Why They Hate Her - Sarah Palin, White House '08

There's Something About Sarah
Power Line — ... Finally, In the most speculative of the articles on Palin, Jeffrey Bell meditates on why the left hates her .

Why The Left Hates Sarah Palin
Hyscience — ... ... the subtitle of Jeffrey Bell's piece at TWS gives us a clue: Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left. ...

No, Actually, It's that the Economy is Falling Apart
Swampland — It has been fascinating to watch the right-wing press lap up the anti-media nonsense put out by the McCain campaign's Steve Schmidt regarding Sarah Palin. The latest is Jeffrey Bell, in the Weekly Standard, who makes the media's attempt to find out just exactly who Palin is part of a seamless, anti-clerical cloak that goes all...the...way...back...to...the French Revolution: ...

Hey, Obama, I Thought Families Were Off Limits?
JammieWearingFool — ... of the Democrats would prefer they gave up on life, went on welfare and registered as Democrats. Then they wouldn't have any problem with the Palins. Obama can't have it both ways. If he claims he doesn't want people attacking the Palins, they he can call off the dogs. Saying someone is no longer in an official campaign capacity is an excuse flimsy at best. He can call Gutman up right now and have him apologize. The fact he doesn't speak loudly enough. Update : A fantastic piece from Jeffrey Bell in the Weekly Standard looks at the depths of the rage encompassing and ...

Why They Love Her
The Mahablog — ... All you need to know about Palinmania is summed up in this headline: “Why They Hate Her : Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left.” ...

Saturday links
Maggie's Farm — ... This must be a bug. It can't be intentional. Thanks, MSM: Kristol. Also, Why They Hate Her. Related: Hey, Oprah - you're missing some killer ratings. Economists like McCain's health policies. (Don't you love that "health" euphemism." What is meant is sickness.) Pelosi endorses Palin. Sort-of. Climate change reveals climate change. Hmmm. Little Brother? Brits reward kids for snooping on adults. They have gone insane. Abortion cultists target Palin ...

One-Stop Shopping for Debunking Palin Smears [someone]
Ace of Spades HQ — One-Stop Shopping for Debunking Palin Smears [someone] Here . Even though this tactic's been shown to backfire, the left just can't help themselves. More on the insanity -- and the Daily Kos Media phenomenon -- at the Weekly Standard . Meanwhile, Eeyore is theorizing that the Daily Kos Media is being inspired not by Kos directly but by the respectable example of -- wait for it -- Andrew Sullivan.

WEEKLY STANDARD: WHY THEY HATE PALIN
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — GOOD ARTICLE. BUT LONGISH. HERE'S THE SHORT ANSWER: SHE DOESN'T PLAY THE VICTIM CARD; SHE TEARS IT UP - NOT JUST HER POLITICS, BUT HER PERSONALITY, PERSONAL HISTORY AND IDENTITY. AND VICTMHOOD IS THE SACRED TOUCHSTONE FOR POSTMODERN LEFTISM. SO SHE DEMOLISHES THEM WHERE IT COUNTS.

Why They Hate Her
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left. by Jeffrey Bell - (Weekly Standard) For months John McCain has apparently been hoping to use his selection of a running mate to shake up the presidential race. By picking Alaska governor Sarah Palin, McCain has accomplished that–and very likely a lot more than that, more than he or anyone else could have imagined. I’m not talking about the widely remarked fact that if Palin performs well, and regardless of whether McCain wins or loses, she becomes a future Republican presidential prospect. Given the end of the remarkable 28-year run of ...

Quotes of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks — Quotes of the day posted at 10:15 pm on September 6, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly “The simple fact of her being a pro-life married mother of five with a thriving political career was–before anything else about her was known–enough for the left and its outliers to target her for destruction. She could not be allowed to contradict symbolically one of the central narratives of the left. How galling it will be to Sarah Palin’s many new enemies if she survives this assault and prevails. If she does, her success may be an important moment in the struggle to shape not just America’s politics but its culture .” *“In the end, ...

The Left Hates Hatred! How Hateful!
Firedoglake — ... on subverting the Original Will of the Founding Fathers who just don't get why we need to gut habeas corpus! If the moment's exigency requires a smear or a sneer, wingnuts always have one to hand, and coherence be damned. "We Hate Hippies." That's what "conservatism" boils down to as an "intellectual movement." Full stop. So with that in mind, let's explore why we, The Left, "hate" Sarah Palin. Because, you see, we do. I myself had no idea I had anything against her personally. I thought the fact that she ...

Note to Jeffrey Bell: Premarital sex predates the 1960s
Yourish.com — Spare me from conservative analysis of feminism. Because when you let most conservatives yammer away on the topic, you get a great, heaping, stupid load of sexist bullshit purporting to be an analysis of feminism. Note to Weekly Standard: You’re embarrassing yourselves. For the post-1960s, post-socialist left, the single most important breakthrough has been the alliance between modern feminism and the sexual revolution. This was far from inevitable. Up until around 1960, attempts at sexual liberation were resisted by most educated women. In the wake of the success of Playboy and other mass-circulation pornographic magazines in the 1950s, ...

September 11 roundup
Overlawyered — ... Culture Warrior Jeff Bell hopes Palin will reverse trends that have “legitimated a contraceptive ethic” [Weekly Standard] Better not count on it [ ...

Sarah Palin: Revenge of the Vagina (Monologues)
American Thinker — That's all you need to know to understand the dramatic impact of the individual who continues to be the target of a cultural and political elite that look s for "anything that will criminalize and/or humiliate Palin and her family." Sarah Palin, of course, is the charismatic, conservative Alaska governor who is unapologetically traditional and Christian in her politics and values. And Eve Ensler is the feminist who wrote the play The Vagina Monologues and has been enshrined by our cultural elite for her bizarre, sometimes depraved, and often just plain silly promotion of a ...

Glenn Beck: A Man for His Time
Pajamas Media — ... in the days since, even though the level of hate the Democrats have for him rivals their ire for Sarah Palin . The comparison is apt as, like the former Alaskan governor, Mr. Beck gets results. The foment surrounding him was (allegedly) a product of Beck’s terming President Obama a ...