Posted on 07/05/2009 3:01:37 AM PDT by Scanian
The accomplished Alaskan governor can gaze into the face of tiny Trig and inherently know that she still has much to learn, even from her little guy. Meanwhile, her less accomplished critics gaze mostly into TV cameras (and mirrors) and have convinced themselves that they already know it all.
Well gosh darn. Who is right?
Palin v. the pundits demonstrates a profound disconnect that explains not only how and why the pundit class remains so incapable of understanding her (and much of America), it is a decent microcosm of the bigger political debate going on in this country.
To the Beltway-Big Apple pundit elites, the idea that anyone would (or could, or should) live a life not centered on the government-Ivy League-media capital corridor is simply an idea that is not on their radar. That Palin did not have such a life, and was not interested in such a life, was by definition a disqualification in their minds. That she was not willing to do anything to curry their favor was simply not forgiveable. The only possible reason was that she must be too stupid to realize that all wisdom worth having is contained within this rather closed circle of geographies, people and philosophies.
After all, what good is being able to hunt and prepare your own food when any decent speed dial will get you the Maitre'D at the Four Seasons? Why learn to run a business and turn a profit when real wisdom is running a deficit and taxing those who turn a profit to make up the difference? I mean, there is widsom and then there is wisdom. There is Washington -- and then there is the real world.
Thus, just as they were last August, the D.C.-focused pundits remain totally incapable of properly analyzing
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
still another.
One of the better articles on Palin
Excellent article.
FANTASTIC article - make sure to read the whole thing.
This part is great - “Some folks just don’t get this kind of thinking. If you can get Tony Rezko to buy the yard of your house, you don’t have to think this way. If you inherited the Kennedy liquor zillions, you don’t have to think this way. If you married a widow sitting on top of a business fortune of a Republican senator, you don’t have to think this way. If you can simply call up some Ivy League connection and get a cushy government job with seven figure bonsues regardless of performance, you don’t have to think this way.
The Palins have to think this way. My family has to think this way. Yours probably does too. That’s why the the beltway pundits and other Washingtonians will never understand the Palins or most of us.
And the battle is this. Our way of thinking made the country what it is. Their way of thinking will destroy it. The Palin V. Pundit contest is but one battle on a huge stage in a vital war.”
They DO get it and they DON'T care, Big Medi, Elite Liberals look down their snobbery noses at all of us bible-thumping, feedom-loving, military-loving rednecks and hillbillies.
Sarah only needs to Speak to the People!!
To Hell with Big Media, State-TV!
I can’t wait ‘til she goes on the circuit to oppose Cap and Trade. She will obliterate proponents to such an extent that pols will change their votes.
I just can’t wait.
“Some folks just don’t get this kind of thinking. If you can get Tony Rezko to buy the yard of your house, you don’t have to think this way. If you inherited the Kennedy liquor zillions, you don’t have to think this way. If you married a widow sitting on top of a business fortune of a Republican senator, you don’t have to think this way. If you can simply call up some Ivy League connection and get a cushy government job with seven figure bonsues regardless of performance, you don’t have to think this way.
The Palins have to think this way. My family has to think this way. Yours probably does too. That’s why the the beltway pundits and other Washingtonians will never understand the Palins or most of us.
Perfectly illustrates the main disconnect between DC pols and the rest of us.
I just can't WAIT for her to begin the speaking circuit on behalf of America.
And that's why she has such broad grassroots appeal. She's a Washington outsider who doesn't seem to have any aspirations to live like the sharks in D.C. do.
Do you, ever in your wildest dreams, ever imagine Pelosi making chili cheese dogs in her own kitchen, while talking to Greta?
Hits the nail right on the head, doesn’t it. Glad you enjoyed the post.
I have liked AT for some time now. Good common sense bunch of folks.
The pundits can go pound sand in all their irrelevance. All they’ve served to prove is that they are every bit the enemy of this nation as the democrat party is.
~~PING!
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