Friday, January 30, 2009
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Why Is The Left Afraid Of Sarah Palin?
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Posted by:
John Hawkins at
12:17 PM
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Question: "Why is the Left afraid of Sarah Palin?" -- Dick_Nixon Answer: There are multiple reasons why the left hates Sarah Palin. They despise her for being a "regular Sally" made good -- that's something their politicians pretend to be, but never really are. She didn't go to an Ivy League School. She has an accent -- and it's not a New York accent. She's small town, not big city. She's not rich. She's not a lawyer. She has 5 kids and had a baby with Down's syndrome instead of aborting him. So, much of it is just out and out snotty elitism. But, all those factors are ultimately small potatoes compared to the two main reasons why the left utterly despises and fears Sarah Palin. #1) The left thinks they own everybody who isn't a straight, white male. If you're female, Hispanic, black, Asian, gay -- pretty much anything but a straight, white male -- and you're not liberal -- the left wants to see you destroyed because your very existence explodes the myth that people like you can only succeed through liberalism. In Sarah Palin's case, she is a walking, talking, living refutation of everything the feminist harpies in the Democratic Party tell people. Conservative men, who they claim look down on women, adore her and would love to have her as their President. She's staunchly pro-life. She's not a man-hater who's railing against the patriarchy. In other words, she's the biggest female rock star in politics -- and she's not a liberal; nor is she someone who'd see eye-to-eye with Gloria Steinem, Naomi Wolf, or the nags at NOW on much of anything. #2) Sarah Palin genuinely excites conservatives like no other politician in America today. There's no other Republican pol who even comes close -- and this is very important -- you will only start to see the GOP make a comeback when the base gets fired up about the Republican Party again. When the base is excited, they will chip in money, they will volunteer, they will defend the GOP instead of trashing it -- it's the single most important factor key to turning things around and Sarah Palin is obviously capable of pulling it off. That makes her a dire threat to the left, one that they are desperate to smear and destroy. John Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs Conservative Grapevine, Right Wing News, and Right Wing Video.
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You are 100% correct with both points!
I look forward to see how the Democrats panic in 2012 when Bobby Jindal becomes a household name! |
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Sarah will defintely be a contender in 2012. Join her pac today.
http://sarahpac.com/
As a conservative I can't wait to see the liberals sweating bullets trying to defeat her in the next pres. election.
They did everything in their power to undermine and humiliate her this past election, the achieved the exact opposite of their intended goal.
People are definitely fired up about Sarah, including me. I will work tirelessly to remove BHO from office in 2012.
Palin/Jindal 2012
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people fear her:
Because she reminds people not in the party of George W. Bush in a skirt, whose presidency was not a good thing for the country or the GOP.
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They also fear her because they realize that because of her (and the Republican reaction to her) the GOP has a future. And that future does not look like some old white man.
Wait until they get a hold of Michael Steele as RNC chairman (I hope). |
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...plus as we see the lefty lib d'jour comment, it keeps their focus on BDR mode. |
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I didn't vote for McCain. I voted for Sarah. |
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She's regressive. That's it in nutshell. She stands for rolling back progress. As for the conservative men who go ga-ga for her, ever heard of sex appeal? They think she's got it and they like all the regressive things she has to say.
And she's bad for whales and folks who don't like abuse of power in government officials. But go ahead, live your fantasy.She's good for the RW checkbook. |
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Okay, guys. Good luck with that then.
When you hit rock bottom (at this rate around 2016) be sure to let us libertarians and paleocons know, we might be interested in a rational alternative to Democrats. |
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Sarah is brought to you by the same people who sold the country on George W. You look at the people who take her seriously and just roll your eyes. |
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of Sarah Palin because she has the potential to become another Evangelical Loon Leader. Everybody knows how the last evangelical president nearly ruined our country. The rest of America does not want to become the Taliban-lite and move us back into the stone ages.
Besides she ain't no Reagan, never going to be, get over it.
