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Thursday, October 23. 2008A reproach to unhappy women? Race, gender, elections, and the magic "D"I am told that Krauthammer made the interesting point on TV last night that the intensity of the hatred for Sarah Palin from women has little or nothing to do with her personality. He said it's because she, as a lovely and feminine mid-40s woman with a litter of kids including one with Down, a cool masculine Eskimo hubby, and a stunningly-successful Governorship, stands as a reproach to the complaining and whining class of American women: a reproach to the cult of victimology and a reproach to the abortion fetishists. (Plus she's just too happy about life and her country, and intelligent, sophisticated folks aren't supposed to be happy about things.) A reasonable person might have expected her candidacy to be a source of pride and pleasure for those women. I promise you that, if she had a "D" after her name, she would be a MSM heroine. Colorful and exotic. The Dems would find a way to make her "Josephine Sixpack" - "The fresh voice of the American worker from the American Frontier." Anybody who criticized her would be slammed as "classist" or "intellectual snob" or "an elitist out of touch with real Americans." And they would, no doubt, remind you that she runs a $6 billion budget and 26,000 employees and plays hardball with the oil companies. Nobody else running has ever done anything like that. Something similar applies to Obama. Clearly his race (What is his race? I guess I mean his skin color) is a source of fascination to the MSM, Leftists, and black voters. However, black Repubs have had little success in elections with black voters, including Repub stars like Michael Steele in Maryland. That is why Obama is not detested by black Americans as a reproach to their victimology and resentment (although he was seen that way at first, most notably by Jesse Jackson who expressed the tolerant opinion that Obama "was too white" implying that his success served to discredit, and to alienate him from, grievance-seeking blacks). Had Obama been a celebrity "R" preaching freedom and opportunity, how far would he have gotten? Would he have given Chris Matthews a thrill up his I suppose my point is that, for the MSM and the left, race and gender are only a big deal when they are combined with that magic "D."
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"Imagine for a moment that Gov. Sarah Palin was a liberal, pro-choice Democrat but that everything else about her life and career was the same. If she was Sen. Barack Obama's nominee for vice president, what would her media coverage be like?" Read the whole thing at crosscut.com
Remeber Gov. Casey of PA was shunned because of his anti-abortion position. A pro-labor, blue collar Dem who stepped out of line.
The same would have happened with a pro-iraq war type who didn't repent. The far left wing of the Democrats (and their PR firm the MSM) will not allow deviation and the older Democrat groups have fallen in line. Charles Krauthammer... I never miss Brit because I want to hear what Charles has to say. He said far beneath these women's hatred lies envy. Gov. Palin is everything feminists fought for and more, and that she is more is what engenders the hatred.
` Good post BD. If I am not mistaken, wasn't Krauthammer a shrink prior to his debilitating illness? I always find his insights into people and politics most penetrating and insightful, never the conventional wisdom regurgitated by other observers. I have posted similar sentiments about the reaction to Palin. I, too, have been amazed at the reaction of many what I thought were reasonably intelligent women to her nomination. She is a HUGE threat to blow their cover, that is the bottom line. And she is so damn relaxed about it all! Three cheers for Sarah as she punctures those over-inflated liberal balloons!
Charles Krauthammer suffered a spinal injury diving into a swimming pool in college. He went on to get his medical degree and then into psychiatry. That alone makes him worthy of awe, but that he has such a finely tuned mind.... wow. I get impatient watching Brit's panel talk for wanting Charles to have his say. He makes the other panelists look like intellectual munchkins. (Not on purpose... he is just that smart.)
` That's right. Wheelchair ever since. But, once a shrink, always a shrink.
Meta ... I feel the same way about Charles Krauthammer. Have an immense respect for him, both his mind and his character. He seems to be the only one who can keep Juan Williams in line, and straighten out Mort Kondracke's somewhat muddled thinking. I expect that his genes have been passed on to his son, at least, so that when he goes he leaves something of that brain and character behind.
Marianne We have been getting panicked calls with greater frequency from Left Coast sis-in-law, a liberal, but a Republican liberal (eeewwww!)
The recent one was a riot - Asking me to "pull some strings, make some calls, get Palin off the ticket!" I said "Honey, if those guys still listened to me, Palin would be at the top of the ticket." I think she'll stop calling now. I just went to get the mail. It's a ritual to take Fergus, my Yorkie, down to the mailbox. I get the mail and let him have his 'pee-on-every-grass-blade' way and then check the mail by the trash bin in the garage. Not this time. I was thrilled to see two excellent, eye-catching anti-Obama things in the mail. They were extremely provocative. My thought beyond "Yay!" was "About time!" I did a little dance and scared Fergus. Arf!
Oh. I'm on the outskirts of N. Virginia. Horse country. ` "I expect that his genes have been passed on to his son, at least, so that when he goes he leaves something of that brain and character behind."
Marianne, Nicely said. I like watching Brit on Chris Wallace. He is unfettered as 'host' and that allows him to fight with Juan. I love it. Mort Kondrache? phew... boring. ` It has been said often in these three months, but bears saying again: there are legitimate reasons to criticise Palin and McCain's choice of her, but most of the progressives don't seem to be making them. They are mired in the most prejudiced, classist, deranged objections that reveal more about them than about Palin. Whatever else has been accomplished, she has illustrated the deeply primitive and tribal nature of liberal responses. For those of us who had already sensed that, we have abundant confirmation. For some others, hopefully the mask is now off for good.
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Someone called me a redneck woman once, and you know what I said back? 'Why thank you,' quipped the Divine Mrs. P at one of her rapturous rallies yesterday. She's on a roll, and media fuddy-duddies are falling in droves
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