[Artemis Webb]

Re #31:

Go back as far as you wish on FR and you’ll never ONCE find me saying anything bad about Sarah Palin. My insults (and yes they are insults, I make no bones about that) are aimed at what I deem a Cult of Personality that has grown up around her. When I point this out to people like yourself though they refuse to look in a mirror and question that they might have an obsession. Instead they find it easier to just run off screaming “PDS! PDS!”. It’s so much easier to make this be about a 3rd party, Governor Palin, than it is to address the Cult that some, though not all, on FR have formed around her, is it not?

[JPG]

Thanks so much for your valuable insight. Here I thought the reason I liked Sarah Palin so much was because I admired her as a person and believed that her prescriptions and policies for America will work to turn the country around from its present path toward socialism.

You helpfully pointed out that I've just been suckered by a 'cult of personality.' *sigh*...I guess I'll just have to vote for Obama.

[agere_contra]

Ok, you're not necessarily hating on Palin. I apologize for implying that.

But here's the thing. The posts I've read on FR that most sound like the rhapsodies of an indiscriminate Peronista cult-of-personality surrounding Palin are the ones you've written.

Nobody else writes stuff about how flowers grow where she walks. Just you.

How bad can the cult be if you're the only source of the crazy? You're becoming like one of those false flag protestors at Tea-party events, carrying a racist sign to decry the 'racism you know is there somewhere'.

I think it is a very valuable thing to pierce the bubble of personal cults. But FR isn't becoming a cult. We admire Palin, but only because of her fearless Conservatism. If she loses that, we'd dump her.

[trisham]

Sarah is Scintillating!