I’ve had doubts that the reason the liberal elites attack Sarah Palin so viciously is because she scares them. I don’t doubt it any longer.
Yesterday, Sen. Kerry, when talking about Gov. Sanford’s disappearance, told a room full of liberals that he wished it were Sarah Palin that would disappear.
Why?
Kerry’s botched jokes have had a way of revealing his true feelings in the past like when he said to a group of students that if they did not study hard and do their homework they would likely “get stuck in Iraq.” That’s what Kerry thought of people in the military.
GOP hopefuls are falling by the wayside. Sen. Ensign and Gov. Sanford most recently lusted their way out of any hope to attain the presidency. Jindal, who still could make a run, seems to have retreated from the national stage for a while after a much critiqued national speech.
There are candidates out there including former Gov. Mike Huckabee. But I really do fear that although Huckabee ran last year with surprising success, he ran last time as a media favorite because the media liked his underdog status and how he allowed McCain to hold off Romney and thus escaped heavy scrutiny.
Now, there’s one Presidential hopeful that has been vetted more than any candidate’s ever been vetted and come up clean. For about a year now, the Democratic Party and the mainstream media have done everything in their power (and I mean everything) to destroy Sarah Palin. And they’ve come up with nothing substantive. Nothing.
A Palin candidacy might be full of surprises but they won’t be from skeletons in her closet, that’s for sure.
Palin’s Vice Presidential candidacy was a spectacle and the nation witnessed how the elites in our culture dragged Sarah Palin and her family through the mud in a way that no other politician has ever had done to them before. It’s still going on now with Letterman, Kerry, and Democratic operatives, and even a select class of “conservative intellectuals.” She infuriates liberals as much as Ann Coulter but not because of outrageous hyperbole but with a wink and a smile.
But after they attacked her a funny thing happened. After the general election, everyone expected Sarah Palin to go back to Alaska to lick her wounds. Run silent, run deep for a few years. But she didn’t go away.
Sarah Palin keeps coming back. Try as they might they can’t keep Sarah down. So the Democrats keep attacking her, they keep hitting her but she keeps coming back.
It reminds me of Rocky II when Apollo’s Trainer Duke tries to warn Apollo off of a rematch with Balboa:
“He’s all wrong for us, baby. I saw you beat that man like I never saw no man get beat before, and the man kept coming after you. Now we don’t need no man like that in our lives.”
Liberals are used to destroying Republicans who then have the good taste to go away. Sarah Palin is different. She keeps coming. She keeps smiling. She keeps winking. She keeps drawing record crowds wherever she goes. And the liberals in power in Washington and the liberals in the media don’t know what to make of her. So they keep following the old plan of attack, attack, attack and seem puzzled that it’s not having the desired effect of making her go away. And that’s why Sarah Palin scares the heck out of liberals.
June 25, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I'm gonna steal from a Com Box contributer a while ago who had three words which conveyed, IMHO the best I have heard, why the Left Hates, and continues to hate Palin:
"carthago delenda est"
June 25, 2009 at 8:43 pm
It's too bad that Palin doesn't have Jindal's pedigree. That'd be the ultimate nightmare for the Left — an Ivy Leaguer with her politics and mass appeal. She's starting out in a hole because she's more street smart than book smart. She has a lot of learning to do if she wants to tackle the national stage again. Let's be honest: her first attempt was spotty at best.
I don't doubt that she's smart enough to be a politician and leader. She's shown that kind of savvy. But she was exposed for lacking a grasp of some very important policy questions in the last election. I'd love to see her succeed, but she has a long way to go. Being governor of a thinly-populated state is one thing; being leader of the free world is quite another.
June 25, 2009 at 8:53 pm
"Being governor of a thinly-populated state is one thing; being leader of the free world is quite another."
In contrast with being a metrosexual community organizer and two-year US Senator most likely to be absent or vote present? A man who belongs in Cairo, Illinois and not Cairo, Egypt? A man whose sense of history began in 1965?
