Why the Left Hates Sarah Palin
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I'm so fascinated with the Left's/media's hatred for Sarah Palin, and Evan Sayet's article from frontpagemag.com sums it up perfectly.
Closing paragraph:
If Democrats disagreed with Ms. Palin on the issues that would be one thing. But they don’t merely “disagree” with her, they hate her and they hate her without caring one whit about where she stands on the issues. They hate her because she is living proof that everything about the Democratic Party narrative is a lie and for this reason she cannot be allowed to be liked — because if Democrats liked her, they might actually listen to her policies.
Article found here.
I'm so fascinated with the Left's/media's hatred for Sarah Palin, and Evan Sayet's article from frontpagemag.com sums it up perfectly.
Closing paragraph:
If Democrats disagreed with Ms. Palin on the issues that would be one thing. But they don’t merely “disagree” with her, they hate her and they hate her without caring one whit about where she stands on the issues. They hate her because she is living proof that everything about the Democratic Party narrative is a lie and for this reason she cannot be allowed to be liked — because if Democrats liked her, they might actually listen to her policies.
Article found here.
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Date: 2011-01-20 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 05:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 03:25 am (UTC)I find her…difficult to listen to because of her speech problems. It's like reading an essay in messy English, I get the point but I have to interpret what they think.
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Date: 2011-01-20 04:55 am (UTC)You're joking, right?
Speech problems?!
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Date: 2011-01-20 05:26 am (UTC)I shouldn't really call it that but rather…I have difficulty listening to her. Not an arrogant man she sucks but an honest to god difficulty. I also have hearing difficulty so…that could be a part of it
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Date: 2011-01-20 03:41 am (UTC)I think modern-day Liberals hate the idea of successful women with Conservative beliefs. She's got a hot husband, a loving family, a successful career, and she is pretty good-looking herself. For them, having all of these things defies logic.
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Date: 2011-01-20 05:51 am (UTC)It's true, the Left places professional success above family, so the fact that she has both drives them nuts.
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Date: 2011-01-20 05:05 am (UTC)But, yeah, she's a conservative woman, which, to the Left, means sub-human? I can't think of anything else. Although, maybe, it's her beauty? And that double standard of "beautiful people can't be taken seriously?" Hmm...
And waves. Hope you have fun, as I, too, have been trying to analyze the Left's contempt. Passion you usually see for Hitler or Pol Pot, but her? Geez. What to make your priorities, Lefties.
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Date: 2011-01-20 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 06:00 am (UTC)Since you like Palin, this may interest you, as I do run a Palin comm, and stuff:
http://community.livejournal.com/palin2012/
But, at the same time, isn't that rather shallow? Heh. I thought we were supposed to be deep? And what about the self-esteem movement? The Left calling her the next Hitler is certainly lowers hers (and mine).
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Date: 2011-01-20 05:12 am (UTC)What's even funnier are the comments! I've gone down the page and so many are one variation or another of, "She's so stupid!" Not a single word about any of her policy ideas, or even examples of what she's said that they consider to be stupid. I love it!
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Date: 2011-01-20 05:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 05:13 am (UTC)This should interest you, as most of the hate is from liberal women, cited by the WSJ article. Remind me never to date one.
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Date: 2011-01-20 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-01-20 08:42 am (UTC)I don't ever read Jezebel, I wouldn't have known about this article if it hadn't been linked by Michelle Malkin (another hot, successful conservative that scares people).
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Date: 2011-01-22 05:32 pm (UTC)Is it bad that I want to believe this person either didn't get to be homecoming queen or didn't get to date the homecoming queen?
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Date: 2011-01-20 12:47 pm (UTC)- I find it annoying that when Obama-the-candidate was repeatedly roasted for having little experience in government, McCain was later forced to take an inexperienced-in-government person as his running mate, and Palin was then automatically hailed (and is still hailed) as an excellent choice even though the campaign itself didn't want her.
- coldblossom above (http://community.livejournal.com/therightfangirl/1375906.html?thread=15090594#t15090594) said that they think "Liberals hate the idea of successful women with Conservative beliefs". Which is fine to think, I guess, but I also think is incorrect. But anywho, my point here is that sexism against liberals in this own community (http://community.livejournal.com/therightfangirl/1363528.html?thread=14964040#t14964040) isn't called out at all.
