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| Liverals vs. Sarah Palin: why they hate her |
| 2009-07-02 |
| Jim Geraghty, "The Campaign Spot" @ National Review ...the seeming happiness of Palin's life is a 24-7 irritant because it challenges the way some liberals see the world. Liberals believe their ideas, philosophy, worldview and policies liberate its believers and contend the conservative equivalents limit people. Liberals see themselves are rejecting outdated beliefs and obsolete ideas, overturning established orders and discarding traditions established by superstitious and ignorant forebears who weren't as enlightened as we are. Conservatives, in their minds, are runaway cultural super-egos, always wagging their fingers about individual responsibility, dismissing excuses, reminding people that they always can't do what they want because of the consequences to themselves and to others. Conservatism, they suspect, will leave you in a marriage that doesn't satisfy you, burden you with children you don't want, repress your passions and trap you in a empty, boring and unfulfilled life, with no hand of government able to help. Today almost everyone faces some sort of challenge in balancing work and family; I don't know too many people who believe there are sufficient hours in a day. And then along comes this woman who's made all of these "conservative" choices and now has an amazing career, a supportive husband, a beautiful family, great health and appearance, and she bears it all, including the inevitable hard times, with pluck and a smile, as far as we can tell. (For all we know, perhaps behind closed doors, Sarah Palin screams into a pillow when it all gets to be too much. But what we know about her suggests she relieves her stress by shooting moose.) A short while back, Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum suggested, only half-jokingly, that actress Angelina Jolie's "entire Oscar-winning, serial-adopting, Brad Pitt-snagging, plane-piloting, unattainably hot-looking existence makes women around the world feel hopelessly inadequate and therefore unhappy." Perhaps Sarah Palin is the Angelina Jolie of the political world. In her opponents' minds, Palin's made all the wrong choices, and cannot, they insist, be very bright. Yet she's happy and successful. She is an anomaly that invalidates their worldview, and for that, they attempt to immiserate her — regardless of whether she wishes to run for national office again. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 of course clog wearing ugly lib chicks hate her...she was the popular bubbly hot chick in high school that could play sports well and every guy would want to take to prom and home to meet mom. Libs always claim conservatives as shallow I only see the opposite. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2009-07-02 22:59 |
| #3 Do not forget - ever - the role of anti-Christian bigotry in PDS. It is a huge chunk of the dynamic there. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2009-07-02 20:36 |
| #2 Conservatism will leave you in a marriage that doesn't satisfy you, burden you with children you don't want, repress your passions and trap you in a empty, boring and unfulfilled life, with no hand of government able to help. Well, the only managed to get ONE point about conservatives right! |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-07-02 18:39 |
| #1 "...always wagging their fingers about individual responsibility, dismissing excuses, reminding people that they always can't do what they want because of the consequences to themselves and to others." Damn!! If this doesn't sound like a liberal I don't know what does. They are the ultimate Nannies. Don't eat meat, don't drive, don't make money (unless you give it to them). This is the sh** that makes me want to "water" the tree of Liberty. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-07-02 16:05 |