Posted on 09/16/2008 10:59:25 AM PDT by ljco
Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, "folksy" American, Sarah Palin's political views - ardently pro-gun, pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay - make John McCain's conservative credentials pale in comparison. What few observers have said, however, is these beliefs are not just extreme - they are radical, and even bear a comparison with some of the most notorious "rural radicals" of our time.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
This is just the beginning. It will get ugly.
This begins the Dems bi-annual “Republicans will suppress your black, minority, and gay vote”, campaign.
It just happens they are beginning this and Palin is easy prey because of small-town redneck stereotypes.
I believe the Dems started there Baltimore (so I’m sure other cities) minority discrimination voting push on Monday.
With Obama being the nominee I’m sure they will look to magnify this despicable campaign this year.
And those who live in congested cities are as extreme on the liberal side, I take it?
Pro-censorship? I’d like to see something that supports that, other than the now-debunked “book banning” list.
Anti Gay? I thought she supported the extension of benefits to gay couples.
Anti-Choice? OK, there’s the spin! Doesn’t the same semantics mean the opposite is “anti-life?”
Just more lies and spin from the hysterical left. Oh, by the way, I’m glad the article led with “pro-gun.” In rural PA, that is a selling point.
Let’s face it; this rag is preaching to the choir. The hit piece won’t cost one vote he didn’t already didn’t have.
No Noes, Righteousness and Holiness how terrible!
This is “Locationism!”
I welcome the article.
A POS editorial like that every day in every major newspaper will add 20% votes to the McCain-Palin ticket.
No! Before this enlightening piece, I was just sure McCain had the urban Philly vote...
Earlier FR thread on same op-ed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082945/posts
Good analysis of the errors in this op-ed at “This Ain’t Hell”.
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=3184
Author Cathrine McNicol Stock’s email cmsto@conncoll.edu and office 860.439.2816
PS: Stock’s home is located in a town that is 94% withe and 1.3% African American, which according to her own standards makes her a racist.
Democrats are scared to death of Sarah Palin because they know the American people love her. They will do anything they can to discredit her and her family. The problem with the Democrats is that they don’t care who they hurt in the process. I think the American people are done with their tactis, they are tired of the BS and will make some “change”.
Ah, so that's what I'm considered to be by Philly Democrats...
(I kind of like it.)
A good comment on the PINKY website said, “This isn’t guilt by association, it’s guilt by geography.”
http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/stock.html
So many rural radicals, so little time to publish about the dangers they pose.
She looks well seasoned, bless her heart.
Thank God for Bridgeport, Hartford and Stamford or she’d be in a pretty nondiverse state herself, eh?
This is an interesting way to put the State of Washington into play....
Sourced from the DNC’s Philadelphia Inquirer Division I see. What a pant load this one is. If you can’t beat them any other way, just toss in some bigotry and racism. That’ll do the trick.
The Dems are running on empty, no color that desperate.
What an amazing meltdown.
Yes, folks like me
ARE INTOLERANT
of repugnant, repulsive behavior.
Call the Inquirer Newsroom and thank them, 215-854-4141
Palin wasn’t just governor, apparently... She is in charge of the entire Pacific NorthWest! Wow!
This from Philadelphia, where they have actual race riots.
Did you forget Nuevo Haven?
This crone and her writings of the Pacific Northwest are laughable.
Moonbat leftists and ecoterrorists of the liberal left variety greatly outnumber the groups she tried to portray as living here.
The majority of people living here though are America loving average citizens and will support Palin and her values.
I guess this explains why people in rural areas often don’t even bother to lock their doors at night while those in urban areas have to put bars in their windows. < / sarcasm >
Really, just wait until the honneymoon period is over and the MSM stops being so overtly nice and kind to her!
Pro-censorship! Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black!
And "radical"? Gee, I remember the 60's. It was cool to be radical back then. But to the main point: being pro-gun is radical? Being pro-life is radical? Disagreeing with the homosexual "lifestyle" is radical?
This is how far it has come folks. Instead of just pushing it in our faces (which is bad enough), now the left is attempting to marginalize us; to push us out of the "mainstream", and do it in such a blatant manner.
This shows how desperate they are. McCain/Palin MUST be elected.
Well, this rural pro-gun, pro-minimum standards of decency, pro-life, and pro-traditional marriage radical is sold. I’m puttin’ in muh store teeth, firin’ up the pickup, drivin’ down to town ‘n’ votin’ fer McCain/Palin!
They forgot (or purposely left out) the part where she believes in God. I guess she should be exiled for that.
>I think the American people are done with their tactis, they are tired of the BS and will make some “change”.<
What do you mean by “the American people”? Who is included in this phrase? Now remember that 46% of the Americans polled say they support Obama.
