Yes, once again, I have referenced my favorite line (kinda) from Ace Ventura. But who’s looking for Sarah Palin, and consequently, clean shorts, you may ask? The answer: the Left. The other answer: because she absolutely scares the daylights out of the people who hate her.
Day in and day out, you can find some frightened liberal ranting about how stupid she is, how subversively she acts, and how our nation’s imminent doom comes hand in hand with her popularity. Let me set the record straight: I do not favor Sarah Palin as a politician or conservative leader. I think she is rather dull. I think she is under-qualified to be president. I think she is a good person, she’s hot, and I’d love to hunt small animals with her. And every time I hear her assailants launching into another spiteful, awful diatribe against her, I cringe in my seat. Yet I have to bear it, because the diatribes only contribute to the illegitimacy of the speaker – every hateful comment is a self-inflicted wound that drives them deeper into insignificance. But regrettably, this also drives more followers to the Palin political bandwagon.
If only they realized this. If the Left could only control their bitterness, just hide it for two more years. Yet they betray their own creed of being the most intellectually superior and better human beings by being blind to these repercussions. While they smash Palin for being “foolish” (Matt Rothschild, The Progressive), or “having nothing going on mentally” (Chris Matthews, Hardball),” they are in fact promoting her success, and consequently their own failure. But that doesn’t surprise me, because Matthews is a moron. But our own too-cool-for-school Daily Stun writers fall in the same trap, calling Palin’s success a “steaming pile of ****” and saying she “wages war on thoughtfulness.”
Stun writer Cody Gault accuses “pseudo-anti-intellectuals like Harvard-educated Bill O’Reilly and Cornell-educated Ann Coulter” of promoting the “notion that being smart and sophisticated is un-American.” As people like Cody jump at the opportunity to make their articles more venomous and their malevolence more obvious, the line at the Going Rogue book signing gets longer. Calling people simple and dull for liking someone doesn’t bring them to your side. When you insult Palin, you insult her followers, and you push them closer towards her. When has that ever been a strategy to bring people to your cause? Perhaps, gentleman, it’s time to try a different approach to shutting down the Palin power machine?
But Matthews and Gault are too trigger-happy at the prospect of condescension. They are unwilling to exchange their contemptuousness – their scorn – for what they supposedly want: an insignificant and powerless Palin. Wise up, ‘pseudo-anti-intellectuals,’ stop being pinheads.
Ferenc, Sarah Palin has not been in a position of political power for over 6 months. She was on the losing side of a presidential election. All she does now is go on book signing tours and give speeches to conventions. And yet whenever she does speak at a major event, the media pays attention almost exclusively to her. You cannot claim that she is not taken somewhat seriously by the Left. Even if she may not deserve it, clearly what she says carries enough clout to draw a huge amount of media attention.
Ferenc – perhaps you’re the exception. I doubt it though, because of precisely what Ehnonomuss has pointed out. And Matthews is CERTAINLY not the only one to consider her to be a political threat. Matt Rothschild’s article was the closest to being a legitimate examination. He also acknowledges that she is a ‘serious danger and needs to be accounted for.’ There are many stupid stupid people out there with differing policies from yours that the Left could spill their ink on. Yet they choose Palin, because they hate what she stands for, they hate the people that believe in her, and they’re bitter and jealous of her success.
I don’t think excessive criticism or even personal attacks against Sarah Palin could elevate her as a threat against democrats. At least, not beyond punditry. I certainly don’t think that would gain her Renick’s support, and i suspect this to be the case among many republicans…(in the primaries anyway) Renick shows great credibility by not offering the former governor his unconditional support based on partisan allegiance. An apprehension I’d like to see more of from power players in the republican party.
Furthermore, there’s an underlying story I’ve yet seen to be pointed out, which is how little recent politicians have had to do to garnish such strong political momentum. Yes, Sarah Palin, but especially Barack Obama. That isn’t to say that Obama is incapable as commander in chief, but how irrelevant that seemed to be to Harry Reid when suggesting Obama should run, only because he could win based on some racial assets. In that vein, all criticism Sarah Palin recieves, I believe, is better directed toward John McCain.
“Oh come on, no one is bitter and jealous of her “success.” ”
Hm…I’m not sure about that part, Ferenc. Regardless of your opinions of her (and you know that I am definitely not a Palin supporter), it is hard to deny that she has had great successes. She went from hockey mom to local politician, then governor, then VP candidate all within a few short years. That’s pretty impressive.