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Why the Left Hates Sarah Palin
FrontPage Magazine ^ | January 18, 2011 | Evan Sayet

Posted on 01/18/2011 12:48:43 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

It just happened again.

I spend a fair amount of time at my local coffee shop. I like to do my writing outside and, besides, it gives me an opportunity to try and initiate political conversations with the people who pass by, my hope always being to begin to enlighten them as to what conservative really believe (and not just what the Leftist media tells them.)

Today the conversation turned to Sarah Palin and my new acquaintance blurted out “Oh I hate her.” Not yet knowing my politics, I’m sure that, being her in Los Angeles she expected to hear back what you usually hear back in Los Angeles, “Yeah, I hate her, too.” Instead, I asked her why.

At this point I could have predicted her response because it’s the same response you get from Liberals no matter who on the right you’re talking about, “Because she’s stupid.” I replied: “Being stupid is no reason to hate someone, but tell me, which one of her policies do you disagree with?” I’m sure any Right Thinking person reading this has already guessed her response, “All of them!”

I continued to push. “Well, then, if it’s all of them, it should be easy for you to name one.” Her reply? “They’re too many to list.”

“So don’t list them, just give me one,” I said.

This went on for a while until my new friend finally admitted she didn’t know any of Ms. Palin’s policies. Before she ran off – Democrats always run off when asked to provide facts behind their hatred for Republicans – I looked her in the eye and said, “If you don’t know any of her policies perhaps you should look into them.” She promised she would. She won’t. If there are two things you can count on with Democrats, they are filled with hate and empty of facts.

But it got me to thinking. Given that these people don’t know any of Ms. Palin’s political positions, what is it about her that they hate? It has to be her life story. Now, to all decent people, Ms. Palin’s life story could not be more laudable. She married her high school sweetheart to whom she remains married and apparently still in love. In the harshest of climes, she and Todd started a small business which, apparently, they ran well enough to purchase a home and raise a family. Despite the long hours required to run a family business and raise children, when Ms. Palin saw that the public schools were not doing as well as they might in educating her children, she joined the local PTA and, apparently was so effective in doing so that the people who knew her best – and in small towns like Wasilla there are very few secrets – elected her to be their mayor.

Apparently, Ms. Palin was so effective in that job that the mayors of the other small towns and big cities elected her president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. After a highly successful stint as chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission she ran an uphill battle against an entrenched Republican governor and was elected to the top position, Governor, of the largest state in the nation. She did that job so well that her approval ratings – despite having ruffled the feathers of the leading political family in Alaska – bordered on 80 percent.

As Ms. Palin’s political horizons continued to grow, she found out she was pregnant with her fourth child, a baby with Downs Syndrome. Despite knowing in advance that this child would require even more attention and care than other kids, Ms. Palin opted to give her child – Trig – life.

So, given that those who hate – hate!!! – Ms. Palin know nothing more than these facts about her, what is it about Ms. Palin’s life story that generates this blind loathing? The answer is that, at every turn, Ms. Palin’s story debunks the myths of victimization and self-centeredness that is at the heart of the Modern Liberal ideology.

First, Ms. Palin is married with children. The Democrat Party’s treasured storyline is that women with children – especially those who take care of them themselves – are oppressed, victimized and doomed to a life without personal fulfillment. Ms. Palin’s life proves them wrong and the Democrats hate her for this. If Ms. Palin were a Democrat she would have offed the last child before he was born so that she could have more “me” time to pursue her own wants and pleasures. There is clearly something very “wrong” with this woman who allowed her “special needs” child to live. They hate her for that.

One of the most obvious demographic differences between the Left and the Right is that people without children – those too self-centered and jealous of other’s stealing “their” attention, angry and hate-filled “feminists,” radical homosexuals and school children too young to have started a family are just about guaranteed to pull the lever for anyone with a “D” next to their names. Those married with children are just as assured to pull the lever for someone from the right.

And Sarah Palin ran a small business. Democrats don’t run businesses. In fact, Democrats don’t do anything. If you eliminated from the voting roll everyone who did nothing other than talk – the academic, the newscaster, the actor, the politician – and those who game the system, collecting welfare and years of unemployment benefits and “workman’s compensation” and food stamps, how many people would be left voting Democrat?

Let’s put it this way, if having had a job – having done something that required either physical labor or risking one’s own money if they were wrong – were a prerequisite to work in the White House, Barack Obama would have to fire 94 percent of his top advisors. That’s a real number. 94 percent of Obama’s top advisors have never done anything like run a small store, paint a bridge, wire a house for electricity or anything else other flap their lips.

This is the genesis of the notion that Palin is “stupid.” Liberals are convinced that there’s something “the matter” with people who have jobs. This is what they mean by “What’s The Matter with Kansas,” Kansas being a place where people work – Hollywood, Cambridge Massachusetts, the TV studios in Manhattan are places were people talk. To the Liberal, anyone who has a job must be stupid, after all, not everyone is as good a talker as they are, but surely everyone can find one excuse or another to sit at home and collect welfare.

