Palin is
called stupid and dumb even though she beat fellow Republican Ted
Stevens the Grandfather of the Alaskan Republican Party for the
governorship. She’s called “White Trash” because her nineteen year
old unmarried daughter is pregnant (Palin is hardly the only mother
to have to deal with teen pregnancy). She’s called a Fascist because
of her Pro-Life beliefs. I’ve actually had otherwise intelligent
women say to me: “How dare Sarah Palin seek the vice-presidency when
she has five children to raise?”
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
It’s Sarah bashing non-stop all day everyday. I keep waiting to hear
something good about her from someone other than the pundits on Fox
News. I won’t hold my breath waiting.
While it’s true that Palin is woefully unprepared in the area of
foreign policy to find herself suddenly standing possibly one step
away from the Oval Office, she’s no less schooled in foreign affairs
than Barack Obama who is very likely to be the next President of the
United States.
Even so, where once even Obama’s running mate Joe Biden said the
same thing about Obama and repeated his opinion at a recent
fundraiser, Obama is no longer assailed for his sorry lack of
foreign policy credentials because Barack Obama has effectively
deflected assaults on his flimsy resume with the choice of the
seasoned Joe Biden as his running mate. And, of course, with the help
of the MSM and their turning Sarah Palin into America’s number one
punching bag.
From the attack on her $150,000 wardrobe, which will be auctioned
off for charity after the election, to “newsmen” such as NBC News
Political Director, Chuck Todd and NBC Nightly News anchor, Brian
Williams commenting
on a joint interview with John McCain and Sarah Palin, last week
going on MSNBC and fomenting the narrative that the Republican
ticket as lacking cohesion, chemistry, and (he hinted) trust, it
appears that however the MSM can whack Sarah Palin they will.
"There was tenseness," Todd told MSNBC's Chris Matthews. "I couldn't
see chemistry between John McCain and Sarah Palin. I felt as if we
grabbed two people and said 'here, sit next to each other, we are
going to conduct an interview.' They are not comfortable with each
other yet."
Anyone who watched the interview with an open and fair mind would
have thought Todd had watched a different interview. McCain and
Palin had a wonderful rapport, and seemed to have amassed a great
deal of respect for each other.
But poor Sarah Palin has become the gal the left loves to hate, the
left-leaning news media, too. In the waning days of the 2008 campaign Sarah Palin has
apparently become the excuse, OK, the scapegoat, for the failed McCain Campaign and the
no longer relevant Republican juggernaut.
But all of this pales to the unbelievable truth that it is women who
have most ardently leant a helping hand to the political destruction
of Sarah Palin. Women who I know fought for a women’s right to have
it all forty years ago, today condemn Palin for daring to run for
vice-president when saying that she “should be at home taking care
of her children.”
By the same token the media has disparaged Palin
for spending $150,000 on clothes (actually it was the RNC). And the same women who shop till they drop spending fortunes on
clothing themselves, suddenly decry a woman on the
campaign trail trying to look her best.
The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan calls Palin a lightweight.
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker who is now attempting to
build her previously lackluster writing career on Palin’s back says
McCain picked Palin because she’s attractive, a blatantly sexist
statement from an apparently sexist woman.
Only Hillary Clinton, having herself been eviscerated during
her bid for the Democratic Parties' nomination refused to jump on
the Sarah Palin bashing bandwagon. Following the vice-presidential
debate Hillary infuriated many when she said: