East Coast/West Coast support of abortion and the gay lifestyle infuriates. For some time now there's also been downright hatred -- I use the word in its fullest sense -- of a war the country is fighting, and of the president who allegedly "lied" us into it. Read the comments on the leftwing blogs -- the Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, etc. How do you like, "It's time to hit McCain hard for picking the brainless Sarah Palin"? Or, "I don't know why I expected grace from a woman who hunts moose."
The bitterness and clangor that fuel the anti-Palinists -- however elite they are or aren't -- creates the urge for pushback. For remonstrance. For showing the so-and-sos a thing or two.
None of which, to the "so-and-sos" in question, seems rational. Tough. In the stars it is written that people, pushed too far and too hard, assuming they have gumption, will turn away the cheek they have so long turned, and start looking for cheeks they themselves can slap a little.
A less arrogant class than the elites of the left might have seen the Revenge of Sarah coming. They might, correspondingly, have modified their tone of contempt for the differently minded and otherwise motivated. They didn't, though. They dinged the commander-in-chief whenever possible; they blocked the confirmation of conservative judges; they talked as though Roe vs. Wade had been carried to the earth on smoking tablets from Olympus; they argued against never-before-challenged moral norms like the reservation of marriage for people of different sexes.
And so on. The result? Sarah Palin for vice president -- among related results we may see this year and, depending on the elections, beyond. For restoration of the once-"normal" conditions of American life, we can't look yet -- certainly not on the basis of one presidential election. But you get the idea, maybe.