Why Do Liberals HATE Sarah Palin?
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Sarah Palin 2012 Presidential Campaign Poster
There was no better place to be this weekend than the Tea Party convention in Nashville. The main, attraction of course, was the keynote address by Sarah Palin, who wasted no time in laying into Obama’s first year in office. “How’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ out for you?” Palin asked, spawning rapturous applause from the audience. This is about the time I started to feel brain cells dying and left the room. I wondered, “What is it about Sarah Palin that makes me, and other liberals, just feel viscerally upset?”
It’s not that I simply disagree with their politics. I disagreed with McCain in 2008 and Bush in 2004, but never with the wall-punching fury that she inspires. “Ahh, then it must be her sheer stupidity,” I thought. But no, our previous President was certainly not an accomplished intellectual. Sure, he graduated from Yale, but with a C average. Maybe he’s a grade above Palin, but the asymmetry of hate is pretty brutal. That couldn’t explain it.
Palin was asked a question about the “two words that scare liberals: President Palin”, which she promptly blew off. And then it hit me. It’s not the way she is that frightens and depresses me, though I’m not a huge fan of it. It’s the fact that she is that way and people admire, believe, and crave it. It’s the staggering ability of, in this case, the Tea Partiers to ignore her hypocrisy. The deficit, which was of course attributed to the current President, was denounced as “immoral”. Yet does Palin favor scrapping the Bush tax cuts? Does she want to roll back the Medicare prescription drug plan? Did she reject stimulus funds as Governor of Alaska? Of course not. In Palin’s world, fiscal conservatism never applies to conservatives.
The Constitution prohibits excessive federal power. Yet, when it comes to national security, “We need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law.” The law apparently prohibits health reform legislation, but not indefinite detention on U.S. soil. In Palin’s world, the Constitution never applies to conservatives.
She took a swipe at closed-door negotiations on healthcare, noting that C-Span viewers were shut out. Yet, she ignored the fact that on many, many, many occassions she has barred the press from her own appearances. In Palin’s world, transparency never applies to conservatives.
What’s most upsetting is that the crowd cheered on, as though it were gospel. And that’s the heart of my hate for her. She takes advantage of the fundamental trust “ordinary people” put in her. She scrapes the bottom of the political catch-phrase barrel and they still eat it up. In Palin’s world, few think hard enough to see through her lies. The sad part is, the same is true in ours.
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February 10, 2010 am28 7:34 pm
Liberals hate Sarah Palin because they are confused by convictions. They fear Sarah Palin becuase she is one of the only so-called conservatives I can really think of who actually has testicular fortitude. Maybe Sarah, Michell Malkin and Ann Coulter. I can’t think of any names for the guy list.
Liberals are used to dealing with gutless wimp conservatives. It’s hurtful and frightening for a liberal to meet a real woman who doesn’t define herself by her “right” to murder her children. Sarah is just Sarah – I hope.
March 4, 2010 am28 3:34 pm
Yeah Sarah is just Sarah, unfortuneately that doesn’t amount to much.
In fact it amounts to so little, that all of her brains and the brains of her followers could fit on the head of a pin. She is a supid cunt.
September 6, 2010 am28 8:49 am
@Kolinski – Interesting theory, but ultimately wrong. For example, pre-2008, I, a liberal, really admired McCain, because he was a guy who had convictions and stuck with ‘em. He was a independent thinker, and had the courage to say what was on his mind even when he knew it wasn’t always popular. I’ve also always liked Pat Buchanan; many of his opinions are horrific, but they’re honestly come by and honestly held.
Palin, on the other hand, isn’t so much courageous as brazen. It’s the same sort of shamelessness you saw in people like Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, or Bernie Madoff. She can’t have the courage of her convictions, because she doesn’t seem to have any. There are a lot of things she’s against, but what’s she for? Aside from herself and some generalities, nothing. She sure doesn’t believe in public service, which she quit to get rich.
September 6, 2010 am28 1:30 pm
>>>I can really think of who actually has testicular fortitude. Maybe Sarah, Michell Malkin and Ann Coulter.<<< Ok, so you like those women who display masculine prowess!! Well she might actually be growing some cah…..See how her experience with "lame, limp, impotent" men has caused her to display one more of her psychological defenses. Projection! But just the fact that you seem to think Palin is anything other than a money grabbing, low down, lying, worthless public nuisance says more about you than it says about her. I bet you think Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton would make better Presidents than Palin! You and the Republicans have selected the scums from your party, because they are the best you have to offer. Where is your Colin Powell and Condi lying Rice??? I don't even understand how she could be allowed to teach anything at any higher Institution.
September 7, 2010 am28 11:45 am
I have heard plenty of KKK mothers who could out yell Palin on any given day. That is really a lame argument. A woman with, “testicular fortitude” would most likely be a lesbian. Nothing wrong with that but since you are not her Doctor, how do you really know she has never had an abortion? Many conservative women have. More babies die in the womb than were ever terminated as zygotes. Since so many babies never make it to birth, you can’t seriously use that argument and expect other people to think you are making an intelligent statement. I would be forced to assume that you feel that your seed has more reason to be here than the woman who may be carrying it around? It is just an ignorant statement and not a qualification for a Politician.
September 9, 2010 am28 4:45 pm
“In Palin’s world, few think hard enough to see through her lies. The sad part is, the same is true in ours.”
I disagree. The difference between a person like you and a person like Palin is that you have the capacity for self-examination, for admitting that you might not be right about everything. It’s an open-ness that I don’t see in the Palin crowd.
Palin encourages people to feel like underdogs and encourages the idea that those who disagree are evil.
We cannot afford to hate our brothers and sisters. I clicked here from a page where hundreds of commenters were holding up Palin as a great and wonderful human being, as the testicular comment above suggests—but the overwhelming majority of the posters had extremely nasty and unkind words for their fellow patriots who happen to believe differently when it comes to policy.
With these attitudes, we will never have government by and for the people, because people are afraid of each other. They are afraid of being put down, of being yelled at, they are afraid of rapid-fire arugments in which the person on the other side only wants to bombard you with facts, but not listen; they are terrified of disagreeing with their bosses, because they might get fired; they are terrified of talking politics with family because misery follows. When my father called me a fascist (the opposite to my beliefs, and he did so in all seriousness) it was the last time we talked. What can one say after that?
The only way to solve problems is to get the full range of opinion on them, and I mean the full range. That means people who disagree have to communicate so that each point of view can inform the other. There has to be feedback to both sides, and both sides must be open to it.
The people posting on that page are not open, they are not willing to admit that they do not have all the answers, not willing to admit that the beliefs of others are equally important and valid as their own beliefs.
That is the difference, and it’s a deal-breaker.
Palin is charismatic. That doesn’t mean she’s the right person to lead. In fact, the idea of her finger on the button is what scares me. I’d love to see a strong woman leader. In fact, I think wars are man stuff..boys playing with their big toys and helicopters and guns. A woman with cojones would be great. What scares me about Palin is not anything about her, I just don’t agree with her policy positions. The other problem is that she is dividing us from our brothers and sisters in this country. And divided we fall.
September 13, 2010 am28 4:57 pm
She’s “Quittin” TO Win”!
January 9, 2011 am28 2:39 pm
“But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.” -Sarah Palin