August 29th 2008
Dems’ Failin’ Railin’ On Palin
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here are so many negative comments in the left side of the blogosphere about Sarah Palin one hardly knows where to start.
Just look at the front page of Huffington Post. Here are the lead-off headlines:
VETTING PALIN: Andrea Mitchel Says McCain Has Only Met Palin Once… Palin: What Exactly Does The VP Do Everyday?… McCain Spokeswoman: I Have No Idea What McCain’s Relationship Is With Palin…PALIN’S POLITICS: Creationism In Public Schools… Time: Unclear What Her Foreign Policies Are… Says Global Warming Is NOT Man-Made… Said Hillary’s “Whining” Turned Her Off…
And that’s just the top of the page; it gets worse as you scroll down. Let’s break down these headlines: Andrea Mitchell tells us that Palin’s only there out of sheer luck. Next we learn she’s stupid. Then, McCain must have been high when he picked her. She’s a Neanderthal, she can’t possibly be right on foreign policy because we don’t know what her positions are, she’s a Neanderthal, she’s a bimbo.
In other words, we’re seeing the Left’s response to any woman who isn’t a strident, aborting feminist. They love their women that way, but if they’re not cut from that cloth, derision, insult and hatefulness are just fine. Here’s a case in point, from the 5,470 HuffPo comments:
“Fear the Palin bounce.”
“Hahahaha – maybe bouncing on McCain is the only way she got chosen!”
What’s with these feminista Dems not being able to allow that a woman can advance any way but by using sex?
Just about every HuffPo columnist is attacking Palin, and through Palin, McCain, and through McCain, Republicans, so I decided to narrow the field by looking at what one of their female columnists, Linda Bergthold, had to say. She’s not impressed, calling her column, The VP Choice that Cost the Presidency for McCain. (Whoa … is she conceding McCain had a chance?)
Let’s break down her lead, complete with my comments:
I think we will look back at today as the day when the Republicans most certainly lost the Presidency. In choosing Sarah Palin of Alaska for Vice President, the Republicans have made a cynical but clever choice. [As opposed to Obama's Biden choice, which was cynical and desperate.]
At least they think it is clever. She is a woman, young (44 years old), a Governor (only two years) [Obama has only three years as a Senator, most of them spent campaigning, not leading], a mother (five children) [Horrors! What a BREEDER!} , pro-life, and pro-gun.
But what is she not? She is NOT pro-choice. [Bergthold apparently thought that was worth saying twice, apparently unaware that at least 50 percent of America is with Palin on that]. She has NO national experience [and Obama's is what, exactly?]. She has never been under the intense scrutiny of a national campaign [Nor was Obama, until this campaign - how dumb is this broad woman?].
She is under investigation for some incident in Alaska that is messy and personal. [I'll give you George Soros' own link to that story; you weigh it against Ayres and Wright and let me know what you think].
She has no international experience [Nor does Obama, except for one lousy speech in Berlin]. Her experience governing is in a very small state, famous for its “Bridge to Nowhere” kind of political graft. [She killed the bridge, and at least she's run something, unlike Obama. Well wait, he ran an Annenberg Challenge grant, squandering over $100 million and accomplishing nothing.] Her Republican colleague [wrong choice of words, if you check her record] in that state, Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted for corruption [she became governor based on her successful fights against corruption].
If you can find a better example of a visceral reaction coming from surging hate hormones, let me know. Bergthold didn’t even bother to read up on Palin, apparently, or taking a page from Saul Alinsky’s playbook, she just ignored the truth and wove her own narrative.
Boil down the millions of pages of negative comment and seething hatred that have been churned out by the Left since McCain’s announcement and what you have left is the brilliance of McCain’s selection. The Dems can’t attack the GOP vice presidential nominee without attacking their own presidential nominee.
Nowhere is this more evident than the criticism that she’s a token who wouldn’t be where she is were it not for her gender. Does anyone honestly think that a clean, nice looking white guy could have gotten where Obama is if he had nothing more than a paper-thin resume and a nice presentation? Honestly?
Pollyanna is not my secret middle name. I realize that Palin’s got challenges ahead of her and that she could end up being a liability for the ticket – just as Joe Biden could well be.
But Palin wasn’t picked because she’s a woman or a Focus on the Family conservative – or, for that matter, the one with the fattest resume. She was picked to fill a much bigger gap in the McCain ticket. What gap? The Obama Excitement Gap. Obama is where he is today only because he generates larger than life excitement. That is the gap McCain had to fill, and looking about – Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee, Whitman – no one was there to fill it, no one at all except for Alaska’s corruption-bustin’, basketball-coachin’, dog-sleddin’, bear huntin’, oil drillin’, pageant winnin’, baby makin’ governor, Sarah Palin.
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August 29th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
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August 29th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Leftist men’s women platform: you can abort my child, but you can’t have my job. Well, if I could have your job, I wouldn’t need to abort your child.
August 30th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Just remember that the Hussein O campaign has no ethics and very little brains. Ask Hillary ,and if she doesn’t lie, she will tell you how low down the 2000+ ‘Soros’ provided socialist advisors to Hussein are. Maybe they just hate females.