What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 02-17-10 | DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

[GOP_Lady]

Her obsession with the politics of grievance puts her at odds with Ronald Reagan.

From the day she turned heads at the 2008 Republican Convention—becoming at once an object of fevered controversy—one truth about Sarah Palin stood clear: She was fortunate in her antagonists.

Those in the media, especially, would stoke a mighty sympathy backlash on her behalf. That resentment would feed nicely into the candidate's role as a voice for the aggrieved: those regular citizens under the heel of the "elites"—that immense, tentacled power whose depredations she has been describing to audiences since her star turn on the McCain ticket.

She showed resilience and not a little backbone throughout, bouncing back after a hapless on-air encounter with CBS's Katie Couric. And after a daunting encounter with ABC's Charles Gibson—a civilized presence and one of the most genial of men ever to occupy a news anchor's chair—now turned into an oaf unable to conceal disdain as he questioned his guest on her capacities for office. That was, to be sure, a pale echo of other spectacles. CNN's Campbell Brown rocketed, nightly, to impressive levels of semi-hysteria on the subject of Mrs. Palin and her incapacities.

[SoCalPol]

Rabinowitz twists alright, she twist herself into a knot trying to make herself look like a caring person as she
bashes Sarah Palin.

Dorothy, a back bencher needs a course of writers 101

[FreeReign]

Liberalism is the problem, not elitism. There’s no room for class envy in the conservative movement.

It isn't "class envy" that's a problem.

It's instead the ascendancy of a class of impostor intellectuals that is.

The author of this article Dorothy Rabinowitz comes to mind.

[jimbo123]

Ronald Reagan on the Intellectual Elite:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964reagan1.html

I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this.

It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, “We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government.”

This idea? that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

[Gene Eric]

>> The syntax is uneven and I can’t figure out exactly what Dorothy’s main beefs are

It’s not that bad if you’re wearing a seat belt.

There’s a recurring theme that’s providing room for criticism and Palin needs to address it.

[reasonisfaith]

Dorothy, she’s not even thinking about you, honey.

(Translation of article: “I’m so smart, I can make Palin look like she’s the opposite of Reagan. Then I’ll be oh so popular at the cocktail parties!”)

[ari-freedom]

Of course I’m against intellectuals who think they can plan everything from Washington.
But we need to push for higher educational standards. We have to support gifted students. We have to say no to a dumbed down popular culture that promotes entertainment over thinking and understanding.

[jimbo123]

I don’t think Sarah Palin would disagree with your concerns about education and popular culture. And I don’t think your concerns could be called intellectual elitism. They’re just common sense.

[Pan_Yan]

... bouncing back after a hapless on-air encounter with CBS's Katie Couric.

I thought her interview with The Perky One was recorded over several days. Doesn't 'on air' mean live?

[jimbo123]

More from Ronald Reagan

http://www.ronaldreagan.com/sp_27.html

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we’re sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, “we the people,” this breed called Americans.

[Grams A]

Snooty 101 is part of the core curriculum in colleges on both the east and west coast.

[Nonstatist]

The wearing of the USA/Isreali flag pin at the TPN must have sent these commie jews into a tailspin.

Dorothy Rabinowitz is not a "commie Jew", ahole. Take your Jew crap over to Stormfront, dipshit.

[allmendream]

Gibson’s interview was a travesty of journalistic malpractice. He short quoted her, taking her entirely out of context to ask her “Is this a Holy War?”. When she denied that the quote was accurate he snapped “your exact words!”. Yes, her words taken out of context. He then CUT her objecting to the accuracy of the quote out of the TV broadcast!

[Cindy]

Are you a Democrat strategist or just a general hate-monger?

Go away.

[cowboyusa]

You are dead on right. When Reagan was Governor he took on thee Socialists elites in California. HE WON TWO LANDSLIDES BY BEING ANTI-ELITIST. The Left in both parties are elitists by nature because that is what Socialism and Democratic Socialism are, thinking that you know better than the middle class bosure.(mispeld that last word,sorry.)