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Lefties Beg For Their Sarah Palin

By: Tabitha Hale (Diary)  |  August 30th, 2010 at 07:00 AM  | 

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Since the moment she stepped onto the national scene, the Left has mocked Sarah Palin. The loathe her and everything she stands for. She is an offensive creature that they just can’t seem to destroy. Now, they’re begging for someone with the Palin Power they’ve mocked for so long – someone who inspires them. Anna Holmes and Rebecca Traister write in the New York Times:

The left should be outraged and exasperated by all this — but at their own failings as much as Ms. Palin’s ascension. Since the 2008 election, progressive leaders have done little to address the obvious national appetite for female leadership. And despite (or because of) their continuing obsession with Ms. Palin, they have done nothing to stop an anti-choice, pro-abstinence, socialist-bashing Tea Party enthusiast from becoming the 21st century symbol of American women in politics.

Imagine that: a woman who places real value on life, sex and freedom – SHE MUST BE STOPPED! She can’t be a real woman! She wants to cut taxes and repeal ObamaCare! The things that make her appealing to conservatives and Republicans are the things that make her public enemy #1 for the Democrats and feminists.

You can say a lot of things about Sarah Palin, and I have been known to disagree with her frequently, but I am grateful that she has brought strong, conservative, feminine women into the spotlight. There are more Republican women running for office than ever before – 129 GOP women are running for House seats this fall and 17 for Senate. We will see in November if this will translate into wins for Republican women, but the point has already been made: Americans are embracing conservative women running for political office. And that is in no small part because of Sarah Palin’s willingness to throw her support behind them and give them national exposure.

For all the talk of their support for women, there is no one on a national level doing for liberals what Sarah Palin is doing for conservatives in this election. Who is helping the Democratic women win seats? The highest ranking woman in the Democratic Party? No, Nancy is focused oninvestigating the Ground Zero Mosque detractors and still trying to sell a health care plan that has already been passed.

The Left has been focused on gay marriage, abortion, and massive entitlement spending. Instead of finding better candidates to run against the fresh crop of small government advocates, Nancy Pelosi is cherrypicking the candidates she can throw under the bus this fall.

The left’s failure to nurture and celebrate female politicians has had a significant effect on its policies. In recent years, Democratic majorities and progressive legislation seem to have been built on steady trade-offs of reproductive rights, culminating this year when the first female speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was forced to push through health care reform with a compromise on abortion financing.

The assumption here is telling: If they just had more women, they’d have more funding for abortion. Because a woman is nothing but her uterus.

If they are so certain about their hold over women, why are they struggling so much? Wouldn’t women respond? The country is changing. Americans still value life, and they value liberty. The legislated equality worked with we were fighting for our right to vote – but we aren’t there any more. Women are rejecting the notion that they are nothing but a protected class of big spending, pro-abortion liberals.

I, for one, hope that trend continues.

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  • avgjo

    I’m curious what you think.

    • blooch

      “Harper’s Bazaar: How many pantsuits do you have?

      Nancy Pelosi: I don’t have any idea. Endless. ”

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-tanabe/the-pantsuit-a-legal-drug_b_116659.html

      Don’t even have to link Hillary…legendary with the pantsuits.

  • voltron

    I have never voted for someone based on their sex. I vote for them based on their stance on the issues. Their sex, race, religion, sexual orientation has nothing to do with it in my mind and in the mind of most people I know. It is so irritating how those on the left see everything through that prism.

    • Tbone

      She was running for Commissioner of Publications in high school.

      • Ann_W

        If I remember correctly.

        • Tbone

          I like Palin because she is tough, smart, drives Democrats and liberals to soil themselves, makes ugly women jealous and sissy men squirm.

          I like her because she can turn out the crowds and the voters, which, politics is all about. I like her because she gets up the noses of our young and oh so serious political elitists here on Redstate.

          The fact that she flips Art and Beck’s switches is always good for some good reading.

          As to her qualifications to be President, based upon past experience, it’s a statistical probability that she would be as good as most of them and a lot better than any D.

  • barleycorn

    All you really need to know about the article is this line:

    “Chosen by Mr. McCain

  • johnconradarens

    The rise, and subsequent sustained ascendancy of Sarah Palin is one of the most fascinating political development in America. Contrast the interest in her to the (lack of) interest in Dan Quayle, or Lloyd Bentsen, or John Edwards, or any other losing Vice Presidential candidates in the last fifty or seventy-five years (-who, for example, ran with Hubert Humphrey??)– these folks could barely sustain their own candidacy, let alone improve the overall interest in, and support of, her party, as Palin has.

    Why?

    It’s a simple question, the answer to which the graduates of the Kennedy School of Government continue to tie into the Gordian Knot. The answer is simple: She is a compelling leader.

