Sometimes it takes a bit of perspective to see the forest for the trees:
It will make Obama fans perspire to hear this, but Ms. Palin has a more forceful bond with her supporters than he with his. Mr. Obama offers a kind of self-flattery to his worshippers. They feel exalted that they have the intelligence or sensibility to see how remarkable their man is. But he remains remote. Ms. Palin works close up. She offers those much invoked, but actually neglected figures, “the ordinary Joe or Josephine,” a real sense that she does represent them.
Ms. Palin is in the hurricane’s eye again with the publication of Going Rogue. The Associated Press assigned no fewer than 11 reporters to “fact check” Ms. Palin’s memoir, a concentration of scrutiny AP would never presume to exert over the man who’s actually in the White House. Elements of the press mock and scorn her with a fury that is near inexplicable. Rather fewer extol her gifts. But pro or con, the media cannot get enough of her.
There is more than a bit of Palin derangement out there right now. (OCD Andy Sullivan and his posts about “going silent” in a typically logorrheic fashion comes to mind here. Although one would be more accurate to say Andy wasn’t going silent as much as he was simply staying dim.)
The only reason there could be this much backlash against Palin is outright fear. If Palin was the “joke” many proclaim her to be, they would say so and shut up, not worry at her like a pack of rabid wolverines.
They fear, so they attack endlessly, mindlessly (like Andy) and with over-the-top depravity (Andy, again).
The repetitive attacks will likely backfire – making people curious as to why Palin is under such assault – leading more people to pay attention to what she is saying.
If, as Rex Murphy writes, Palin connects, the last thing the left needs is to make even more connections occur.
Keep up the good work, Andy, et al.
Please note:
http://sarahpalinsuterus.blogspot.com/
Sarah Palin needs some good writers.
Rather than respond to critics, she should attack them.
Example:
Ms. Palin: “The only difference between Obama and I is that I actually defend our country, and I have larger set of gonads.”
“I forgive David Letterman for his attacks on me, but for a sexual predator like him to attack my 14 year old
daughter is a bad joke”.
I don’t think it is fear of Palin, it is fear of having to confront their own mediocrity. The whole Obama thing was built on self congratulation. The same with AGW. If you voted for the man and believed in the imminent toasting of polar bears, you were smart and informed, not one of those flat earth creationist bozos. Giving up that delightful delusion isn’t going to be easy for a lot of folks.
Ever noticed that over the last 20 years or so, any time the left has been politely dismissiveo f a conservative, they usually beat that ocnservative (Bob Dole, GHW Bush, John McCain), but the more rabidtheir attacks have been, the more thouroughly said conservative has thrashed them (Reagan, W, and I suspect, if the pattern holds, Palin)?
Sarah Palin represents everything that’s good about America, while Barack Obama (SoA) represents economic disaster, phony jobs, clunkers, death panels, and jihadis.
Take your pick.