I was in the hospital when she was selected and my Latino roommate, a self-identified Democrat, switched his vote to Sarah after a couple of hours.
She's the only one right now who can truly take on the One with the tenacity and skill of a Rocky. And as Obama has shown, being President is a OJT position.
June 25, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Gov. Palin reminds me of that old Timex commerical, "she takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'" The dems and media have a hard time attacking her positions on issues such as blasting 0bama over the reduction in missile defense, or deficit spending, or the vast expansion of government, because her positions make too much sense, so they go after her family like nothing I've ever seen before. The amazing thing is, that instead of keeping her head down and not saying anything, she fights back, like a normal parent will do when their child or children are attacked.
Even with all the attacks, she manages to keep a smile, and keep doing her job. Just 2 weeks ago she brokered a deal between ExxonMobil and TransCanada to get the gas pipeline underway. That project has been talked about for 40 years, but it took her drive and determination to get it going.
In Auburn NY she drew over 20,000 people deep inside 0bama territory. No other republican can match her when it comes to attracting huge crowds. I suspect her Political Action Committee, SarahPAC will prove to be a financial powerhouse when the 2010 elections roll around.
The dems know that she will be their most formidable foe in 2012, and they will try to knock her out early. So far it isn't working, and she's gaining strength with each new attack
June 25, 2009 at 9:45 pm
And as Obama has shown, being President is a OJT position.
I think Obama demonstrates quite well why the Presidency should *not* be an OJT position. He's been a little slow on the uptake more than once.
Palin has a lot of "the package" together, but she lacks some basics. I've heard high school students with a better grasp of economics. Sorry, that's just the truth.
June 25, 2009 at 10:50 pm
"I've heard high school students with a better grasp of economics."
Not that I don't believe you, nor to be rude, but are any of them running for president in 2012? Not to mention the fact that the current "leader of the free world" thinks he can spend himself out of a financial crisis while owing frighteningly large amounts of money to China.
June 25, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Christian,
You say Palin is weak on economics. But what has gotten virtually zero press is that she proposed a FY2010 balanced state budget, sheparded it through the legislature, and signed it. OK, all governors do that. But hers is unique in one regard, it spends less money than FY2009.
I'd like someone to tell me any mayor or governor anywhere, anytime, that has pulled that one off.
So this would support the notion that she is more economically sound than any governmental CEO there is.
June 26, 2009 at 12:13 am
I can honestly say this is the funniest thing I have read on this website!
Hey, make sure they pick Michele Bachmann as her V.P.
June 26, 2009 at 2:16 am
The thing is, a lot of people who consider themselves smart have bought the Tina Fey package version of Sarah Palin.
The reality is that most of us are much closer to Sarah Palin than we are to Barrack Obama. We didn't go to ivy league schools. We didn't spend our whole lives orchestrating our way into the White House. Most of us were busy living our lives and like Sarah, in some situation, saw a problem and determined that if no one else was going to tackle the problem then we'd better.
Most moms who wind up Presidents of the School Board or Dads who wind up managing the finances for a volunteer organization, do so not because they have the training or the background but because they were willing to take a risk and put themselves out there to do things and trust their natural intellect and ability to listen to others to help guide them through the bumpy parts.
To the skeptics that worry about her multiple schools or lack of ivy league experience, since when is being a Governor such a paultry accomplishment? There are only 50 at any given time in this country and no one gave them that spot, they had to earn the voters trust to get it and they had to govern with sufficient skill to keep it.
So to those who don't get it, I have one thing to say, I'm adopting a mantra, "I am Sarah Palin."
June 26, 2009 at 2:21 am
"I can honestly say this is the funniest thing I have read on this website!
Hey, make sure they pick Michele Bachmann as her V.P."
Craig, nothing I said was intended to be funny. Do you have a point to make. Can you refute my assertion that since Palin spent less on the 2010 budget than the 2009 budget that makes her unique among government CEO's?
Please make a salient point.
