The Sarah Palin Thing
By HHR | December 8th, 2009 | Category: Featured, General, HHR Contributors | 15 comments
By Joseph C. Phillips:
If indeed former Alaska Governor and Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is the joke the new left claims her to be, one wonders why they don’t simply ignore her. On the contrary, they devote an unusual amount of energy into making her the butt of their jokes and seeking every opportunity to discredit her and cover her with political dirt. The Associated Press for example assigned 11 reporters to fact-check her new book “Going Rogue.” The AP assigned exactly 2 reporters to read through the more than 4 thousand pages of the Obama healthcare bills. So much attention seems to belie the New Lefts claims that Palin is a light-weight– not worthy of our respect or attention.
Such a focus of energies seems a tacit acknowledgement that Palin and the principles she represents are a force to be reckoned with.
The primary knock against Palin is that she is dumb, or what is more politely called an anti-intellectual. Of course, the new liberal narrative views all conservatives as not only evil, but downright stupid – not ill informed or teachable, but simply intellectually inferior. From Carter to Obama the new left has consistently claimed a superior intellect.
I can’t help but smile when I recall a conversation I had with a professional friend during the early part of last year’s presidential campaign. She was excited about her opportunity to meet then candidate Barack Obama. “What do you like about the candidate?” I queried. “He is brilliant,” she responded. “He understands the issues so clearly.” Fair enough. But would she, I wondered, be as excited if the candidate were a Republican? “Suppose you were preparing to meet candidate Condoleezza Rice?” I asked. There was a pause and then she responded, “Well, she is very bright.”
‘Nuff said.
Brilliant liberals and “bright” conservatives is the window through which leftists view the world because their vision of America is one that relies on appeals to authority and claims of moral and intellectual superiority. The administrative state posits that the cure for a world teeming with poverty and injustice is within our grasp. There exists a community of anointed intellectuals, trained in our finest universities that can solve all of society’s ills and bring our lives into moral order if only they had the power; if only the rest of us would conduct our lives as they wish.
Witness Democratic Party leader Howard Dean recently standing before a group of French journalists extolling the virtues of this president. According to Dean the battle between socialism and capitalism has been settled. (I will give you 3 guesses which side he believes won.) It is Dean’s belief that our current President and the party he represents understands that American benevolence demands socialist policy. The question therefore is no longer whether or not we will have socialism, but how much socialism we will have. Dean is proud of the Democrat party for its political clarity.
The problem for Dean and the rest of the new left is that Americans tend to have an independent streak that leads them to largely reject the idea of a centralized intelligentsia deciding how best they should live their lives. Palin represents the American individualist that says, “I know what is best for my family and what is in agreement with my faith. I would rather do things my way.” The administrative state is incompatible with such independence and can only thrive by stamping it out.
Palin and those that root for her may not have graduated from Harvard, but they are smart enough to know that Howard Dean is wrong and Ronald Reagan was correct when he said the question was one of moving “Up to man’s age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.” We are indeed bright enough to know that just as there was no moral good in slavery, there is nothing benevolent about socialism. The barbed wire around socialist utopias is there to keep people in – to force them (in the name of liberty) to do what the intellectuals say to do.
It is not Palin’s grit, her good looks or her “you betcha” small town persona that drives the new left to distraction. Rather it is her elementary ability to recognize the danger in putting too much trust in the smart guys– especially when their solutions require that we place our liberties at their disposal. “Palinism” is not a rejection of intellect; it is however, to say in no uncertain terms that some of us regular folk might just know a bit more about how to run our lives and this country than a room filled with Ivy educated czars.
Joseph C. Phillips is the author of “He Talk Like a White Boy” available where ever books are sold.
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blah blah blah…..”she may be an idiot, but she’s our idiot!”……JCP
blah blah blah “he’s a rainman but he’s our rainman” …………………..AMERICA
The best thing for the Republican Party is 4 years of Obamunism….. keep it up……. doin a great job…………………….
My sources: …”Geo Will, the longtime Washington scribe becomes the latest in a list of respected conservative figures who soured on the Palin pick. Kathleen Parker of the National Review penned a column calling on the Alaska Governor to be dropped from the ticket. New York Time’s columnist David Brooks and former Bush speechwriter David Frum have also expressed their doubts about Palin’s capacity for the vice presidential post.
Will said, …Palin is “obviously not qualified to be President,” he remarked, describing her interview on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric as a “disaster.”
George Will is as straight laced as Conservatives can be.
from Peggy Noonan: …”In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn’t say what she read because she didn’t read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn’t thoughtful enough to know she wasn’t thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. “I’m not wired that way,” “I’m not a quitter,” “I’m standing up for our values.” I’m, I’m, I’m.
