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Reaction of the Obama camp (and others on the Left) to Alaska Governor Sarah
Palin
Stu Tarlowe
The reaction of the
Obama camp (and others on the Left) to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is proof,
as if proof were needed, that the Left still doesn't get it, and that McCain
is far smarter and even craftier than the Left makes him (and every other
Republican) out to be.
What don't they get? Well, they think the
nomination of Palin was a nod to Hillary's fans, and they are all spouting
the talking point that "Palin is not Hillary". Well, Duh!
If not being Hillary means not
being a Leninist/Stalinist, or not being an enabler and apologist for
a philandering husband, then Yes, Gov. Sarah Palin is guilty
of not being Hillary Rodham Clinton.
McCain's pick of Palin was actually a nod to
his own base, and he has snookered the Left into pointing out that
"Palin is as Conservative as they come"; while that may sound damning to
Libs, it is great news to those of us who have never thought McCain quite
Conservative enough.
But even more important is how he has
snookered the Left into revealing and publicizing their own elitism.
Every disparaging comment about Palin as the mayor of a small town, as a
hunter, even the comments branding her as a "redneck" only point out how
contemptuous Liberals are of small town America, of hunters, and of "redneck
culture" in general.
But "rednecks" know that they, rather
than a bunch of condescending Liberal elitists, embody the true spirit of
America. They know that hunters are America's true conservationists.
They know that commercial fishermen and oilfield roughnecks (like Palin's
husband) work harder at more meaningful jobs than pencil-pushing consultants
and arugula-and-white wine "power lunchers".
And they know that even "trailer trash" (as
some Left-wing websites have branded Gov. Palin and her snowmobile-racing
husband and their unwed and pregnant teenage daughter) inhabit a world far
more rooted in reality than the world inhabited by most career
politicians or mainstream journalists.
And the more they
condemn her, the more these distinctions are driven home. |