Heather's reasoning amounts to this, imho, "I hate Palin so much I don't care what happens under Obama. Plus, I think he's wicked smart"
Who is Heather McDonald?
Sarah Palin is THE ONLY REASON that John McCain will not be a 50-state loser this election.
Its not too late to dump McCain and run Sarah as the President. She would win, and we get a potential great President....while liberals and globalist GOPers just dump pantloads next 4 years.
Sad that she has to be tied to this McCain shipwreck...
What is this woman’s problem.
Any woman that “hates Palin” has had an abortion and naturally feels guilty about it. Palin is a living indictment of abortion and those who choose it.
Let me make this point. That is that the so-called conservative intelligentsia such as David Brooks, Heather MacDonald, and the like don’t hate Sarah Palin or think she was a bad pick because she lacks any particular qualifications. But rather they are fearful of her because she personifies average American’s. And it’s average American’s who they have not trust in.
Think about it. What do all these pointy headed conservative commentators have in common. They do not know any average American’s. So where do they learn about the “average American?” In the pages of the liberal newspapers. And what do these liberal newspapers think about average American’s? They have utter and complete contempt for them and constantly paint a distorted caricature of them as radical Christian hicks with a southern draw without any formal education who wants to ban everything the bible doesn’t allow. Which brings me to my main point.
These conservatives are deftly afraid of Sarah Palin because they are deftly afraid of average American’s and think they lack intellectual curiosity. This to them disqualifies them from tackling the issues that confront us, such as terrorism, the financial crisis, etc...
The average elite conservative thinks average American’s are too ill-informed and that they lack the capacity to grasp the complex issues facing America today. Meaning they’ve lost faith in conservatism.
Because the average American without any identifiable ideology is most likely conservative. Whence, carried to it’s logical conclusion means they are plenty informed to confront the issues we are facing today.
The problem with these elite conservatives is they think the problems we are facing today requires a highly educated, intellectual and academically converse mind. But what is really needed is a back to the basics, rock ribbed, Ronald Reagan common sense conservative. The less ties to academia the better.
Never in human history has so many people, of so much intelligence, in so many ways, been so wrong, so often, and still had so much influence as does the intellectual elite. It’s time for average American’s to have a chance at governing. And Sarah Palin personifies average America.
Heather McDonald is a pro-abort. Sarah Palin makes pro-aborts feel as if their heads are about to explode.
Who is Heather McDonald?
Heather McDonald needs to get over herself. Like many highly educated people she doesn't understand the limited utility of academic ability. Nor does she have any idea how misleading academic credentials frequently are.
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That was the most disappointing interview I think I’ve ever heard. I’ve read Heather Macdonald’s work for years and always thought she was a clear-eyed conservative with a razor sharp mind. She was so totally out to lunch on this I couldn’t believe it. That she 1. thinks Obama smart and 2. would condemn the country to marxism over some peeve about Palin’s “inferior” intellect tells me MacDonald is an over-educated fool.
Who is this RINO drip? Sheesh.
PajamaTruth,
Thanks for posting this, Perhaps you could save all the comments to this post, copy it, and send it to MS. MacDonald!
If anyone knows how to obtain her e-mail, i’ll be happy to send our regards to her. I looked at the Manhatten Institute site but could not find her personal e-mail. Perhaps these people don’t want to personally hear from “people like us”.
MacDonald: "Well, uh... I feel that Obama has the capacity to think through issues that, that makes me have confidence that he's going to take on the hard issues of the economy and possibly foreign policy."
Huh? How is this nebulous, convoluted non-answer any better than the comments by Palin that such pseudo-intellectuals criticize? I got lost in a blizzard of words, to quote Charlie Gibson... Was Heather McDonald a Miss Teen South Carolina, by any chance?
I’m very dissapointed with Heather MacDonald, I was impressed with her research/writings. She sounded very unsure, almost like she was drugged in that Laura Ing intv...the girl is having some problems???