Why the Left Hates Sarah Palin

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.”

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.

For many lib women there is only one issue: abortion. If you are for unrestricted abortion, they will forgive many other positions with which they don’t agree with you . If your are pro-life, they simply will not forgive you. It is probably no understatement to say that the vast majority of women in the media are pro-abortion. They will never give women like Sarah Palin a chance.

The left hates, it’s what they do. My bigger problem is with the establishment GOPers who are their enablers. They are more than content to let the lefts’ hatred grow.

The urban colloquialism for enabler is a "co-signer" and for a century now these Rino co-signers have enabled the libtard and demomcrats to spend us into oblivion. You think TARP would have pass if Bush found the stones to veto it? In fact, I would surmise that the 2006 election which brought the witch pelousy to power would have never happened.

Rinos looking to save their own @$$es and sincures always prefer dealing with demoncraps...and the 2010 elections prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt.

They not only hate her, since the primaries in 2008 they have been stalking her in an attempt to end her both politically and maybe in life as well. INSANE!

Yep, he definitely used NLP techniques in his speeches. But the use of NLP is not uncommon by businesses (in marketing) and ad agencies...yet none have seen the kind of cult building success we see with Obama.

He seems to have taken Milton Erickson's basic NLP principles to a whole new level. Perhaps his Kenyan grannie gave him a voodoo curse to blend into the mix.;-)

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