Jindal '16! |
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...why was the left allowed to be so successful in turning so many conservatives against her!! |
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A sack of hammers is a rational alternative to Democrats. |
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I heard about Sarah Palin before I saw her,but I will be the first to admit when I heard her speak and found out what she stood for I said;all that and hot too!Now do I think if Palin was as aluring as Nancy Pelosi,C. Kennedy or Barney Frank would she be as popular as she is...probably not.Of course Obama drew on his sex appeal from men and women but I guess it's okay because he's a man.Imagine that,being chastised by the left for being titillated! |
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[A sack of hammers is a rational alternative to Democrats.]
Yes, they would be. Now if you could only talk the GOP into nominating them. |
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Question: "Why is the Left afraid of Sarah Palin?" -- Dick_Nixon
Answer: There are multiple reasons why the left hates Sarah Palin.
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First, giving reasons why the Left hates her (whether those reasons are accurate or not I will not address here) is not answering the question of why the Left is afraid of her. Fearing something and hating something are two different things (think of the example of conservatives saying homophobia is inaccurate because they don't fear gays, they just don't like them or what they do).
Second, the reason I fear Sarah Palin is because she had a real chance in 2008 and has a decent shot in the future of getting to the White House because one base of the Republican party really seems to like her. This would be fine if I thought she had the intellectual background and experience to handle the job of President or Vice President, but I don't think she is capable of it at this time. I also vehemently disagree with most of her policy positions. It's sort of the same reason why most conservatives feared Obama becoming President. |
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the left wants people like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh to be the gOP party spokes people because they are polarizing to independents.
The left is not afriad of Palin-they are welcoming her and her ditto head myopic followers with open arms. |
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Doe-eyed Obama who has no idea on how the world outside of his narcicistic bubble works? At least Sarah knows how to change a tire. |
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"We embrace Palin as your candidate of choice for 2012! Go for it!"
Don't speak for this Democrat! I would much rather the Republicans nominate someone that I think can do a good job regardless of my agreeing or disagreeing with their opinoins with regard to policy. It may make for a closer race, but in the end I want competency in the WH. Plus, a lot can happen in 4 years that might make Sarah Palin more likely to win a campaign. As a liberal, my question for you is would you rather have had John McCain win the nomination and WH in 2000 instead of Bush? I know I would. |
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I do not know why, but he is obsessed with her uterus. |
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The big bad Bush is gone now. Take a deep breath, curl up with your innaugural commemorative OBlankie and take a nice nappie.
Yikes, I hope the Rep committee choses a chief with cajones and taste for blood. If we don't start stomping some of these pompus ivy-lawyer windbags there will be nowhere left on the planet for a free man to go.
Except maybe Alaska. Sarah's place might be the last best refuge for those who prefer to earn their living. |
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“The whole ideology of Conservatism is a failed on”
No, conservatism as defined by George Bush, Karl Rove, and their hard core supporters has failed. The conservative movement that asked for caution, proof, reason, and used facts and sound arguments to attempt to define a viable alternative to progressive ideology will survive in some form. Just not in the GOP for the near future. Right now, most of these people have been pushed in the realm of Independents or reside uncomfortably with the Democrats.
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I agree with the two points put forth as to why the left hates Sarah Palin but there is also another reason as well; Sarah Palin’s campaign and political skills. I have read two biographies on Sarah Palin there are:
Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment Upside Down by Kaylene Johnson
Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader by Joe Hilley
Both wrote about how Sarah against all odds always runs against opponents where she is considered the underdog. She has always run a first rate grassroots campaign with diehard supporters and with little money and wins. She has defeated not only Democrats but powerful Republicans as well. In a national election she will bring these skills with her in a run against Obama and unlike the past Sarah Palin now has national name recognition and is fiercely loved by the base of the GOP and she will almost certainly have no problem raising money for her campaign so she is already a leg up from some of her past elections. Both the Democrats and the Republicans in Alaska have told outsiders not to underestimate the campaigning and political killing skills of Sarah Palin. The more someone tells Sarah she cannot do something they more she wants it, is determine to get it, and usually succeeds in doing so. Go and support Sarah at SarahPAC.com.
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"Both the Democrats and the Republicans in Alaska have told outsiders not to underestimate the campaigning and political killing skills of Sarah Palin. The more someone tells Sarah she cannot do something they more she wants it, is determine to get it, and usually succeeds in doing so."
