I discussed with a friend last night the WHY of Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome, here is what we came up with:
1. After the RNC Speech they were scared shiftless that she was able to “Energize the base” 1000X as much as their toadie Juan McCain, and this became a threat and thus became their “public enemy #1”.
2. She doesn’t prescribe to the their ideal of “Institutional Liberal Feminism” and thus is seen as a “Heretic” in the eyes of the “Religion of the 60’s radical Feminist”.
3. She is seen as a threat to the “Pro-Choice” movement, specifically the “Pro-Abortion” Radicals who inhabit that organization because of her willingness to actually have the audacity to give birth and care for a child who has Downs Syndrome instead of just aborting it like the genetic councilors ie. eugenicists prescribe.
4. The Love/Hate paradigm. Before Sarah Palin was nominated for VP she was a bit of a Hero in the minds on some of the left, but for all the wrong reasons. They Loved her for taking on the “Good Ol’ Boys Network” in Alaska performing a good olde fashioned house cleaning and dealing with the political corruption surrounding the oil companies who had bought off the RINOs in Alaska. She was actually doing these things because it “Was the right thing to do” and because it was the Conservative thing to do. The lefties thought she was doing it out of “Social Justice” because it involved punishing Republicans ie. (RINOS), but it was just Plain(Palin) Justice. When she accepted the VP nomination, those on the left who liked her saw it as a complete betrayal and when they realized what her true conservative ideals were, they went from Love straight to Hate and Loathing because they were ashamed they “loved her before they hated her”.
Those are my theories on why Palin Derangement Syndrome exists.
I agree with the list, especially the one dealing with rooting out corruption, even within her own party. She sealed her fate with RINO’s, others who have corruption in their closets. I am sure many were scared that if she got to Washington, some dirty laundry would be aired.
Most people who are pro-Life they can blow off, saying "Well, if you were in that position you would probably do something different than what you say" but they can't say that about her. She has proven she means it.
When she had that baby at the convention, and carried him around on the stage, facing out so everyone could see him plainly, as if to say, "See, here he is, he's a baby, a human being!" I think it was an unforgivable affront.
She and her family prove the lies: it really is a baby; you can have a less-than "perfect" (according to most in our society) baby and still have a life, a career, and success; an individual with a handicap or disability is still a person, still has worth, and is not "better off dead."
She puts the lie to almost everything that has ever been said about abortion, and they can't stand it.
Your other points are valid as well, but I think this is the one that gets them in the gut.
5. The liberals also took careful note of #1 and quickly understood the potential of Sarah. Looking at the sabotage from within and without the McCain campaign (reference Going Rogue), the RATs put out the marching orders early.
You forgot to mention that she is very beautiful and very intelligent.