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Not treated well?

Hmmmm

On December 12, 2008 Sarah Palin’s church was set on fire around its entire perimeter— with women and children inside.

The temperature was 20 below zero has fire fighters worked to control the fire. It destroyed the church— fortunately the women and children were not injured.

This incident has been ignored and had it happened to anyone nearer to the political left— it would be denounced as the Rwandan style political hate crime that it was.

It is essentially still okay in American politics to do this to anyone oriented toward social conservatism.

Palin actually effectively deconstructed the Republican establishment of Alaska in her quest to become and rule as governor in Alaska. That is why she was phenomenally popular in Alaska among Democrats prior to the escalation to VP in summer 2008.

When she gave her electrifying convention speech in August 2008 and the moribund pathetic campaign of McCain seemed doomed to destroy the elite notion of electing a liberal black democrat, the politics of personal destruction went hyperbolic.

Palin’s VP debate with Biden was one of the most watched presidential debates in 50 years of televised debates—drawing more than 70 million voters. Only the Reagan debate surpassed it. Her appearance on SNL that fall was and remains the most watched espisode in the shows history— 17 million viewers.

Palin mocked the President by suggesting that we could drill baby drill our way to lower gas prices and economic strength. The President categorically rejected this argument as foolish and ignorant— in much the same tone that Cooke writes this piece.

Question: Who was correct on that important proposition of US energy policy?

Honestly, this is thoroughly ridiculous. Palin has done more both rhetorically and politically than all of her detractors combined. Its not close.

I personally prefer Cruz over Palin but would be delighted if they teamed up. But the criticisms of her and the hyperbolic demands that she essentially become non-existent are outrageous.

Dislike Palin but stop demanding that she exterminated. It is not unreasonable to characterize Cooke and others as engaging a war on women. It is a call for violence against Palin.

This is not over dramatic victim posing. This is real stuff.

The failure to stand up to this is the essential problem of practical American politics. We are ruled by a join Republican and Democratic elite who will ridicule any of us who dare watch American sniper, oppose gay marriage, or defend the propositions of American exceptionalism.

Cooke— you be forever quiet. Be quiet until you can respect advocates enough to disagree without demanding silence.

If you cannot do that, you do not need to write more political columns.

Great post.

It is ridiculous and irrational.

She has had as much a role as anyone in the gains made by Republicans over the past 5 years.

She had a large hand in helping Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Joni Earnst get elected, for example and quite importantly in helping Scott Walker survive the most viscous and coordinated attacks against any conservative office holder in a long time (with the attacks on Palin being perhaps the exception).

There truly is a Palin derangement syndrome.