In fact, to the Modern Liberal, anyone who has a job is not just stupid, he (or she) is dangerous. These people “cling” to their guns and their religion because they toil for their reward. These people are constantly on the verge of violence, whether it’s an attack like the one they caused in Tucson (according to the Leftist script) or just by going home and beating their children. Consider the lyrics of “the working man’s troubadour” Bruce Springsteen:

“Early in the morning/factory whistle blows Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes. Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning line That’s the work, the workin’, that’s the workin’ life.”

“End of the day/Factory whistle cries Man walks through them gates with death in their eyes. And you just better believe, boy, somebody’s gonna get it tonight. (Why?) Cause that’s the work, the workin’ that’s that workin’ life!

Sarah Palin is stupid and dangerous because, well, to those who have made their millions by doing nothing other than talking, that’s the work, the workin’ that’s the workin’ life. Just in case you think that’s just one example of Springsteen’s take on anyone who has a job, consider the horrors of his “daddy” who “worked his whole life, for nothing but the pain.” In this song, “Adam Raised a Cain,” daddy, of course, beats his children, “Now he walks these empty rooms searching for something to blame.” And, in fact, it gets worse because, clearly a child who is beaten is going to continue that cycle of violence and beat his child (“You inherit the sins/you inherit the flames”) so, even to the most sympathetic Leftist like Springsteen, not one, not two but three generations are destroyed all because “daddy” had to go to work.

And they hate Sarah Palin because she joined the PTA and made things better. No, no, that’s not supposed to happen. Schools (read the Teachers Union) needs more money, only more money will solve the problems in the schools. Sarah Palin must be destroyed!

And, finally, they hate Sarah Palin because she was a successful mayor and governor. The Democrat Party narrative is that the American people are too stupid to successfully govern themselves and need Harvard and Yale elitists to dictate to them how they should live their lives. If a graduate of the University of Idaho can successfully run the biggest state in the union then so can a kid who graduated from Texas A & M or even a kid with a degree from Eureka College.

If Democrats disagreed with Ms. Palin on the issues that would be one thing. But they don’t merely “disagree” with her, the hate her and they hate her without caring one whit where she stands on the issues, they hate her because she is living proof that everything about the Democrat Party narrative is a lie and for this reason she cannot be allowed to be liked because if Democrats liked her, they might listen to her policies.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; democrats; elites; elitism; freepressforpalin; gagdadbob; onecosmos; palin; palinoia; pds; sarahpalin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Elect Sarah Palin for President 2012

Re-Elect President Sarah Palin 2016

21 posted on 01/18/2011 3:48:19 AM PST by WVKayaker (Faith makes the discords of the present become the harmonies of the future - Robert Collyer)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

YES! Evan Sayet has put all the reasons for their hatred and vitriol into this essay. His insight and knowledge are priceless. So few have taken the trouble to analyze the madness as he has done here and, I will be sending a link to his article to all my email friends today. This is a MUST read for all.


22 posted on 01/18/2011 4:04:14 AM PST by jazzlite (esat)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Evan Sayet! Do you have any idea how many liberal heads you just caused to explode?!?

Great work!

Rats hate Sarah because they can never BE SARAH...

23 posted on 01/18/2011 4:18:30 AM PST by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great read. Thanks for posting it.


24 posted on 01/18/2011 4:19:45 AM PST by carmody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Excellent article!

“Name one [policy]?” is a great question to ask the knee-jerk haters.


25 posted on 01/18/2011 4:21:38 AM PST by maica
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To: nathanbedford
"..This is why I said that the left hates Sarah Palin not for what she says or how she appears on television but for who she is. The left must react as evil always reacts in the presence of good. Like the second mate, they must persecute Sarah Palin and they do not even know why."

Exactly. bttt

"..Leftists always hate, but imagine that the hate is coming from outside themselves. They are like children. When someone angers them, they think that the someone is as angry as they are. So it's also a kind of narcissism. Think of Skippy Gates -- he assumes that white people hate him just because he hates white people."

Why is There Stupidity?

"..Why is there stupidity? ....Easy: because there is intelligence. Because there is intelligence, there is stupidity in all its varieties, including the intelligent stupidity of Marxism, socialism, deconstruction, existentialism, atheism, metaphysical Darwinism, radical feminism, climate changerism, you name it. Truth is one. Stupidity is legion.

"Obviously, stupidity is a "privative phenomenon." Truth is what is, while error is what is missing, or what is disproportionately overemphasized, or what has no real possibility of ever being there at all. Therefore, while error can and will be present in our approach to truth, as Schuon writes, it cannot be derived from intelligence as such. Rather, since we are relative beings, our intelligence operates amidst other factors -- hopes, fears, dreams, wishes, resentments.

"When intelligence goes astray, it is due either to the passions or the will; indeed, this is why one cannot detach the question of stupidity from that of sin, for sin is a kind of stupidity, while stupidity (as opposed to ignorance) is definitely a kind of sin. More problematically, there is unconscious passion and unconscious willfulness..."

