I’m currently reading Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue“. It’s an easy read, and Palin’s voice come off the page. I hear her.
Tonight I came across Frontpage Magazine Jamie Glazov’s piece in which he sat down with Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, for an interesting chat about Sarah Palin. Especially fascinating is Hanson’s take on what is it that the liberal-Left hates so much about the phenom from Wasilla.
FP: Can you expand a bit on what is it that the liberal-Left hates so much about Palin?
Hanson: Well, well, let us count the ways:
1) Feminists resent her stance on abortion, not just her pro-life views, but the fact she delivered a challenged child in her 40s and her teen-daughter delivered an out of wedlock boy; for many professional women on the up and up, those decisions are not just absurd but scary.
2) The elite Left was furious over her populist appeal, particularly her charm, good looks, accent, and appearance. In sum, their view was “don’t hoi polloi know, as we do, that this glitzy thing is a moose-hunting mom with an Idaho BA? To a Maureen Dowd or Sally Qunin, a Christian mom, who hunts, lives in Alaska, and is married to Todd is OK—but not OK if she thinks she can come east and run their US.
3) She’s an interloper outside the normal cursus honorum. Almost all our female columnists, many of our politicians, and several of our TV personalities either married into, or were born into, influence and can trace some of their careers to the wealth or influence of powerful husbands, fathers, and mentors. Not Palin—she had no family or marital connections, no money, no powerful fixer, she’s a genuine up-from-the-bootstraps sort of feminist that, oddly, feminists don’t define as feminist.
4) Conservative, attractive women, with traditional marriages and child-raising, for a variety of reasons, earn media scorn;
4) She scares the Left by her star power; few in America can fill stadia like she can—and that worries the powers that be. Populism is supposed to be a leftist phenomenon, but when a conservative resonates with the folks, that raises concern.
5) Finally, her accent, her demeanor, her poorly prepared interviews with Couric and Gibson all cemented for many intellectuals and cultural grandeess, both left and right, the idea that she was hickish. Many tsk-tsked her in snobbish disdain.”
Read the entire interview at FrontPage to find out what Hanson thinks of Palin. As always, anything about Sarah is interesting. This won’t disappoint.
I do not know Sarah because I am not a people person. I do not know what she has that the left hates.
However, I hate the left. I have always hated the left. If they hate Sarah then I love Sarah.
Even though I do not know her I send her money via my credit cards month by month. Soon I am going to increase the amount each month because she seems to be increasing in strength.
When you think about it she is all we have. We have no effective leadership except for Sarah.
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WERE ALL THE WOULD!bUT THE ONE THAT SEEMED TO DEVISTATE THEM BOTH WAS THEIR OLDER BEING SHOT IN THE AIR OVER THE BATTLE OF THE BUBGE.
THRO ALL THESE MANY YEARS WE STILL MISS HIM AND WHAT MIGHT BEEN.gOD bLESS aLL THE sOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIESWENDY
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Andrea, even conservatives like Debbie Schlussel want no part of Palin. Bob The Patriot WANTS NO PART OF PALIN EITHER!
I have an update…LOOKS LIKE PALIN IS A KID ROCK FAN! A PIMP AND HO…HOW APPROPRIATE!
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/14097/sarah-palin-wrote-what-uh-what-are-kid-rocks-common-sense-ideas/
They hate her because she is the one to blow the cover off of their corrupt selves and they know it. All else is just an smoke and mirrors excuse for hating her.