, gasping rage that a woman like THAT (not from NY, not from Harvard or some other liberal elite bastion, not a woman who worked her way up the Women’s Studies ranks for several decades wearing sensible shoes)could even DARE to think of office when THEY thought they were in charge of selecting the first women president. Then the first women president, Hillary perhaps, would know the ‘right people’ in the women’s groups and further elevate them and their programs, ideologies etc. They feel they are being ‘ripped off’ of what they have been laboring their whole lives to cultivate and watching it be offered to a country girl.
” The degree and volume of venom directed at her staggers the imagination. It is unprecedented in recent times “
This is true only for people who don’t remember the 60’s and 70’s. The venom for Nixon and Reagan was every bit as nasty.
Heh heh ...
Well then there is this woman, too ...
And Goldwater. My they loathed him.
“It is unprecedented in recent times especially for someone who does not currently hold office”
But weren’t Nixon and Reagan vying for political office? This is the MSM hinting that her baby was actually her daughter’s baby. It’s a stalker moving in next door and then publishing a hit piece in Vanity Faire.
Interesting article - I’d say it describes an element of PDS, but of course it is far more than just status-anxiety -it is political as well. All the pro-life, conservative stuff and that she is a threat to the democrats as an authentic and charismatic person who connects with everyday Americans.
Not exactly, what is your question?
I liked this excerpted comment from the linked page:
“The Left have always wanted what the Right has, in terms of status and currency. Failing to totally appropriate that, they have invented a new currency – morality, via which they hope to stand supreme on top of the societal heap.
I Care more about child poverty than you. I care more about the planet. I care more about disease and trees’ rights than you do. I am Superior, and you shall grovel to me, you who drive a Gus gazzler instead of a bike, and don’t weep every day for the suffering of the polar bear.
What this depends on is that everyone else then desires the moral elitism they supposedly possess, so they stay elite. When someone like Palin comes along, who not only has the nerve to not desire their phony morality, and exist quite happily without it, but also becomes Popular BECAUSE of this, then their entire system collapses. Her sin is not only existence, but popularity. People admire her status, and want to be like her. If she continues to exist and challenge the Left’s raison d’être then she is evil and must be destroyed at any cost.”
PERFECT! She is ‘clean house’ ready. She’ll even bring her own ‘belt’ for the beltway boys. Frat games are over. Yep. FEAR reigns.
I asked you a question in post 12, what is your answer?
Cheers!
I cannot look at these people anymore without envisioning a hole between their eyebrows.
That...and she’s a pro-life conservative...which means she “obviously” can’t be a feminist.
Strong women like her will make their heads explode every time.
Awwwwwwwwwwwe....great...now that you said that... I can’t look at them anymore without seeing the same hole! It’s gonna be hard - I have some lib friends who love me and ‘tolerate’ my bitter clingin’ to guns and religion!
With daylight beyond.
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