    Leadership, though we are loathe to admit it, is simply having the fortitude to stick you neck out, be bold, be convicted, be able to communicate where you want to lead, and then convince enough people to follow you. It is no more complicated than that. Governmental experience has nothing to do with it. Oddly, I think, sex does, as race does in the matrix of Barack Obama. (–this is in contravention to the Sotomayor claim of “wise Latina” nonsense. She was APPOINTED because of her sex, not elected, and the difference is monumental).

    Female leadership is fundamentally different than male leadership, though, and if we cannot come to grips with this, and celebrate it for its greatness, then we will miss one of the great weapons in the conservative arsenal: Conservative women REVEL in femininity, embrace it for its God-given grandeur (just as conservative men celebrate masculinity). The way Sarah Palin approaches this fact is one of the primary reasons she is so despised by the left: She ACTS like a lady, she LOOKS like a lady, she LEADS like a lady. For reasons better left to anthropologists to explain, leftist women ACT like men, look like men, and attempt to lead like men. And their public policy reflects this weird schizophrenia.

    Sarah Palin, of course, will run for President. She will very likely win. The great Menckens of time will drool all over the landscape trying to figure it all out, what it actually means, and how blindingly stupid the American people are… and in so doing will prove these self-same commentators have been utterly unqualified to comment on human constructs, for the simple reason that they don’t understand them.

  • Ann_W

    Just kidding, my husband and I were noticing how composed and in charge she seems on Matthews et. al. waiting for the softballs. Then you see her on Fox and she looks all nervous knowing they’ll actually ask hard questions.

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      http://celebritymound.smugmug.com/photos/172374761-M.jpg

      and Janeane Garafalo…

      http://www.tshirtwatch.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/janeane_garofalo_2.jpg

      • Ann_W
  • erod

    and I don’t know why. I think she is one of the best supporters of conservative values since Ronald Reagan. If we want to get this country back on the right track we need to nominate people like her to run for office

  • johnt

    fascists have in mind? “Stop” is a pretty heavy word here, you can’t very well prevent her from public appearances, they did all the nasty name calling and smearing they could, what else can a good fascist do?
    They have Barbara Mikulski, we have Sarah, that’s how it goes. Can’t they be happy by retiring to their rooms and feasting their eyes on the walled photos of Benito, Adolf, and the Big Guy, Uncle Joe Stalin, the guy who opened the Siberian territory big time.

  • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

    Sarah has found a solid place fit for her talents and abilities: motivational speaker who can rally conservatives, with the added benefit of driving the left into incoherent hysterics that only adds to the attention that Sarah gets.

    But should she run for public office, she’ll melt into a puddle. What worked for her in Alaska to gain the governorship before the spotlights came upon here will utter fail on a national scale when she’s place under a dissecting microscope.

    • johnconradarens

      ..and, as yet, has shown no signs of having melted. In fact, she seems to have only steeled herself and grown larger. So far, at least, she seems to relish the opportunities to be under the microscope. She’s shown one heckuva lot more strength and moxie than many of us who seem content to sit behind anonymous computer keyboards, with our ever-more poignant tips and advice.

      Sarah knows what she’s doing, believe me.

      • The_Gadfly

        And that forced resignation was likely the result of her own misread of the Alaskan Democrat landscape.

        Civil is corret: she’s a great motivational speaker and rallies the troops grandly. It’s a role in which she is obviously comfortable and (scarily for liberals) effective. And in what has the potential to be the greatest iron for those who pursue the holy grail of Presidential office: if she remains the motivational speaker has the potential to be far more influential than she could ever be in office. As president she gets at most 8 years. As pundit and motivational speaker a career of another 25+ is readily achievable.

        • johnconradarens

          In March of 1979, Gerald Ford expressed the sentiments of many of the all-knowing, all-seeing Grandees of the Republican Party when he declared Ronald Reagan “unelectable”. He was “too extreme”.

          Ford, like many of the Establishment was embarrassed by Reagan, seeing him as some slightly nutty, probably racist, antique grade-B movie actor who was best suited to playing bit roles with trained monkeys, or whipping up the stump-toothed yokels to vote Republican. He didn’t have the nuanced gravitas of a Howard Baker, or a Lowell Weicker.

          The same dynamic is clearly at work here vis-a-vis Sarah Palin. Boy, she can fill a stadium, but, put her in a campaign, and her REAL self will come out. Or, “melt”, if you will.

          I predict, years and years from now, when her old and long-lived body is Laying in State beneath the Rotunda, as one of America’s most beloved ex-presidents, there will be very few commentators around willing to admit Sarah Palin would have made an excellent “motivational speaker”.

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            You do know she quit rather than run finish her term as Governor and run for re-election , right?

            You can’t just pretend that didn’t happen.

          • johnconradarens

            In reference to the Governorship, I would have done the same thing… and I am a Manly Man with Facial Hair.