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.”…
kurtz > I had to continue to the following, its incisive:
…..Palin has now stepped down, but she continues to poll high among some members of the Republican base, some of whom have taken to telling themselves Palin myths…. “She makes the Republican Party look inclusive.” She makes the party look stupid, a party of the easily manipulated. (printed in WSJ 7/10/09)
The problem with the Republican Party is that all sensible voices within the GOP are silenced by the crazy religious zealots and greedy corporate concerns that own the souls of their candidates. (some Dems too!)
to Defend her brands Y’all as part of the, how did she put it, …”EASILY MANIPULATED”
Oh and lest you forget: ¡scoreboard!
The crazy voices within the Republican party said “Obama is a Socialist. snikkker…..snikker…giggle…..ggiiiggle… everyone says ” you must be kidding me” quote from retarded running mate……. Mr. whhhhhhoooaaaaa said a few days ago…..” What degree of socialism is the question not if it has arrived or not… I say yes they were crazy to under estimate a No experience collegiate never ran anything but the light bill ….UP…. HE IS A COMMUNIST wait for unemployment to hit 30%…. wait it’s at that in the black community. Sorry I was wrong……………………… FIX IT
I guess the crazies in the Rep party are always wrong guns and God and alll …….You right………. See you in 2010
….You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. (¿Delusion?)That’s the signpost up ahead— your next stop, the Twilight Zone!….whew!
It takes imagination,
Who’da thunk it 11 months ago when Obama christ rose from Chicago and graced us with his presence.
LOL
There is a lot of mileage to gotten out of the joke, especially when her name happens to be Sarah Palin. One can look at her record as Governor which would be a barometer of a Sarah Palin administration. Unlike Ronald Reagan, at least her tenure would not revolve around 3 x 5 index cards and an entourage of handlers. Truth be told the Republican party is “Desperately Seeking Sarah”. Her daughter’s boyfriend has given the public some insights into the woman behind the mask. She ain’t no Margaret Thatcher.
RNC found its poster child. It’s not Sarah or McCain or Bobby.
IT OBAMA.
Nothing like an extremist socialist ideologue to galvanize the conservative base,
And when I say conservative I mean Right of OMABA which is about 90% of the US population
You all know there is no difference between the Republicrats and Democrats . Republican politicians take note get back to conservative values . If they can get us to think there is a difference and argue with each other they can all continue to run the country into the ground . Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned . We’re mad as hell and we aint gonna take it no mo . Sarah Palin will say what we are all thinking that is why she has such a huge following . She actually has conservative values . Will wonders ever cease ? I guess that folksy down home behavior is like finger nails on a black board to those sophisticated , Ivy League , liberals . These dullards are so far removed from what every day life is for most of us . How could they comprehend the magnificent Sarah ? She is so far ahead of them they can’t see their way out of her dust . Liberals have no answers or intellect . We need more like her to save the GOP and the country which is plunging head long into a Marxist state . God Bless America and God save Queen Sarah .
Edie D said: ….I guess that folksy down home behavior is like finger nails on a black board to those sophisticated , Ivy League , liberals . These dullards are so far removed from what every day life is for most of us . How could they comprehend the magnificent Sarah ? She is so far ahead of them they can’t see their way out of her dust . Liberals have no answers or intellect ….
I served up as my Sources: George Will, Kathleen Parker, David Frum, Senator Chuck Hagel, former Senator Lincoln Chafee, Charles Krauthammer, Peggy Noonan. . .Hardly a “wild eyed” Pinko in the bunch I’d say!
Like I advised baby-girl Letee, if’n you wanna Adore Scarah as an Evangelical NutJob, Shining Star-Celebrity of the Right Wing that’s your perogitive, but to DELUDE yourself into the Fantasy of her as POTUS is ABSURD at the very LEAST!
Who else should be added to this list?
DUMB as a rock, see you in 2010………………………. Well spoken good speech giver………………. See you in 2010…………..
Say, when do you think the Repuke Party will run a person of color for POTUS? Maybe, ohhhh – Bobby (…”take ‘er down”) Jindal?… ballpark it, just to amuse yerslf…..LOL
2012….. when will the dumocrats run a black man? Now don’t tell me you have anything in common with the half white, half wit
maybe American in office right now.
” Person of color” when did you grow up 1950?
Obama got a chance because Rice and Powell opened the doors but don’t tell me let me guess they were sell outs and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _?
I guess you feel good about 35% unemployment how will you feel when it hits 50% gonna blame Bush? Get on line for the free cheese !