ROFLOL! I guess they have never considered that their views are the radical ones? Sorry folks but there are more people in places under 10,000 than there are in cities larger than 500,000 so it is your view that are radical and extreme!
A pro-choice candidate insisting that a community in which she doesn't live must accept her friends, perverts, baby-killers, "progressives", and tax grinders...
That makes total sense...
Brotherly love perhaps, but sisterly hate no doubt.
Smirk...
Ah yes. There’s Pennsylvania, and then there’s Philadelphia, which coincidently lies withing Pennsylvania’s boundaries, but bears nothing else in common with the rest of the state.
This woman is an uninformed idiot, and that’s the worst kind of idiot. The Pacific Northwest is, of course, the location of Seattle and Portland and Eugene, three of the most liberal cities in the country. On the other hand, she might be right about the intolerance - during the 2006 election, EVERY Republican sign in my neighborhood was defaced.
This is great.
The media really is too stupid to realize that they are finally exposing their radical bias in a way that was never exposed before.
Historians will look back at the transformation of the American public, and its awareness of the built-in bias of the media, and say Before Palin and After Palin.
Ok, let’s take this story at its face value.
The media should begin TODAY, looking in the background of Sarah Palin to see how many close (or even distant) friendships she has with radical rural bomb throwers.
At the same time, however, in the interest of ABSOLUTE FAIRNESS, the media should begin TODAY, looking in the background of Barak Obama to see how many close (forget about distant) friendships he has with radical urban bomb throwers.
Gee.... I wonder which search will turn up some actual NAMES???
Yikes! Reading that article gave me a flashback to arguing with sophomore PolySci majors in campus bars.
“Intolerance thrives in Palin’s Pacific Northwest”
More correct: Intolerance thrives AGAINST Palin’s Pacific Northwest
It’s not just the left. There are plenty of these rural bigots right here on FR. You should have been around when we were fighting for property rights, water rights....anyone ‘out west’ were called KKK, and any other insult they could come up with. We see it again over the immigration issue. Anyone who wants illegal immigration stopped is just a racist!! As Lindsey Graham said....’we’ll show the bigots!’
Ignorance is universal, not just among democrats.
You would think before someone like this author runs their mouth, they might check some stats.
Mosher et al., using 1990 Uniform Crime Report data, also found that homicide rates were lowest in cities with populations under 2,500
Murder rates are highest in cities with populations greater than 250,000 and decline for each decreasing city-size category, to a low of 3.0 per 100,000 for cities under 10,000. A similar pattern is seen for robbery, where arrest rates are over six times higher in the largest, as opposed to the smallest, cities.
Bachman analyzed data from the National Crime Victimization Survey for the years 1973 to 1990, and found generally that individuals living in central cities had the highest rates of criminal victimization for all types of crime, while those living in nonmetropolitan (rural) areas had the lowest rates. More specifically, on average, individuals residing in central areas experienced nearly twice as many crimes of violence as those living in nonmetropolitan areas,
http://law.jrank.org/pages/1990/Rural-Crime-Urban-rural-crime-differences.html
She’s talking about you all I guess (LOL).
What a clueless person she is.
It’s an op-ed written by the Chair of the History Department at Connecticut College....and Discount Deli.
It’s an op-ed written by the Chair of the History Department at Connecticut College....and Discount Deli.
Ms McNicol Stock needs to check the obits tomorrow in her creepy little newspaper and check off the the people who were shot to death over night in her enlightened, diverse, and accepting neighborhood.
See post 40
Also...
In general, In California from 1987 to 1996:
Urban areas comprised
about 97 percent of the
population and reported
about 98 percent of the
crime.
Rural areas comprised
about 3 percent of the
population and reported
about 2 percent of the crime.
Clueless is right on the money, Girl.
This woman and those like her in academia are the elitists Dr. Thomas Sowell writes about and rips apart so thoroughly, I love to read his columns on the subject.
http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=182031
The average annual 1993-98 violent crime rate in urban areas was about 74 percent higher than the rural rate and 37 percent higher than the suburban rate. Urban males experienced violent victimizations at rates 64 percent higher than the average combined suburban and rural rate and 47 percent higher than urban females. Although most violent crimes in urban (60 percent), suburban (68 percent), and rural (70 percent) areas were committed without a weapon, firearm usage in the commission of a violent crime was higher in urban areas when compared to suburban or rural areas (12 percent urban versus 9 percent suburban and 8 percent rural).
AuntB, along with you I believe that Democrat spokespersons focus their comments for people who don’t care to look into the details. Democrat support is 1/8th inch deep, and very brittle. If anyone actually thought about what their leaders were saying, the support would begin to splinter.
“AuntB, along with you I believe that Democrat spokespersons focus their comments for people who don’t care to look into the details.”
Well, they’re not stupid. That’s 95% of the voting public. I can’t even get my own kids to listen to the facts, much less them actually go looking for them.
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