June 26, 2009 at 2:52 am
SherryTex,
You make a really good point that I haven't seen stated before. Palin grew in politics because at each level, starting from the PTA, she saw things that needed to be fixed in the level above her. She has had an amazing ascendancy and now she is a presidential contender. By fixing things at each level she has fixed her way to just under the top.
I can't agree with your mantra though. I am an accomplished professional, but I can't compare myself to Sarah Palin. She has accomplished far more than I would know how to do.
Her career suggests that she is fearless, or at least has the courage of her convictions. After 444 days of the Iranian captivity of American diplomats they were released the moment Reagan was inaugurated. I suspect both North Korea and Iran would back down big time if the barracuda is in the White House.
June 26, 2009 at 3:13 am
I will say it because nothing would scare those who fear her more. We all are Sarah Palin. (and like her, I too have a son born this past 2008 with Down's Syndrome).
June 26, 2009 at 3:16 am
j. christian, you seem to be rather "moby" about Sarah. If you're really a troll, I'd understand. You obviously haven't seen copies of the Alaska budget and the governor's personal budget — she spends each penny of taxpayer money like it was her own.
As for Mr. 143 days of experience, you might want to learn that the absolute worst interviews of Gov. Palin were "sliced and diced," unlike the messiah, who insisted on live interviews only.
June 26, 2009 at 4:26 am
Her ability to balance the Alaska state budget says nothing of her ability to understand the federal budget. I'm not saying she *can't* understand it; I'm saying that she clearly didn't understand it during the interviews and debates. It was painful to watch her regurgitate her talking points. For her sake, I hope she can get up to speed in the next four years so as not to embarrass herself again.
June 26, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Christian, I'm not talking about her ability to balance the budget. All governors do that. I'm talking about the fact that her balanced budget SPENDS LESS THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR. No chief executive, at any level of government, has shown the ability to do that.
That alone gives her a major qualification for president that no one else has, including everyone who has already lived in the white house.
June 26, 2009 at 5:39 pm
everyone seems worried about her qualifications–what qualifications did Carter or Obama have? NONE, but nobody seems to care about them, why??? Do only women need qualifications, not men?
June 26, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Glen,
Alaska routinely ranks first in federal spending per capita, receiving 18 times the national average per resident.
Alaska's budget usually runs surpluses because the state is flush with oil revenue.
Alaska collects no sales tax or income tax from its residents, either.
For Palin to spend less money to balance a budget that habitually has surpluses and take "only" $640,000,000+ of the stimulus money is hardly an amazing feat.
The only thing Palin's vetted for is losing on the national stage, so by all means run her in 2012 so I can laugh all the way to the polls.
June 28, 2009 at 8:35 pm
A "pedigree" consisting of an Ivy League degree is vastly overrated. I know because I have one. International experience is helpful, but not crucial. I've lived in three foreign countries, traveled to many others, and speak several languages. And I am an unapologetic, enthusiastic, committed supporter of Gov. Sarah Palin.
Leadership requires honesty, integrity, commitment, humility, compassion, and yes, intelligence. Sarah Palin exhibits all of those and so much more. The greatest leaders have to be the greatest servants. That describes Sarah Palin, and obviously millions are ready to follow and support her, no matter what the sophisticates (let alone the degenerates) say.
June 29, 2009 at 5:57 am
Well said, CharterOakie.
I think that Gov. Palin is quite savvy about economics, energy, etc. I do think, however, that she learn how to respond to interviewers by slamming back their own words. For example, I watched her being interviewed on TV about the natural gas pipeline. The reporter (Matthews, I think) had been on a globe-hopping stunt only a few months before, touting new fuel standards, etc. He proceeded to ask why piping natural gas was so important and she answered with a national security reason. She should have hammered home the points espoused by the reporter's own network: cleaner-burning fuel, efficient heating and cooking, "buy local" also applying to energy sources, etc.
Same thing with her comments about Katie Couric. Couric's star has been fading for some time, despite her big salary. The governor gave Couric a boost by reacting to her.