You're absolutely right. For all the things that I don't like about Palin, I have to respect her ability to decide what she wants and skills to usually get it. And this is exactly why I fear her. |
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I wish a lot more in the GOP who jumped ship, lost faith in our Conservative leaders, and voted for the dictator, Obama, which only helped fortify the strength of the rest of the Liberal scum in Washington, would have had more faith and given them more support.
This country is definitely doomed if we, the Conservatives don't hang in there, support our Conservative base, and say "hell no" to any and all of the dictators in Washington. They were voted in, they can be, and MUST BE voted out before they completely destroy America.
It's our country to save, not theirs to ruin, so stand up and be counted, or don't cry about it later when you're expected to salute and say Heil, Obama. |
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Conservative leaders need to be supported, lest they fall victim to the will of the evil, Liberal machine that has become Washington, DC |
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politician if they hit you upside your empty head. |
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I've been reading the comments here and I have a couple of questions.
"Dread" and the other libertarians that I've heard express dislike for Palin seem to do so because of the importance of her faith in her like. Evangelicals support her DESPITE the fact that she rarely mentions "SoCon" issues, because they see someone living the values that they espouse. She is an evangelical and is not shy about her faith. But how has she governed, or even run, on it?
To "Royinoslo" - you write that she is regressive. How? She strongly believes in women's rights, except for abortion. Now, if it is just that she is pro-life, say that. Don't claim she is some neanderthal in a skirt. She also believes in the concept of environmental stewardship, meaning responsible development. If you say there is no such thing, fine. But do not claim she is anti-environment. She does not agree with your path to environmental protection, but that does not mean that she is not pro-environment.
Finally, to those that say she is unintelligent, listen to those, both conservative and liberal, who engaged her during the fall campaign (McCain's policy advisors and people like Lorne Michaels). They all say that she is very intelligent, if inexperienced. Experience will come. Her political skills and instincts are, however, once in a lifetime. |
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"Sarah Palin is a force to be reckoned with"
Very well said and true, its our country to save, not theirs to ruin like they are already doing.
Have no fear, Michael Steele has just been named Chairman of the RNC. Now we WILL take our country back from the commies.
(PS) Ignore Scary O'Hairy, she is not worth the time of day, she is just a sore winner and a very angry person who has nothing better to do than go to conservative websites and stir up trouble. |
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Not all Republicans are conservative, although they pretend to be to get elected.
Sarah Palin is a true conservative (John McCain is not, he's just a Republican) that's why the left fears her. |
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["Dread" and the other libertarians that I've heard express dislike for Palin seem to do so because of the importance of her faith in her like.]
When it comes to my faith, I am a conservative Christian. I don't dislike Gov. Palin for sharing my faith, even if we wouldn't agree on all points of it.
I don't dislike Palin at all personally.
I dislike her politics. I dislike her policies. I dislike what she represents: the status quo for the Republican party. When I call her George Bush in a skirt, that is what I mean.
It is a party that puts victory above principle. That calls itself conservative, but implements an idealistic, naive, progressive foreign policy and believes that American power is without limit and all of our actions are automatically good without question because our founding principles laid out were good.
It is a party that has lied to America. It doesn't believe in small government. It believes in active government turning its might and coercive force toward conservative causes. It only believes in cutting perhaps 1% of a 3 trillion dollar budget, because there are palms to be greased and votes to be bought.
But perhaps worst of all, it is a party that elects personalities above capable administrators and celebrates ideological conformity and a party line rigidity that would make Communists envious.
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Sarah can electrify an audience(remember her speech at the convention?)and has tremendous poise (she was great on Saturday night live) but in interviews she only seems to be really good on a couple of key issues, but seems thin in her breadth and depth of knowledge and her ability to talk in an understandable manner on complex issues. When Jindal talks about complex issues his intelligence and comprehension shine through. |
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I think everyone is crazy about Sarah and by that I mean crazyyyyyyy. I mean Palin is a cool symbol for conservatives but she is so far from presidential material it makes the head spin. As for liberal hatred, they are too focused on symbology, with their hatred of Dick Cheney and Palin to see reality.
