John Hawkins, of Right Wing News, has a Pajamas Media piece that really gets to the heart of the criticism of Sarah Palin by the Left AND the Right. It is entitled "Why Sarah Palin Fans Feel Betrayed". It is an excellent commentary. I love the opening:
"To be conservative is to be betrayed on a regular basis. You send your kids to a school that tries to slyly indoctrinate them into liberalism, you come home to watch an “unbiased” news show that covers almost every story differently based on whether a Republican or Democrat is involved, and then you try to unwind by watching TV shows that take guarded shots at the values you cherish."
Conservatives ARE betrayed on a regular basis.
"Then along came Sarah Palin, whom most conservatives viewed as the lone bright spot of the 2008 campaign. Here’s a woman that many conservatives identify with not only because they believe she really shares their values, but because she is genuinely what so many other politicians pretend to be. She’s a person who got where she is based on merit and she found success without the advantage of being born in the right family, being wealthy, or being given a break because she went to an Ivy League school."
He IS really getting to the heart of the matter!
"Given the excitement Sarah Palin has generated it isn’t a surprise that liberals hate her......Liberals correctly identified Sarah Palin as the biggest danger to them in the entire Republican Party and they’re doing everything they can to eliminate that threat.
But why would the right have it in for Palin? ..... An unspoken assumption was made by many conservatives: Palin is like me and the real problem that Palin’s enemies on the right have with her is that they’re snobs and they don’t accept common people like me in their leadership.
Here is, I think, the most important part.
There’s only one Sarah Palin and there’s not another soul on the national stage who can even come close to filling her high heels. At a time when the Republican Party has lost so many seats in Congress that it’s teetering on the brink of irrelevancy, Palin’s detractors on the right should ask themselves how much sense it makes to help the liberal media try to tear down the biggest star in the conservative movement."
I have no doubt in the ability of the current Republican leadership to completely screw this up. They will continue to do their famous "can't we all just get along" style with the Democrats, and, therefore, continue their slide into irrelevance.
Read the whole piece. It will give you a new way to look at the incredible attacks on Sarah Palin from both the Left and the Right.
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