26 posted on 01/18/2011 4:38:33 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
she found out she was pregnant with her fourth child, a baby with Downs Syndrome. Despite knowing in advance that this child would require even more attention and care than other kids, Ms. Palin opted to give her child – Trig – life.

I believe this explains most of the hatred. She infuriates the left because she doesnt just talk the talk on her convictions about life. She walks the walk.

27 posted on 01/18/2011 4:42:51 AM PST by freespirited (Truth is the new hate speech. -- Pamela Geller)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That may be the difference between vapid LA liberals and vapid NY liberals. The NY liberals at least would spew out abortion, shooting wolves from planes and Obamacare. I believe Sayet that the LA model is simply totally clueless.


28 posted on 01/18/2011 4:46:05 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thank Sarah Palin for not only exposing the hatred from the left but also the hatred from the government insider RINOs!


29 posted on 01/18/2011 4:50:40 AM PST by 38special (AK, CA, CO, NV, WA ... WTF?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin got the chance to introduce herself to America in her vice-presidential candidate acceptance speech before the media had prejudiced people against her. Therefore, they had a lot of ground to make up. And they still do. And they’re still trying.


30 posted on 01/18/2011 4:56:25 AM PST by Puzzleman ("Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. " -- Edmund Burke)
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To: sauropod

read


31 posted on 01/18/2011 5:06:10 AM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those who can, do.

Those who can’t, teach.

Those who can’t teach go into politics.


32 posted on 01/18/2011 5:59:30 AM PST by RoadTest (Religion is no substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: 38special

Mathew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

SP is one of those “winnowing forks” that separates the wheat from the chaff.


33 posted on 01/18/2011 6:02:24 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

What you wrote describes the Nazi cult back in 1930s Germany. Hitler wrote and spoke of his hatred of rationality. He spoke that his followers must “think in blood” - emotionally. From this came the “Blut und Boden” cult (Blood and Soil). We are seeing the rebirth of fascism in the democrat party.

It’s obvious to me and my reading of history that two groups of people - one preferring free enterprise and liberty and the other wanting to destroy freedom and enslave the other - cannot and will not live together. This fascist cult must be destroyed. By whatever means necessary.


34 posted on 01/18/2011 6:02:28 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: freespirited

” She infuriates the left because she doesnt just talk the talk on her convictions about life. She walks the walk.’

That’s right. Truth and light in this world arouse the snarls of liars and darkness. She does indeed walk the walk and what gives her such high value is that she verbally articulates it, also. Theory AND practice: what a dynamite combination! Makes Liberals’ heads explode.


35 posted on 01/18/2011 6:05:17 AM PST by RoadTest (Religion is no substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: jazzlite

“YES! Evan Sayet has put all the reasons for their hatred and vitriol into this essay. His insight and knowledge are priceless. So few have taken the trouble to analyze the madness as he has done here and, I will be sending a link to his article to all my email friends today.” ~ jazzlite

You may also want to link them to this hilarious video:

Evan Sayet: Regurgitating the Apple:

On right side of the page click on “watch on line” (video)

The intro for him lasts about 5 minutes so you may use your mouse and slide a “fast forward” to the spot where he comes to the podium.

3/5/07 Regurgitating the Apple http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev030507a.cfm


36 posted on 01/18/2011 6:12:16 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: brytlea; Diana in Wisconsin; Kakaze; Tammy8; unkus; metmom; Cap Huff; svcw; leapfrog0202; Concho; ..

Ping


37 posted on 01/18/2011 6:21:33 AM PST by greyfoxx39 ("Journalists" see no problem with fueling a mass panic over our "political discourse.")
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To: sergeantdave
Yep...and I can't for the life of me figure out how Obama knew how to first bring the media under his control so that they would be willing participants in the establishment of his cult of personality.

I can understand how liberal individuals would fall prey to his incessant campaign to portray himself as a messiah, but how did Obama so easily hypnotize the professional media. Yes, they were already Liberal...but it seems they drank a double dose of the Kool-Aid.

BTW, the shibboleth I rely on to identify those people who are in the Obama cult is something you mentioned about 1930's Germany. Cult members use language in defense of Obama that is full of emotion, character assassination, non sequiturs, and irrational conclusions...and is completely devoid of logic, empiricism, and rational thought.

I have friends and friends of friends who are under his sway and have noticed that they cannot be reasoned with. Whatever techniques of mind control Obama is using, he has a powerful hold over his cult members.

My question is this, "how, where, or from whom did he come by this knowledge and practice of cult development?" Before becoming President, he was an absolute nobody.

38 posted on 01/18/2011 6:41:21 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama's Radical Left: 'People of the Lie')
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To: RoadTest

Or go into journalism.


39 posted on 01/18/2011 6:44:39 AM PST by Stuart Redman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think I can narrow it down some more.

Most libs could "forgive" (or ignore) most of that in other circumstances. Being married with children for instance. Not unheard of among liberals.

The one thing they will never forgive is her not aborting her Down's syndrome child.

40 posted on 01/18/2011 6:49:48 AM PST by Salman
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