Well, without a doubt liberals seem far more convinced of Palin’s presidential chances than many a conservative, myself included. My, how the poor things fret about Sarah!

But tell you what: if the primaries were TODAY (always a big “if”), Palin would wipe the floor with Romney and Huckabee. And if unemployment is still around 9 to 10 percent come 2012, whoever the Republican is will bounce Obama out of the white house on his scrawny little non-white ass.

Sarah is like a huge 5 car pile up on the freeway. You dont want to look but you do.

Nobody is terrified of Palin unless she wins :( Then its see ya in Mexico baby. I really really want her to run. I do, it would be a blood bath.

Of course Liberals hate Sarah Palin. Her life stands as proof of everything Liberals are against. Here we have a woman that made it on her own unlike Pelosi or Hillary that married for their power. She is a mother that did not abort her children. She is pretty hot looking (again compare with Hillary and Nancy). She fights back on her own instead of relying on community organizations to do her fighting.

Of course the left hates her. SHe doesn’t need them to show a woman can make it in this world on her own.

Posted by Palin_will_lose
2009-11-28 00:08:39

Posted by vune
2009-11-28 08:32:57

Posted by Jack Schite
2009-11-28 09:39:40

Waah, waah, waah. The poor troll babies are all upset.

Im not mad sami.

You just keep telling yourself that.

Posted by Tennwriter
2009-11-28 12:33:03

Ah – Tenn is a satirist. Applause!

Sarah Palin is roughly the same political fire power as Barack Obama was – thus the GOP sent carpetbagger Alan Keyes in to try to stop him because they could see a rising star. They failed.

The left sees the same thing in Palin and is doing everything – no matter how low, lying, or unspeakable – to stop her. They’re failing.

Their fear is palpable.

In a nutshell… libs hate Palin because they scared to death she will do a Ronald Reagan on their worthless butts. The O’ssiah is turning out to be another Carter and the American people are getting tired of his community organizer ass, the lib dems in congress are overstepping their perceived mandate, and finally they see the writing on the wall for another big change in the landscape of American politics and it scares them to death! They now know they are in the minority among the American population and that fear another 15 years in the political wilderness.

Wait until the 2010 election cycle and watch the lib’s head explode.

The disdain expressed for Ms. Palin on the left and substantial portions of the right is little more than a cultural pose. In terms of policy, Ms. Palin is essentially, while largely populist in tone, a pragmatic, small-government conservative. In terms of her record, she seems to have had a fairly successful tenure, breaking a political machine’s control over Alaska’s politics, renegotiating the terms of the state’s oil leases on favorable terms, and successfully negotiating a multinational deal to begin a natural gas pipeline. All in all, what we see is a politician that, while not superman, has every reason to be taken seriously as part of the political process and is certainly not a bogeyman in any meaningful sense.

However, Ms. Palin exudes the image of the petit bourgeoisie, of the Wal-Mart. A significant portion of the population (highly correlated with those holding liberal views, but nevertheless also including many conservatives) has invested themselves as belonging to a class that views itself as intellectually and socially superior to this class. Now, there is very little evidence to support this presumption of intellectual and cultural superiority. Many are little more than intellectual mediocrities and second-rate pseudo-sophisticates. But, the actual truth or falsehood of the presumption is of less importance than its belief. Its adherents have to view themselves as superior to the petit bourgeois other, lest they view themselves as failures by their own standards.

As a result, it is necessary for the members of this class to express disdain and contempt for Ms. Palin. To entertain the possibility that she may be intelligent or be capable of succeeding in the national political sphere is a threat to their very worldview and sense of self. Hence we’re treated to portrayals of her as a nascent theocrat, even though she’s largely distanced her traditionalist outlook from the act of governance. We told about her “stunning ignorance”, even when her gaffes are dwarfed by her supposedly educated and sophisticated competitors. We’re told that she’s completely unqualified for national office, even when people less qualified are praised as outsiders.

Nobody is terrified of Palin…

Posted by Palin_will_lose
2009-11-28 00:08:39

No, you’re just obessed over her. Which is rather odd, because I doubt you know much more about her specific stands on issue than I do: which, really, isn’t much.

All in all, what we see is a politician that, while not superman, has every reason to be taken seriously as part of the political process and is certainly not a bogeyman in any meaningful sense.

Exactly.

I t beats me why the liberals feel the urge do denigrate and demonize her so much, really. She governed as a moderate. She never addressed illegal immigration straight up, and I suspect she’s for legalizing those already here. Nothing she has ever said about anything makes her out to be a firebreathing hardocre religious rightist, even if the lefts loves to point to her comments that we should pray that our troops are on a mission from God (an echo of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, that stated we should hope that we are on God’s side).

Again, what leaves me a little puzzled is how outright and severe the Left’s hate & obession with her is. I can only assume that they look at her and see someone that stands a very, very serious chance of winning the WH one day.

And in case anyone is wondering if she indeed would like to be President, I would suggest her book tour looks an AWFUL LOT like a campaign tour.

Posted by CoolCzech
2009-11-30 10:03:27

Again, what leaves me a little puzzled is how outright and severe the Left’s hate & obession with her is.

As I suggested, it’s really not that puzzling. People are generally viscerally hostile to those who threaten their sense of themselves and their worth. Much moreso than with people they simply have a disageement with on an intellectual level. And liberals largely buy into the portion of the culture that define themselves as unusually intelligent and sophisticated. They generally use the petit bourgeiosie, or lower middle class, as the baseline for their presumption of superiority. Ms. Palin very directly reflects the sensibilities and worldview of the petit bourgeiosie. As a result, they have to both believe that she is intellectually and culturally inferior and see that cultural and intellectual inferior defeated, or the basis for their worldview is undermined.