The reality is Palin in a smart and tough but hugely naive and inexperienced person. I was critical of Mike Huckabee during the primaries but he has far more maturity. I think conservatives should worry less about what liberals think and focus on bringing in the smartest most assured conservatives around.
Palin may eventually be that person, but she is not that person now. Not by a long shot.
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Palin's government experience pales in comparison to Obama, who essentially has nothing but a record of present votes. |
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hate Palin because she is a decent person and they are envious and jealous, and they know they'll never measure up to her class! |
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What are Palin's views on:
The limits of government?
Individual liberty?
Private property?
The free market?
The Supreme Court?
The Bailouts?
The economic stimulus packages?
The answer is "No One Knows!!"
She displayed an appalling ignorance of all of the things mentioned above. She agreed with McCain and Obama that the economic problems were the result of "greed" particularly the greed of bankers and businessmen! Sorry, but we don't need any more economic illiterates running for president.
If, in the future, she starts to show some dedication to liberty and economic freedom as well as some understanding of free market economics then she may well be worthy of support. She speaks well, is surprisingly quick witted, and has a good sense of humor. She has the basic tools to communicate ideas well. What she needs are ideas worth hearing.
While she remains ignorant liberals have no reason to fear her. She is the ideal candidate for Obama to crush in a landslide. |
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Keep drinking the Kool Aid and keep dreaming you Liberal fool. |
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One thing that has not been addressed here,the common sense factor.People who possess this rare quality when presented with a problem quickly assess their options then act rationally towards a solution with the least amount of loss and the maximum efficiency.Most platoon sergeants,job foremen,small business owners perform these acts of common sense every day.Intellectuals have been screwing this world up since the dawn of man.I don't need some lawyer politician who graduated from the Ivy league to tell me what the definition of is,is or to tell me tire inflation will solve the energy crisis.We need some one like Sarah Palin sitting across the table from our enemies and leading the way to solve America's problems. She Haas a proven record of accomplishment,and BTW did I mention she is hot. |
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Just ask Brad Hanson's ex wife how decent Palin is.
The liberals are not afraid of her. THEY WANT the gop to have another stupid attack and run her, so Obama cruises into his second term on autopilot. Why not run the guy the DNC chair said they could not win agains. Who is he? He's quickly becoming the voice of the GOP.
The libs don't fear palin. they just can't see anyting reeding, good, or worthwhile in her! Quite frankly, many GOP'ers can't either. |
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still jealous of Palin I see. |
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Not every conservative GOP is on board the Palin crash test dummy run. I don 't think she's intelligent at all. I think she's been very lucky, and that's about it. I don't think she can talk policy. I don't think she understands most of what is being told to her. I see her family and gasp, yet she claims that she's the most moral of persons, with a family like mine. Nope. I have a wonderful family. No drugs, no kids having kids, no drugs, no affairs. She can't name newspapers she read, and calls it a gottcha question.
I am one of the one in five (yes, whitey, I have found the source of that stat in several places, it's not just made up), who did not vote for Mc and Cheeswiz. I will stand my ground, and do whatever I can to ensure this woman leaves the national stage quickly. She's already an embarrassment. |
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I have a rule. I don't donate to pac's that are named after people. Expecially folks I don't admire nor care for.
Besides, I'm saving my pennies so I can donate the max to the GOP who challenges her in 10, or the the democrate should she win her primary. It's time for her to find out about family values, and leave the national stage to the folks that can read. |
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And should the GOP have a total stupid attack and nominate the airborne brainless adulter, I'll work tirelessly to get BO a second term!
One in five conservatives voted against her. She did not even carry the 'woman' vote either. Ah shucks. I know you won't understand this next part. Jindal has said he is not interested in 12. He wants to get a second term under his belt, and maybe a third. I guess you might say he's getting... drumroll.. EXPERIENCE. Sarugh might get some too, if she'd stick around AK and govern. |
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Jealous? What does Sarugh have that I don't? I have a lot of that she does not.
I'll start with Brains and work my way up!
