But amusing as it is, there's something profoundly disturbing in the level of vituperation they direct at an individual that not a single one of them actually knows, based on three weeks' acquaintance only by media proxy. How on earth can one state "I hate everything about her" when that individual cannot know a single thing about her? These are not primary school children speaking about some new vegetable they've never tried, they're putative and self-appointed paragons of enlightenment propounding nonsense about another human being. Were they actually intelligent enough to be considered intellectuals they'd be embarrassed by it.
It isn't over anything that Sarah Palin actually is, it is an all-consuming hatred of what she represents, and what Sarah Palin represents to these people is the America they despise. I can think of no other explanation for this rabid, reflexive, inchoate hostility. It isn't healthy.
Leftists naturally hate. But an 86% approval rating is hard to beat despite how many lawyers RATS send to Alaska.
She's adored as an American doll. I'm more than on board.
One of the better spectator sports in national politics is to see the heads of the smug, condescending Left exploding at the first contact with a genuine, unashamed American who isn’t afraid of them. Ronald Reagan had that effect. It’s pretty spectacular when it happens and they absolutely cannot help themselves.
But amusing as it is, there’s something profoundly disturbing in the level of vituperation they direct at an individual that not a single one of them actually knows, based on three weeks’ acquaintance only by media proxy. How on earth can one state “I hate everything about her” when that individual cannot know a single thing about her? These are not primary school children speaking about some new vegetable they’ve never tried, they’re putative and self-appointed paragons of enlightenment propounding nonsense about another human being. Were they actually intelligent enough to be considered intellectuals they’d be embarrassed by it.
It isn’t over anything that Sarah Palin actually is, it is an all-consuming hatred of what she represents, and what Sarah Palin represents to these people is the America they despise. I can think of no other explanation for this rabid, reflexive, inchoate hostility. It isn’t healthy.
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I’m not sure how this could be said any better than you did. A few word changes, perhaps, but this is a beautiful three paragraphs.