- Next car on the hypocrisy train: liberals are said to treat Obama like the next coming of Jesus, but if you look at really liberal places on the web like Metafilter you'll find he gets crucified regularly. And not even for far-left liberals calling Obama on not doing far-left liberal things, it's realizing Obama is a centrist and is instead slipping to the right with actions like upping the bombing in Pakistan and letting the TSA have these pornoscanners. But the same people who supposedly deify Obama then turn around and do the same thing to Palin, and refute any valid or otherwise criticism of her with a bug "NUH UH!"
- Heading back to my first thing about experience: she resigned her governorship. She could have easily finished it off. She had no reason not to, if she were going to continue with a political career. It would have forced people to respect her just that little bit more. But she quit. Because of... legal problems she was already taking care of? To then... ghostwrite a book? And get paid thousands of dollars to speak? And have a reality TV show? She's making a lot of money off this stuff, so at the very least her motives in retrospect seem more self-serving than noble. She could have done anything. Spoke more often with more focus on charity, made appearances at soup kitchens or whatever. You know, conservative values. It just looks bad, to me.
So there you go, some long-winded free-thought blork on Sarah Palin. I don't hate her, far from it. I'm just confused at her continued popularity and wish people would stop taking her so seriously. Like Jason Bieber.
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Date: 2011-01-20 03:25 pm (UTC)I strongly disagree with his policies, but actually I do like Obama. He's funny, adores his wife and daughters, and seems like a genuinely decent man.
I find it annoying that when Obama-the-candidate was repeatedly roasted for having little experience in government, McCain was later forced to take an inexperienced-in-government person as his running mate, and Palin was then automatically hailed (and is still hailed) as an excellent choice even though the campaign itself didn't want her.
Inexperienced in government? She was a mayor, chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and governor of the largest state in the country. She had executive experience which can prove far more valuable in an executive position like VP.
coldblossom above said that they think "Liberals hate the idea of successful women with Conservative beliefs". Which is fine to think, I guess, but I also think is incorrect. But anywho, my point here is that sexism against liberals in this own community isn't called out at all.
Well, as for the first statement, I suppose it's just a difference of opinion since you didn't provide any evidence that coldblossom's claim was false. As for your link to this very community as proof as sexism against liberals, I think there's a large difference between a comment thread on aLiveJournal community and the mainstream media (though in the link you provided, I couldn't find anything sexist in what was said). And furthermore, is your objection that it exists or that it wasn't referred to in this post?
Next car on the hypocrisy train: liberals are said to treat Obama like the next coming of Jesus, but if you look at really liberal places on the web like Metafilter you'll find he gets crucified regularly.
Again, as I said when I introduced the article, I'm more interested in the narrative of the mainstream media. I'm sure all of us could find blogs where Obama is used as a punching bag, but more to my point, we can all find New York Times editorials that treat Palin, and the Right in general, as theirs.
Heading back to my first thing about experience: she resigned her governorship. She could have easily finished it off. She had no reason not to, if she were going to continue with a political career.
It's not exactly unheard of for politicians to step down from their current post to focus on being elected to another. Take Rahm Emmanuel for example. No one called him a quitter. He needed to focus on his campaign for mayor of Chicago and I don't blame him.
It would have forced people to respect her just that little bit more. But she quit. Because of... legal problems she was already taking care of?
The legal problems were ethics charges brought against her (none of them were upheld, as an aside), which were a distraction to her job and huge expense for the state.
To then... ghostwrite a book? And get paid thousands of dollars to speak? And have a reality TV show? She's making a lot of money off this stuff, so at the very least her motives in retrospect seem more self-serving than noble.
I'm not sure when making money became such an ugly thing, but that's a capitalism-loving conservative talking. Again, your objection seems that she's keeping the money that she's earned, even if you disagree with how she earned, for herself instead of donating it to more noble causes.
She could have done anything. Spoke more often with more focus on charity, made appearances at soup kitchens or whatever. You know, conservative values. It just looks bad, to me.
And let's say she had. Would people all of a sudden had stopped and said "Wow, look at all that charity and soup kitchen work! She's not so bad after all!" Or would they have accused her of pandering to an audience that does charity work and volunteers at soup kitchens (which you claim are conservative values though I'll admit to never having volunteered at a soup kitchen in my life). My point is, even her most noble actions will never be considered noble because the Left and the media are convinced she has ulterior motives. And someone whose every word and action is labeled as phony and insincere just can't win.
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Date: 2011-01-20 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-22 09:45 pm (UTC)Thanks for the good laugh.