I also have hair about the same shade and length. Were about the same size. About the same age. I even wear specks, which I understand is now 'sexy'. I thought they made me see better. Of course, mine are rimless. I did not run out to buy the Japanese made palin glasses. I've never had to had my beauty validated by total strangers in a 'contest'. Oh, my eyes are blue though. I have the only blue eyes in my family. Dang. That must be it then.
Thinking someone is totally not qualified to be MY president, does not translate into jealousy. It just means we don't like her, and refuse to vote for her in any capacity.
Just as Brad Hanson about her moral values.
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and you are the biggest fool whose bullsh!t I have ever read. So you won't give up your ignorant rant about Palin, but you'll work tirelessly to get Obama re-elected eh? You are a joke, and too stupid to know that by the time Obama's first term is up, (thank God) he will have screwed this country up so bad, I'lllay odds that at least half of his liberal, braindead 'worshippers of today' will be jumping ship. And may God forgive you for the dozens of hateful, and slanderous and libelous remarks you have made about Palin and her family, because I sure as hell never will!!!
And know this, you loony tunes fool, your day is coming; neither your husband, your family, nor you are perfect, and when those kids of yours screw up, AND THEY WILL, I hope you remember all the claims you made that "your kids" are perfect, and I hope that those ugly unchristian words will come back to haunt you. You are an evil minded, sad, wicked old witch. |
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Apollo wrote:
"What are Palin's views on:
The limits of government?
Individual liberty?
Private property?
The free market?
The Supreme Court?
The Bailouts?
The economic stimulus packages?"
This is a fair question but it assumes that this question has not been answered. Read the book by Susan Parr called Sarah Palin: Faith, Family, and Country. This book discusses Sarah's views on the following: Abortion, budget & economy, civil rights, corporations, crime, drugs & alcohol, education, energy & oil, environment, famlies & children, foreign policy, free trade, government reform, gun control, health care, homeland security, values, social security,tax reform, technology. This should help you my friend.
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"Both the Democrats and the Republicans in Alaska have told outsiders not to underestimate the campaigning and political killing skills of Sarah Palin. The more someone tells Sarah she cannot do something they more she wants it, is determine to get it, and usually succeeds in doing so."
You're absolutely right. For all the things that I don't like about Palin, I have to respect her ability to decide what she wants and skills to usually get it. And this is exactly why I fear her."
From fellow posters here on this thread.....thank you so much for telling the truth. |
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Don't want one wrote the followig:
When Jindal talks about complex issues his intelligence and comprehension shine through.
Hey I think this guy like Jindal. Look Jindal is doing well in Louisiana but he was a shoe because of how the previous governor ran the state when Katrina hit.I have seen Jindal speak but the man lacks charisma, or a sense of presence. The guy looks like a wimp,a kinda class nerd if you will. I cannot see him beating Palin in 2012. |
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Silver Lion wrote to me:
"From fellow posters here on this thread.....thank you so much for telling the truth."
I appreciate it, I really do. I try to may a difference any way I can.
GO PALIN 2012!!!! |
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Allen Caeden wrote:
"but the man [Jindal] lacks charisma, or a sense of presence. The guy looks like a wimp,a kinda class nerd if you will."
True but his views on the things I wrote about are even fuzzier than Palin's. Jindal is a technocrat of the Herbert Hoover mold, a good adminstrator who knows how do get a job done. However, he is handicapped by a belief that government is almost always the solution.
After about 5 minutes of hearing him speak you know that he was educated by Jesuits who impress upon all their students an authoritarian top-down view of the world. This is consistent with their theological beliefs in a world held together by God's presence and which would disintegrate if left to its own devices.
These beliefs would tend Jindal towards interventionism and make him unlikely to respect individual liberty. I suspect that Jindal believes that people, whose natural tendency is to sin, must be shepherded into the "right" kinds of behavior. Of course that shepherd must use any means, including the force of the state, to control his flock.
We need a Coolidge or a Goldwater but all we get are Roosevelt wannabes like Romney and McCain. |
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"Palin's government experience pales in comparison to Obama"
Nee has finally seen the truth.
Either that or s/he doesn't know what the phrase "pales in comparison to" means. |
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Ah yes...the same old trolls with different names.She makes them say the most amusing things.What power she holds over them. |
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