Sunday, November 29, 2009

Hatin' Palin

As Sarah Palin hits the road to promote her book, there has been a lot of discussion in the press about why she draws such strong negative reactions from some. In RedStateVT’s view the answers are not that difficult and can be summed up as follows:

1) Sarah Palin is a woman and liberals expect any minority (defined as anyone not a white male) to be liberals. When a member of a minority is not liberal, liberals get really annoyed and try to discredit them. The list of apostates is long and includes everyone from Ann Coulter to Carrie Prejean to Condi Rice. (The latter committed the multiple infractions of being a conservative African-American woman who worked for George Bush.)
2) Liberals are particularly snobby about the way that people talk, viewing this as a sign of someone’s innate intelligence. They despised George Bush’s folksy speech and periodic malapropisms. Similarly, they don’t like the way Sarah Palin talks. Hence, both she and Bush are viewed as dumb. By contrast, liberals are agog with the lofty oration of Al Gore and Barack Obama. It doesn’t really matter what they say or whether they are right or not, it’s just that it sounds so much better!
3) And lastly, as is often the case, you hate what you fear the most. If liberals truly thought Palin was an inarticulate, inconsequential lightweight why would they spend so much time obsessing about her?

2 comments:

  1. Another thing that liberals hate/fear about Sarah Palin is that she is a walking testament to the values of the pro-life movement.

    That a 44 year old woman and politician at the top of her game would chose to carry her unwanted pregnancy to term leaves no doubt as to where she stands on the issue. That she was fully aware that the baby had Down's Syndrome is an inspiration to all us pro-lifers (it would have been so easy to secretly end it). The Planned Parenthood crowd is right to fear her.

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