            The agitators on the left were so terrorized by Sarah Palin that they threw the full weight of every slip-and-fall lawyer they could find to throw groundless “ethics” complaints against her in an attempt to besmirch her, rather than debate her. And, as a quite-typical wage-earner American, she couldn’t afford to defend herself before these jackals, so she said, in effect, “To Hell with This!”.

            This isn’t “melting”. If metaphors are your fancy, it’s rather like (but not perfectly like) a college senior varsity football player wondering why the heck everyone has their underwear in a twist about some stupid tickets he gave away, when everyone knows he’s gonna sign a multi-year, multi-billion dollar contract in a couple of months. In Palin’s case, it was emancipating. If she “melted”, as you characterize it, she would have gone home to Wasilla, nursed her child and her bruises, and disappeared.

            Clearly, looking at this little thread, she’s not done that. We’re still debating her.

          • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

            I said she would melt if running for national office. Especially when the left analysts start dissecting her term as governor.

            In a way, I’m really referring to the Peter Principle: don’t let her destroy herself and her success by choosing to move to a “level of incompetence”.

            Especially, the compromises she would have to make in running for office, the questioning of influence and donors would make her a Gulliver tied down by the Lilliputians.

            She needs to remain a free spirit, which is her strength. Not trying to take kangaroos out on a walk.

          • Achance

            She quit to escape the surly bonds of the Executive Branch Ethics Act that she so liked to brag about having improved. She’s a smart woman, and she figured out that her gold mine had a shelf life. Two more years in what looked like difficult times and while they haven’t been as bad as they looked in ’09, they still aren’t as good as they were when she was giving away money hand over fist and had an almost 80% approval rating.

            She saw she would never be worth any more and had a pretty good chance of being worth a lot less, so she quit and grabbed the brass ring. Now she’s a lot richr and more famous than she’d have been as the Governor of Alaska. And it didn’t hurt that the ethics complaints were heard by a board she appointed and that after the election the complainants didn’t have Democrat money backing them. It costs a lot of time and money to go to the AKSC and the State really knows how to make you pay in time and money if you challenge it; I know, I’ve done it. Even the ethics panel hasn’t stamped her as pure as the driven snow; she’s had to pay back a bunch of stuff and completely redo her PAC relationship.

          • The_Gadfly

            So don’t give me any of that “I smell Jerry Ford” crap.

            Reagan never quit, not even when he was up against the most entrenched of the socialists in the SAG. Palin QUIT. And she QUIT because the socialists in Alaska Alinskied her with the rules SHE guided through the Alaska legislature. Maybe if she hadn’t been pulled out of Alaska too soon by McCain and fought through what she herself caused, she’d be ready to hold the office one of these days. Hell, she probably will wind up in the office even though she isn’t prepared. And given the choice between her and whatever Marxist the Dems put up, I’ll pull the lever for her. But that doesn’t mean she’ll be ready, and it doesn’t mean we won’t get handed our heads on platter when she has her first encounter with Putin, Chavez, or whoever is running Mexico when she gets into office.

  • dianecee

    I used to use “Ms.” in front of my name because I always thought of that as an insignia that I was leading my own life for ME. I had earned the lifestyle to live on my terms and within my boundaries, or lack thereof, and not someone else’s. But now, I refrain from stymatizing myself with “Ms.” because I never want to be considered a fool, or a homosexual.

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    They just admitted to themselves they secretly want to be her… and just moved on over, away from the abyss that is nothing but utopian dreams covering the reality of the failures of leftist socialist/communist social suicide…

  • finaljeopardy

    With an anti-incumbent sentiment, the more different candidate wins. Obama and W were night and day. His unique American experience and blackness were a sharp contrast to the heartland appeal of Bush. That was why vague “change” and “hope” worked for Obama in 2008.

    Of course, in retrospect, there were much bigger differences between the two, and Americans are worried about the country like never before. Sarah Palin is the embodiment of traditional American principles with her frontier biography and Marge Gunderson toughness, womanliness and common sense. She is the polar opposite of Obama, in this case, and has a nurturing warmth that voters respond to; it is the chief source of her enormous popularity. But she is not a spokesmodel, but a leader. Rush is right that Democrats will tell you who they fear.

    • Ann_W

      I like what she’s doing now, and I root for her, but are you sure you aren’t seeing what you want to see.

  • sundesy

    Sarah single handily defrocked the liberal feminism of nothing but support for promiscuous life style and abortion on demand. In this day and age of Nikki, Carly, Meg and more examples, simply crying women suppression has no credibility.

    On the contrary the democrats who are mired in identity politics have their own hierarchy, black trumps women. Despite Hillary considered being the

  • Ann_W
  • NotSoBlueStater

    He drives conservatives crazy. Conservatives think he hurts them because he’s so far outside the mainstream, but they are wrong. The people on his side “get” him and love what he brings to the conversation, even though they’d never, ever nominate him for the presidency.

    Very similar, I think. Right up to and through the whoopings each helped/is helping to deliver.